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richardanaya··on Decker – A HyperCard Replacement
Beautiful
richardanaya··on Epistemology – A private open-source platform for your local text AI
Made this tool over my vacation for using llama.cpp with JSON schema. Enjoy!
richardanaya··on VectorDB: Vector Database Built by Kagi Search
Kagi search is amazing, i've used it for the last few months. If this is what they are using to power it, i'm optimistic.
richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
I don't know Thomas Reid's work, but here's what ChatGPT says about him:

"Thomas Reid, a Scottish philosopher and a contemporary of David Hume, is known for his common-sense philosophy, which posits that common sense beliefs have a greater evidentiary value than philosophical or scientific evidence."

I'd be wary of your idea he is someone who cares about objective reality.

richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
I don't know how to tell you this, but you are wrong.

1. Plato believed with live in a degenerate physical world that was a reflection of an alternate dimension.

2. Christian philosophy believes god can change the rules of reality at any given moment.

3. Kant believed we cannot know the noumenal world (world beyond our preception)

4. Materialists believe we don't know anything and we're just atoms deterministically saying anything

And a ton of derivatives.

etc. etc.

Aristotle is the most notable exception who believed in hylomorphism, but it was very very early philosophy.

richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
Calling Ayn Rand religious, is a clear sign you know nothing about her. Her entire work is basically a claim that objective reality should paid attention to in our beliefs.
richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
Your notion that any philosophers write books that have complete philosophical justifications from metaphysics to politics in a single book is a strange one. As I told the other person not familiar with her writings, she has an incredible amount of books and essays. The most important being her book on epistemology.
richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
> it doesn't depend on whether the rest of what he wrote is correct

Do you accept ideas out of context?

richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
> Ayn Rands ideas are mostly just watered down and simplified ripoffs of Nietzsche.

Name one epistemological idea she ripped off from Nietzche.

richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
"realist" philosopher?
richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
You don't seem to be.
richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
Are you even aware of the books and articles she wrote for decades? Check your premises.
richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
> If belive something, and have at least some justification for that belief, amd lastly, it happens to be true

You've basically just said "I can make any thing to be true so long as it's justified to me". Think about the consequences of that statement.

richardanaya··on Whither philosophy?
You have to know what precision means to claim you think with precision. Most philosophy believes the false idea that one can't know reality, thus generally ends up a waste of time.
richardanaya··on Tech Workers Paying $700 a Month for Tiny Bed 'Pods' in San Francisco
Is there a better alternative they'd want?
richardanaya··on Rediscovering Web 1.0 Principles in Virtual Worlds
Agreed, it's a real challenge. I'm excited to see if AI will unleash metaverses because it will make aesthetically more enjoyable experiences faster/cheaper/easier to create.
richardanaya··on Rediscovering Web 1.0 Principles in Virtual Worlds
Hey all, i've been super thoughtful about HTMX and how it's challenging the landscape, I hope you enjoy my article about some of it's core ideas in a different interactive world.
richardanaya··on More writers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training
Where's your attributions for all the words written in your comment ;P you remixed the words and grammar patterns from other people's creative common's licenses of other people writings!

Note: i'm declaring my comment license as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

So if you remix or transform my comment by responding it, please attribute to me your response.

richardanaya··on Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus
Was anyone else amused by the mythological significance? In Greek mythos, Pegasus spawned out of the blood of Medusa.
richardanaya··on Objective Software Development Time Estimation for the Non-Omniscient
I wrote this article over Labor Day on software development time estimation at a quarterly level. Hope you enjoy it.
richardanaya··on Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
When your epistemological view is that all words are only representations of concepts of whim and not observation of reality, a lot of dumb ideas become possible, and Wittgenstein's is one of them. Woe to any person who gets lost in any of these ideas. If something in your gut says something wrong about a philosophy that's ultimate conclusion is "you can't say anything because you can't know anything", you should pay attention to it. To those who do, take the advice of your own teacher:

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

richardanaya··on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
Oregon enabled public use of drugs is the problem without consequence, just like drunk driving and public intoxication, it should be made illegal.
richardanaya··on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
Oregon enabled public drug use is the problem, just like drunk driving and public intoxication, it should be made illegal.
richardanaya··on Rio, a new GPU-accelerated terminat that can run natively and in the browser
It would be nice if there was an online demo of this, I just see pictures!
richardanaya··on Batteries and Renewables Are Saving Texas During the Heat Wave
Build more nuclear power.
richardanaya··on MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism
He does it selfishly and he does it well. People are bitter when capitalists find ways to profitably help people.
richardanaya··on The Ritual of Capitalization (2021)
This person needs to read some Ayn Rand so their understanding of capitalism won’t be so inept as “slap a price on something”.
richardanaya··on Times New Bastard
Nihilism in typography
richardanaya··on NodePad: LLM-aided graph based note-taking and brainstorming tool
The content restrictions seem overly restrictive.
richardanaya··on It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
Same .. gpt-4 is a very harsh trade off of time for products.
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