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[This is an extended playful response to a thought-provoking post by Matjaž Leonardis] If memes were passively passed between people like genes between animals, they would be indistinguishable from spells that seem to cause people to ex...

Both the myth of the apple falling on his head and the ideas it was said to have caused were actually created by a mind guessing about data that WASN’T there. He was guessing why the apple would fall perpendicular to the ground: “maybe ...

I ran into an issue today after running commands like: heroku run bash Running bash on ⬢ my-app... up, run.8292 (Standard-1X) ~ $ rails db:status /usr/bin/env: ‘ruby --yjit’: No such file or directory /usr/bin/env: use -[v]S to pass o...

““Your parents or even your friends may want you to treat your children in some way they deem best… This sets your children up to live their lives within the expectations of others, just as you are, and to never truly be happy and find t...

[The Infinima]For a few years now, I've been a dedicated listener of Christofer Lövgren's podcast Do Explain. He frequently has on Jake Orthwein to discuss ideas like meta-rationality and David Chapman's "Meaningness." After a recent epi...

On Twitter awhile back I saw an ad for a 'domino train' that automates setting up dominos. In the comments I saw a few disparaging comments. One read, "Nobody needs a fully-automatic, magazine fed domino laying train." Another, "Yup, let...

[Image] “Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’. It is one of the characteristics of the magical attitude of a primitive tribal or ‘closed’ society...

[多元宇宙陰陽]Sometime in 2009 or so I made a short found footage film named Conatus using audio from open source record labels, clips from old video in the public domain on archive.org, and inspirational quotes taken from TED talks. Before I ...

Hi, I’m Cody! I’m interested in computers and programming, media, language, communication, science, philosophy, epistemology, Making Music and Bitcoin, skateboarding, and Taking Children Seriously. A little about the blog-> For years I...