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๐ŸŒŒ Observer of Suns

@ObserverSuns

No worries, we can just add another epicycle.

sf ๊ฐ€์ž…์ผ Mart 2021
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๐ŸŒŒ Observer of Suns@ObserverSunsยท
Some ground rules: This account is for playing with ideas with an eye towards the โ€œlong view,โ€ ideally focusing on questions which would be of interest even to cultures far removed from ours in time and space. In this narrow sense I donโ€™t want this account to be โ€œpoliticalโ€. 1/
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itโ€™s still correct to talk about โœจ The 21st Century โœจ with an air of mystery and apprehension. most of it hasnโ€™t happened yet.
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GitHub: โ€œThis diff is too important, so weโ€™ve hidden it from view.โ€
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๐ŸŒŒ Observer of Suns
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those who canโ€™t help but feel that something has been lost, as opposed to those who canโ€™t help but feel that something has yet to be gained
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the irreducible loss is a deeply mystical quantity
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๐ŸŒŒ Observer of Suns@ObserverSunsยท
if I had been born in the 1940s I think one of the great disappointments of my life would have been finding out the truth about Venus. my impression is we really got like a 1st-percentile planet relative to what people were imagining at the time
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if you think youโ€™ve discovered a dispassionate mathematical formalism which explains and justifies some common-sense feature of human sociality, you ought to be able to translate insights from that system *back* into common-sense language, making them vastly more intelligible.
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the Pet Shop Boysโ€™ โ€œThe Dictator Decidesโ€ is an interesting example of a song thatโ€™s straightforwardly, unashamedly, successfully about something other than one of the Usual Topics
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the world produces about 14 million years of human experience each day
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FleetingBits
FleetingBits@fleetingbitsยท
You can just ask a model to solve an impossible analogy.
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dave kasten
dave kasten@David_Kastenยท
Digression: Dean is literally editing something worth billions of market cap to GOOG on google docs, and everyone is (correctly!) very implicitly certain that they don't need to worry about GOOG peeking at it. This is a genuine, important thing our society has achieved.
Dean W. Ball@deanwball

my transition from human to google doc is now complete

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