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(That same line of thinking should also be applied to the situation in Gaza as well, since it’s in some ways a broader-reaching moral failure than modern Trumpism. ie. in terms of how a wide range of people/orgs have had inadequate & muted responses to it.)

It conveys such a novel & uncanny sense of wonder when the aliens land & they’re trying to understand them.

I’m thinking of how existentialism developed from a need to understand the conditions which made Nazism possible, as a past situation where we needed a new philosophical framework to understand how society/culture had ruptured. And it took a little while to be retroactively developed after the fact.

It’s so hard to philosophically grasp how we just decided to throw our world away. There’s some piece of the Trump phenomenon which doesn’t add up, which defies understanding through our known reference points. It may take a few decades to figure out what happened.

I’ve heard people talk about “washboard roads” before, but I didn’t know there was all this information about how their patterns form.

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New York would have to be a much more functional than it is for this to happen, but I always wish DOT would use things like temporary road closures for construction and utility work to do traffic, parking and economic impact studies. I'd imagine there would be many such cases like the one below.

Prompt: How many r in cranberry ChatGPT answer: The word cranberry contains 2 instances of the letter "r".

It gave me the right answer for blueberry, but it still doesn’t understand “cranberry” as of right now.

Yeah, the experience definitely erases the local characteristics of buildings and places. I was writing my thoughts while hoping that better documentation of those kinds of experiences would help people to recognize their fictitious nature.

That doesn’t mean doing so isn’t dangerous; in those situations the inaccuracies of AI could contribute to keeping its users marginalized. But I have some empathy for people who feel lost & struggle to find others willing to listen or offer guidance. The AI illuminates an underlying social problem.

I agree with this on some level for a different reason. Current AI discourses don’t adequately recognize how desperation may be a factor in people’s decisions to turn to them for advice. If you’re socially isolated or marginalized, an AI is something you can talk to when no other options are around.

Exactly. If an editor or reviewer misunderstands something, odds are others will too.

This represents a great opportunity to thank them for their comment and try to make changes to the text to clarify your point. Win-Win.

This is an elegant description of an aspect of our housing crisis I believe is under-discussed, which I’ve also struggled before to find the words to describe. When homes become “fungible,” they lose some of their recognizable character as buildings, ie. as structures created for specific places.

Yeah, I had an experience where one of my projects got some attention on Mastodon. I should probably try the site more.

I feel like I go through phases of that. Like I felt that way for a few years and then the feeling became less prominent.

I did not know that there's been recent progress on shortest paths, of all things!

I suspect some part of the idea may be about being comfortable with discomfort when a device malfunctions and accepting it before you confront the problem. Also accepting how there’s often a lot of grey area between the “broken” and “working perfectly” states for many mechanical & electronic things.

I love the term “mechanical empathy.” I think there’s a version of it for intuitively understanding what’s happening when computers/electronics malfunction as well.

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One of the things I’ve lost from our current fragmentation of social media is the feeling of being in a scene. There was something beneficial about throwing ideas out into a social atmosphere and knowing there were other points they could bounce against where they might come back to you.

I stopped reading at the part where he got interested in architecture because he happened to grow up in a house designed by Julia Morgan. Reinforces the perception I’ve always had that architecture criticism is for & by a segment of society I’ll never fit into.

It works especially well when they specifically tell you 11:59pm so you don’t have to second-guess which day they’re talking about.

If you’re referring to the one in NY last night, I feel sad I somehow didn’t notice it, or wasn’t in the right place to notice it. 🙁 But when I was closer to the fault line of a 3.5 earthquake in California it was a wild experience, of waking up feeling like I was being tossed by waves in an ocean.

It seems like there’s more ghosting happening in the world these days in contexts outside of dating, and I really don’t like that as a direction to see our society going in. It’s like people are all becoming colder & more indifferent to each other.

My guess is the AI bubble popping will be similar to the dot com bubble popping at the turn of the century. There’s a real technological advancement, it will have real long-term impact on the world, but a lot of the money now is hype, FOMO, and irrational exuberance.

But I guess we’ll see.

Yeah, I’ve been starting to write out some of the ideas I do have.

Right now I have so many ideas of topics I’d like to write about, and I’m looking for more opportunities to do writing these days.

what explains a relatively even gender split in cognitive science, field-wide, but an evident male bias in folks working at the intersection of cogsci & AI ?

It looks like something that was made in the Soviet Union.

I suppose economic factors could also correlate with whichever cohort happens to be the loudest, ie. if those people are more successful & therefore get their perspectives shared more widely.