grantmuller

il y a 7 joursdiscuss

This problem is so old and so common that people like Erasmus have commented on it. "Waste books" written by intellectuals throughout the ages still exist, one of the finest is Lichtenberg's. I keep a little notebook and even my main notebook has scattered pages labeled "fragments" that accomplish something similar.

grantmuller

le mois dernierdiscuss

These are also good for those "Swedish logs" where you drill a hole in the top and the side, and then cut grooves with a hand saw in the top and make a fire right on top.

grantmuller

il y a 6 moisdiscuss

> There's no objective anchors. Because we don't have objective truth. Every time we think we do and then 100 years later we're like wtf were we thinking.

I believe I'm saying the same thing, and summing it up in the word "evolutionary". I have no idea what you're talking about when you suggest that I'm perhaps "one of those people". I understand the context of the thread, just not your unnecessary insinuation.

> Formula IS a metaphor... I wrote "formula or fixed law" ... what do you think we're talking about, actual math algebra?

There is no "is" here. There "is" no formula or fixed law. Formula is metaphor only in the sense that all language is metaphor. I can use the word literally this context when I say that I literally did not say anything about a formula or fixed law, because I am literally saying there is no formula or fixed law when it comes to the context of morality. Even evolution is just a mental model.

grantmuller

il y a 6 moisdiscuss

>In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?)

I have no idea what you're talking about, so I guess I'm not "one of them".

> That's a formula right there my friend

No, it's an analogy, or a colloquial metaphor.

grantmuller

il y a 6 moisdiscuss

> Using some formula or fixed law to compute what's good is a dead end.

Who said anything about a formula? It all seems conceptual and continually evolving to me. Morality evolves just like a species, and not by any formula other than "this still seems to work to keep us in the game"

> Unless it's helps allocate more resources to those more fit to help better survival, right?;)

Go read a book about the way people behave after a shipwreck and ask if anyone was "morally wrong" there.

> By your logic there's no reason to feel morally bad about it.

And yet we mostly do feel bad about it, and we seem to be the only species who does. So perhaps we have already discovered that lack of empathy for other species is species self-limiting, and built it into our own psyches.

grantmuller

il y a 6 moisdiscuss

It seems worth thinking about it in the context of the evolution. To kill other members of our species limits the survival of our species, so we can encode it as “bad” in our literature and learning. If you think of evil as “species limiting, in the long run” then maybe you have the closest thing to a moral absolute. Maybe over the millennia we’ve had close calls and learned valuable lessons about what kills us off and what keeps us alive, and the survivors have encoded them in their subconscious as a result. Prohibitions on incest come to mind.

The remaining moral arguments seem to be about all the new and exciting ways that we might destroy ourselves as a species.

grantmuller

il y a 6 moisdiscuss

Or if you really want it spelled out, Quantum Psychology

grantmuller

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

I agree, this was the peak experience of watching this video, and somehow the most "chef's kiss" summation of 2025.

grantmuller

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Another live-coding environment that is quite nice (Haskell-based) is TidalCycles: https://tidalcycles.org

I wrote a whole album of material about 10 years ago with it, just remastered/re-released it. It's a fun way to write music while on an airplane!

grantmuller

il y a 9 moisdiscuss

You want to know her party affiliation? My god we are so cooked.

grantmuller

il y a 11 moisdiscuss

Yes! and Shadowrun! I remember just binging William Gibson after that, until Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers (the movie), and Strange Days, came out. What a great decade.

grantmuller

il y a 11 moisdiscuss

I still have my faded paperback copy of this book, from 1986. I pulled it down off the shelf and got a jolt of nostalgia, thinking about reading it when I was kid and just being blown away by such a weird vision of the future. The cover was neat, the shades on were actually mirrored.

grantmuller

l’année dernièrediscuss

In the ultra running community, it's common to do a 1 mile "test" when you're feeling awful. You start your run, and if it still feels awful after 1 mile you walk on back home and try again tomorrow. Do this until you can just keep going again.

grantmuller

l’année dernièrediscuss

rpastuszak's work is a consistent source of inspiration and fun. It's what I wanted the web to become.

grantmuller

l’année dernièrediscuss

This sentiment seems sort of sad. The medium is the message. If the medium is small, the message will be small. It may be succinct and you may think you "get it", but without evidence, examples, and context, they won't stick. It's like a good tweet: repeatable and rolls of the tongue, but easily refutable and without context. I cannot imagine compressing all of the ideas in a book like "Antifragile" or "Godel, Escher, Bach" in 10 pages. It would be so short as to be meaningless, the ideas are too big.

Same for fiction. I don't want 10 pages of world building. I want immersion. "The Sun Also Rises" would be miserable at 10 pages. Nobody is trying to communicate an idea in this case, they're communicating an aesthetic, a "vibe" or a mood. 10 pages of that and on to the next thing? Sure, if that's your medium, but the medium is the message, and the book is a unique medium for communicating big ideas, immersive worlds, and extensive moods and aesthetics. I sure hope the medium for those things isn't out of date or the world will seem a little shallow.

grantmuller

l’année dernièrediscuss

Actually it’s quite literally a decimation, if you know the root of the word.

grantmuller

l’année dernièrediscuss

Like a penetration test or a security test, you don't know where you're out of compliance until you perform an audit; you don't normally shut down your site in the meantime.

The correct way to comply with this is to suggest that you don't believe that you're out of compliance, and to request specific guidance on which particular datasets aren't in compliance that should be removed.

grantmuller

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

There are easier ways to do this from the beginning of your loan, like making sure you put 20% down and paying higher closing costs. If you tell your lenders that you refuse to pay PMI my experience has been that one of them will make it work.

grantmuller

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

The irony of reading this article surrounded by a cacophony of flashing and scrolling ads is not lost on me.

grantmuller

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

"Our findings provide evidence that loneliness is associated with deviations from the zeitgeist, specifically when it comes to perceptions of well-known celebrities"

Soooooo... thinking differently than the majority of people may lead to loneliness, because those who think differently than the zeitgeist have a hard time connecting with the majority of people because of the way they think?

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