nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
nicomee.com
Moreover, depending on something to function, in and of itself, is not pathological. Many people require a daily medication to keep a chronic condition in remission, for example insulin, blood thinners, anti-retroviral therapy, and anti-hypertensives. Dependence becomes a problem when people persist in using a substance despite its use causing harm... See more
Drug dependence is not addiction—and it matters
A characteristic of human action is that it always begins something new, and this does not mean that it is ever permitted to start ab ovo , to create ex nihilo . In order to make room for one's own action, something that was there before must be removed or destroyed, and things as they were before are changed. Such change would be impossible if we... See more
John Ganz • Reading, Watching 11.10.24
Nature, art, and technology all matter because of their complexity. Complexity is beauty . It’s when a bunch of simple patterns overlap in a harmonious way to create something profound. A beautiful painting might appear simple, but if you analyze and isolate the patterns, you realize how much action is happening under the hood of your attention.
michaeldean
- This is gonna be game-changing for the next 2-4 weeks before they nerf the model.
Then for the next 2-3 months people complaining about the degradation will be labeled “skill issue”.
Then a sacrificial Anthropic engineer will “discover” a couple obscure bugs that “in some cases” might have lead to less than optimal performance. Still largely a user
HackerWeb
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4d ago
Inflexibility fully prevents any coalition-building, which is why the left almost never sees electoral success or even really growing the left itself among the voter base. Ezra's policy proposals are definitely more on the left, but there's so much resistance from people who are entirely unable to think in terms of incrementalism... See more
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4d ago
Inflexibility fully prevents any coalition-building, which is why the left almost never sees electoral success or even really growing the left itself among the voter base. Ezra's policy proposals are definitely more on the left, but there's so much resistance from people who are entirely unable to think in terms of incrementalism... See more
r/ezraklein - Reddit
The search for root causes often means a life event that has triggered the mental disorder. When I hear people talk about root causes, it usually means they are not happy with a biological explanation and want something more psychological, more meaningful, more profound.
In clinical practice, this is tricky though - we can rarely, if ever, put our... See more
In clinical practice, this is tricky though - we can rarely, if ever, put our... See more
Searching for root causes
To really understand something on a fundamental level, you have to be able to implement a toy version first. It doesn’t matter if it’s any good; you can throw it away later.