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neuralkoi
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- I can do all of this and be hit by a bus tomorrow. I'm not saying don't do it, but there's already so many assumptions made. It's also playing whack-a-mole.
For example, organic might not exactly [0] be what you think it is [1]. What's more important is that you actually do eat enough fruits and vegetables.
Reverse osmosis membranes are made of plastic [2] and might themselves be introducing tons of microplastics to the water [3]. Our parents got leaded gasoline. We get microplastics.
The bandwidth to focus on these kind details usually comes with certain financial security. There's simply too many variables. Your average joe who can't use "Locale" to source their food. (An interesting experiment is to grab the text body of this blog post and ask AI to estimate the author's net worth and yearly salary.)
“A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” -- John A Shedd
[0] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-7/subtitle-B/chapter-I/su...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmM6SUn7Es
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4883278/#:~:text=An...
[3] https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/bottled-water-can...
- @tom8opot8o This is an excellent idea by the way. I had something similar in mind where people would collaboratively write a letter to someone, say for a friend on their birthday or for a coworker on their promotion or a new-married couple or a family and their newborn, but I could never conceive of how to do it. It seems here you've found the sauce for an app like this. I strongly suggest you revisit this idea and gear it for something like that! There's something similar that already exists, but not quite called kudoboard.com.
You could write who contributed to the letter at the bottom of the letter. Add emojis, stickers, etc. Make it very personalized and filled with love.
- Nihilism and resentfulness go nowhere good. I want to see bestregards.com.
From: Humanity
To: 2025
Subject: Love you, 2025.
Hey 2025,
Love you for revealing authoritarian drift early enough to resist it, for challenging us to bridge divides with intention, for forcing truth to sharpen itself against noise, for pushing us to reimagine work rather than fear its loss, for making peace urgent instead of theoretical, for exposing wealth gaps so plainly they demand repair, for pressuring tax systems to be questioned and improved, for reminding us that nothing lasting is taken for granted, for steering innovation back toward creation instead of extraction, for teaching us what love costs and why it matters, for turning difference into something worth protecting, for insisting essentials be valued as essentials, for honoring those we lost by deepening how we live, for revealing how empty digital validation is compared to real regard, for asking us to choose deliberately rather than survive passively, for making nature’s limits impossible to ignore, for showing that screens are tools and faces are irreplaceable, for watching closely enough that we learned to speak and listen with care, and for everything else.
With commitment,
Humanity
- A lot of us live our lives according to the expectations of others (our parents, society, etc) because this is all we know how to do at first and what the "system" reinforces through school, career, etc. and this difference between what we want to do and what we actually end up doing can end up causing lots of suffering to ourselves (and to others).
I've seen fear as the primary obstacle to trying something different when the current route is not working. It's really hard to step outside the comfort zone in those situations.
- After all, everything is correlated. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
- It's not just you. I've read this person's stuff before. Every sentence comes off as if they are presenting the results of a major epiphany.
You can write things which sound pretty. It's the equivalent of wordy sugar. It's much harder to to write things you've learned from life experience or thought deeply about.
Subject your beliefs to the Socratic method. If they've survived your own criticism to the fullest extent and can be validated by your own lived experience, then maybe they've got an inkling of truth and they're worth writing about.
- The author did an excellent job explaining what an evil maid attack is, but a very poor job of explaining how their proposal mitigates such attack.
I think the classic "Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice" [0] approach is simpler to understand and simpler to implement. It doesn't rely on any hardware, such as a Raspberry Pi or otherwise technology which can be more easily subject to scrutiny via Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
[0] https://dys2p.com/en/2021-12-tamper-evident-protection.html
- I know which school I'd count on to not be based on gambling if I had to choose between a distorted view of libertarianism (and Aynd Rand) and the more pragmatic and sound principles of folks like Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett.
- The company is rotting from within.
- Quick, someone get DOOM running on CSS!
- I always wonder, do these workaholic types never get sick? Do they just push through the pain? Surely you can only push the body so much before something gives.
Could 2 week yearly vacation Jensen Huang actually perform better than 365 day per year workaholic Jensen Huang? An interesting thought experiment.
- This guy's resume is quite something to behold:
1) Slummed it through the ranks of various Wall Street banks [1]
2) Became the Director of Prime Brokerage Technology at Deutsche Bank in 1999 [2]
3) Went through venture capital round in 2000 and in 9 months built a company valued at over 1,000,000 USD [0]
4) Sold license to Electronic Arts (EA) to power EA World Series of Poker (WSOP). [3]
5) Wrote, but had to cancel a "Hardcore Erlang" book [4]
6) Raised 2 million USD in 2 days for a crypto project (Stegos AG) [2]
Self-described "autodidact and a life-long learner" [1] with " just the right mix of discipline, structured thinking, and creativity to excel as a coder" [0].
This guy is either an undiscovered genious or aiming for the world's best bullshitter award.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20060624122838/http://wagerlabs....
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070101044653/http://wagerlabs....
[2] https://hackernoon.com/leaders-speak-joel-reymont-lead-devel...
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/674d1/joel_rey...
- This also was an individual who was getting very little sleep, taking an unknown assortment of hallucinogenic psychotropics, who clearly got drunk off his own success and the attention he got, possibly psyop'd by multiple governments due to his reach and influence.
It's kind of tragic. He reminds me of Smeagol from Lord of the Rings. People lacking any virtue (like wisdom, compassion, or courage) are extremely vulnerable to external dark forces.
- I wonder if this changes the old adage, now that the missile knows where it is at all times. [0]
- This seems to indeed be confirmed over at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/14615114
"Your data stays in Workspace. We do not use your Workspace data to train or improve the underlying generative AI and large language models that power Gemini, Search, and other systems outside of Workspace without permission."
Understanding is not just doing. Understanding is being able to build something up from first principles. The author of this post will better understand the difference when he hits a non-trivial bug or the project grows past a certain size.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle