Discussion (late 2017)

yay!

> Is this meant to be an experiment? To see what we discuss?

The old Discussion Thread is overflowing!

He creates new threads one in while.

I updated the "Open Discussion" link in the sidebar to point here. The old thread had ~350 comments.

Emotions are really helpful. They can give us clues that we are about to violate a value of ours.

I wouldn't call it "trust", though. Instead, you can be thankful for the clue and then use *reason* to figure out what you should do in the situation and why.

David Deutsch talks about matter, energy, and evidence, and energy is a constructor for tasks that require a change in energy, and evidence is a constructor for the extinction of bad explanations, so...

Do matter and energy create explanations? Is matter a constructor for anything? Does it use electromagnetism to repel other matter and "construct" changes in the momentum of other matter with some charge?

Is this what allows it to instantiate explanations that are "kept"?

Why does it always have mass, and is that important for its role in knowledge creation?

Ah, whoops, yeah, I'm wrong about that. I thought DD claimed energy was a constructor.

It'd be better to bring up fewer issues at once. E.g. try to understand FoR/BoI stuff or CT stuff in isolation before mixing them.

> constructors which perform extinction of errors (evidence)

This doesn't make sense. You should try to think of examples of things you talk about, and give the examples, and also give quotes from DD that you're trying to discuss. Also it's universal constructors which are of primary interest, and their primary interest is for understanding the laws of physics (not for understanding e.g. epistemology).

> Is it sufficient for knowledge to arise?

This question is unclear. It could be asking whether there's some 4th thing and knowledge is IMPOSSIBLE without it (not that I know of). That is, is there at least one configuration of any amount of evidence, matter and energy which allows for knowledge creation. Yes there is, e.g. the state of the Earth when biological evolution got going. But I don't even know what we're excluding, isn't everything (including evidence) made of matter and energy? You might say vacuum isn't, that empty space is excluded, but I doubt the question was intended to be about whether some empty space is needed.

> And my question is, is matter involved in a way where it's a constructor?

Yes, matter is involved in knowledge creation. Knowledge is created by evolution which involves replicators (such as dog genes) which are made out of matter.

About 20-30 years ago Liberty Fund made several deals with OUP to publish their Collected Works of various classical writers in paperback. (This was great for those who wanted to read these books, because the paper and printing of Liberty Fund was far better than that of OUP at the time.) Liberty Fund, as a matter of course, publishes e-versions of all of its titles for free, either on the net or, collectively, on disk. That was a long established practice.They did that in these cases as well.

Suddenly, one day, for no reason anyone can figure out, OUP informed Liberty Fund that they were still sticking by their deal with respect Liberty Fund's pb copies of the Collected Works of Adam Smith, but would sue for copyright infringement if Liberty Fund didn't immediately remove all electronic copies of these identical volumes. Liberty Fund complied, but everyone is still scratching their heads.

Example would just be any result of a test that problematizes one or more bad explanations that you have (which obstruct you from using and building upon the good ones)

I agree universal constructors are of primary interest, and I'm trying to better understand universal explainers because they're the most important known part of a universal constructor

A piece of paper with the result of a scientific test is not a constructor. It's only capable of constructing any particular thing in very few initial conditions. Just like something is only a replicator if it can replicate in a variety of situations.

Why do you think universal explainers are part of a universal constructor?

the problem of not getting laid

Is a rock (plain old boring rock i pick up from a beach or field) a constructor for unicorns? if you drop it into the right input scanner for a computer hooked up to an appropriate 3d printer, it will print a unicorn with no change to the rock.

> I think universal explainers are part of universal constructors because

how about a reason involving a quote from DD which directly says it? if not that, a quote from DD followed by a clear, short argument about how it's required by the quoted text?

you're incorrect. a universal constructor doesn't require a universal explainer as part of the constructor. i think you may be unaware of the concept of writing a program for what the constructor does as part of setting up the construction task.

> Also, is there an exact difference between conjecture and criticism?

a conjecture is an idea. a criticism is a type of idea. the words also have different connotations.

> the problem of not getting laid

why does it solve that problem?

what if I don't want to get laid?

fixed, thx

i know that trying to look pretty so that other people like me is bad.

is there anything wrong with trying to look pretty for myself?

Is there a way to start a new thread or can only Elliot do that?

I have questions about TCS, coercion in general, induction, and free markets.

there is a message for you from outside the circles of time

i am an imperfect messenger but this is what it said:

the capsids of your spicules burst with neutrinos

while the echo of your demise travels sideways in possibility

you will remember that one person who dies right in front of you for the longest

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4888618/sex-worker-slept-10000-men-answers-questions-women/

> In fact, in the decade she was in the industry, the most important thing to her clients was “feeling of being needed and wanted. Wanted badly by a horny woman. It is their ultimate fantasy after all.”

so men want approval more than they want sex, even when hiring sex workers.

> She said that it is vital, therefore that whatever sex acts you are doing, “you make look like you want him bad and are enjoying him so much (even if you aren’t).”

heh. this is why women fake orgasms.

What's up with the MailMate config files in the FF guidelines? Can't access.

Has Rami left FI?

#9455 sorry for asking.

Curi,

I have been reading your essays at http://fallibleideas.com -- good stuff!

I noticed the essays under life articles do not have a heading/title, like the ones under the fallible articles section. I think it would be good to add them -- a few times I returned to re-read an article in an open browser tab and I was initial confused where I was.

Ur thoughts?

The Peter Principle: In a hierarchy individuals tend to rise to their level of incompetence.

learn stuff. read and discuss, esp Rand, esp *The Fountainhead*. choose and follow some interests – with objectively measurable performance and good improvement paths available (e.g. speedrunning) – to be **really good**. consider what good values you already have – including major cultural traditions like some respect for reason, individual responsibility and freedom – and build on them by looking at their implications, taking them further. try to understand your situation and problems really well *before* trying to change much (esp risky changes) b/c ppl often make the wrong changes and it doesn't work, and also they think "i already know X is wrong" without knowing enough about it to thoroughly change, so they end up changing 20% of X and refusing to "beat a dead horse" by learning more about it.

denies bias of Steele, then links Nate Silver's site as if it wasn't fully partisan.

> denies bias of Steele, then links Nate Silver's site as if it wasn't fully partisan

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> > I haven't seen anything with the Russia investigation that suggests it has been treated otherwise.

> and where did you look? 538?

I haven't read much of 538 website, but I can see they are left-leaning.

As far as the link provided...I stumbled into that page and thought it did a decent job, e.g. summarizing the history of special investigations, plus a nifty diagram.

Any criticisms of the content?

As far as my conclusions in general and "where did I look?". Read dossier, read Nunes memo, watched or read interviews with various players. As many primary sources as possible. Watch or read congressional testimonies. NYT, WSJ, Politico, WashPost, Breitbart. I've read most of Ann's posts for the last 6 months. Probably 50+ hours of effort in the past 6months.

Do you care to offer any criticism of my comments?

you have presented no case that there's anything worth investigating.

> you have presented no case that there's anything worth investigating.

Is there a specific statement I'd made, that you'd like to know more about?

> what are you trying to accomplish? you just don't seem to know or care about what the FI community thinks about this stuff.

I posted here about something curi linked which I disagreed about...as a starting place to learn more and seek criticism.

I'm in the process of learning about FI. I suspect I don't have a great understanding of all things FI. I do "care", which is the very reason I decided to post.

I wonder if disagreement is being delegitimized here, by calling me biased, hostile, etc

> you aren't asking or curious

Asking or curious about what?

> you're hostile

I'm not hostile, why do you think that?

Curi,

I'm interested in replying to all of your questions as I have more time, but a quick one in the meantime.

> Meanwhile, you showed a willingness to use hard-left sites you don't know much about as sources without doing any checking first, and then you downplayed the problem instead of wanting to retract it.

I stand by the link I sent -- I can't spot any major mistakes with it. I believe it offers an accurate summary about past special investigations, and it offers something to consider in response to, e.g. "It's been X months and there's no proof of Y" regarding the Mueller investigation. It shows how slow the wheels of justice turn.

I think there's an issue of me not understanding / seeing the problem here, rather than knowing it and downplaying it. Can you explain more about what the problem is?

The more I learn the more I see that just because a news source is well-respected does not mean that it is unbiased or accurate. This is bad :( It means that a lot of the news we watch or read is giving us wrong information. We need to figure out which sources do a good job before we rely on their information. It takes some work to do this.

> Is there any source you wouldn't trust a claim from without some meaningful fact checking? SPLC? Salon? Michael Moore? Stormfront? MSA? SJP? Anything funded by George Soros?

When it comes to political news/analysis, there's no source I'd trust without some fact checking. Pretty much anything I read/watch I file under "maybe", until I see primary sources, hear responses from various parties involved, etc.

>Nate Silver is really bad – a shameless, dishonest partisan hack. It's your job to check stuff from him and his associates yourself, if you want to use it, not push that checking burden onto others.

Do you have any examples of partisan hackery by Nate Silver? Just curious to check it out (I haven't read much of his stuff).

Regarding the link I provided on the Mueller investigation, I had prior knowledge about events surrounding Mueller so far and those all checked out. Also about some of the facts w/ prior investigations. Based on your prompt, I went back and fact checked a some of the timelines on the prior special councils...they check out as well.

> One of Ann's main points about the investigation is there's no real reason for it to be taking place in the first place. You seem to disagree ... and say you read tons about it (I haven't), so want to explain your view?

Sure. There are perhaps two related questions: why the investigation(s) exist in general vs why they’ve been rolled up into the Special Counsel (Mueller) vs just handled by relevant teams in the DOJ or FBI.

