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soganess commented on You are dating an ecosystem   razor.blog/2025/12/you-wi... · Posted by u/razor_blog
razor_blog · 5 days ago
Fair take.
soganess · 4 days ago
lol, my wording on the internet makes me sound harsher than I am in person.

I do think that's a good question to ponder and one I hope I'm thoughtful enough to consider in my future relationships. If it were my idea I would keep growing it into something, but that's just me.

soganess commented on You are dating an ecosystem   razor.blog/2025/12/you-wi... · Posted by u/razor_blog
Arodex · 5 days ago
Again an article painting an idealized picture of the past that never existed.
soganess · 5 days ago
Yup. And the writing style gives big divorced dad (but with a phil degree) energy... but I think there's something interesting in the rough to poke at.

It's a velocity + availability "no Tom Brokaw" argument as applied to relationships. Like the question it's poking at "if an ecosystem can radicalize a person, what are its effects on a relationship?" is at least interesting to consider.

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soganess commented on Programming peaked   functional.computer/blog/... · Posted by u/Antibabelic
rglover · 13 days ago
Is that so, doctor?
soganess · 12 days ago
Yes, good of you to ask. But don’t you worry your little head, now! You aren’t the first patient that developed a thin skin from their own medicine, and you won’t be the last.

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soganess commented on Programming peaked   functional.computer/blog/... · Posted by u/Antibabelic
rglover · 13 days ago
They don't want a cure, they want something they can bitch about.
soganess · 13 days ago
Speak for yourself. The pathologies/neuroses on display here... 'cure'... 'bitch'... seriously, are we still talking about software?
soganess commented on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service   theregister.com/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
ljm · 14 days ago
I agree with the sentiment (people changing their minds), but the flipside to that is people pleasing. Someone who capitulates under even the slightest pressure is not much better than the person who is set in their ways.

The trouble there, of course, is that the motivation for changing (or not changing) one's mind is not always clear, and it's easy to score points from spinning it one way or another.

soganess · 14 days ago
Engineers are not exactly famous for people-pleasing. Maybe management, but engineering? Maybe some fresh junior?

I'm not convinced that the existence of a low-probability event justifies normalizing the regular occurrence of a much more likely (and negative) event, like a belligerent engineer throwing a fit in a design meeting. I'd go as far as to say I'm open to more people-pleasers in engineering.

Also, fwiw, if you want to know why someone changed their mind, you can just ask them and see how you feel about the answer. If someone changes their mind at the drop of a hat, my guess is that their original position was not a strongly held one.

soganess commented on The New AI Consciousness Paper   astralcodexten.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
vasco · 25 days ago
An infant has phenomenological consciousness.

Electrons make no sense as a question unless I'm missing something.

soganess · 25 days ago
As a question???

Do the physical quanta we call electrons experience the phenomenon we poorly define but generally call consciousness?

If you believe consciousness is a result of material processes: Is the thermodynamic behavior of an electron, as a process, sufficient to bestow consciousness in part or in whole?

If you believe it is immaterial: What is the minimum “thing” that consciousness binds to, and is that threshold above or below the electron? This admittedly asks for some account of the “above/below” ordering, but assume the person answering is responsible for providing that explanation.

soganess commented on Anxiety disorders tied to low levels of choline in the brain   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/clumsysmurf
DANmode · a month ago
Good news: I wasn't trying to sell you anything!

Read other people's experiences, and feel your own body.

Or, politely as possible: don't, I don't care.

It's truly up to you.

soganess · a month ago
Wait, what? Of course you were!

Heck, you still are; "Read other people's experiences and feel your own body." That is a mode of interacting with the external world and processing knowledge. You didn't even suggest I do it; your sentence was a directive. Furthermore, it was packaged in that cool detached "above it all" way that humans sometimes use to convince others.

It's good/okay/whatever to try and sell people on your worldview. I was engaged and conversing that is the social cue to do so. The fact that you didn't convince me is whatever on the internet. But playing it off like you weren't doing that... why?

I'm pretty sure the number of times someone has been convinced on the internet wouldn't even correctly round in IEEE double-precision floating point.

soganess commented on Anxiety disorders tied to low levels of choline in the brain   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/clumsysmurf
DANmode · a month ago
Fat and cholesterol don’t hurt you, or make you fat.

Sitting on ass does.

If you are looking to the landing page of any of those major bodies to figure out how to fuel your body, good luck.

soganess · a month ago
I'm sorry, but this just sounds like the "Forbidden Knowledge" Trick (think of it as a cousin to Galileo's Gambit)

(1) In your most authoritative tone, state something as fact without citation.

(2) Say major testing-based orgs are never going to give you the real truth.

We have a system for knowledge. I think it is an absurd mess, but I trust it way more than anything presented in the format you’ve just used.

Maybe this is just a formatting issue and you have credible information to back your claim, but as it is currently presented it does not pass the sniff test.

So, as politely as possible, pass.

u/soganess

KarmaCake day848July 26, 2013View Original