This, and also brain fog – which unless it is truly debilitating is hard to prove, hard to treat, and can feel pointless to talk about after a while. You won't necessarily hear people talk about "having Long Covid" unless their symptoms are easily measurable and debilitating in a key area of their life. 20% sounds viable to me, too.
Probably the speculative FOSS project I'm most excited to think about is an open alternative to YouTube – a universal video hosting platform or network, free from commercial incentives baked into the platform.
I've only started to think about this recently so haven't explored whether it's viable to e.g. run all video hosting in a torrent-like, distributed way, or perhaps a Mastodon-like model, but the goal seems like one of the best things free software could aim to achieve right now. YouTube needs to die, and it needs an alternative that could conceivably kill it.
This is frankly morbid, but there was a good younger writer, Kaleb Horton, who I feel channeled the spirit of HST effectively, without the sense of direct mimicry. He died a few days ago, at a far-too-young age, but his work was excellent:
It does make sense with a wider context. In short, he was miserable, and he always planned to go out on his own terms when he felt he'd reached the end of the path (I imagine influenced by seeing his father die painfully through disease as a young man). He documented both well. Having his family in the house at the time, and to be on the phone to his wife, was likely to let them know the nature of it, a kind of act of transparency and trust. It makes sense in the context of his beliefs and nature. Also, he would have always been in the middle of something, work wise.
Ah yep, I hadn't considered these codes appear for all files, not just frontmatter-friendly formats, which my vaults mostly are… Watermarks for media files? EXIF? — I joke.
It's an interesting problem to think on and also reminds me of resource fork advantages. My two cents is it's worth having a setting for "more permanent" codes at whatever compromise it forces. The idea of very short note codes is really nice, especially if it's "that's the code, it won't change" (I constantly rename and move notes to improve organisation and I expect others do) — I'll be trying out your plugin soon!
The Git idea was to track the original commit of note, assuming the vault is in a repo, and use that original path + git hash as the thing that doesn't change. Log tracking is imperfect, but I'd expect it to work in a vast majority of cases in Obsidian context.
Agreed, this would be a nice setting to "burn in" the codes to frontmatter on e.g first save. And with this enabled the plugin could also check for and avoid duplicates by modifying the code until its unique).
One other possibility is use git log --follow to grab the original filepath + commit hash, to base the code on. Imperfect but should reduce code changes vs. on rename.
I really like the simple 4 letter code for shorthand!
“If it were impossible to download YouTube videos, many organizations would abandon hosting their videos on YouTube for a platform that offered more user flexibility.”
Seems like a bit of a presumptuous proposition. If it were impossible, the web just might be a bit more shit, and the video monopoly would roll on regardless. Most might just come to take for granted videos of personal significance (I downloaded one of my grandpa in WW2 footage, for example, and there was no other version available except the YouTube one) are dependent on YouTube continuing to host them.
Some would, of course, use alternative platforms that offer proper download links, but it's hard to think that would be most, easy to think that would be well under 5% of those uploading videos that should in ways be a kind of permanent archive, or that this loss would really amount to anything to Google, commercially. Maybe not something to poke the bear on?
If in the other hospitals they were able to rely on the expertise of others, but in that single hospital they could not hide their lack of deep knowledge and that led to deaths? I think the answer of that analogy is obvious—though I realise it is an analogy, not directly comparable.
it really doesnt work like that in Spain. The associations say the US has with what a suburd is, and of suburban life, does not translate to Spanish city planning. A better word for "suburb" in Spain would be "outskirts" of city—somewhere you might be pushed to for financial reasons. They are often urbanised areas of cheap apartment blocks, and if rural, not in a fancy way, e.g. large spacious houses. The discussion on this thread is coming from a cultural misunderstanding.
There are of course also very nice houses around cities, and rural ones out from that, but they rarely characterise suburbs in Spain (Barcelona is an exception I've noticed, and Madrid has some satellite towns and cities North of city that are very plush, though not the suburbs).
Because it hasn’t resulted in a stable situation or a historical event that stops being relevant to the current moment. No harmony has formed since. It is still essentially an ongoing invasion and erasure and oppression of Tibetan culture and people. See moves related to giant damn building most recently, but it is has been continuous, and there are big concerns among Tibetans about it getting worse still in the future, when the Dalai Lama dies. Only the initial maneuvers of invading are in the past, the rest applies to the current moment, day by day.