As far as the Special Counsel…there's some history as to why that concept exists which I'll leave aside for now. But Deputy AG Rosenstein appointed a Special Counsel back in May 2017 (would have been AG Sessions doing the appointing, but he recused himself from Russia matters). It came to be after the unusual circumstances around the firing of FBI director Comey, where troubling/contradictory statements were made by the WH and Trump about why Comey was fired. Most famously, Trump during a TV interview (w/ Lester Holt) said he would have fired Comey regardless of recommendations from the DoJ (contradicting WH statements about the reason) and tied it to the “Russia thing". And then also, Comey released memos documenting troubling encounters w/ Trump, RE: loyalty and Flynn. All of this raised questions about whether there was just cause for the firing and attempts at obstructing justice. To ensure the existing investigations could proceed in an independent and non-partisan manner and protected from obstruction, Rosenstein appointed a special council to take over the investigations.

The areas of investigation that the Special Counsel is looking at:

- Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election

- Potential collusion/conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign

- Obstruction Of Justice

- Other crimes discovered during the investigation

In addition to the indictments already served, I've looked at it closely and I believe there is substantial evidence for why these investigations should be happening. Along the way, I've been mindful to look for evidence of being politically motived, improper, etc, and haven't found anything significant. I can get into the details of each area if desired.

The investigation is done in secret so to understand the progress we're limited to existing indictments, leaks, etc. Activity known to the public so far:

-Flynn indictment

-Papadopoulos indictment

-Manafort Indictment (conspiracy and money laundering)

-Gates indictment (conspiracy and money laundering)

-Announced today: Indictment 13 russian nationals and 3 Russian entities (conspiracy to defraud the US, wire fraud, bank fraud, and identity theft)

-Reports of various interviews taking place

Here are some signs that the investigation has substantial work ongoing:

-Witnesses continue to be interviewed (E.g. Steve Bannon this week)

-Trump hasn’t been interviewed yet

-Flynn, Papadopoulos (and likely Gates per recent reporting) flipping/cooperating, meaning they have something to offer on other targets to avoid other charges

-Most recent indictments came out today (central to the russia interference part)

Ann made several criticisms of the investigation in her Carter Page blog post which I touched on above. Your thoughts on those or are there others you'd like me to comment on?

In her latest blog post "Anatomy Of A Coup", she summarizes:

> This is an investigation with no evidence of a crime, apart from politically motivated, anti-Trump investigators relying on a Hillary-funded dossier.

The investigation has already served many indictments showing crimes (none involving dossier that I know of). The investigation in general only touches the dossier in a few areas, and no evidence that anything *relies* on it. The people alleged as anti-trump (which I disagree about in the case of Steele) have minor roles.

The Special Counsel's work seems legit and important to continue. I don't understand why Ann attacks it in a way contrary to the facts.

And if the goal is broader societal and government reform (you might reasonably respond to me by thinking that's a good goal), is this investigation way to do it? No. It's not designed for that purpose.

> I'm having a hard time parsing what you mean here.

You wrote, about non-at-will employment:

> It came to be after the unusual circumstances around the firing of FBI director Comey ... All of this raised questions about whether there was just cause for the firing

You presented the firing as a primary issue, then proceeded to list different things as the topics of the investigation, without explanation, as if it wasn't a total non sequitur.

> I thought we could take things step by step to see if agreement/questions, interesting in continuing, before zooming in.

You didn't do a small steps. You wrote a ton of stuff, it just didn't address the issue.

> How do you assess it as getting undue amount of attention over other investigations?

I agree the monetary price isn't so bad – though there's still a ton of other higher priority things to investigate. But it's costing a ton in terms of attention, it's a huge distraction. So, why was it started? Who decided to pour tons and tons of attention on this, for what purpose? What was the thought process there? Did they evaluate many potential investigations, and with what criteria? Is it just partisan political fighting? Or what?

i am not very interested in the form of the investigation, and also i thought Comey should have been fired on day 1 along with a lot more ppl, so firing him does not impress me as a reason to investigate.

if the investigations were bad, then firing their leader would be good.

and i think the reason Trump kept Comey was not that he thought Comey was good, it was an overly compromising approach to politics, which then came back to bite him.

Trump thought he could leave some people in place and they would act reasonably, but he quickly found himself betrayed.

and you can't have important obstruction until after there's stuff worth investigating, so that's not a primary point, so let's focus on stuff to investigate in the first place.

Thanks for the link!

Says a bunch of things I agree with then says she was a Bernie Sanders supporter :(

On Rand:

> Many people have noticed the very real parallels between Ayn Rand and me. (I was born in the United States, however; my mother and all four of my grandparents were born in Italy.) A New Yorker profile of Rand several years ago in fact called her “the Camille Paglia of the 1960s.”

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> Ayn Rand was the kind of bold female thinker who should immediately have been a centerpiece of women’s studies programs, if the latter were genuinely about women rather than about a clichéd, bleeding-heart, victim-obsessed, liberal ideology that dislikes all concrete female achievement. Like me, Rand believed in personal responsibility and self-transformation as the keys to modern woman’s advance.

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> Rand’s influence fell on the generation just before mine: In the conformist 1950s, her command to think for yourself was brilliantly energizing. When I was a college student (1964-68), I barely heard of her and didn’t read her, and neither did my friends. Our influences were Marshall McLuhan, Norman O. Brown, Leslie Fiedler, Allen Ginsberg and Andy Warhol.

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> When my first book finally got published in 1990, a major Rand revival was under way. I was asked about her so often at my book signings and lectures that I researched her for the first time. To my astonishment, I found passages in her books that amazingly resemble my own writing: This is certainly due to the fact that we were inspired by the same writers, notably Nietzsche and the High Romantics.

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> The main differences between us: First, Rand is more of a rationalist, while I have a mystical 1960s bent (I’m interested in astrology, palmistry, ESP, I Ching, etc.). Second, Rand disdains religious belief as childish, while I respect all religions on metaphysical grounds, even though I am an atheist. Third, Rand, like Simone de Beauvoir, is an intellectual of daunting high seriousness, while I think comedy is the sign of a balanced perspective on life. As a culture warrior, I have used humor and satire as the most devastating weapons in my arsenal!

Paglia is all over the place and even admits she is not an intellectual of "daunting high seriousness". I don't think I'll give her much more attention.

more gun questions:

should gun owners have to learn gun safety like drivers do?

are there guns for which the only purpose is killing a lot of people at once? if so, should those guns be outlawed?

should people who threaten to kill other people be allowed to have guns?

Seriously threatening to kill someone is a crime in itself. A person can (and should) go to jail for it.

There is room for judgement as to whether a particular threat is serious. Someone who says "if you scratch my car I'll kill you" while smiling and handing over the keys to an old friend borrowing the car is not making a serious threat and the person should not go to jail.

However, when the seriousness of a particular threat is in question one component of the judgement is whether the person has the means to carry out the threat, and whether they reference such means.

All else equal, a threat made by someone who has a gun is more serious than a threat made by someone who does not have a gun. A threat which references a gun as the means (like, "I'm going to shoot you") is more serious than a threat that doesn't reference the means.

Someone who threatens to shoot an ex-lover's new boyfriend and posts pictures of himself with his guns while doing it should be taken very seriously. That's a crime, and the person committing that crime should go to jail. They should not be let out of jail until they no longer pose that threat. Determining that length is a separate and very hard problem, but I'm referencing the principle here.

Merely taking away the threatening person's gun is totally the wrong approach. The threat-maker can always get another gun (see my previous message), or use some other weapon to carry out his threat instead.

What (non-gun-control) things could we do to reduce mass shootings and other murders in the US?

PAS, your answers above make a lot of sense.

> What (non-gun-control) things could we do to reduce mass shootings and other murders in the US?

build a wall, deport illegal aliens, end anchor babies, stop letting in third world and muslim immigrants who won't be a benefit to the country and commit way more crimes, have more cultural confidence and start assimilating people who do come here (and if they don't want to be assimilated to our values, don't let them come).

friction helps stops petty crime that isn't very motivated, and emotional crimes without forethought. it doesn't matter much for big, planned crimes with motivations that last over time.

friction also disarms lots of victims cuz they don't expect to be victims, so they don't want to put a big effort into defense.

why do you hate guns so much? do you hate other types of tools equally? do you have an attitude of relying on the authorities to take care of you?

> it may have some effect of reducing gun murders.

this is one example of many biased comments in a short post. if a gun murder is replaced with a knife murder, how does that help? trying to reduce "gun murders", rather than "murders", is a biased goal.

> What (non-gun-control) things could we do to reduce mass shootings and other murders in the US?

In addition to what's already been said for mass shootings:

Stop encouraging (culturally and institutionally) people gathering in mass for dumb reasons - stuff that can be done better, cheaper, safer from home like education, entertainment, shopping, finding dating or hookup partners, etc.

Where there is a good reason for people to gather in mass, either:

(1) Expressly allow attendees to bring defense weapons including guns.

OR

(2) Have a security screening system that's actually effective at enforcing a weapons prohibition, doesn't cause its own mass gathering at the gate or other entrance, is perimeter protected by armed guards, and (after Las Vegas) is not susceptible to incoming fire from outside the venue.

Since (2) is super hard and expensive to accomplish effectively, I recommend (1) in almost all cases.

In addition to what's already been said for murders in general:

Legalize recreational drug use, gambling, and prostitution. That would eliminate 3 major sources of black market trade with its associated gangs, turf wars, and violence as the primary recourse for resolving disputes.

> > If a person is too dangerous to have a gun, they are too dangerous to be let out of jail. Think that through. Let it sink in. Maybe the right answer is that some criminals need to be in jail longer.

