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trudler commented on Childhoods of Exceptional People   lesswrong.com/posts/CYN7s... · Posted by u/lxm
substation13 · 3 years ago
Yep. And these historic geniuses were often Polymaths. Every field was smaller and an individual could realistically make several contributions.
trudler · 3 years ago
I don't get you guys...

The geniuses can still make very valuable contributions to humanity. It's just that the general public will have a hard time understanding a new achievement. We already see this everywhere. "Higgs Teilchen" and so on. The media showed it, nobody cared and everyone was confused (found at the CERN in geneva). It only makes sense.

We still make immense progress, but in very detaily branches often, that people just want to use but not having to know about, because of the sheer complexity.

I wonder where the borders of humans will be. :) We might not be far from them anymore. Nowadays, to get into unknows territory, you need to do scientific research for decades often and an exceptional brain. Because you need to get the basics first, to which others created the paths.

The next real innovation I see will be affordable space travelling and populating other planets. Other than that, some minor stuff will be implemented like nuclear fusion reactors and the like.

The hardest thing will be to define "individuals" who contributed some of that stuff alone, as it used to be in the past (more or less).

trudler commented on Bitcoin core developer claims to have lost 200 BTC in hack   cointelegraph.com/news/bi... · Posted by u/gennarro
Beltalowda · 3 years ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_...

Don't think it matters though; theft is still theft even if the victim is a nutjob, and it's still theft if he didn't protect his keys well enough.

But today a crime is okay if you don't like someone. Hmkay.

trudler · 3 years ago
On a second thought: He reads like an extremely religious person. This actually makes me doubt the "tax evasion" story.
trudler commented on Bitcoin core developer claims to have lost 200 BTC in hack   cointelegraph.com/news/bi... · Posted by u/gennarro
trudler · 3 years ago
that must be a tax evasion incident. i can't believe a CORE DEV would be as dumb as keeping everything in a hot wallet on his computer, where he does all kinds of stuff.
trudler commented on maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps   garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-... · Posted by u/garritfra
__michaelg · 3 years ago
This is a fantastic example of motivated reasoning. This "change" (which apparently isn't even new) can have so many different reasons, some of which are less harmful and some of which are probably worse (privacy-wise) than the one mentioned here. There is no indication that re/mis-using permissions is specifically what they wanted to do here, there is also no example of them doing it right now. Don't get me wrong, there is also no evidence that this isn't the real reason and that they wouldn't do that in the future. But the blog post basically list a single symptom and jumps right to the one conclusion that fits what the author expects.
trudler · 3 years ago
bro, data is money and those corporates extract as much as they can. don't try to reason that google would not be interested in exactly that. one does not have to find a specific evidence for exactly this scenario in my opinion. this evidence likely might never emerge, while the spying definitely will happen. otherwise you would need to come up with a huge scenario where they actually farm a ton of benefits by doing this change, because a move like that you don't "just do for a better experience".
trudler commented on Was everyone stupid back then?   smbc-comics.com/comic/int... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
trudler · 3 years ago
Just because that there ARE anonymous people posting stupid shit, doesn't mean all people do that when anonymous. In fact, show me a nice invention that wasn't made by a freedom loving person. No bigger freedom than anonymity! We need it. How can you express yourself without being silenced right from the start without it? How can you spread disruptive ideas when people instanly have a name to point fingers to?

An idea should be separate from a person, to really be neutral. If there is a person behind it, people start investigating the person, rather than checking the idea in depth.

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trudler commented on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old   twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/s... · Posted by u/dario_satu
trudler · 4 years ago
tbh using spaces in file names is still stupid.

u/trudler

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