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Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".

On National Geographic channel, I have seen cannibalism in lions and spotted hyneas.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42041926-the-scout-minds...

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a soldier mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe--and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a scout mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world--which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.

Distributed verification. 8 billions of us can divide up the topics and subjects and pool together our opinions and best conclusions.

I think what LLMs do with words is similar to what artists do with software like cinema4d.

We have control points (prompts + context) and we ask LLMs to draw a 3D surface which passes through those points satisfying some given constraints. Subsequent chats are like edit operations.

https://youtu.be/-5S2qs32PII

Sculpt coding??

Sculding??

Rice by any other name??

ZeroHedge can stay irrational far longer than you can stay sane.

Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire

https://youtu.be/OtLvtMqWNz8

The best video essay on the movie

You are what you know.

You know what you are told.

dont spread yourself too thin;or else river will dry; pick your battles.

Never perfect a game something to its theoretical limits, It stops being exciting.

https://youtu.be/0Yubn6P5DUw

I can sense two classes of coders emerging.

Billionaire coder: a person who has "written" billion lines.

Ordinary coders : people with only couple of thousands to their git blame.

https://x.com/JDHamkins/status/2014085911110131987

I am seeing the doomed future of AI math: just received another set theory paper by a set theory amateur with an AI workflow and an interest in the continuum hypothesis.

At first glance, the paper looks polished and advanced. It is beautifully typeset and contains many correct definitions and theorems, many of which I recognize from my own published work and in work by people I know to be expert. Between those correct bits, however, are sprinkled whole passages of claims and results with new technical jargon. One can't really tell at first, but upon looking into it, it seems to be meaningless nonsense. The author has evidently hoodwinked himself.

We are all going to be suffering under this kind of garbage, which is not easily recognizable for the slop it is without effort. It is our regrettable fate.

> In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't even have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should accept.

delicate feelers is like octopus arms

prompt: Collapse of Circle to 3 points is like Quantum mechanics of mathematics.

ghosts react : imagine a youtube channel but opinions expressed are from the POV of a ghost.

put the above prompt and enjoy some imaginative writing.

vagueprose = vagueposting

Remember how Denmark supported the illegal creation of Kosovo without a UN resolution, on the basis of self-concocted EU rules? Today they’re being subjected to something similar. Thank you Donald Trump for holding these hypocrites to account

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07v-ttoJZs

When Carlin asks about the last white people America bombed, he answers his own question: the Germans, and specifically notes they're "the only ones." But here's the key part of his argument: America didn't bomb Germany for moral reasons or because they were evil - we bombed them because "they were trying to cut in on our action. They wanted to dominate the world." His punchline: "Fuck that, that's our fucking job."

Whitelands or Anglosphere will always be cooperating and coordinating because blood is thicker than water. So all these developments of Canada moving closer to China are superficial. When push comes to shove, the real affinities or allegiances will be revealed, ie the anglosphere will stick together.

"The US government hates China and also hates Muslims but suddenly cares about Muslims in China" - forgot who quoted this. Compare US stance on Gaza. If media can ban discussions on gaza, can't it invent phantom genocide in Xinjiang Province? Something to think about.

But by claiming one thing and doing the exact opposite (on a statistical quantitative basis), Wikipedia and all other western outlets have become just a front for propaganda which is also the reason why I don't believe in "Persecution of Uyghurs in China"

German Scholars Reveal Shocking TRUTH About China’s Xinjiang Province

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fp-MZsRhKM

I think this indicates the features from vision and audio got aligned properly and hence we know what is what intuitively.

Have you seen lately, that in order to win AI race, nobody [big tech especially] cares about climate anymore?

This spam LLM account "MarkusAllen" (towards the very end) could be used by an adversory to discredit books / courses /"youtube channel" they link to. This is reverse psychology attack vector made possible by an LLM.

I have a question. Why can't Whatsapp or Meta make a markdown INFO only website for small business owners (e.g. technicians, shopkeepers, handyman, etc) using their immense reach and clout. The method of using whatsapp groups to keep users updated of the latest updates is not scalable or open.

All these attempts looks like emulation of "Pen (software) is mightier than Sword" or that only if more people believed in the cause, we would be close to resolution.

Remember folks, soft power is nothing in front of hard power.

I think we can safely the problem isn't lack of information at the local or national level. The problem is nobody is taking action on it when informed. It takes only 1 person to report a problem but the responsibility to take action is swallowed by the void, noise and we the people are helpless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877301

I heard Boeing whistleblowers died unexpectedly.

Two prominent Boeing whistleblowers, John Barnett (died March 2024) and Joshua Dean (died April 2024), have died in recent times, raising significant concerns about retaliation and safety at the aerospace giant; Barnett died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after battling Boeing in a retaliation lawsuit, while Dean died from a sudden infection after raising quality concerns, with his family suspecting foul play despite official rulings. Barnett's death was ruled a suicide, though his family's wrongful death suit claims Boeing's harassment caused his distress, while Dean's death followed rapid illness, with his family also alleging misconduct by his employer, Spirit Aerosystems, and Boeing.

If you block /r/history, you would prove the aphorism, "One thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history"