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The Development of the C Language [pdf]

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Someone needs to murder paul graham.

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> 660 Third Street

> San Francisco, CA 94107

A local company.

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As a Protestant, I struggle with being an effective Jew; being an effective Catholic, is, I'm afraid, just a bit out of my reach. I suspect it has to do with the creation myth of Protestantism. When it comes to synthetic telepathy, I'm a True Believer. God knows if I have Faith; the Tao is the Voice of God. And as for Zen, it cannot be spoken of.

I will never be a Catholic. All of the LSD, all of the conspiracy theories, all of the CIA operations in the world can't turn me into a Catholic. And it doesn't make it any better that MTV is totally amped up and hyped up for a Catholic teen audience!!!

I feel like Caliban and Prospero is the Pope and Loren Gray is Ariel.

WHERE IS MY OVERWEIGHT GLASSES-WEARING SEXUALLY REPRESSED PROTESTANT DUTCH QUEEN?!?! WHO ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT KANT!!!

JFC HOLLYWOOD

CAN'T YOU EVEN SAY CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE?!?!

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I really don't advise getting attached to lines in somebody else's database. HN is more or less a social data harvesting system. What I'm doing is bad, very bad in the sense of the Bolsheviks. It's a style of revolution, a gestalt, a zeitgeist, a poetic renaissance if you will, the par excellence of lyric expression. So what if my style is dissociated press mixed with psychological mad scientist? Strange internet persona is not mentioned in any of the rules, and this place could use some imagination, or perhaps I should says psychedelicality?

Oh dear. Please don't tell me you're uneducated. I'm so sorry.

Look, I buy weed from the cocaine cartel in [REDACTED]. The local police pay no attention to them, zilch. You know why? Those guys are professionals, and they have nowhere to go. They're stuck. Moreover, it is common knowledge that the CIA controls the drug trade.

These guys are basically baby sitters for drug addicts.

You have nowhere to go. Your nurturing instincts are taking over, and I'm turning this into a historical moment, making this comment the spark that ignites the revolution!

Who makes a bot that goes on message boards and tells people that cocaine cartels have nurturing instincts? Ha!

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It's just ordinary newspaper-style writing in a shock jock style. (Insert stock joke about Milgram experiment.) I think it goes back to Bolshevism and especially the "talk hard" ethos of Pump Up the Volume. Hip-hop and rap are other influences.

https://archive.org/details/pump_up_the_volume_1990

Also, from an art point of view, I just like the idea of recontextualizing the computer as a device in a psychology experiment. The games you can play with this idea are pretty weird. For example: would you conduct a psychological experiment that attempts to get people better at rationalizing, and risks turning the subjects into monsters capable of rationalizing the decision to perform progressively more grotesque modifications of their body, apparently enhancing their abilities, in the style of Iron Man?

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You must have missed the thread the other day about open source video games that used to be commercial. Psychology departments can run experiments on people where they see what the effect of using Word Perfect is, or otherwise use it as a learning task.

So, for example, you can try to design the fastest learning protocol for a given set of functionality being acquired by 90% of subjects. It's fairly safe to assume that most college students don't know Word Perfect, so you should be able to get good results doing A/B testing.

You could do experiments like: do people learn Word Perfect faster if they take a 30 minute nap beforehand? Do they learn worse if they do 30 minutes of intense exercise beforehand?

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> If you look at the level of public interest, then I think it becomes important to actually look into these things

This argument actually works on hormonal teens...as for everyone else, I think this is called ad populum or something, at any rate the appeal to popularity.

A logical fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

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> How much did Stalin sleep?

https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-Stalin-sleep

If you aren't already delegating everything already, and evaluating their work, and delegating the evaluation of that work...are your people just standing around watching you work as hard as possible?

Knowing who is working the hardest, and having some idea of what kind of bonus they expect at Christmas...

With all due respect, by now the roles at any organization, especially start-ups, are commodity off-the-shelf parts; SKU given by the bullet points of responsibilities on the job availability advertisement. At start-ups, you are also required to be a wild animal; reading any translation of Gilgamesh I'm sure will get the relevant point across.

This is part of the semi-cult semi-gang status of start-up corporations. Having silly ideas about the leader is part of the experience, part of the allure.