Clean drinking water is actually de facto a finite resource. It does recycle through nature, but large reservoirs and water tables are slow to recharge, often taking millennia to form, so there’s a lossiness in that sense — our usage and loss of potable water can’t be higher than the overall recharge rate. So it’s something we could exhaust without big technical breakthroughs (converting salt water quicker than nature does in large quantities, etc). We rely on maintaining a sustainable rate of consumption to avoid setting up future generations for potential catastrophe, basically. Not saying data centre water usage could alone be the difference, but it’s not implausible if it increases exponentially. Another factor is existing reserves can be contaminated and made undrinkable, adding an unpredictable factor into calculations. It’s an interesting topic to read about.
I like that term much better, confabulation. I’ve come to think of it as it relies on an inherent trust in the fact that whatever process it uses to produce a coherent response (which I don’t think the LLM can really analyze after the fact) is inherently a truth-making process, since it trusts inherently its training data and considers that the basis of all its responses. Something along those lines. We might do something similar at times as humans, it feels similar to how some people get trapped in lies and almost equate what they have said as true with having the quality of truth as a result of them having claimed it as true (pathological liars can demonstrate this kind of thinking).
Yes! I agree completely. They’ve not even turned on the money faucets yet. These prices are likely just to hook users on the product, and will be more comparable to paying something that compares, but favourably, to minimum wage per hour in the future. Not implying a nefarious scheme, I just think that’s how the economics of it will pan out.
What’s amazing to me is this design looks a hella lot like tree branch formations to me. Makes me wonder if trees have some form of antenna-like functionality we are unaware of.
I see what you mean as in no tolerance for abusive people that can currently get away with overtly treating people like shit, but I do immediately think “that generally captures the more trivial abusers.” The most destructive ones tend to be covert, and more often will appear as friendly and polite as LLMs when setting up their targets. That makes me wonder if it will create a harder or easier era for them. Not something I’ve thought on before to have formed an opinion, but it makes me wonder.
The author is describing the socially (and physically) destructive percentage of the population who just want to grab power through manipulation and control and the way they express this through social media, I believe (dark triad personality disorders, loosely). The only danger I see is an embrace of passivism in the form of “anyone who objects to things that are happening in passionate terms is the real problem.” Which would be even worse, when that percentage has real power, and real ability to pull levers. Not to say everyone should go around screaming or protesting with every tweet, etc. It's the balance of these things I think is off-kilter, not a simple solution “just act aloof and block the right people, and all will be well in the world, just like it is in Starbucks when I leave my apartment each morning.” In any case, that's my two cents. There's a balance to be struck, that this article doesn't really get at.
Yes! It needs and seems to want the human to be a deep collaborator. If you take that approach, it is actually a second senior developer you can work with. You need to push it, and explain the complexities in detail to get fuller rewards. And get it to document everything important it learns from each session's context. It wants to collaborate to make you a 10X coder, not to do your work for you while you laze. That is the biggest breakthrough I have found. They basically react like human brains, with the same kind of motives. Their output can vary dramatically based on the input you provide.
I suspect the US definition of sandwich is different to the European one, but genuinely not sure. Curious — can someone give me a few examples describing the $10 sandwiches you get in the US? Are we talking warm, ordered off a menu, good quality meat, filling enough to serve as a meal?
This whole conversation has reminded me of the $5 milkshake conversation in Pulp Fiction.
I’ve signed up for the Kagi trial, so far I’m liking it. Breath of fresh air compared to the free ones. Best result, first position.
Yeah, that’s what I find. In fact I’m only on this article catching up with my RSS.
I skim through, I arrange feeds in folders alphabetically sorted by both priority and subject. I constantly remove feeds I find too noisy, and I sort chronologically (ascending). I update read status in bulk based on my scroll position (mark above as read). It works really well, though took about a year to figure out what works best for me.
Just throwing this out there. Is it possible that in some way, it does have a MacBook Pro M2? For example, that the tools the ChatGPT UI have are exposed to it through access to one, which is can run whatever tools it wants through? That might actually be quite a sensible way to expose a “tools” UI to an LLM. If what it’s saying is technically accurate on the “flagship product” (ChatGPT), it could be the API version is simply confused about its differences (no access to tools).
I agree that, obviously, large scale asteroid impacts and other major cataclysms have exponentially bigger immediate destructive outcomes. Ridiculously so.
