𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 27I've been trying kava root, and it strikes me as a much better alcohol thus far. The main downside is the reverse tolerance (?!) and also that root water extract is slightly unpleasant and wouldn't go in beverages as well as alcohol does.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 30What do you think a reasonable person should have been able to agree on about nuclear war in 1939?
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 23Yes! I think that's a good way to put one of the design goals: "gives you agency". Sounds hokey and corporate-speak, but there's a real meaning there. pic.twitter.com/F8Ejoi81IL
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 14Sure: "We're so rich and our people are so productive that it is literally not worth our time to worry about a few thousand packages going walkies; we aren't retirees scarred by the Great Depression hoarding NatGeo issues—just click the button on Amazon and get a replacement."
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 15Today in unusual fulltexting adventures: tracking a Dennett cite, I find myself buying American magic textbook scan off... a Chinese website? Comes about a working day later.
I'm pretty sure they have a mole inside one of the famous magic private torrent trackers to get stuff.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernFeb 3- Autobiographical/hypermnesia
- Photographic memory (Luria)
- Idiot savants display a wide variety of perception & calculating skill, although how 'innate' debated
- some claim to always know time of day or wake on demand
- trance/daydream/visualization
- chicken sexing?
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 29Why, did the dinosaurs have a space program I am unaware of?
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 29Another example of why I switched to putting the real number first. People will anchor on the big number and ignore the small number. Nominal first: "he he, I guess if you're so smart whyaincha rich"; real first: "oh wow, that's actually... quite a lot?" twitter.com/Virtual1nstinc…
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 15(So, Arxiv is the most useful thing now-50+-years of string theory research has produced?)
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 15Political donations are dominated by multiple orders of magnitude by pretty much anything else, so even complete 0% absence of funging is inadequate to justify it in general.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 24One will be shocked to read about yet another case of cloud egress bandwidth costs combined with cloud providers adamantly refusing to implement any kind of cost control. (Dedicated servers not affected.)
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 16(How much of that is just tactical in the eternal 'commoditize your complement' war?)
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 31As I like to point out, less than a century ago, one of the most powerful men in the wealthiest country in the world had to watch his son die of a blister from playing tennis, which could have been cured by $1 of antibiotics today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Co…
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 20Do we need humility? The area is scarcely researched, yet artificial wombs already handle lambs for 4 weeks, and human preemies have been pushed back >10 weeks. And embryos can go quite far in vitro, which you'd expect to be the hardest, because when most fragile & undeveloped.
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