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> I'd guess something like 25%+ of today's gun owners are too dangerous to own a gun because they are not skilled enough to use them safely. And/or too irrational. But I don't think it makes sense to jail all these people.

You turned my "to be let out of jail" into "to jail". Your version is vague, but implies putting people in jail (for what crime? incompetence?) who aren't already there. I wasn't suggesting that.

It may not have been clear that I was specifically addressing the question, "what severity of crime should make it so you are not allowed to have a gun anymore?" My answer is "none", apart from the exception that prisoners are not allowed to have guns while in jail.

The explanation for my answer is: If the nature of someone's crimes give us reason to believe that person will be dangerous to society if they get a gun, then the only effective way to deal with that problem in a free society is to keep them in jail for those crimes.

Does that make sense?

With regard to lack of skill and irrationality with guns, most acts along those lines are already serious crimes where most people live. ANY discharge of a firearm made outside of a gun range that's not in defense of innocent life is a crime within the limits of most cities I know of. Even in rural areas, non-defensive discharge in the direction of people or occupied structures is a criminal offense. If someone does ex: negligent or celebratory discharge, and through the legal process we determine they are likely to repeat such behavior in the future then *yes* that *criminal* should remain in jail for his *crime* until we determine that a repeat is no longer likely.

What are some good strategies for learning inexplicit knowledge?

Do dynamic memes evolve faster than static memes?

Do dynamic memes always tend in the direction of increased explicit knowledge content?

trying to think up questions about memes that I haven't seen people ask. is there a good FAQ somewhere with these kind of questions? sometimes I don't know the importance of a question until it is answered.

Is it possible for the creativity program to be entirely memetic? If not, and if it is not entirely genetic, what are the minimal requirements on the genes for the creativity program to bootstrap itself memetically?

> genes are necessary to build the hardware and do some initial programming. memes can't do that, they don't even exist until after that's done.

this is kinda obvious. i think you would know this yourself if you thought about it. there's something wrong with your approach to discussion. you should do what was suggested above: say something about ur own thoughts on the subject. u want ppl to answer ur questions but u don't say what u already do and don't know, and there are always a million possible answers, and u give no guidance about which one u want.

do you have any questions about specific things any of them said? all your questions are vague and you're still not giving any useful context about what your problem situation is.

do you think you have a single clear picture of how memes work, with no contradictions? if not, you should try to sort our the contradictions in your thinking – perhaps with targeted questions relating to actual issues, combined with some actual explanations of what you think. if the point isn't to sort out your own thoughts – which requires actually talking about them – what could it be?

> Dagny - I wrote #9634 but not #9635.

i know. why would i point out you should have thought of something yourself if i thought you also wrote the reply comment stating it?

anyway your questions are unproductive and aimless, and you seem uninterested in fixing it or talking about any of your own ideas.

you are not communicating coherently, and behind that you don't have a coherent concept of the issues you're trying to talk about. it's confused in your own mind, and much worse after it goes through a communication process to others. i'm guessing you're unwilling to put a lot of work into fixing this, and therefore the only way forward is for you to spend your life ignorant.

let's test this. would you donate $500 to FI right now as a minimal indication of seriousness, or will you admit you care less than $500? the requirement to actually make much progress and be good at this stuff is more like $100,000 worth of seriousness (mostly not in the form of money, but still genuinely valuable). your questions seem to ask to know far more than e.g. a college education would provide at a higher price in money alone, plus 4 years of time! but there's no indications of competence, seriousness, etc, to make that level of knowledge realistic.

> this is a major writing error b/c you refer to "Deutsch's suggestion" without specifying what that is.

I was referring to what I said in #9641:

> My question comes from Deutsch's speculation at the end of one of the BoI chapters on memes where he suggests the creativity program is installed partly from genes and partly from memes.

Here's the quote in BoI:

> Therefore, my speculation is that the creativity program is not entirely inborn. It is a combination of genes and memes.

So I think I not only had specified Deutsch's suggestion but fairly accurately too. Do you have another demonstration?

No, it was not an unclear reference and I did not say it was unclear. You were blatantly wrong that I had not specified what Deutsch's suggestion was. And when I clearly point out how I referred to it you say I made an inadequate attempt to debate the point. No. You were wrong.

> No. You were wrong.

Want to bet $1000 on the matter, or are you not really so confident after all? You're demanding a lot of my time while, from my perspective, being an aggressive, arrogant fool. You aren't offering value to me and you don't seem to value my time or appreciate what I wrote to you.

Before I agree to the bet I would need a precise description of what the issue is and for us to agree on that and also for the terms of adjudication and that we agree on those.

>> Is it possible for the creativity program to be entirely memetic? If not, and if it is not entirely genetic, what are the minimal requirements on the genes for the creativity program to bootstrap itself memetically?

> what do u mean "entirely memetic"?

> genes are necessary to build the hardware and do some initial programming. memes can't do that, they don't even exist until after that's done.

Yes -- in this sense a computer must exist before software can be installed and run. But I think the question is asking how the software gets installed. The "creativity program" could be installed entirely from our genes. In other words, it is entirely inborn. It could be installed partially from our genes and partially from our memes. In other words, it is partially inborn. Or it could somehow be installed almost entirely from our memes. If it is only partially inborn, presumably that component is not a universal explainer for if it were there would be no need of the memetic component. So I think the second part of the question is asking how does the memetic component get installed if the genetic component is not already a universal explainer?

>> Therefore, my speculation is that the creativity program is not entirely inborn. It is a combination of genes and memes.

>

> So I think I not only had specified Deutsch's suggestion but fairly accurately too. Do you have another demonstration?

The sentence you quoted starts with "therefore", so there was an argument before the sentence. Why are you asking what other people think instead of posting your own analysis of that argument?

#9655 wasn't me (the one asking the questions)

GP OMGIT

Here's my thoughts on what was before Deutsch's "Therefore".

Deutsch says that animals like apes can pass on pre-creative memes because of hard-coded programs installed into their brains from their genes. He says that in the precursors to modern humans the hardware for supporting pre-creative meme replication was being heavily selected for and meme bandwidth was simultaneously increasing. The hardware, primarily by virtue of acquiring more and better memory, gained the capacity to support creativity although it did not yet do so. Deutsch suggests the hardware benefited also by acquiring mirror neurons for elementary language sounds but mirror neurons flag junk science to me so I'm not buying that part. Pre-creative language memes that are gradually getting more sophisticated sounds plausible though.

As I read Deutsch, he is saying these pre-creative memes are relying on hard-coded programs from genes to replicate but because the hardware now also supports creativity some mutation in the genes for these programs caused an evolutionary jump to universality. After that memes can spread by creativity alone. These new type of memes displace the other type and their programs are no longer needed. All that is now required is genes that can install a creativity program.

But then I'm puzzled when he speculates that the creativity program is not completely in-born and is partly installed by memes.

I can sort of see how. It could be that some pre-creative meme program that has been installed in a brain can be dynamically changed. And changed by memes in such a way as to cause a jump to universality. Initially, pre-creative memes caused the jump but now creative memes do and much more efficiently and reliably. In this view the jump to universality happens afresh in each growing child. There is no universal creativity program in the genes just some non-universal precursor.

I don't know if Deutsch would agree with this or if it is what he meant.

Thanks for the link. Interesting. Seems like Deutsch has read Thomas Szasz and R D Laing. I agree that the idea of mental health is a crock and there is no such thing as mental illness. Has Deutsch written about Szasz? Sad he fell for the mirror neuron thing. It's a shame and harmful when well-known scientists put there weight and prestige behind this kind of thing. Kudos at least to Steven Pinker for recognising mirror neurons as a myth.

> You're boring.

It'd be better to say, "You're being boring." I don't know much about the person in general, I know about their messages in this particular conversation. Being more precise makes it easier for people to treat a negative message as information instead of deciding to spend their attention and energy being offended.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/wiki/faq

Some people deliberately try to create another self in their mind. I guess this is possible. But it sounds like it could be dangerous if you and your tulpa don't know how to resolve conflicts. I don't know if it's even desirable at all.

> Memes know how to target particular agents.

This is misleading. First, because it says "memes" when it presumably means "static memes". Second, because the primary things memes do is they *are* agents, rather than targeting agents.

To a first approximation the agents in your mind are:

60% static memes

30% dynamic memes

10% non-memes

> Think of your mind as a huge collection of semi-autonomous agents.

Why are the agents semi-autonomous rather than fully autonomous? What's restricting their autonomy?

Also, how does the concept of choice or free will fit into this explanation?

>Where does that *choice* fit in? Is it itself an agent?

Maybe it'd be better to ask, "Is it itself the result of an agent?"

> To a first approximation the agents in your mind are:

> 60% static memes

> 30% dynamic memes

> 10% non-memes

What's an example of a non-meme agent in the mind? I don't understand.

>@kate: overreaching

I wondered if you'd say that. I'm working on an FI post on overreaching. I'll ask my questions there.

#9679

i bet there's a video game where your sense perception is warped in some way, and part of the point of the game is you learn to get used to it. i know some games have short sections where e.g. the controls are reversed (left = right and vice versa) and ppl learn to play with it (while still being able to play normally, they can switch back and forth between play styles).

Reading: http://fallibleideas.com/capitalism

Background: I am pro-capitalism and like/agree with this essay.

Wondering about the argument near the end:

> Consider when force will be used. It will never be used when the people in power have a persuasive argument. They won't use force when they could get their way with words alone. At the least, words are much cheaper than force, and will maintain a better reputation for them. Instead, force will be used in exactly the cases where their argument is weak. Force will be used when they cannot persuade people. They pretend to back up their decisions with force because they are wise, but in fact they do it because their reasoning is weak. So a system that uses force, at all, will be less rational and make less good decisions. (This argument is due to William Godwin.)

