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- Merry Christmas, HN. Thanks for a lovely daily read!
- The Arian Heresy seems to arise perpetually. Now it is typically of the form, “Christ was a great religious figure, like Buddha, or Mohammed.”; “every religion has X, what makes Christianity different?”; etc.
- No doy.
- > Language itself is political; it forms a feedback loop that shapes both individual cognition and social order.
The strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was disproved.
- I couldn't fix any of my UI quality-of-life bugs so I had to work on actual backend logic and distributed state consistency. Not what I wanted for an early morning coding sesh. Nightmare! /s
- Yes.
- This is down.
- For clarity, prayed worked and was unfortunately one of the last things I tried.
- Unfortunately I must decline to answer for legal reasons, but I am aware that some people report a short term “cure” that falls off after a longer period.
I am currently on the lowest commercially available dose of a time release methylphenidate, with a dosage pattern that mitigates this long term falloff in most people.
What has been most meaningful to me is the sense of hope both the diagnosis itself and the medication bring.
Sometimes one is trying, and is working hard enough, but is climbing higher mountains than other people while wondering why none of the online mountaineering advice makes sense.
Sometimes one needs an oxygen tank.
- Also not a physicist, but yeah -- seems equivalent to saying, "entropy does not exist."
- If you, the reader, are having "productivity problems" please get assessed for ADHD.
A lot of productivity writing has the frame "trust me, I was incorrigible and this system worked for me. If it worked for me it will work for you."
None of those systems ever worked for me. I worried about learned helplessness. I worried that imposter syndrome was actually just me being an imposter. I worried I wasn't trying hard enough, and spent enormous effort trying every idea I could: meditation, delegation, therapy, coaching, exercise, diet, sleep, prayer, etc., etc., on and on.
After DECADES of stress and pain it turned out to be a dopamine deficiency. Contemporary medication addressed this for me, quickly and effectively.
- In socialist chess there are only pawns, so checkmate is impossible.
- While I agree that technically correct is best correct, if someone created a magazine called Nazi and their defence was, “it’s not named after the original Nazis, but rather a group inspired by them”, how would that differ in structure from this explanation?
- According to Chat GPT, Nautilus still hasn’t paid its writers after the 2018 dispute.
- Thank you for taking the time to write this thought-provoking response. It brings to mind themes of “The Unincorporated Man” [0].
Valley techno-capitalism has always existed in the context of (and as a function of) the military. I broadly agree with your characterization of corporate power as a tool governments use to delegate and aggregate economic control.
Over generational time scales I think regulatory frameworks will develop sufficient to mitigate tech’s worst excesses.
- Thiel pointed out that (paraphrasing): “libertarianism is the safe way to be right-wing in Tech, because it’s not politically credible. You can be safely ignored.”
Left authoritarians have more in common with Right authoritarians than with the broader Left. You saw this in Germany and Russia when their respective authoritarianisms collapsed and the same people simply changed teams.
The argument implicit in the headline is therefore perhaps better expressed as two thoughts: why did the tech right get tired of being ignored, and how did they go about flipping the authoritarian structures that already existed?
- Related: the triboelectric[0] effect.
- A widget.
- Space is big. Colonize colonize colonize!
- See Yoto for the non-DIY product version.
- Assisted suicide is not how a healthy society should respond to serious mental health conditions.
- In Peru people eat American junk food to demonstrate wealth. Fresh fruit from the rainforest is considered garbage poor people food. In America it’s the exact opposite.
The social dimension can easily dominate the health dimension of food consumption.
- Huge market opportunity.
- Big brain socialist “everything is a special case” quote.
- You’re using an absolute attachment to relativism to critique objectivism. This is a category error.
- > The Road and No Country for Old Men both do not contain quotation marks for speech, and he omits the common speech tags like "he said" or "she exclaimed" which makes it a challenge to know who is saying what.
I am reading NC4OM right now and this is not, technically, the case. He does use those “speech tags”.
- Maybe the Leafs.
Retirement is a scam. Figure out what you want to do and do it until you drop.