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  1. epsilonic
    This is really good, thank you for sharing!
  2. epsilonic
    I think they’re waiting for bargain bin deals once the bubble collapses.
  3. epsilonic
    They are the proponents of The Great Reset. Here’s an excerpt from a book I read:

    ‘As Hitler declared in 1934, “The German revolution will be concluded only when the entire German Volk has been totally created anew, reorganized and reconstructed” (cited in Koonz, 2003, p. 87). The “Great Reset,” announced by World Economic Forum (WEF) director Klaus Schwab, son of Nazi industrialist Eugen Schwab, attempts the same thing on a global scale, promising to “revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country [ . . . ] must participate, and every industry [ . . . ] must be transformed” (Schwab, 2020).’

    The book is: Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State

    By David A. Hughes

  4. epsilonic
    There’s a good book that discusses dark patterns in Gambling games, making it easier to appreciate how they extrapolate to other contexts as well. The title of the book is:

    Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

    Author: Natasha Dow Schüll

  5. epsilonic
    Sure. When I have a night of poor sleep or anticipate one, I usually take 6 grams of BHB salts in the morning on an empty stomach. You can work your way up to a maximum of 12 grams, but I would advise caution since it can cause diarrhea. I would start by buying the cheapest product (nutricost) you can find online; if it costs more than $80 for ~300g, then you're probably getting ripped off. I noticed that I have very lucid dreams and experience strong hypnagogic jerks when I take this supplement.

    Here is some literature that I've perused to support my experimentation with BHB salts:

    1. β-hydroxybutyrate is a metabolic regulator of proteostasis in the aged and Alzheimer disease brain (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245194562...)

    2. Refueling the post COVID-19 brain: potential role of ketogenic medium chain triglyceride supplementation: an hypothesis (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3...)

    My motivation for pursuing this was protracted sleep disturbance from long-covid.

  6. epsilonic
    Exogenous ketones (such as BHB salts) are known to help with glymphatic drainage in the brain during sleep. I've used them extensively and have noticed improved sleep with nearly a doubling of the time spent in REM stage.
  7. epsilonic
    What signals make you so certain that we are in another civil war? Just curious.
  8. epsilonic
    Linear Algebra and Geometry by Igor Shafarevich, coupled with Linear Algebra by Friedberg, Insel, and Spence; the latter has great problems to work with, whereas the former is for a lucid exposition.
  9. epsilonic
    This attribution criteria might be subject to revision based on research like this: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
  10. epsilonic
    If you like this article, you’ll probably enjoy reading most publications from the Santa Fe Institute.
  11. epsilonic
    Not quite. I've been taking Beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) salts in powder form, mixed with water. Here is some interesting literature discussing its benefits as a metabolic regulator of proteostasis in aged and Alzheimer-diseased brains:

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37461525/ (same research article referenced in the post link)

    I personally take it to manage brain fog due to long-Covid.

  12. epsilonic
    This is something I've been experiencing as well, and I just started exogenous Ketone supplementation three days ago.
  13. epsilonic
    Yeah… let’s just strap you to a plunging plane, then invalidate your experience as “overflowing with hyperbole”.
  14. epsilonic
    Anything by John H. Holland is good.
  15. epsilonic
    “It's important to understand that in order to make people superfluous, machines will not have to surpass them in general intelligence but only in certain specialized kinds of intelligence. For example, the machines will not have to create or understand art, music, or literature, they will not need the ability to carry on an intelligent, non-technical conversation (the "Turing test"[18]), they will not have to exercise tact or understand human nature, because these skills will have no application if humans are to be eliminated anyway. To make humans superfluous, the machines will only need to outperform them in making the technical decisions that have to be made for the purpose of promoting the short-term survival and propagation of the dominant self-propagating systems.”
  17. epsilonic
    What class of problems benefit significantly from being solved by quantum devices?
  18. epsilonic
    Yes, but in a large enterprise setting, which is where it makes most sense from a cost standpoint. For smaller business development, I typically go with something like fly.io.
  19. epsilonic
    Is there any networking hardware that can intercept and obfuscate payloads that are collected by bossware tools? Also, is there a database of known bossware? I’ve used MITM proxy to intercept web analytics payloads, but I’m curious to know if there is anything available at the hardware level.

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