swayvil's comments

On: Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temp...

[swayvil]

Halloween costume!

On: Kids Should Be Taught to Think Logically

[swayvil]

Are you going to teach children to be independent thinkers? To do anything but follow the consensus like a bird in a flock? I don't see that happening.

[indigo0086 → swayvil]

They should at least be able to identify good sources of trends (parents, siblings, close community networks) and buck bad sources of trends (everyone else)

On: Kids Should Be Taught to Think Logically

[swayvil]

Logic is a small trick. It's picking the right assumptions that's the real challenge.

Do we choose the authority of the hour? An older tradition? Come up with our own ideas? Lots of options there.

On: Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips...

[swayvil]

The slack to do bad stuff is also the slack to do good stuff. They are one and the same.

We could replace the term slack with freedom. We all like freedom. We write songs about how much we like it.

[drekipus → swayvil]

Freedom gives freedom for people to fail

We must all be whipped into Utopia.

On: Small asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere today

[swayvil]

You can hear meteors. They hiss as they go by a hundred miles overhead. Which is weird of course. There are theories. Electromagnetic effects and such.

[hcarvalhoalves → swayvil]

Last time I witnessed a meteor shower (I guess it was early 2000s or late 90s in Brazil), I swear I could hear it, but it was so faint that wasn't sure if I was imagining the sound.

BTW, I was watching the meteors from the attic, where my dad had a music studio, so lots of transducers around. The radio waves theory from the article would make sense.

[schiffern → swayvil]

*a hundred kilometers

More info:

https://earthsky.org/space/whoosh-can-you-hear-meteors-strea...

https://www.space.com/35908-meteor-sounds-mystery-solved.htm...

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

[swayvil → schiffern]

"mystery solved". Ho ho. These people gobble a nice story like mommy's pancakes.

On: ReMarkable Paper Pro

[swayvil]

X-twitter puts their x in the top right of the box. Talk about your dark patterns. I just noticed that.

On: Is My Blue Your Blue?

[swayvil]

You might ask, "What makes an artist an artist?"

It's the seeing. Artists see differently (and there are some skills too of course).

Meditation, drugs and some other stuff change the way you see too. So perception is definitely a variable and not a constant.

So ya, the seeing of blue varies.

On: What Does It Mean to Learn?

[swayvil]

You have to give up a piece of sanity too. Because knowledge ain't real. And, for the true philo of sophy, there's a tipping point.

(To paraphrase HP Lovecraft.)

On: In the beginning, there was computation

[swayvil]

It's like building a working human heart out of emojis. I don't care how crafty you are, it ain't gonna work.

On: In the beginning, there was computation

[swayvil]

"intellectual" evolution seems composed of selecting a bias, then selecting a bias within that bias, and so on.

It's a terribly reductive process. And the foundation of biases is deep and invisible.

Moving in the opposite direction would reveal a lot.