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does 'paradox mindset' measure my ability to 'please accept the mystery'?

I remember that Neopets used to have a game called the 'Wheel of Monotony,' which was a chance wheel that would spin for like two hours before it landed on something.

When my mom saw that it was running on the PC with no one watching it, she thought that it could be hacking us and shut it off. As a kid, obviously I thought that she was overreacting.

Since then I've realized that if you wanted to run a script on someone's machine for a long time without being interrupted, a game like that would be a great way to do it.

| All I do is build graphql APIs and write frontend code.

These are valuable technical skills? I guess I don't know if your colleagues have been belittling this type of work.

Is blob toy Turing complete?

This article is talking about 'unrealistic' solutions - what you just said is going to be a neuralink plugin in 2030

OpenAI continually gaining even more leverage in the business world with their API. They'll be able to charge whatever they want eventually, if they can't already

These were considered to be satanic black magic when they were first discovered. this is the 'quaternomicon'

tangentially related, but could anybody give me the TLDR on whether increased usage of WASM on the internet is expected to open up a new slew of security vulnerabilities for users? Someone posted on here before that even JS was controversial during its adoption (and now for some users), I can only imagine that some of those concerns are multiplied when you're talking about something with such broad capabilities as WASM

Nostalgia wave at seeing images from this game again

I like Cities: Skylines but am a little turned off at how central the traffic management is to the gameplay. Maybe I just never figured out all the right optimizations, but it feels like after a certain city size you're just spending all your time reworking your roads

Can anybody give me some suggestions for how to design an AI system whose sole purpose is to safeguard humanity against rogue AIs? I'd like for it to be able to run locally

Maybe someone should start an internet rewilding project

I think it's better that these types of things remain 'news.' It would be much worse to give up ground on privacy.

This is why this seems like a strategy that is much more suited to an academic setting. If you're studying algorithm proofs, it sounds like you're often reading something like LP.

Advocating for LP in commercial product development sounds like dreaming. No way would someone who has to meet deadlines write these long, qualitative descriptions of what the code was doing. Martin's suggestion of building the 'narrative' into the code itself sounds much better in those cases.

> On some level this is obviously true. The important question is on what level?

I don't disagree. In my post I was primarily thinking about the author's assertion that these instinctual reactions are not verifiable, which I disagree with. We probably have more in common here than you realize.

One thing it sounds like Callard didn't cover in her podcast was the movement toward instinctual and social reactions. It may be possible that pink has some intrinsic beauty, but how many of the subjects only thought to provide that opinion after being influenced in some almost imperceptible way by their peers?

One thing the pandemic showed us is that people can relatively easily be made to believe something without sufficient evidence if that belief gives some benefit for them personally (i.e. anti-vaxxers). Given that most news today is consumed only through the headlines of news articles, its stands to reason that even briefer pieces of information could have just as large an influence. This is mostly why I take issue with what seems to be the overall goal of the article.

> Obviously you can self-modify to like things, like architects self-modify to find Brutalism and other crimes a against beauty good, or how people grow to like coffee.

This seems a little biased, particularly with beauty and flavor being given as objective properties. Are you sure something subtle on your screen didn't elicit an emotional response before you posted this?

Somebody's reaction to the color blue is probably socially constructed, like the author suggests. There's several generations of popular culture in the US that reinforce the idea that 'blue equals sad.'

But someone's reaction to a smile is on a more instinctual level. I'm pretty sure that smiles carry a universal meaning for people going as young as infancy. So, it doesn't seem misguided to look for these effects that happen outside of a particular cultural context.

I would have liked to see a version of the test where they remove one of the symbols altogether, and see if the birds register it as different. There might be a gap of understanding as far as which songs the birds are reacting to. Pretty interesting study, though.

Interesting that today I've also seen the headline that California is almost capable of 100% renewable energy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/05/02/califo...

It doesn't seem that the 'total collapse of civilization' would be so strongly tied to the oil industry as the writer suggests. If there truly is a reducing EROI in oil, it feels more likely that that industry would start losing resources to other renewable energy sectors. If things were as dire as he puts it, I would assume a bigger push for nuclear energy as existential fears start to outweigh NIMBYism.

"Unlike the climate changes challenge, the energy challenge is imminent: peak oil is now. However, it is important to note that the effects of climate changes and peak oil are cumulative: raging forest fires, "once in a century" yearly floods, bomb cyclones..."

How are those events tied to 'peak oil' specifically?