I don’t think this accounts for the scenario where someone makes a good/correct argument but ppl are irrational, refuse to listen, etc. Granted, making a good/correct arguments is hard/rare and if you can’t persuade ppl, reconsidering the validity of your argument should be top of list.

I think this relates to a common leftie perspective that people tend to be bad/evil and will never be persuaded, therefore govt must use force :(

Good points, thanks.

> most of the time, despite people being dumb or irrational in various ways, persuasion works OK and no force is used

Is it true persuasion works most of the time irl? I’m having a hard time quantifying that but in my personal experience, it’s pretty mixed, maybe 50/50, maybe worse. People really suck at this stuff and give up quickly.

The quote from the essay talks about using force when you're wrong / unable to persuade.

I'm thinking about the issue where your right (on a given issue) but unable to persuade because of other issues, resources available, etc. An unknown amount of time needed to persuade (or be persuaded) and settle the disagreement.

Something like this: two people disagree about issue X, and let’s say hypothetically person A is correct and person B is mistaken.

You may think you’re Person A when you’re actually person B and that’s an important issue itself. But let's assume Person A is right on issue X.

Let’s say that person A learns more about person B’s issues etc, which include progress-blocking irrationalities. Like evasion / refusal to think because [fill-in-the-blank]. Person A, given enough knowledge and resources should be able to solve this and all other related issues and ultimately persuade person B about issue X. Progress is always possible and that is the right aim to have.

But there are situations where it makes sense to focus on something else, go your separate ways, stop cooperating on given thing (for now). E.g. in Atlas Shrugged, the producers made some attempts at persuasion but decided to withdraw from society and stop participating in the economy.

I think even in this case where you’ve made a lot of effort and still think you’re right, force is bad. Is that true? What are the arguments/issues related to this?

I just edited a video from 94min (1 continuous section) to 517 parts and 55min. Final Cut Pro had a bug and lost all my ~40 speed increases (which save ~7min) and I had to redo them all. It was beachballing so I quit it and it took a minute to end background tasks then quit. Reopened and the speedups were gone but all my other edits (including the one i did last) were present. Submitted the bug to Apple.

What do you think of Stoicism FF

FF can you share some quotes or ideas from stoicism that you like

I also liked the part where they advise to live like a homeless person to train ourselves for the worse.

the Stoic tries to deal with the world as it is while pursuing self-improvement through four cardinal virtues:

practical wisdom,

the ability to navigate complex situations in a logical, informed, and calm manner;

temperance,

the exercise of self-restraint and moderation in all aspects of life;

You have communicated that LT was the world's second best philosopher. You no longer think that. Why have you not posted to say why?

#9715 i'm curious as to what evidence you have regarding your claim "You have communicated that LT was the world's second best philosopher"

Yeah you said something different - I was going by memory. The context was people who will make the most progress in the next hundred years. Will take a look at the thread you mentioned. Was prompted to make my comment after reading some LT/DT tweets.

Just saw this one:

> Criticism is only ever good relative to a context. If it doesn’t address a problem you have + are interested in + are currently working on, it’s not helpful.

https://mobile.twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/975752347707199488

Most people have major problems but are not interested in hearing about them let alone solving them. How is one supposed to begin to criticise them then? Is LT saying to be silent? If criticism must engage a person's interest in a problem how does one criticise these people's interests and tell them they are interested in the wrong thing? LT is saying it is hopeless isn't she? It sounds like she is making excuses for not listening to criticism herself.

And DD: thinks global warming is a threat to the planet despite years of evidence now that the science is bad.

Are people allowed to talk to Banned members now?

you can talk to her

what's a good way to find out about general current news without spending a lot of time on it? i want a source that is truthful and not biased, to the extent that's possible.

to know what people are talking about in conversation. to feel connected to society. to know more about who or what to vote for. to prepare for changes in society that might affect me.

I use google news

I just saw that DD blocked me on twitter. I guess it was a response to this?

http://curi.us/2102-accepting-vs-preferring-theories-reply-to-david-deutsch

God DD's gone downhill. See also this followup about anti-semitism:

https://twitter.com/j_mallone/status/985154706510053376

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16835680

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16856753

Join the google group. Yahoo is broken

Jordan Peterson says Life is suffering. Is it true?

Howard Roark suffered a lot. I don't want to suffer like him.

> Roark suffered less than anyone else in the book!

Yes, Keating & Wynand suffered the most. Dominique suffered some.

What if don't want to suffer even a little?

like mr DD I too emphasise that Climate change has to be one

of our very high priorities now. Especially that there appears

to be a consensus forming that there is likely only 30 years

or so before scientists can ascertain if the climate HAS GONE

OUT OF CONTROL.

Shocking to me, but i'd suggest that we better had know tomorrow

or as quickly-as-possible if we want the time to be able to

save the planet's atmosphere & ourselves (human futures so to

speak).

I have not said half as much about the threat of nuclear war as I have done on the danger of the fossil fuels on our environment.

(on yahoo philosophy category..)

But I hope-to-change that, thanks to some weeks or months lately

that ive taken some opportunity to reflect..err, critically on

it so to speak.

I have said though there (tentatively) that we must NEVER put

"knowledge" AHEAD of "peace" concerning the threat as above.

I or we must be ADAMANT on this.

The greater risks are sometimes not-worth-it and such an

ultimate war I now believe is one such risk.

And though the threat has affected me personally over recent

times..nonetheless any one's inability or inaction as a tiny

help may be put in writing (as long as that risk was weighted

too..).

And saying that "diplomacy" in the one field may reflect a more

diplomatic-but-rational critical movement in the other, envir-

onmental field, might well be as much benefit as we could expect

given the present evidence.

peter m (hello to you all !)

> DD is basically a climate skeptic like me.

What is something he has written about this?

Daniel Dennett's latest book, "From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds", has a lot to say about memes and why they are important in understanding the mind. He even has a whole chapter answering objections to meme theory and seems to have spent time with the recent literature. Yet one thing is glaring by its omission: there is no discussion of Deutsch's work on memes (not even a reference to BoI). Why did Dennett, a supposedly serious scholar, fail to bring this up? Dennett's book intersects with Deutsch's BoI in many ways: both have a lot to say about the evolution of culture and of language, how memes can give us competencies without necessarily comprehension, how memes get installed in minds and so on. It seems incredible he has ignored Deutsch.

President Trump is a great president.

Yeah, he needs to follow through on the wall. But he has done the following:

ISIS wiped off the face of the earth.

Pulling out of the Iran nuke deal.

Alignment of Middle East against Iran.

Saudi Arabia now a clear ally and an ally of Israel.

US embassy in Jerusalem.

Unemployment lowest since year 2000.

Massive cut back of regulations.

Black unemployment at all-time low.

Economic growth up.

Tax cuts.

Armed forces rebuild.

Denuclearization of North Korea.

Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.

Telling the G7 and others that America is not the world's piggy bank.

Getting in the face of leftists big-time, exposing them as fools, and hitting back twice as hard.

This is all really good stuff (and there is more I didn't mention). No other president in recent history has accomplished so much just 18 months in.

https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/fallible-ideas/et0FOAbloTY/eTzqrjGtAwAJ

a good way to present questions is as a point you got stuck in your own thinking process. you tried to solve W problem, you thought X and Y, you ran into difficulty Z, and the question is how to make progress on W problem. tell that story. you should be looking for help making progress yourself, not for other people to think for you. and you should be putting questions in a context like that so that people have more information about what would be helpful to say.

also, don't ask yes/no questions when you want a useful explanation.

Quick, name the best classical music you've ever heard otherwise I'll be really cross $^{

> Quick, name the best classical music you've ever heard otherwise I'll be really cross $^{

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV4LUrbyGu8

Elliott, instead of having an email group, why don't you run a single-board, single-thread instance of a chan client like the one 8chan or 4chan uses? There are a lot of them on github. Tripcodes allow for user identities, post numbers and quoting improve discussion and nobody has to deal with email clients. RSS can serve notifications. You could also enable images in it (or embed them from services like imgur). You can divide it into pages for easier sorting and you can view he entire post if you hover on the automatic link with the post number in a post. It even works without js! Email is a pain because I can't find a decent free client with POP/IMAP support except gmail, which harvests private data.

> Elliott, instead of having an email group, why don't you run a single-board, single-thread instance of a chan client like the one 8chan or 4chan uses?

one t in my first name.

if you link me to a sample forum i'll look at it and see if it meets my discussion forum criteria.

why would anyone use it who doesn't use my blog comments currently? what's better? i'm guessing the markdown support would be standard (worse).

i think single thread would be bad. but i'm guessing having multiple threads (topics) would work too?

> RSS can serve notifications.

i have RSS for blog comment notifications and i'm not aware that anyone uses it.

some random 4chan post says:

>> thinking 4chan uses markdown syntax

> Just because it uses ">" to signal a quote doesn't mean it uses markdown.

so wait, doesn't even have markdown or nested quoting? sounds far worse than blog comments...?

> Email is a pain because I can't find a decent free client with POP/IMAP support except gmail, which harvests private data.

1) Mail on mac is free

or

2) buy MailMate? (unless u meant u wanted *both* POP *and* IMAP? no idea why. i think MailMate is IMAP only)

i'm not gonna switch forums b/c u don't want to spend like $50. i'd rather give u $50 then do far more money worth of work to switch (just technically, not even counting getting ppl to switch and the cost for everyone on FI already to learn the new system)

> Almost every implementation on the net uses different configurations.

and yet you haven't given me any sample forum link (you know, somewhere i could reasonably post test posts) and connected that sample to any codebase i could use. you're telling me that just going to 4chan *would be a different experience than what i would have*. and it seems to be missing core features i want like markdown, so why would you send me there as a sample? and clicking around it's super user hostile. by trial and error i seem to have determined that you click on a post number to reply. that's ridiculous. did you really expect me to have a good or even OK experience trying it briefly?

