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Let’s force them to be obligated to do that, then. “Just let them hurt people, and then let them hide that hurt” kind of sucks for society.

And all hidden in the comments of a niche forum, while the actual issue is closed and whitewashed? You got played.

> The data points at adaptive thinking under-allocating reasoning on certain turns

Will you reopen the issue you incorrectly closed, then…? Or are you just playacting concern?


I can remember what past presidents Tweeted, and it was civil. Were you born yesterday?

tweeted 100 years ago?

What is so special about tweets as though we don't have copious other writings to reference?

Tweets are low effort and short, you can even do it while taking a dump, there is a lot more friction to being unhinged when you are writing a book or taking an interview, for reference trumps most unhinged stuff is tweets, not interviews and not books. Not all forms of writing are equal.

Trump's tweets are low effort. Just like most of his rally speeches, which are also unhinged. Other presidents, especially e.g. FDR, put effort into all of their communications. Including speeches and, when available, tweets.

There are multiple years of archives of presidential tweets and Trump's stand out, and not in a good way.

I cant reply to jacquesm for some reason, cap on reply chain length maybe? anyway

>There are multiple years of archives of presidential tweets and Trump's stand out, and not in a good way.

When I refer to modern times I mean multiple dozens of years, not mere "multiple years", I already stated these times are unusually sane by historical standards.


Not being able to reply is to stop people coming here, making new accounts and then spouting lots of unhelpful messages, messages intended to downplay insane fascists evil portents of their war crimes, say.

You haven’t internalized what “the fertilizer the world uses to grow food is missing, this spring, because of a needless war” actually means, have you?

Emphasis on the word "quite"

> Pop music was already to some extent a commodity.

And as everyone knows, some commodification of some thing means we must go ahead and totally commodify all the things.


Also, a lot of the people who hate and resist AI slop also hate and resist corpo slop, we're just outnumbered.

That's disingenuous. The point is that "human" isn't a particularly good dividing line if you want to distinguish music with value vs music without.

As someone who’s compared spreadsheet feature sets, though: it’s also very much the feature set.

Well, in a way it is of course, because if your reference is Excel, then you want the feature set of Excel.

Or what specifically do you mean?


Sheets and Numbers are spreadsheets. Excel is an application platform and programming language that’s convinced people it’s just a spreadsheet.

VBA, PowerQuery, structured references, the newer formulae like XLOOKUP, dynamic array-spill formulae, map/filter/reduce/lambda, various obscure financial stuff.

Sheets and Calc don't have these.


The problem is that it encourages people to use excel for things that should never be in a spreadsheet in the first place. I mean if you're reaching for VBA, building complex PowerQuery pipelines, and writing nested LAMBDA functions just to process your data, imho you have outgrown excel. Just because you can build an entire solution in Excel because you already know the interface, doesn't mean you should...

Also, don't get me started on the newer functions such as XLOOKUP and Dynamic... Relational data belongs in a relational database. If you are joining tables and filtering massive arrays, you should be using standard SQL Arrays, it makes it so much easier to troubleshoot long term.


> connect various dots without going all dry

As long as you keep in mind that what you come away with are shallow, incomplete views of nuanced topics.

Unfortunately, many come away from these popular summaries believing 101-level knowledge makes them subject experts.


shallow, incomplete views of nuanced topics

Having studied (and written) histories myself, this sounds like an accurate description of histories in general. We don't need to make everything an encyclopedia. Sometimes it's fun to follow a conversational review of a breadth of material without getting in to the weeds. Kurlansky often includes personal anecdotes and has a good sense of where to dwell. This is what I appreciate in a writer: character and tact.


The same can be said for, well, 101-level class attendees.

People love to declare themselves experts on things; thus: the Expert Fallacy ("I know a lot about repairing carburators; let me tell you what is wrong with self-driving cars...")


> threw their hard-won reputational gains off a cliff for _nothing_

I imagine some executive’s ego was spared by not telling them their idea was bad. Priceless.


Zocchi retired, but his company charmingly continues.

https://www.gamescience.com/about-1

(Note: the sprue left by his sharp-edged process has since been proven to result in more bias than the tumbling undergone by the round-edged process.)


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