I can't underestimate how thrilling it is to be a part of a cult of personality. It's absolutely enchanting. I'm sure Jung would have a lot to say about this, or Freud. It is part of a natural primal instinct to fight and push oneself to the limit.

Reminds me of this: https://soundcloud.com/studybuddhism/strategies-for-2?in=stu...

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> We’ve all been hearing the hype lately about low-code and no-code platforms.

This is the first sentence of one of these "articles". It's a classic buzzword, just another brand of enterprise software marketing gimmicks.

Anything to keep people from using, say, 3x5 index cards in an innovative way or applying the concepts like RACI matrix outside a computing context, to the organizational structure itself.

This entire ecosystem is fascinating; I highly recommend working in enterprise software for at least 18 months, which is how long I made it before my brain short circuited.

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When will OpenAI make GPT-3 available for academic study? Or are there no plans to do so yet?

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This is also said of mathematics, but rather when the student is successful in learning a theorem.

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I would argue that outright heresy is the way to go; rebellion only gets you so far.

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This is what happens when philosophy, sophistry, and ethics decide to go on vacation to the Bahamas together while their husbands work at major investment banks.

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The release of the source code is actually more of a symbolic signal that the competitive value of the source code has reached a certain level. And that is within n orders of magnitude of the level where there is enough energy and money to pay lawyers to pursue, say, trademark violation or copyright infringement against anyone conducting such research.

So to be perfectly safe, one would be ultra-paranoid and stick to games released in the 20th century and then frame it as a kind of historical landmark in the video game market: what do video games in the 20th century say about what we knew about operant conditioning up to that point?

Example: suppose a behaviorist foundation and ask questions about really minute details related to visual and motor processing. Another: observe the expected and actual effects on behavior.

Would you conduct a Stanford Prison Experiment style of experiment if it were done with video games? That is, the players are associated with guards and prisoners, and they play out similar roles that the original experiment outlined, but in a virtual world?

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I like LSD too; I wish the government would legalize it.

related: https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hyp...

Bill Atkinson waited until 2016 to talk about LSD as it related to his work; Steve Jobs has also gone public about LSD.

LSD makes you pretty tough. Many people have a hard time digesting that, so they choose to be afraid of LSD instead of recognizing it.

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What is the Tao-drug connection? I feel like this is a case of Orientalism where Western drug culture is getting in the way of popular perception of Taoism, especially Chuang Tzu. Why aren't intellectual snobs trading in-jokes about Taoism and Zen and Mahayana Buddhism and the Diamond Sutra? It's like they ceded a huge swath of territory to the stoners, and for no good reason, I might add.

Why is there no popular Taoist movement? Why was it marginalized in the hippie movement? Why did intellectuals allow the hippies to control the perception of Taoism?

Chuang Tzu is just so fundamental. I can't see how you can go wrong adding it to a standard Western education.

    YOUR LIFE HAS A LIMIT but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger. If you understand this and still strive for knowledge, you will be in danger for certain! If you do good, stay away from fame. If you do evil, stay away from punishments. Follow the middle; go by what is constant, and you can stay in one piece, keep yourself alive, look after your parents, and live out your years.

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You would think there would be more interest in psychological research. Or am I wrong, and it would be a copyright violation to download the source code and assets, compile, and ask volunteers to play the game?

I have a hard time believing the courts would object to psychological research conducted this way though; would video game companies really be willing to license this way? They would be liable for any ethical violations of experimenters; it doesn't seem like it would be a simple matter from the point of view of fiduciary duty. Better to leave the men in white coats alone.

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Does listening to white noise increase the fractal dimension the same way as drugs?

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I noticed that the book bindery closed in Berkeley a bit ago. It's a shame, since I had a conversation with the guy who ran it years ago, and the options he had were really dazzling. I think with a little life it could be turned into a hipster boutique, but perhaps I'm ten years too late...

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2020/12/02/an-afternoon-at-pett...

There are, of course, plenty of book binderies; this shop just had a ton of character. It should have merged with Castle in the Air! Alas, that shop has closed too.

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Wow. This is going to have a big effect. We can't call Russians felons anymore!