> And it does have nested quoting, both in text and in links.

> I don't have either.

get a different one then? i listed things that meet the criteria you stated. your response is to add new criteria. i don't want to play this game. did you even check all the ones on the FI guidelines page? why don't you explain what's wrong with them. (and you not having something isn't a flaw in it – why don't you get it?)

> And you don't have to switch, you could just make it as a test.

why don't *you* make a test?

> It can always be changed to have custom markdown support.

why don't you set something up which has markdown support like this blog (copy/pasteable markup).

> And it does have nested quoting, both in text and in links.

what is nested quoting in links?

> There's not a lot of difference but it is a much better standalone solution.

why is it "much better" than these blog comments? you haven't said any advantages besides inline images (which i could easily add here if i thought it was important) and tripcodes (which i'm not convinced that i want, and i could easily add user accounts here if i wanted to – in fact there already is a user account system, i'm just the only person with an account)

#10097

>and yet you haven't given me any sample forum link (you know, somewhere i could reasonably post test posts)

I literally did. (8ch.net)

here's a few more

http://lynxhub.com/

http://containerchan.org/tb/demo/ (vichan)

> connected that sample to any codebase i could use.

See the github link at the top

>you're telling me that just going to 4chan *would be a different experience than what i would have*. and it seems to be missing core features i want like markdown, so why would you send me there as a sample?

4chan isn't open source, so you can't host it here. I linked it because it is the most generic imageboard out there. No frills, just plain text and images. Every other imageboard is inspired by and adds to it.

>and clicking around it's super user hostile. by trial and error i seem to have determined that you click on a post number to reply. that's ridiculous.

How is that ridiculous? It makes perfect sense. It's not about replying to someone, it's about referencing their post in yours so that it can be added to the chain of relevant comments.

If you highlight some text and then click on the post number, that text is quoted in your reply. shift-click to get reddit-style indentation for as many replies as you like.

>did you really expect me to have a good or even OK experience trying it briefly?

You've been blogging for a decade and half, so I presumed you'd be comfortable using an imageboard and decided to forgo including usage instructions.

>get a different one then? i listed things that meet the criteria you stated. your response is to add new criteria. i don't want to play this game. did you even check all the ones on the FI guidelines page? why don't you explain what's wrong with them. (and you not having something isn't a flaw in it – why don't you get it?)

I just don't own an apple computer.

>why don't *you* make a test?

I don't have to, there are a lot of them hosted on the internet. FYI, you can make a new board on 8ch for testing purposes.

>why don't you set something up which has markdown support like this blog.(copy/pasteable markup).

See 8ch

>what is nested quoting in links?

Replying to someone's post using their post number adds your post to the comment chain. You can reference multiple posts in one reply and so can others. Every post, when quoted/referenced, has a list of post numbers that reference it under it. Successively clicking on links in the list goes up/down the chain. This allows easy parsing of replies/questions and also allows resuming older discussions without any confusion and also does not disrupt recent active conversations.

>why is it "much better" than these blog comments

- Don't have to refresh page to view new posts

- Allows multiple "chains" in a single thread without disruption

- allows parsing a comment chain from a single comment

- No signup/email required

- no-hassle optional user system with tripcodes

- not dependent on continued google/yahoo services

- no messy "my email didn't show up in the discussion" or "spam folder" problems

- WYSIWYG

- easy to set up, highly customizable and scalable

#10113

Google gets much more an what I type when I make an account. IP address, browser fingerprints, cookies, registered accounts/phones and even adjacent IPs are very easy markers for metadata. That's how they get all that ad revenue. Google's one of the biggest advertisement companies first, tech second (or third). And this isn't restricted to gmail.

I added image support to blog comments. I put instructions right above the comment field.

For screenshots, I recommend using puush. It provides a screenshot hotkey (including one for just a screen region) and then it'll upload it and put the url on your clipboard so you can paste it in. On Mac, instead of select a screen region you can mouse over a window and hit space. Space toggles it to screenshot a particular window instead of dragging a box. Space again to un-toggle. No idea if windows has that toggle too. I do know that puush works fine on windows (I've used it).

Example image (text replacements are nice, especially if you forget the markdown image syntax):

The text you put for the image is used for the alt text (if someone isn't displaying images, like I guess if someone uses a screen reader cuz they're blind) and the title text (shows with mouse hover). Text is optional and not really needed. I just included it because I copied the markdown link format.

regular markdown links work too, btw. that's worked for a long time, i just don't think it's worth documenting above the comment box since you can just put raw urls anyway. markdown links are the same format as markdown images except without the ! in front, and having some text is required instead of optional.

Applescript for making a markdown image link with the url currently on the clipboard:

on run

delay 0.25 -- you need time to let go of your hotkeys

tell application "System Events"

keystroke "![]("

keystroke "v" using {command down}

delay 0.1 -- pasting isn't instant

keystroke ")"

end tell

end run

How to set it up on Mac with a global hotkey:

I read this paper yesterday. It's pretty good but the graph you can see is bad. They should have colored the area *above* the curve for the "score worsens" part, not the area below the curve. Color the gap from the x-axis to the curve, not the gap from the curve to an arbitrary negative y-value. The way they draw it, it looks like the score worsens the most (highest amount of colored area) with lower selection rate (further left), which is false and opposite.

Image size is too big in some cases – the text in the image is way bigger than the written text after.

Testing with a small image:

ppl suck. i tried to blank RT it but he blocked me.

issue was i corrected some ppl on Poisson distribution stuff. he repeated the same stuff i had pointed out – it seemed like he was trying to argue with me, but what he said was agreeing with me – so i asked what his point was. so he went the fuck off.

http://www.businessinsider.com/build-a-bear-pay-your-age-day-chaos-success-2018-7

Build-A-Bear had a "Pay Your Age Day" promo and so many people came they had to shut it down due to safety concerns.

> Saunders continued: "A lot of parents are now upset that they cannot fulfill promises to their children, and many who made special trips to malls are frustrated that their efforts have come to nothing. In our view, Build-A-Bear is going to have to take some action to remedy this, maybe by offering deals and special offers to those affected."

Well, I'm sure most of those parents could buy one at full price. Now that they promised one to their kid, they should just, you know, buy it. Saying they " cannot fulfill promises to their children" is bullshit.

more mobile traffic to curi.us than i expected.

(if anything sux on mobile, tell me and i could improve it)

All of DD's examples ("survival of the fittest, group selection, epigenetic evolution, and spandrels") are *false*. Group selection is a big giveaway here.

The guy totally missed DD's point and DD purposefully didn't fill him in. (Yes DD mentioned teaching falsehoods but the guy didn't know what DD was talking about and DD didn't clarify.)

---

Survival of the fittest is a standard myth – the fittest animal is not the same thing as the fittest replicator, and also sometimes evolution leads to extinction (like a gene can be more "fit" for the current situation at the cost of some flexibility to deal with changing climate, and this makes it less fit overall so it goes extinct later).

Spandrels appear to be an attack on evolution by Gould (who made up punctuated equilibrium too).

Epigenetics appears to be overemphasized (it's not impossible but people are acting like it's a big part of the explanations when actually it's not and selfish gene replicators is what's going on.) Looks like a bunch of crap has been published about it. (I don't think the underlying concept is strictly wrong. Even the definition of spandrel I found wasn't strictly wrong, but when people then attribute lots of evolution stuff to it then they're wrong.)

link for DD evolution stuff:

https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf/status/1017381752338288640

No one else in the discussion seemed to notice what DD did or what happened. I think that's revealing about people's knowledge (rather than, in the alternative, mostly just revealing their passivity).

I saw this on a Gumroad product sidebar:

You'd never guess what it means.

"Watch immediately" is all the warning you get that you can't actually download the videos you buy.

This is borderline false advertising by Gumroad.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/13/ifixit-butterfly-keyboard-silicone-barrier/

> iFixit Teardown Suggests 2018 MacBook Pro Keys Feature a Silicone Barrier to Prevent Malfunctions Due to Dust

that's good that they improved the keyboard issues.

> It doesn't have different colors because nested quotes are replaced by backlinks in the referenced post numbers. It's cleaner.

what you're saying is the design is hostile to what FI wants. what you call "cleaner", all regular FI posters would call unacceptable.

you're trying to offer a replacement for FI but you don't seem to know how FI works. nested quotes (not references, actual posts) are *crucially important to discussion quality*. (not at all times, for everything, but fairly often.)

reference links work for footnotes/side-notes, but not for main content. having main content at 2+ quote levels is super common on FI.

> I don't understand what that means, it's rather vague. Do you mean the quoted markdown should still preserve the formatting?

someone posts italics. i quote him and there are italics in the quote of him that's in my post. can it do that? (without me manually editing in the italics)

>> did you even check all the ones on the FI guidelines page? why don't you explain what's wrong with them.

> I don't think there's anything wrong with most of them, it's just that your current implementation isn't the best one possible.

you forgot the context, which was email clients. why won't you use any of the email clients listed there? what's wrong with those email clients?

> - Don't have to refresh page to view new posts

why do you think this is a big deal? if i've entered the inputs to return to a browser tab/window, tacking on a cmd-r is minor since i'm already giving a string of inputs to my computer.

do you leave image boards open *in open, visible monitor space*? i guess most people usually don't do that. and if i cared a lot about the workflow i'd set up notifications, not rely on an auto-refresh feature + manually checking the page. the auto-refresh feature appears to me to make a tiny improvement to a workflow that isn't optimized anyway. (it's an ok workflow. i use it sometimes. but if i wanted to optimize i'd switch to notifications, not just try to cut out the cmd-r press)

also your benefits list, which you somewhat repeated, is pretty careless. i asked about phpbb comparison and you told me it doesn't rely on google. phpbb doesn't either.

