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neurotoxic? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130466/

Daughter recently told me: "that was a very chatgpt explanation."

Celebrity death match: Olin Shivers vs. Derek Sivers

Managers are a form of government; that is to say, a necessary evil. Companies should spend as much energy reducing the number of managers as they spend worrying about useless employees. But it never seems to be that way.

Orson Welles voice "Do you have a favorite kind of cardboard?"

He's just got a lot of energy.

Can we get the Guided By Voices logo added to unicode? http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7087/1132/1600/rune.1.jpg

I have this feeling that all of Musk's comnpanies are technology development ventures intended to support his primary goal of getting humans to live off-earth. Note: I am not defending his goal, or idolizing him. But consider: boring company: finance learning about tunnel construction; tunnels needed on moon or mars for habitation; solar cells: very useful on moon or mars; hyperloop: finance learning about vacuum seals and related technology. My explanation makes much more sense for each of these than the ostensible goal of the company. which brings me to the point in Cthulhu's post: tesla is selling cars to understand the techne of energy storage for use in space habs.

cells are not the same thing as batteries; it's possible tesla is making batteries with cells from Panasonic or whatever.

Never trust anyone who says things like "never trust anyone who ..."

Ok, yes, I get that he's got a larger point under that clickbait-ey slug but ehhh.

If Chomsky is right(), then what is to be done? () I am inclined to think he is fwiw

there is no fault; there is no guilt trip. There is no "cannot publish acceptable trustworthy etc.". These are observations and a proposed explanation that the causes described are resulting in the observed phenomena. You are not an island, or else the rest of society is your sea. You may be uninterested in your milieu, but your milieu is in[terested in] you.

Everything is edible; many things only once.

day lillies, I think, are also completely edible.

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”

I wasn't arguing against it. I was commenting on it, sharing a thought. Peace.

This reminds me of "all models are wrong, but some models are useful." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong)

Outside of formal math, all we have are models, so there will often (always?) be an ordering of "less wrong" on model-based knowledge.

So "wronger than wrong" is putting a heavy spin on the truth. More wrong models might still be useful.

extremely relatable.

Laid off 10 January, had a few interviews at startups but no offers yet. Seems like there are positions in the robotics space.

well put.

"Why couldn't life evolve multiple times in a simulation?"

Because the Grad Students don't want it to, and act to prevent it? :-)

but it is somewhat suggestive of absence.

It's not real.

So... you want to replace flammable hydrogen with... ionized hydrogen. Hm.

Wow... Walt's Mill. My mom worked there, I have a photo of her standing above a fuel storage well... It used to be a test reactor with a channel of water through the core that they would send boats through to test samples of materials for radiation exposure effects.

Isn't this a Mars Volta album title?

I can't endorse this comment enough. Look for a new job, please. Don't let them abuse you.

Start looking for a new job.