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Behemoth66 commented on Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome   jonstokes.com/p/i-say-thi... · Posted by u/imartin2k
prox · 3 years ago
There is something awesome about the end of shortage. We are hardwired for scarcity and capitalism itself thrives on it to create value.

Perhaps for the first time in history we need to rethink the whole model of production, needs, wants and consuming. A full blown Star Trek society is not “communism” as I saw it sometimes described, it’s “all-needs-are-met-ism” at zero cost.

The question is how to bridge the gap from where we are now to there.

Behemoth66 · 3 years ago
"We are hardwired for scarcity and capitalism itself thrives on it to create value."

"There is something awesome about the end of shortage."

So you understand that we, as humans, part of nature, have lived a certain way for nearly 7 million years, then lived another certain way starting 10,000 years ago with agriculture, and basically yesterday have started living in the modern world. And you expect us, as humans, to fully cope with this concept, to the point that it is awesome?

What we need to rethink is what it means to be human and our relationship with technology. We surely didn't evolve for millions of years to have all our needs met by machines and sit around without any purpose, forever being out-competed by said machines.

Behemoth66 commented on For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain   washingtonpost.com/wellne... · Posted by u/wslh
meltyness · 3 years ago
Yeah, in other news many environments are badly engineered, badly outfitted, and their inhabitants are content to let their artificially occupied mind anguish with squealing refrigerators, air conditioners, notifications, sleep issues, illumination issues, blood sugar spikes and trenches, social uncertainty and misplaced conscientiousness, and so on without attributing their focus issues to anything more specific than "something wrong" or, in medical terms, "disordered."
Behemoth66 · 3 years ago
Are ocean waves to you calming or distracting?
Behemoth66 commented on For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain   washingtonpost.com/wellne... · Posted by u/wslh
kortex · 3 years ago
I have ADHD and I straight-up don't do silence. Between restless brain and tinnitus, actual silence, or anything with a noise floor below ~15dB, just doesn't sit right with me. 20-30dB is about ideal. Especially when trying to sleep. I have some sort of fan/filter in just about every room. When I'm working, I'm almost always listening to music (unless I'm way over stimulated).

It probably started when I was much younger with much worse asthma and always had a HEPA filter running in the background. Eventually this turned into basically always having some kind of fan in my primary locations. Right now I dig the Coway air filters on low or medium.

Even beyond the alleged "noise floor dopamine boost", I find some kind of background whoosh really nice for masking otherwise variable sounds, such as cars, airplanes, and the wind, which are far more distracting.

10/10 would recommend running some sort of air filter all the time. Plus, cleaner air (air pollution has all kinds of bad effects).

Behemoth66 · 3 years ago
« Between restless brain and tinnitus, actual silence, or anything with a noise floor below ~15dB, just doesn't sit right with me.»

As someone with both (and particularly bad tinnitus) I look forward to my new air filters/fans.

Behemoth66 commented on How friendships change in adulthood   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
jackconsidine · 3 years ago
I liked this article. I think more about friendships than any other philosophical topic. I moved to a new city at 22 where I knew almost no one. It turns out that it's orders of magnitude harder making friends without a few seed connections. The nuances of meeting people and building relationships are so arbitrary and idiosyncratic; some things, like sports, happen to be really conducive to making friends, whereas conferences and tech meetups for me proved less fertile. Even acquaintances often simply aren't looking to change their group of close friends.

It was frustrating and discouraging for a long time and then suddenly I found myself with people to call on and spend time with. Half a decade later I moved and had the opportunity to try the experiment again. This time secondary connections made finding my network almost trivial. Maybe age helped too, being further removed from the university cliques.

I was relieved to find out, albeit way after the fact, that many have this experience. One friend recently quit his job to start a company focused on this phenomenon [0]. I hope he can displace the zombie of Meetup.

[0] https://getopenmat.com/

Behemoth66 · 3 years ago
Thanks for this comment. I just moved to a new city at 25 and have been pessimistic about being able to meet anyone.
Behemoth66 commented on Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era   nature.com/articles/s4156... · Posted by u/rntn
recuter · 3 years ago
Population density through out history has been far lower with far fewer people around and much more spread out. People didn't typically live in cities.

Travel was difficult and dangerous. Frequently forbidden when not impractical (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement).

If you think lockdowns in say, China, are harsh:

Russian Serfs were only freed 1861. Less than a century after Joseph II decided to end feudalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_Patent_(1781).

Some form of social isolation was the norm for most of human history. So I don't think you are doomed to grow crazy if you stay by yourself, we're just not used to it. No longer the norm.

Being left alone with a smartphone and "social" media apps however might cause a person to spiral.

Behemoth66 · 3 years ago
I believe you’re confusing meeting new people and isolation.

Living alone was extremely rare until recent history [1]. Not having freedom of movement, or not living in a city does not mean social isolation. Villages back in history used to celebrate holidays together, families were much larger, everyone knew everyone since birth etc…

I just woke up but don’t feel like pulling up the sources but I believe the exact opposite of your statement. Social isolation is a modern phenomenon that was extremely rare before in history. It was incredibly difficult to survive just by yourself.

