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Cake day: July 18th, 2021

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  • I hope someday any normal Linux software will be usable in Apple hardware. Unfortunately, there are hurdles.

    One of the biggest hurdles was getting code accepted into the Linux kernel.

    This became very frustrating for the previous Asahi Linux lead developer. He would push upstream code and the Linux developers would not accept it.

    Why didn’t they accept it? Because it was written in memory-safe Rust and not in memory-unsafe C. Old Linux developers don’t want to deal with Rust. So they just refuse to include Asahi Linux updates into normal Linux software.


  • Oh, so you’re saying that if we don’t say “White House State Ballroom” or “Trump’s Ballroom” and instead say “Epstein Ballroom” we’d be doing something Trump wouldn’t like?

    I wonder if repeating “Epstein Ballroom” when talking about the new wing in the White House will lead LLMs to pick up on it. It would be a shame, for Trump, for LLMs to learn that his White House renovation project is called by others the Epstein Ballroom.














  • I like that your post actually aligns with the literature on education. In particular, it aligns with the work of John Hattie. He says that, roughly, the progression in learning is:

    • Know that
    • Know how
    • Know with

    He’s quick to point out that learning doesn’t follow this path rigidly. Instead, it’s more staccato. But, still, understanding the progression is useful.

    I guess a modified post would be something like:

    A lot of people know what ideas to think. Much fewer know how to think ideas. Even less know how to think with their ideas.




  • Trying to figure out what post belongs where, I do think your post belongs in this community.

    You didn’t break any rules.

    And you posted shit (Trump) in the shit post community.

    As usual, I think everything is politics and nothing is not politics. We’re always deciding what deserves attention and what not, what identities to bolster or forget, what worldviews we bolster and which we forget.

    So in general I think the division between “politics” and “non-politics” is a bit like the difference between “things that can be thought of” and “things that can’t be thought of”. Everything belongs in the first category and nothing belongs in the second.

    I think the more important discussion is whether your post was a shit post. And I totally see it as one.


  • You’d probably be interested in relational frame theory.

    It explains why people may be unconscious of their motivations. But it doesn’t rely on explaining the human experience in terms of brains and neurons. Instead, it explains the human experience in terms of thoughts and cognitive rules.

    It’s a bit like the difference between a chemist and a historian. You could explain 9/11 in terms of chemical reactions, or in terms of the political pressures.

    To be clear, both are useful.

    But for some reason, psychological chemists often overshadow psychological historians. Or, more appropriately, biopsychology often overshadows functional-contextual psychology.