>> Reading the discussions for a month before posting is recommended in order to learn what to expect.

> literally "lurk moar"

people arrive with no clue how to quote and who haven't even seen quoting, and also they have no clue what to expect in terms of criticism.

i personally lurked for around a month before posting to TCS list. i wasn't familiar with similar things, so it was good to get some idea of what it was like.

but there's a problem of people forgetting about whatever it was that got them interested initially.

i'll change it to a week. also i make no such recommendation about the blog comments, which can be a major culture shock to dive into, but at least don't require much clue about formatting.

> show posts when you highlight the referenced post number

i just tried this feature and it's such a tease. when i try to move my mouse over the popup post it disappears and i can't copy any quotes from it.

also, wait, wtf:

this is post 1036. the 3 references at the top are all to posts that came *later in time*. they are *forward* references, not back references. that's the wrong direction for finding context. that doesn't replace quoting, it's for finding further, later discussion?

as to the back reference in the body, if you hover it and see a post with a back reference you wouldn't be able to immediately read it? plus it isn't quoting to communicate *which parts* of the previous posts it cares about. looks like this would fall apart with longer posts.

it's ok but i think it's trying to make up for people not being adequately clear about what text they are replying to and what text they consider important to their post (that crucial text should be quoted, not found via skimming *all* prior stuff).

> add a link to the referenced post in the referenced post number in a reply.

i think you mean automate it? the wording is confusing. you can type or copy/paste post numbers here and they are clickable links.

comments now use paragraph tags instead of break tags.

the goal is that you can copy/paste multiple paragraphs and get double line breaks instead of single line breaks. seems to work now (only tested in mac safari and mac chrome, as usual).

i improved comment permalinks to avoid some unnecessary page reloads.

![https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Ayn_Rand_by_Talbot_1943.jpg/220px-Ayn_Rand_by_Talbot_1943.jpg]

YESSSSSSSS

FINALLY!!

auto quoting is working with in development but not on live. investigating.

> FINALLY!!

You know you can ask for features if you want them?

test

Be aware: clicking "reply" or "quote" reloads the page and deletes anything you typed in the comment box. They are regular links, not javascript.

If you want to quote from multiple posts using the quote feature: do one, copy/paste to a text file, then do the other.

If you are in the middle of a post and want to click a quote link so you can add something (without doing it manually by copy/pasting it and typing quote marks), then copy/paste what you're writing to a text file first.

deployed new fixes:

- caching is just off on post pages. we'll see if there's actually a problem. (my caching is pretty limited anyway – i just delete all the cache when there's an update rather than bothering to delete the right things)

- i added anchors to all the reply and quote links, so it should consistently scroll to the right place in safari now

one minor issue:

your cursor is at the start of the comment box instead of after the reply or quote text. it could be moved with javascript. but for quoting long comments, not moving it is actually better. like in Mail when you reply to an email you want to start at the top and work your way down, not start at the bottom.

for the reply link, moving the cursor would always be good, rather than sometimes be good. so maybe i'll figure it out and do it conditionally. it's minor tho. it's just one extra key press to move the cursor yourself (down arrow will work for replies since they aren't multi-line, command-down or the windows equivalent for multi-line quotes).

https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1018200914832879616

MachinePix posts neat videos. it's nice to see machines doing stuff and saving human labor.

I posted an official 30 day no questions asked refund policy for my gumroad stuff so people don't have to worry they might be unsatisfied. (i've never actually had a refund request)

buy now and learn stuff, risk free:

https://elliottemple.com/store

im sleepy from fi. i have nothing else to say lmao

On iOS when you share a link and choose the Copy option it leaves out the anchor. So if you try to share a specific comment, you just get the top of the page. Awful!

Workaround: instead of using the share feature, touch the URL to edit it, select all, copy.

btw ctrl-t is pretty easy to type one-handed because i changed caps lock to be ctrl. ctrl is also ctrl.

Click modifier keys.

i wonder how long this page takes to load now, with all the images, if you don't have any of them cached by your browser yet.

well that dropbox link didn't work. rude!

let's test removing the ?dl=0 or modifying it to 1:

removed:

with dl=1:

ok, so, does anyone know how to upload an image and get a direct link to it on iOS?

Diane Feinstein too conservative for California lefties? https://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/07/15/california-dems-endorse-kevin-de-leon-for-senate-on-abolish-ice-platform/

The iCab browser fixed the performance problem (Chrome and Firefox were different than Safari but not great either).

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icab-mobile-web-browser/id308111628

If you have any issues, would advise you leave open your discussion here in iCab. Switching apps might actually be more convenient than switching Safari tabs on mobile.

@iOS image upload to get a direct link:

Could use an FTP app. Would work. Doesn't sound convenient.

PhotoSync is photo-oriented, has auto-uploading of new pics, and I think can do FTP. Maybe it'd work well.

https://www.photosync-app.com/iOS.html

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photosync-transfer-photos/id415850124?mt=8

If anyone figures out a good solution, please say so.

The new max height for images is 500px.

Images now link to themselves. Click an image to expand to full resolution.

It turns out you can get an image URL from imgur on iPhone. Just not from the app. The app will only give you the gallery URL.

Do this:

Upload in the imgur app, then touch the Share icon or long press or force touch. Choose "Open in Safari" (Copy Link will just give you the same URL that won't work).

In Safari you have two options.

1) If your device supports force touch (aka 3d touch): force touch the image you want and it'll take you to the image link. Copy the link from the address bar.

or

2) Long touch the image you want and choose copy. This copies the image to your clipboard. It will paste as an image in some apps, like Messages, but if you paste in Safari (in the address bar or a text area like the comment box here) it will do put the URL.

The URL imgur gives you is low quality but it works. You can fix it if you want.

Example imgur URL that will work as an image here:

https://i.imgur.com/IoiIAoN_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

The part from "?" onward is called the query string. I'm not sure if does anything or not. You might want to delete it.

The part after the "/" until the "?" is the filename. The "_d" right before the jpg is imgur's naming convention for thumbnails. To get higher quality, delete the "_d" and you'll get the regular image.

It should be possible to do the editing with a javascript bookmarklet or something, rather than doing it by hand. But this works reasonably well. Text expansion for the ![]() for a markdown image. Paste the URL between the parentheses (long touch to get a magnifying glass and place the cursor – make sure not to force touch – and then let go with the cursor in the right place and the paste option will appear). Then delete the "_d" if you want higher quality.

Not a fan of sarcasm, but she's right.

yeah that guy is clueless @ 1st tweet

lame @ "crazy" (2nd tweet)

lame @ clueless guy has a high social position (2nd tweet)

lame @ sarcasm (3rd tweet)

lol @ joke (4th tweet)

& **most of all**, the idea that "you shouldn't punch down" is interesting. it's telling people to ignore most of their critics. and the people saying it conceptualize corrections of mistakes as punches. (admittedly this guy did it in a rude way in this case, but people say the same thing when it's a non-rude criticism).

> & **most of all**, the idea that "you shouldn't punch down" is interesting. it's telling people to ignore most of their critics. and the people saying it conceptualize corrections of mistakes as punches. (admittedly this guy did it in a rude way in this case, but people say the same thing when it's a non-rude criticism).

and it's condescending to think some people are "down" for you. it's saying they're your inferior. "punching" them is treating them more like a peer, a person worth talking to. and he's saying to be more dismissive of people you decide you're better than.

it's irrational social status posturing instead of truth seeking.

I added text about confirmation emails in several places.

I also made a new link for the sidebar:

http://curi.us/open-discussion

That link will always redirect to the current open discussion page. In the future, when there's too many comments here, I'll update it behind the scenes to a new blog post.

#10203 idk i bet u have **three** other things to say.

oh god you kinda have to follow Overwatch but lolololololol

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/8z6qej/coaching_staff_changes_for_seoul_dynasty/e2giwsz/

https://pastebin.com/Kag986XT

> He then talks a LOT about the whole situation with Senika (his girlfriend). Not going to translate all of this as it isn't as related to Effect's pro career and gets a bit too intense and personal. But the gist is that he broke up with her because she mainly just wants to have fun and isn't thinking about the future, while he can't see himself supporting them when his short career as a pro ends. She breaks down a bit and doesn't take it well. In frustration he threatens to air out the dirty laundry if she keeps this up. She gets so scared that she attempts suicide and ends up in hospital. Effect apologised profusely to her because he knew he shouldn't have threatened her. This whole experience really messes with Effect. They got back again but fought every day. They broke up again, this time for good.

#love

> too sarcastic?

it wasn't really sarcasm, is was tagging/labelling/categorizing. like i literally thing that's in the "love" category. i think it's representative of "love" (specifically the romantic dating sort. and no not every relationship has the same details but there are huge problems like this and people hide them so much, and downplay them, and even if they don't have *these* particular problems, most of them do have big problems...).

#10204 ur right i do i like poop

thaz le 3 things i haz to say. :P

#10212 why 💩?

#10211 i just saw it for the first time. maybe they are testing it out.

#10215 VPN recommended. e.g. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com

Amazon super deals in 2.6 hrs

#10219 try to imagine those people being parents answering their kid's questions about the world (all sorts of aspects of it). try to imagine those people reading FI essays and learning it.

> Amazon super deals in 2.6 hrs

> Amazon super deals in 2.6 hrs

> #10224 I didn't know gifs were allowed too.

