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  1. Feb 2022
    1. “In the short term we’re pretty clearly going to be based in physical reality and I certainly wouldn’t recommend abandoning it,” Chalmers says. “But in the longer term, it’s possible to imagine people spending most of their lives inside virtual reality.”

      translation:

      most people will survive the next few years, but in maybe ten years, most of them will be dead.

  2. Jan 2022
    1. larger scavengers, such as dogs and children

      : D

    2. Once muscle and ligament have been sliced away, the head can be cleanly removed by gripping it on either side and twisting it off

      eww

    1. If any of my workers wants to drink, he must leave the village to do so!

      NIMBY. not in my back yard.

    1. there's no simple system

      then all systems are wrong.

      truth is simple.

    2. most popular

      popular != correct.

      except you believe in majority vote.

    3. Many researchers have set out to answer this question

      oh really? where? what keyword?

    1. institutions are eager to promote any successful research

      yeah.

      what about the "unsuccessful" research?

      what about the "high risk" proposals?

      -> publication bias.

    2. well known

      mainstream, established, "old", elitist, "professional" (first you must study five years and earn your LICENSE = diploma), exclusive, highly selective, "biased" (to what?), "conservative", fear of embarassment ("we dont do pseudoscience!"), dogmatic, slow, cautious, "realism over idealism"

    1. non-survival

      play, playful, homo ludens

    2. hierarchic

      trees

    3. necessarily controversial

      because no one wants to admit he is a "stupid" "dyadic-thinker". at least not in public.

    4. rarely significant

      because all "higher" complexity can be expressed as recursion of triadic relations ("double-linked lists"), which is NOT possible with dyadic relations ("single-linked lists")

    5. complexity

      quantity versus quality ... serial versus parallel processing

    6. simple binary correlations

      dyadic

    7. at the same time

      parallel processing

    8. does not focus on “triads”

      ... but on dyads = dyadic relations = black-white thinking = subject-object relations = ...

    9. Opinion

      strong opinion

  3. Oct 2021
    1. After applying a git-filter-repo to replace a mail address in a whole repository, I found out that ALL the commit where considered to be replaced.

      as expected

      when rewriting git history, you also change the parent fields of child commits, like in a git rebase