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ILGA Consultative Status Controversy

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Experiment for yourself. The Buddhists have kept a tradition that makes falsifiable claims and provides steps for reproduction. I have reproduced some of these claims myself.

What differentiates this practice from the natural science is its study of subjective phenomena, as opposed to objective physicalities.

https://firekasina.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/the-fire-k...
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss


    You must learn to sit perfectly still with every muscle tense for long periods.

    Various things will happen to you while you are practising these positions; they must be carefully analysed and described.

    Note down the duration of practice; the severity of the pain (if any) which accompanies it, the degree of rigidity attained, and any other pertinent matters.

    When you have progressed up to the point that a saucer filled to the brim with water and poised upon the head does not spill one drop during a whole hour,
    and when you can no longer perceive the slightest tremor in any muscle; when, in short, you are perfectly steady and easy, you will be admitted for examination;
    and, should you pass, you will be instructed in more complex and difficult practices.
- Aleister Crowley, Liber E vel Exercitiorum, 1911. https://hermetic.com/crowley/equinox/i/i/eqi01005
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
With proper management of windows and screen real-estate as well as minimizing or even eliminating mouse usage I can hypothesize a 5000x speedup due to your greater ability to orchestrate and coordinate agents at scale.
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·6 ay önce·discuss
I don't know. There's lots of options. At the extreme ends it would be interesting to see these agents work on something like boost, or metamath/set.mm, to choose deliberately obtuse candidates. Perhaps a web browser.
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·6 ay önce·discuss
Yes... I've asked for the same - show us the goods with a Destroy All Software style screencast; otherwise the default position is that this entire HN post is just more AI generated hallucination.

Nobody's taken me up on this offer yet. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325469
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
I don't know. You may as well say that after reading Uncle Bob's Clean Code and adding 50 layers of indirection, you are now writing at "enterprise scale." Perhaps you even hired an Agile SCUM consultant, and now look at your velocity (at least they're measuring something)!

Use my abstract factory factories and inversion of control containers. With Haskell your entire solution is just a 20-line mapreduce in a monad transformer stack over IO. In J, it's 20 characters.

I don't see how AI differs. Rather, the last study of significance found that devs were gaslighting themselves into believing they were more productive, when the data actually bore the opposite conclusion [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
Looks like there are some daemons lurking in the zeitgeist.
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
Comments exist to provide information beyond primitive, domain-agnostic types (String, Int, etc.), but without the overhead of more elaborate modelling into domain-specific types (ChequingAccounts, Widgets, and so forth).

I may want to communicate further information about the inhabitants or values of a particular type, without introducing extraneous or superfluous types:

    -- given a path to a PEM encoded PKCS#8 formatted RSA private key and a
    -- JWT Claims Set (RFC 7519) represented as a strict ByteString,
    -- return a strict ByteString representing a base64 encoded RSA256-signed JWS.
    generateJWT :: FilePath -> B.ByteString -> IO (Maybe B.ByteString)
    generateJWT fp claims = (fmap unJwt <$>) . (maybe (return Nothing) (fmap eitherToMaybe . encodeClaims) =<<)
                                             $ fromPKCS8 fp
      where eitherToMaybe = preview _Right
            encodeClaims  = (flip $ rsaEncode RS256) claims
Arguably newtype wrappers could (or even should) be introduced in place of the more primitive FilePaths and ByteStrings - but even if they were, the type names would either be prohibitively long, or fail to communicate the full depth of information of the comment.
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
People have been doing this for millenia.
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
> In many respects, it’s an essential feature of commanding language. Compressing multiple meanings into fewer words is the essence of poetry and literature.

Aye, perhaps prompting is the be-all-end-all skill, after all: the ability to distill out an idea into its most concentrated, compressed essence, so it can be diluted, expanded, and reworded ad infinitum by the LLMs.

brb while I search for the word prompt that generated the universe...
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
I think there is no equivocation or ambiguity here, unless you are me at age 5 asking why aliens have landed in Mexico.

I would hazard that you are underestimating the impact of these rhetorical tactics, but I've not the energy to aggressively litigate and cite this point further.
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
It's really quite potent in terms such as "racism" or "gender" which have seen unilateral attempts at redefinition.
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
> Another phrase that comes to mind is "Plausible Deniability": By uttering ambiguous sentences you can deny all but one possible meanings of what you say. And talking to different audiences at different times you can claim you didn't mean anything like what your citics are claiming you did.

This is the core rhetorical tactic of the progressive left in a nutshell. Linguistic superposition, equivocation, Schrodinger's definition - whatever you want to call it, it's the ability to have your cake and eat it too by simply changing your definitions, or even someone else's, post hoc.

Let us take a moment to be reminded of the English Socialism of Orwell and doublespeak.
ryandv
·6 ay önce·discuss
Right. See also Paul J. Bagley, "On the Practice of Esotericism," 1992. https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709872?orig...