I didn't even think about that. But it makes an html image tag and they work. hf

I removed the spaces and it still works:

javascript:document.getElementById('comment_argle').value=document.getElementById('comment_argle').value.replace(/(imgur\.com.*?)\?\S+/,'$1').replace(/(https:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/\w+)_d(\.\S+)/,'');

Should work with the youtube ones too. (spaces are showing up as %20 in the bookmarks picture, %20 is the URL encoding for a space)

I changed it from two regexes to one. Still works the same.

javascript:document.getElementById('comment_argle').value=document.getElementById('comment_argle').value.replace(/(https:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/\w+)_d(\.\S+?)\?\S+/g,'');

wow amazon's website is slow. they can't handle their prime day traffic!

browsing categories is working. y'all could make videos!

from https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=17852202011

product link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076ZXYG17/?tag=curi04-20

tbh that isn't even that big a sale tho.

Shure SE112-K-BT1 Wireless Sound Isolating Earphones with Bluetooth Enabled Communication Cable

https://www.amazon.com/Shure-SE112-K-BT1-Isolating-Earphones-Communication/dp/B074QQP2T2?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_PC_NA_NA

30% off

wireless charging for iphone x and apple watch (i think it works? haven't checked) for $30

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Certified-Universally-Compatible-Smartphones/dp/B07D2T7YS9/ref=gbph_tit_m-9_f02d_4ef9ecd2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=89bf231e-4efd-4718-8ea7-a923b413f02d&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=540734&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=5D0SQGG6KR95XFSGA8H0&th=1

gross. and only $50 off. i'm upgrading to apple watch series 4 this fall.

i'm buying a travel mug.

https://www.amazon.com/Contigo-AUTOSEAL-Stainless-Travel-Weather/dp/B01JIEEFXQ?tag=curi04-20

CHEAP IZZE :D

Overwatch playoffs performed well on Disney XD tv channel:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/8zg3km/overwatch_league_playoffs_on_disney_xd_ratings/

> The OWL Playoff ratings on Disney XD came in at # 145 with a 0.03 rating in the 18 - 49 demographic and 127,000 viewers.

> For a point of reference: it was the only show on Disney XD that made the top 150 cable ratings for the night. Disney XD does not typically score in the top 150 on Fridays, so this is a number that both Disney and Blizzard have to be very happy with.

> There are no numbers for the ESPN 3 airing available at this time.

someone says 90k low point on twitch for the same games.

not on prime day sale but i particularly like these soups:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IYYBCH4/?tag=curi04-20

https://www.amazon.com/NongShim-Tempura-Noodle-Ounce-Bowls/dp/B000LQNKAA/?tag=curi04-20

UnREAL season 4 just came out. i like the show. it's a fiction show about making a reality tv show similar to the bachelor, so you see behind the scenes about how it's made. not super realistic but i think it's somewhat right in its rather negative attitude toward reality tv.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S89217906/#/S89217906

> I love this sleeper sofa. We needed something for our reading nook in our bedroom, and this couldn’t be more perfect. Quick change to a sleeper sofa (when we have more people staying and the kiddos are staying in our bedroom).

When they have guests, they kick their children out of their own rooms! :(((((((

#10259 wait do you not actually like poop? were you lying!?!?

i think i asked him this in the past and got no reply. he should do it. it'd be profitable and a good way to treat people. like fine you wanna post about politics, and we disagree. sure. just make it easy for me not to read that if i don't want to. keep it showing as the default, that's fine with me, no objection, just have a non-default view where i can avoid it.

i label politics stuff in my newsletter, make it easy to skip.

if i made a lot of money from my blog like DF does, i'd hire someone to put categories on all the posts and set things up so people could skip politics.

>> I stopped reading DF regularly cuz of the politics stuff

>

> there's like 4 anti-Trump posts in a row right now. take a peek if you want a horror show. one says Hillary was 100% right that Trump is Putin's puppet, it's like bragging about her correct foresight like it's a good apple product prediction and there is claim chowder shame for the doubters.

Oh god lol

DF says https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/07/16/trump-kowtows-to-putin

>Trump’s own DNI is telling us Trump is a traitor.

But that doesn't follow at all from what DF quotes. DF is just angry and making things up

(Horowitz is the name of that IM group chat.)

> McDonald's seems TOO cheap to me

>

> They have coupons now where u can get most of their sandwiches for a dollar once a day, and 49 cent cones and stuff

>

> Lots of people hate McDonald's and believe lies about fake beef and pink slime and stuff. So I think McDonald's has to compete on price more than they would in a more just world

I don't think the low prices convince many strong followers of the lies and slanders. But the lies reduce the pool of potential customers in a fiercely competitive marketplace. And also lots of the lie believers tend to be more middle and upper class and not super poor. So then McDonald's has to compete fiercely for poorer customers

> McDonald's seems TOO cheap to me

>

> They have coupons now where u can get most of their sandwiches for a dollar once a day, and 49 cent cones and stuff

>

> Lots of people hate McDonald's and believe lies about fake beef and pink slime and stuff. So I think McDonald's has to compete on price more than they would in a more just world

So, in this situation should one do things like offer to pay more or at least purposely *not* use coupons in order to better give McDonalds what they deserve?

https://www.camera.org doesn't seem to have an email newsletter. please let me know if you if you can find one. i want to sign up. i signed up for emails from memri, palwatch, campus watch, canary mission

> Trump-Tucker interview part 1:

>

> http://video.foxnews.com/v/5810471499001/?playlist_id=5198073478001#sp=show-clips

>

> their video player supports up to 2X btw

TRUMP: ...it's incredible, the Democrats want open borders, which is basically saying "we want open borders, we want crime."

TUCKER: Why do you think they want that?

TRUMP: Maybe it's a political philosophy that they grew up with, maybe they learned it at school, maybe they're fools. I dunno.

The issue is *not*: is the amount of money too small for McD's to care about?

The issue is: literally there is no person at McDs who will notice that you refrained from using a coupon you could have used.

The ET donation is totally unlike that: he'd notice it happened and know why. It'd communicate to him.

If enough people did it, McDs would just think their coupons were unpopular. They still wouldn't know your intentions. It wouldn't communicate.

The McDs "avoid coupon use that you would have used otherwise" idea is sorta like giving a tip to your waiter ... except you magically teleport it into his bank account and he doesn't know it's from you and can't connect it to this transaction with you. Except it's *even more subtle than that*.

The coupon avoidance also fails to even try to identify the *optimal* amount of extra money to send in the direction of McDs.

And, yes, in general you should hold up your end of a commercial transaction and they should hold up theirs. Giving extra is only in your interest when it will make some difference that could affect your own life. It's hard for it to meet that condition unless one or more specific individuals are aware of the gift and who gave it and why, *or* it's a really important cause using money really efficiently (especially a low-funded, under-funded cause). McDs doesn't fit any of this.

I am sympathetic to the idea that McDs is a good company that would do better in a better world. But that's no reason to give them money and it applies to many companies. If you want to help, work towards the creation of a better world.

> Also, one of the other suggestions besides not using coupons was to give McD's extra money. The cashier *would* notice that and you (and others) could explain to them why you want to give them extra. You could suggest they tell their manager, too.

I like that idea more than not using a coupon (that you would have used otherwise). But I think the realistic result would be to confuse people. They have no job training to deal with it, nor does common sense and standard cultural knowledge prepare them for it.

> I'm not arguing to give McD's more money, but I don't see how what you've identified is *the* issue.

It's not *the* issue in some broad, general way. It was the issue I was talking about there, which you seemed to have misunderstood.

test worked perfect! notice how that tweet pic is less wide than the text above it. it's near but not all the way to max width. perfect! that's cuz it's showing up proper size instead of being doubled.

and i checked the max width of images that fit in comments. it's 833.2px. like the 500px height, it's fine to go over that, it'll just scale down.

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/07/oisin-biotechnologies-produces-impressive-mouse-life-span-data-from-an-ongoing-study-of-senescent-cell-clearance/

nice data from a study involving a SENS approach to fighting aging

San Fran lets foreigners vote in election https://abc7news.com/politics/sf-department-of-elections-issues-voter-registration-forms-for-non-citizens/3773817/

>“One such adviser was William Bullitt, FDR’s first ambassador to the USSR, who once had been gushingly pro-Bolshevik — until he spent a few years in the Soviet Union, where he was awakened by the death stench that was Stalinism. As he did with so many advisers, FDR rejected Bullitt’s warnings: “Bill, I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man…. I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.”

>Look at those words from FDR, directed toward an abject tyrant who killed far more people than Vladimir Putin ever has: “If I give him everything I possibly can?” “Noblesse oblige?” “Will work with me for a world of democracy and peace?”

>Could anyone be so deluded? So naïve? So duped?

>A stunned Bullitt argued with the president, informing the Hyde Park patrician that he was dealing not with a British Duke but with a “bandit, whose only thought when he got something for nothing was that the other fellow was an ass.”

>Bullitt pleaded with his president not to be Uncle Joe’s jackass.

>Bullitt tried to tell FDR that there was no “factual evidence” that Stalin was a good man. FDR, however, saw Stalin as a “kind” man, a gentleman, one he could work with to advance democracy and peace. The president shook off Bullitt: “It’s my responsibility, not yours.”

>Sure was. And the course FDR took was a disastrous one that helped pave the way for the Cold War.

>Stalin had so hoodwinked the iconic New Dealer that the president mused that the mass-murdering atheist had taught him, Churchill, and other leaders of the free world something about the “way in which a Christian gentleman should behave.” Yes, Stalin, a “Christian gentleman.” FDR actually said that.”

