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@willdoingthings

navigating between the scylla of overusing metaphors and the kraken of mixing them up.

psychic city, the daydream
Joined September 2012

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  1. Studying bias with the standard tools of experimental social psych really isn't enough, nor economic modeling. It's mostly bad science.

  2. I wouldn't trust about most things but that's fine 'cuz he doesn't talk about most things, which is its own virtue.

  3. Which came first: The caring about politics, or the being bored at work?

  4. All these little things I don't know if people generally know, like how keeping your eyes still in darkness makes it pitch black.

  5. Do most people not benefit from cracking their own backs or have they not learned how?

  6. Neuroimaging device's signal processing has basic functionality, it's hardware time! CYBERPUNK: ENGAGE

  7. Say what you will about Neil Gaiman's politics, but his autumnal goth aesthetic is extremely comfy

  8. Tonight here in SF is the first game of my favorite matchup from the groups stage, Samsung Galaxy versus RNG. Looper's my favorite player.

  9. yes, in fact elevator shafts are a huge space consumer in taller skyscrapers. there is a tradeoff between speed and size

  10. So I think the ideal megastructure would look sorta like an astrolabe.

  11. One thing that stands out to me is that arcs are often the ideal way of arranging a transit line. Maybe you can kinda see that at SFO.

  12. 'cuz I've been thinking about optimal public transit in a 3D space (as opposed to the current kinda 2.5D norm)

  13. I have a question about skyscrapers, do they often have elevators that go up 10 floors at a time (as well as 1 at a time of course).

  14. Imagine if my profile avatar could see you and I had a huge dome array of monitors so I could watch all of you. Or if everyone had that.

  15. For the last year my take on AI safety stuff is that corporate-academic culture is on the cusp of suitable reasonableness, any disagreement?

  16. 99% of political debate is people feeling superior for using 12yo child logic to defeat 8yo child logic.

  17. "Down with superstructure, up with infrastructure."

  18. My ex didn't actually throw away my computer, it was just in a closet, I am so happy, I didn't have a backup of that hard drive. !!! :D

  19. "What is happiness? It's a moment before you need more happiness."

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