That doesn't mean the atmosphere itself, and the weather systems governing them, don't have to be kept in balance from the inside. It's a different kind of threat, man-made effects on the planet, sustained and over time. Two different systems – one where the life-sustaining systems suffer an acute disruption but then can naturally restore itself over time, and another where the nature of the system itself could slowly be adjusted, potentially compromising its basic life-sustaining qualities.
I wouldn't say it's a bigger threat than large asteroid impacts or cataclysmic events – though, those are relatively minuscule percentages, where the other is something approaching 100% on our current trajectory –, but that doesn't mean it can be dismissed as a threat in itself to the planet's life-sustaining properties. Every threat merits attention, regardless of how they compare.
And the threat is not about human effort, it's about ignorant human hubris.
“We can change it so we and many other life forms can't live here any more but it will still be a planet and there will most likely still be some form of life here for millions of years to come.“
When people talk of destroying the planet, they do not mean obliterating its mass in a Death Star-like way. They’re just talking about destroying its ability to sustain life, and it seems clear we have the potential to trigger that change. It’s a small planet, and even if we had no knowledge of it, looking around in the universe suggests its ecosystems and atmosphere are fragile and can’t be taken for granted.
Yeah, this is an interesting point! It would be very hard to quantify, but it feels fair to say there is a significant level of what might be called “covert violence” in modern society that would increase the numbers if it could be accurately measured, and wouldn’t have applied to prehistory. I would largely exclude things like alcohol and tobacco, but a lot of other things feel valid to include to me. And if you consider something like Covid-related deaths could be included, which I realise would be debatable, the numbers would rise significantly.
I don’t think the author means to make a mental health diagnosis. He brings up the question at one point about whether a “bully” nature is a mental health issue or an evolutionary adaption. The concept pointed to feels clear to me — a low percentage of individuals with a homicidal disposition and nature. Whether we use the term bully, sociopath, psychopath, or so on, what the article refers to seems clear and not an attempt at mental health diagnosis IMO.
I honestly can’t understand how you think this might not be satire. Musk has been lying low, out of the public eye, avoiding controversy? Barely tweeting?
Well this shows its power when it reaches viewers who it clicks with! Good on you going to the IMAX (I'm no morality police about downloading movies, but the big screen is where it's at to get an experience). For me this movie has played like 3 different cuts, 3 different times.
Thank you. I think that is right, something people don't want to see — though it's more the idea of something they don't want to see. It's a shame they don't want to see, since it's a deeply optimistic movie. Hope you enjoy the home screening :) — apologies for the late reply, my notifications were not set up correctly.
Great to hear from other viewers who loved it. I don't often rewatch in the cinema either, though oddly enough I have rewatched 3 movies in the cinema this year (a first), 2024 has been impressive. Here in Spain they are continuing to show it, but it's not raking in dollars and movie theatres can be quick to drop screenings these days :( — this is one that would have needed time to build a buzz slowly, basically though "WTF" worth of mouth and getting people talking about it.
Also a note I didn't have my account configured correctly, so I've just seen comments. Please excuse the late reply.
I agree very much that it's made to be rewatched. I found it highly unusual in that I'm a film student and have rewatched so many films and continue to rewatch a ton of favourites endlessly, but I can't remember another movie that revealed new layers and characteristics like this did over 3 watches other than Mulholland Drive. I suspect it will continue to evolve on the next couple watches at home, too.
Also agree it's a love letter to classical theatrical traditions, and I think that's where Coppola's heart has been the whole time, calling way back in time.
The movie is one big play with time as a parable with creativity, almost like Tenet but I would say it's much more effective and powerful here.
I think this is a great movie and likely a masterpiece, but it's a fascinating movie to talk about and great to see appreciation of it confirmed in others. It's a fascinating viewing experience packed with meaning, no doubt. It does many things very differently while being able to fully engage and fascinate on first watch. There's not many movies in history like that. The rest will play out as people continue to critique the film over time, and I'll be fascinated to see how that evolves.
I love that aside. The most interesting thing about Italy in the "grand political" sense (I love their culture and art) in recent history is that relatively speaking it flew under the radar post-WW2, and continues to hold deep respect for Britain through stories of great empires, lingering fixations on that kind of story that many still identify with. I'd encourage you to expand that in longer form if you are able, no doubt it would make a good read.
Finally, just to note I didn't have my account configured correctly so didn't see any notification of comments. Please excuse the late reply.