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suoduandao2 commented on Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)   web.media.mit.edu/%7Elieb... · Posted by u/thunderbong
kulor · 2 years ago
I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested.

I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of high enough quality to make a personal GPT actually useful. E.g "who was the CTO I met at the dinner last week".

FWIW I'm already a founder of a company so this isn't intended as a commercial pitch.

suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
I’d be interested in something like that, where do I sign up?

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suoduandao2 commented on Deep in the wilderness, the largest beaver dam endures   e360.yale.edu/features/wo... · Posted by u/geox
Roark66 · 2 years ago
Have you ever lived next to a place with beavers? I don't recommended it.

First, if you have a pond beavers will come over at night and dig holes the width of a basketball about a meter from the edge of the pond into the water (vertically down, then sideways). They camouflage these holes or they simply overgrow, good luck to an unsuspecting human that had his/her leg fall into such a deep hole.

Then, they dig such holes and passages into earthworks designed as flood defenses. Huge amount of money goes into fixing such earthworks.

Finally, if you(or anyone nearby) happen to have drainage channels or small rivers, these will be blocked by beavers to the point of flooding the surrounding area. Various compensation schemes exist, but not everyone has documentation to use them.

Fibally,a braver can be a very dangerous animal when startled/provoked/cornered. Around here every person is told in their youth, "don't approach beavers" or if they bite you in the leg (usually groin area) you'll bled out in 20s.

No, beavers are not nice... If course they shouldn't be eradicated, but they should be managed properly, not enjoy 100% protection as they do here in Poland, for example.

suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
If there were a way to domesticate them, they’d be amazing work animals
suoduandao2 commented on Deep in the wilderness, the largest beaver dam endures   e360.yale.edu/features/wo... · Posted by u/geox
nerdponx · 2 years ago
Great example of how an essential element of a native habitat is a horrible invasive in a foreign one.
suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
Beavers were considered a pest in Canada as well, to the point of being the main antagonist in several indigenous myths
suoduandao2 commented on No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data   theregister.com/2023/12/0... · Posted by u/dddavid
bannedbybros · 2 years ago
>voluntary empire

lmao ycomb.

suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
I mean relative to other empires in history. Maybe the Persian one comes close, maybe. I don’t like living in a client state but I’m under no illusions things would be better under the British or Spanish
suoduandao2 commented on No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data   theregister.com/2023/12/0... · Posted by u/dddavid
AnimalMuppet · 2 years ago
The United States is this limited government, with strict limits on what it's allowed to do.

Yeah, I know. It hasn't worked out that way. But do you think other governments, starting with fewer restraints, are doing less than the US? Or more?

I could see saying that the US is doing it in higher volume, because it's got more money to spend on government excess.

suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
Incentives are a factor too though. The us needs to hold a mostly voluntary empire together, that requires a lot more intrigue than the average country.
suoduandao2 commented on Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life   thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
jon_richards · 2 years ago
That's basically the entire history of artificial intelligence. We used to think a robot capable of vacuuming your house would be "AI" and now roombas just bounce around the floor semi-randomly. The task didn't change, our respect for it did.

At this point the definition of AI is practically "Something computers can't do yet", though I'm partial to its corollary "Any sufficiently misunderstood algorithm is AI."

suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
It's a bit reminiscent of the 'god of the gaps' in that way - and, I suspect, for similar reasons.
suoduandao2 commented on How to boss without being bossy   jeffwofford.com/?p=2089... · Posted by u/putzdown
gardenhedge · 2 years ago
OP clearly said "If you're looking for the right turn of phrase, you already lost", which I quoted.

OP is correct that rapport is important - although that's a different thing from what the article is discussing. An exercise for you and OP: Consider being the boss of a team where you haven't had time to build rapport with the team.

suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
Even then, I probably know enough about the culture to make some adjustments. I’m going to speak very differently to a group of blue collar workers whose first language is English than a technical team who have varying degrees of facility with the language. The industry we’re in would further inform the tone I adopt.

I actually spent years doing something very similar to the exercise you’re suggesting, which is what led me to the conclusion that subtle variations of meaning are too easy to overthink to be worth it for anything but prose. Add to that the fact that the differences in meaning are going to be, well, different depending on the background of the person I’m speaking to led me to the conclusion that if I find myself thinking about phrasing for a particular person for more than a few seconds I should focus on getting to know that person better. My social interactions have improved a lot as a result.

suoduandao2 commented on 'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months   theprogressplaybook.com/2... · Posted by u/locallost
manc_lad · 2 years ago
Using the same logic, you could say coal is renewable depending on your time horizon, no?
suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
No, fungi evolved that can digest lignin now ;).

On a less facetious note, Solar needs time to renew the energy it made the day before as well. Time scale is very important to questions of renewables, and people have been sustainably burning wood for a long time. Unsustainably too, but I would bet that’s not the case here if it’s being included in a census of sustainable sources.

suoduandao2 commented on 'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months   theprogressplaybook.com/2... · Posted by u/locallost
esteth · 2 years ago
If we cultivate trees, then remove them from the earth and atomize them into the air, then plant more trees, they're a renewable resource but it's still causing climate change.
suoduandao2 · 2 years ago
I don’t understand. There’s no net increase or decrease of atmospheric carbon in the scenario you describe

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