[1] https://archive.org/details/goingsoloextraor00eric

Behemoth66 commented on Body Doubling   bodydoubling.com/... · Posted by u/snee
ajmurmann · 3 years ago
I wonder how much of the changed behavior comes from the less intrusive communication options having gotten much lower effort. Even calling someone unannounced is almost unthinkable except if it's an emergency. I think that's because it's so easy to just send a text message first to ask if it's convenient. In the past text messages weren't as common. Before that, I could have called for example before stopping by a friend's house. However, I would have had to call the landline which nobody might have answered because maybe they were outside. It would also have been disruptive because anyone in their household would have felt like they needed to answer. So why not just stop by if I am passing by anyways? Now though, I better first send a text, then it's not ideal right now because they are cooking or something, so we postpone, even though I could have just helped with the cooking. But nobody wants to propose cooking together. It feels like you are imposing from both sides, but probably both sides would enjoy it. We are just overthinking it.

Anecdotal data for another factor: Too much effort is made! I've recently tried to make an effort to build up more of a friend network and turn some acquaintances into friends. I've noticed that we try to make everything so "nice" that it becomes inconvenient. The hosts always spend at least an hour getting their place ready and prepping food. This leads to a "barrier entry" for getting together that makes these events less. I even brought that up one time, but hosts seem unable to reduce the effort they make. Guests commonly bring gifts. Nobody needs the gifts or the super tidy home to visit. Just ring the doorbell, grab a beer and let's just hang! I say that, but I'd never do this either because it would feel like a transgression. The only exception I've noticed is that sometimes we'll end up chatting with neighbors for a prolonged time when we randomly run into each other while going for a walk or something. However, nobody would ever say "let's take this party inside". It seems to have become cultural and I am not sure how to fix this as an individual. I think part of it is that we are always busy now or feel like we should be. Gotta run those errands, work on my side project, etc.

Behemoth66 · 3 years ago
I lived in a very orthodox Jewish neighborhood for a while and what you described is exactly what happens on Shabbat still (since there’s no phones being used).

People just feel welcome to drop by. The house is usually a total mess because « work » is not allowed, and there’s no gift bringing either because of religious reasons.

I always admired it. Just one day where no one’s working or traveling and everyone’s free to come over and hangout.

Behemoth66 commented on Elevator Saga: Elevator programming game   play.elevatorsaga.com/... · Posted by u/homarp
xiaodai · 3 years ago
this is a classic. i wonder what other programming games are there though?
Behemoth66 · 3 years ago
Bitburner is my favorite. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/

It’s an idle game at its core so it feels like Factorio whereby you try to automate as much as you can as efficiently as you can.

Behemoth66 commented on California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide   sfstandard.com/controvers... · Posted by u/moultano
josefx · 4 years ago
> The result was that, despite lacking 6 years of formal math education, the students in that district were only one year behind the other students when they went to junior high.

If it is anything like German math education back when I was in school a lot of the early things are simplified to an insane extreme and either have to be revisited later or are completely replaced with a better approach. I think we went through half a dozen ways on how to multiply and divide numbers when only one mattered in the end. If you learned the basics from your parents you could even expect to be penalized since you had to use the useless methods described in the curriculum for the first few years and could get penalized for correctly identifying an equation with a negative result.

> Basically, it seems like kid’s brains are just not able to efficiently learn math

Or it may be related to a really bad curriculum that tries to be "age appropriate" by teaching mostly useless crap.

Behemoth66 · 4 years ago
In my experience I didn’t do math at all between grade 6-12. At the community college I obviously had to take some elementary courses but I went from elementary to linear algebra/calc2 within a year and a half.
Behemoth66 commented on Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max   tlkh.dev/benchmarking-the... · Posted by u/xrayarx
grishka · 4 years ago
BTC mining isn't memory-bound, it's compute-bound. The more sha256 hashes you can compute per second, the better. And I'm highly doubtful that any general-purpose hardware at all could even begin to compete with mining ASICs.
Behemoth66 · 4 years ago
Would you or someone happen to know/guess the hash rate of the M1 Max?
Behemoth66 commented on Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked   kotaku.com/report-twitch-... · Posted by u/goldenzun
maccard · 4 years ago
Thanks for trying! This somewhat supports what I'm suggesting - because that password hasn't been leaked by being posted in plaintext as a verified password, it's not available as a lookup, therefore it doesn't matter whether they used bcrypt, sha1 or md5, or even just pgp encrypted it, the password is likely "secure".
Behemoth66 · 4 years ago
It depends. It doesn’t have to strictly be a leaked password. If it’s similar to a leaked password then the permutation rule-set will catch it.

Anything under 9 characters I can brute force in minutes. 9 character passwords would take me 9 hours.

Obviously if someone has a nest of the latest GPUs then they could go a lot faster.

But yes if your password is uwv&6qu_brusb618_$@618jg then it doesn’t really matter how you hash it.

u/Behemoth66

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