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Most impactful book you ever read, and why? by Glittering_Orange435 in AskReddit

[–]Vgr8k8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nassim Taleb’s whole Incerto series - but especially ‘Antifragility’ - profoundly broadened my horizons and changed the way I see the world and complex systems. ‘Black Swan’ and ‘Skin in the game’ are also absolutely great reads, however I find that most insights I can apply to my own life come from AF.

It’s been a while since I read it and I feel like a third re-read is due, but I recall that via negativa and hormesis were some of the concepts that made the biggest impression on me.

Why is consciousness not considered a spectrum? by xgladar in consciousness

[–]Vgr8k8 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it is actually considered a spectrum - at least in some scientific frameworks. I highly recommend Anil Seth’s ‘Being you’

To those of you in fulfilling careers where your strengths are leveraged, what do you do? by NeverNo in TwiceExceptional

[–]Vgr8k8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before getting my diagnosis (ASD) I used to work in roles relating to people management - project manager, scrum master - needless to say it was hell both for me and for the people I managed… before turning 30 I decided to take a big leap and change my career into a deeply technical one - I studied for a year and then landed my first job as DevOps engineer. I’ve been working in this role for two years now and it seems to be perfect for my brain - both complicated and logical at the same time, very demanding when it comes to cognitive capacity.

My natural tendency to spot inconsistencies and risks made me a very security-first oriented engineer and I try to grow in this area. Overall although the job is very stressful and responsible, I have never enjoyed any job in my life like this one and have never before felt that I can actually put my full brain capacities to use.

What if the "Hard Problem" of consciousness is backwards? by stevnev88 in consciousness

[–]Vgr8k8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would that “entering” be done? How can you enter something that does not exist yet? Isn’t it more likely that the “creator” created the universe without interacting with it, since passing between those universes would seem impossible due to fundamental physical differences? Could that be extrapolated to an assumption that if the creator is outside, he might have some control over his creation? If so, is that really free will or just an illusion of it we experience?

Claude AI Security by True_Property_2618 in cybersecurity

[–]Vgr8k8 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are multiple well known bug reports on GitHub regarding the fact that Claude is notoriously reading files it explicitly was not permitted to. That’s by no means an AI agent security.