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@justalexoki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_th…

it's actually incredible how much kids just accept arbitrary rules. like our kid gets 5 candies on movie night because he's 5 years old and he's just like "i wish i could have more" and ur like "yeah :/" and then he just moves on? incredible

@poetengineer__ @ben_r_hoffman

i made a reading interface for spinoza and its commentaries throughout centuries, inspire by talmud: - scroll to adjust each era's thickness - hover to discover cross-references between commentators src code for subscribers ↓

@SpencrGreenberg I was at a meetup once where I think we found that the other two people I was talking to had a harder time reading upside-down

A question for you: what is something about you that you once assumed was true of everyone (but now you realize a lot of people aren't that way)?

@taijitu_sees Some transformations are actually a lot easier with the spatial way than the values way, at least for me. You can think of rotating a cube, but writing new algebraic expressions for the points of the cube takes real effort

@taijitu_sees This does feel odd. Maybe there is spacial complexity beyond the set of coordinates of points of the object?

Give me over 3 spacial dimensions and my brain melts thinking about it. But, give me a list of values to consider, each on a dimensional axis and somehow it's fairly easy to figure out. What is going on here?

@taijitu_sees Also just the product of the segments is missing extra structure of space like distances

@taijitu_sees different from just the set of the three segments)

@taijitu_sees Is an orientation a kind of ranking though? I feel like if I visualize a cube one axis will be parallel to the floor or something

@doobeedooway I'm thinking there's some sort of saliency gradient. Like you can't toss out or rank spacial dimensions lower, but all the values space ones can get weighted differently which oddly can make them less harder to process.

@_space_punk_ Something like eviction of parasites again?

@_space_punk_ Maybe for the latter I’m not using “most” in the way you meant it…was thinking of “best for them out of their options” rather than “better for them than for anyone else”. For the latter case to work with the latter meaning of “must” might require

The second we as a society abandon the lie that money is earned, the better off everyone is going to be, both materially, but also mentally/spiritually because the lie that is serving as the elephant in the room around which all cognition is shaped, will disappear No one earns money. Money is given. Like everything else in reality, it is a gift. Taking more than one gives means one ends up with a lot and giving more than one takes means one ends up with little/nothing. We can ignore ethics for a moment and see it is simple math. The transactional mindset is a disease than can infect the human mind and is a huge favorite of literal Mara, because that is what justifies him as the most wicked being in the cosmos nonetheless ruling kamaloka- he believes he earned it over others, rather than samsara being a wheel where everyone gets a turn

@JD__Hayes @QiaochuYuan I think this isn’t necessarily true, someone might be have a deep grasp of things but have a hard time communicating their ideas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Onsa… has a story to this effect

You miss the point. An expert is able to do all that unravelling on the fly, figure out the bits of it that are relevant to the layman's actual question, then present them in a frame the layman can understand. Example: Everyone keeps saying there's some problem with relativity and quantum mechanics. What's going on? That person does not need to be educated on the entirety of either domain. There's a specific tension point they need to understand and that can be expressed in fairly simple terms in a variety of ways.

no, goddamnit, feynman was just wrong, some ideas are genuinely irreducibly complicated. i know mathematics it would take literally years to explain to a layman, which is literally why graduate school exists as an institution, to do that high-level mathematics takes place in a very sophisticated language where every concept is defined in terms of other concepts which are defined in terms of other concepts etc. etc. etc. and fully unraveling all of these concepts back to what a layman would be familiar with takes potentially thousands of pages depending on the subject. and i'm not talking about stuff with no applications, this is the level of effort it would take to fully explain all the math that goes into the standard model of particle physics, eg other subjects are also like this! you might question whether some of these subjects are mostly fake, towers of theory disconnected from reality, but that's a different conversation entirely. the towers of theory actually do exist and require actual effort to climb

@SurrealistShip @QiaochuYuan I don’t know that much but fields medal winning work seems like it can be pretty towery

@QiaochuYuan good to know. I expect simple to tower to generate media, tower to tower to be the bulk and only known to tower dwellers, and tower to simple to show up in like fields medals. a thumb to wind confirmation from a tower dweller is great to have.

@worlddestroyar @robinhanson @grok I’d guess yes based on mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.…

@robinhanson @grok Can Robin Hanson write code?

Within a few years, we may face a "Hackastrophe", i.e., few years of greatly reduced access to software. overcomingbias.com/p/the-coming-h…

@Webfarercurious @worlddestroyar Actually in light of this it’s curious that people say the Lord’s Prayer together in churches

@Webfarercurious @worlddestroyar These are some ideas, I’m not sure that explains everything. In particular it seems to have a hard time with biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…

Will to power but without killing yourself.

@NoahChrein @ben_golub Guy in the SW panel still seems pretty confused

A small number of top mathematicians are telling their students that (due to AI) the profession is imminently dying Meanwhile some dumbass is happily completing the requirements to be a CPA Second guy (IMO) has something figured out that the first is missing

@cube_flipper I noticed weird stuff with my phone notification bell. Like a sense that the sound - or something - lingered, maybe after the actual sound dissipated

meditation exercise: sit next to a friend who is using a computer and meditate on your auditory experience. if they are using a mouse, you may hear them clicking away, "tik-tok, tik... tok. tik-tok." notice how your mind forms a "latch" or suchlike every time it hears an on-click and releases it every time it hears an off-click. can you get the latch to release before/without hearing the off-click?