God as a Computer Programmer& Living in a Simulation
And How Hacking The Speed of Light Might Be Our Way Out
My Medium posts of the week (free access):
How The Global Lockdown Removed Our Paradox of Choice And Why Everyone Was Suddenly Jogging
What Chess Taught Me About Time Management. Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.
Behind The Scenes of an Apple Event: As Told by a Sobbing Android Cameraman Hired to Film IT
Shifting Your Mindset: Employee to Manager
God as a Computer Programmer & Some Thoughts on Living in a Computer Simulation + And How Hacking The Speed of Light Might Be Our Way Out
Shortcuts: The Greatest Timesaver of our Era. And It’s Not Just About Computers.
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Slate Star Codex must remain anonymous! The New York Times wants to out the author of a blog that is one of the few sites for reasoned argument. Pseudonymity as a trivial concession to genius.
Don't De-Anonymize Scott Alexander
For SSC to be permanently deleted would be an intellectual loss on the scale of, let’s say, John Stuart Mill or Mark Twain burning their collected works. That might sound like hyperbole, but not (I don’t think) to the tens of thousands who read Scott’s essays and fiction, particularly during their 2013-2016 heyday, and who went from casual enjoyment to growing admiration to the gradual recognition that they were experiencing, “live,” the works that future generations of teachers will assign their students when they cover the early twenty-first century. The one thing that mitigates this tragedy is the hope that it will yet be reversed (and, of course, the fact that backups still exist in the bowels of the Internet).
- Scott Aaronson
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Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis
A bad outcome doesn't mean it was a bad decision. In this essay, Hugo Bowne-Anderson takes a look at uncertainty, probabilistic thinking, assessing risk, and how statistics is political.
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News from WWCD: Apple moves on from Intel and turns Mac into iPads. At the WWDC event yesterday Apple announced it will move the Mac from Intel CPUs to the proprietary ARM-based chip family that it already creates for iPhones and iPads - 'Apple Silicon'.
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This year's Reuters global news study is out. Lots of data on consumer behaviour and attitudes.
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Buckle up Nassim Taleb fans, because this one is a doozy. It's an hour-plus read taking down "The Internet's Biggest Asshole" written in Taleb's own style. Despite my love for Nassim's work, I found a bunch of the points in here pretty compelling (and funny!). Particularly interesting is the allegation that he's not actually that successful of a hedge fund manager.
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Now I am using Listary, a truly amazing and polished search utility that is somewhere between a launcher and a file manager, both but neither. Listary lives next to your major file management apps and makes managing their lists and finding files a breeze. Really something special and worth your download.
My Latest YouTube Video
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
Your decision to prioritize speed or quality should be based on your confidence in: - importance of the problem you're solving - correctness of the solution to said problem
The world of news junkies — here’s some sad stuff you can’t do anything about and now you know it. Enjoy yourself. Try not to drink tonight!
Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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