Moscow’s Presidential Jackasses and BootlickersThe American Spectator

https://spectator.org/moscows-presidential-jackasses-and-bootlickers/

via Instapaper

Rand Paul claims he lost a committee vote 20-1 to defeat language which would allow any country to apply to join NATO https://youtu.be/eUF-WooYYSw

#10302 yo quoting all the paragraphs from instagram looks hard so i made you a script. it puts a quote and space at the start and after every newline.

javascript:document.getElementById('comment_argle').value='>'+document.getElementById('comment_argle').value.replace(/\n/g,'\n> ');

> a

>

> b

> c

look what patio11 knows about! LGF and Dan Rather memogate, from back when LGF was a pro-Isarel, right wing warblog. he also has a theory of what LGF's name means (i don't know what it means and wikipedia says the author hasn't said what it means):

i’m doing a **BLOG COMMENTS HIGHLIGHTS** newsletter section. *TAKING RECOMMENDATIONS*. any recent comments stand out 2 u?

> #10302 yo quoting all the paragraphs from instagram looks hard so i made you a script. it puts a quote and space at the start and after every newline.

>

> javascript:document.getElementById('comment_argle').value='>'+document.getElementById('comment_argle').value.replace(/

/g,'

> ');

THANK YOU SIR!!!!!!

> “HE'S BELIEVING PUTIN OVER OUR OWN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES? Moral equivalence! Treason! High crimes and misdemeanors! Kristallnacht! Trump might as well have trampled on a portrait of George Washington. (Or, since we're talking about liberals, Stalin.)

> But the way I remember it, elected Democrats -- even Democratic candidates for president -- have criticized our intelligence agencies pretty ferociously, particularly regarding the Iraq War.”

July 18, 2018 - PUTIN IS KILLING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS!

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2018-07-18.html

via Instapaper

> Leftie actor deletes tweet suggesting lefties interested in keeping open mind should follow mainstream conservative Ben Shapiro, then apologizes for tweet

Knowing lefties, I initially read this as the following scenario:

lefty is flaming other lefties who want to keep an open mind, says if they are going to do that they might as well follow the devil (aka Ben Shapiro). Then the guy ended up apologizing for going overboard flaming Ben Shapiro and/or flaming open-minded lefties.

but he was actually pro-open-mind and liked Shapiro ... and pressured to apologize for it...

ESPN uses Slasher's info and the story Slasher broke (overwatch news), and then doesn't give Slasher any credit in their article.

Monte (an overwatch league caster) says he gave credit to Slasher, so ESPN actually cut that part.

People say that ESPN does this a lot with other sports too.

https://youtu.be/4tR5CKdbdho?t=10m25s

#10322 "you are a racist" = "i don't like you". they have no regard for what words mean.

I watched the video. He says Muslims love this world too much, and hate death too much, and need to change by embracing Islam more.

liar

At first I thought the comment about children was advocating child suicide bombers. But after watching the video, I think it meant the adults are too attached to:

- life

- this world

- their spouses

- their children

and not attached enough to Islam

And why is there a choice between the two? Because he wants them to commit violent crimes, be terrorists, *fight* the *jihad* to impose *sharia* on America.

https://twitter.com/mujabes/status/1019369643725742085

lol

fyi, I think your recent screencasts are labeled incorrectly in Gumroad. e.g. Video 2 is labeled "Parenting; Free Speech", but it's actually the one on pressuring kids, etc.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/pew-research-center-study-shows-that-democrats-have-shifted-to-the-extreme-left/

in the last 23 years, dems have shift left far more than republicans have shifted right. read some of the poll questions for details.

https://youtu.be/Id2ZH_DstyY

best analysis

> What do you think of visiting escorts?

The reason people want sex so bad is the social-cultural meaning. There is massive social-cultural pressure for prostitutes not to count, for it to be deemed non-meaningful (like casual party hookups, but even worse).

So, for many people, prostitutes don't scratch their itch very well. They don't find it fulfilling enough. Things screw it up for them: the shame, the fact they still don't have a girlfriend who personally provides them with social acceptance, still not having a family, still being scared of girls, etc.

But for some people it helps. They resist some of the stigma or they're desperate enough. Maybe they have an excuse for no girlfriend that satisfies them, like they are really busy with work. Or they have so little sexual experience they really want to try a few things.

There are other reasons people use prostitutes. They are married but their relationship with their wife has gone sour (and neither divorce nor problem solving look like good options to them). Or they have lots of access to sex but they are especially interested in sex and want some specific things. Or they like a particular girl – maybe a stripper or porn star, probably not met at church – and then she asks for money and they pay because they're already into her.

That's enough comments to get started. Ask more questions if you want to.

// /Users/curi/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

{

"^w" = "selectWord:";

"^\U001b" = "complete:"; /* control-escape */

// "\033" = "complete:"; /* Escape */

/* ctrl-opt-p = select and copy para */

"^~p" = ("moveToBeginningOfParagraphAndModifySelection:", "moveToEndOfParagraphAndModifySelection:", "copy:");

/* cmd-return = newline after paragraph */

"@\015" = (moveToEndOfParagraph:, insertLineBreak:);

/* ctrl-; = space at end of paragraph */

"^;" = (moveToEndOfParagraph:, insertText:, " ");

}

// ^ is control, ~ is option, $ is shift, and @ is command.

// key codes, escape is 27, enter is 13, space is 32, tab is 9

// https://www.cambiaresearch.com/articles/15/javascript-char-codes-key-codes

// documentation

// http://osxnotes.net/keybindings.html

// https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html

Sometimes article titles are all caps. Fix with: Edit -> Transformations -> Capitalize

But there's no hotkeys for the case transforms by default.

Also I went ahead and made an easier to press hotkey for my main screenshot command (copy selected area to clipboard):

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/07/20/phillies-apple-business-chat

nice workflow!

> To order, a fan would first open the iPhone camera app and scan the QR code on the seat back. That will launch prompts on the iMessage text screen to place the order, which is then completed with Apple Pay. The drink will be delivered supposedly shortly after.

Useful search to find Daniel Eran Dilger articles:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aappleinsider.com+%22By+Daniel+Eran%22

curi's dragon animoji reads xkcd comics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkK-UJur5mI

dota2 gives broad permission for *live* streams of tournaments with your own commentary, (with your normal ads/sponsorship stuff disabled):

http://blog.dota2.com/2017/10/broadcasting-dota-2/

> in addition to the official, fully-produced streams from the tournament organizer itself, we believe that anyone should be able to broadcast a match from DotaTV for their audience. However, we don’t think they should do so in a commercial manner or in a way that directly competes with the tournament organizer’s stream. This means no advertising/branding overlays, and no sponsorships. It also means not using any of the official broadcast’s content such as caster audio, camerawork, overlays, interstitial content, and so on. Finally, this is not permission for studios to broadcast each other’s events. In general, everyone should play nice together, and we think the boundaries should be pretty clear.

that's nice. overwatch is more hostile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/90mee8/ybt_the_top_korean_casting_talents_twitch_channel/

> He was doing the vod review for the playoff match and at near the end of the vod, he got contacted by Blizzard saying he can't do the vod reviews anymore.

> His channel got suspended within seconds after he said that.

A Korean caster got told to stop reviewing matches *after they already happened*.

Previously, Jayne did commentary on a live match like this:

> Jayne did the NYXL v Fusion game and wasn't able to stream the video, was telling people to open the game in another window/tab and sync up with his casting/review.

downloading snapchat to see how it's true depth camera (iphoneX) face filters are. more realistic animoji that hide your face, or will just partial masks/overlays that don't give enough privacy? let's see...

There are no Paths Forward here. There's no way for the truth to change Black's mind.

I watched a movie called "The Details". I think it's a great black comedy. It stars Peter Keating, played convincingly by Tobey Maguire.

I give it a 8/10.

fucking paypal. fuck deplatforming. patreon is the same. gumroad are probably SJWs. i don't know if stripe is the same or not.

#10361 have you tasted poop?

> You are underestimating his fame. He has strong cachet among Millennials and he's very widely read among shitlibs. HIs writing is all over college syllabi. Go to an affluent or at least college educated shitlib couple's house and 50/50 you see his book on the shelf. He's a notable person and he's increasingly visible as you move up the rungs of important people. You have to at least feign familiarity and some reverence of his importance to be congruent, up to date, properly informed in even modestly intellectual shitlib circles. Obviously almost nobody actually reads this shit.

http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031933&forum_id=2#36473941)

#10363 every "reply" button takes you to the bottom.

End or Command-Down work on desktop.

You're presumably on mobile. icab has the feature built in.

Scroll to bottom bookmarklet:

javascript:window.scrollTo%280%2C100000%29

All the mobile solutions can be found by searching "bottom" or "scroll" on this page.

#10367 On a random YouTube video I see "Subscribe 1.6m" to tell me how many followers the person has. But on Brittany it just says "Subscribe" with no number. Is that YouTube fucking with her account?

I wasn't able to find her follower count but I found she has 9 million total channel views.

This video is good too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpNB9_GDpuo

"Punch a Nazi" (ft. Rucka Rucka Ali) - Social Justice: The Musical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhGYo9TExU

jfc. even if Trump was gonna do a military coup or something, wouldn't he wait until 2024 when he runs out of legitimate years in office?

#10368 she has disabled that using an option. You can hide subscriber numbers on YouTube,

The Honest Gold Digger

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OgHct5RkRwE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyIftAPf7kM

bully hunters is going to harass bullies in order to make **everyone** welcome (except ppl who are labelled bullies without a trial). hmmm ::thinking::

#10372 half the people Trump hires are disloyal. he has trouble even controlling the FBI. as ridiculous as a coup is, Trump isn't even close to the *table stakes* just to get started on failing at a coup. he's so far from having tight control over a loyal government.