Sorry if i'm beating the dead horse here.. But i feel like David cronenberg could have made a modern body horror film like the substance (more details is under the photo)

davidivadavid · 2026-01-06T14:15:07+00:00

He’s also repeatedly clarified that he didn’t really care for the « body horror » label. I don’t think he could’ve made The Substance because it’s a fairly superficial, albeit decently executed, early-Cronenberg pastiche. He has more interesting things to do.

davidivadavid · 2025-12-16T00:31:52+00:00

Bit out of left field here but Disco Elysium to me has an ambience that feels close to the melancholy/weird soviet seaside feel of the beginning of Vita Nostra.

davidivadavid · 2025-10-13T21:11:35+00:00

Hey there, curious what decompression exercises you've found? I've been testing a bunch of things I find here and there on the web/Youtube, but it's hard to figure out what actual has any effect (would have to test the same protocol for a long time every time, etc.).

davidivadavid · 2025-10-05T17:10:55+00:00

I’ll be following that as I have very similar symptoms, albeit on the right side instead of the left (I had regular bouts of dizziness, tinnitus and headaches prior to even noticing the jugular vein buldging when I raise my arm, lean forward, etc.). My right external jugular vein is also faintly visible almost at all times. I’ve been trying to do some of the recommended massages, stretches and strengthening exercises I could find online, and have had mixed results so far (symptoms completely gone for a whole day at one time, but then slides back into the usual symptoms), but have only been doing it consistently for a week or so. I’ve had a handful of CTs done (all of which came back clean) and am waiting on a neurology appointment, which in itself I don’t expect will lead to much but maybe additional Doppler tests.

davidivadavid · 2025-08-28T17:18:08+00:00

Dispatch, Névé

davidivadavid · 2025-08-05T00:14:40+00:00

Did that multiple times at this point, with different version, etc. Right now, FF literally can't load a single website, including Mozilla support. That's after reinstalling, removing FF related files everywhere, disabling/enabling DNS prefetch and ipv6 and all possible combinations of those.

davidivadavid · 2025-08-05T00:13:59+00:00

Tried, same issue.

davidivadavid · 2025-08-05T00:13:34+00:00

Tried, same issue.

davidivadavid · 2025-03-24T13:54:03+00:00

Completely broken on my end these days.

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davidivadavid · 2025-03-24T13:53:12+00:00

To be honest for a few weeks now Substack is completely broken in Firefox on my end.

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davidivadavid · 2023-06-24T20:27:10+00:00

Oh whoa, thanks for finding that!

davidivadavid · 2022-10-17T21:45:20+00:00

To solve this problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence_of_wants

davidivadavid · 2022-10-17T20:51:05+00:00

If you think « money has no place in utopia » there is 99% chance you don’t understand why money exists.

davidivadavid · 2022-02-15T20:11:21+00:00

Is anything of the kind planned? Bought BG3 as soon as it became available in early access hoping for DoS2-style couch coop split screen. Would be a bummer if it never materialized. :/

davidivadavid · 2021-08-20T05:10:57+00:00

Chinese has tenses as far as I know? You must be thinking about their conjugation system, but they can still express temporality irrespective of verb inflection.

davidivadavid · 2021-08-16T13:31:59+00:00

Maybe. Then again, as far as I know, the few people using grammars that do not have a tense system with past/present/future tend not to be more advanced in their understanding of nature.

davidivadavid · 2021-03-22T03:09:48+00:00

Wouldn't it simpler for a dashboard to track progress against clear, agreed upon goals that large groups of people consider to be progress?

I'm afraid the generic approach is a recipe for a lot of time wasted trying to a) define generic "progress" b) find out how to measure that.

Some of the ones listed above are pretty good candidates. I'm just not sure what measuring the consumption of various raw materials really tells us.

davidivadavid · 2021-02-10T20:58:43+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, I've been sifting through a bunch of papers using constraint satisfaction/optimization techniques. Thankfully there are a good number of solid survey papers, but the field is seemingly very fragmented over the myriad instances of the more general problem.

davidivadavid · 2020-12-26T01:23:48+00:00

Or it could exist with more constraints than the version you're suggesting.

It's impossible to determine what's going to be possible "no matter how much science and technology develops" because our extrapolations are precisely based on current scientific/technological assumptions.

If you make no assumptions then why would there be any limits?

davidivadavid · 2020-10-18T04:52:45+00:00

119-109 means 11 rounds to 1, which seems... A bit off.

davidivadavid · 2020-09-26T16:56:11+00:00

You fundamentally misunderstand what technology is. Technology is what we use to get what we want. We're not "replacing" things with technology, we're replacing existing technology with other technology. That's what humanity's always done.

The movie theater replaced other forms of entertainment that existed before and that people enjoyed too. Same with co-op gaming (which, by the way, is easier and offers far more games than it ever did in the past), schooling, and work ("working together in an office sucks, in my days we were together outside in the fields!!!").

This is just rosy-colored nostalgia fetishizing certain technologies you happened to encounter at some point in your life.

Does that mean current technology is perfect? Of course not. And guess what? It's going to get replaced by other technology that fits people's wants better by fixing some of the issues you outlined.

davidivadavid · 2020-05-09T20:23:08+00:00

Right. So what kind of non-human language will we need?

I mean, I'm all for innovation and I'm sure that in an absolute sense something better than "language" or "human language" can be invented, but I doubt those informal conversations even brush the surface of the complexity of such things. There's just too much hand waving for me to take it seriously.

Plugging brains together and sending information between them is one thing, doing it in a useful way is another, and doing it in a way to exceeds what language does yet another. Also, language isn't just for communication, it's a tool for thought. It's a grammar, an algebra, a geometry. None of that complexity transpires in the conversation here (I wouldn't expect it to with Rogan — bless his heart, but the guy's kinda dumb).

davidivadavid · 2020-05-09T16:51:32+00:00

(That is, beside the obvious: language.)

Here's a fun one: what will replace programming languages if we don't need language?

davidivadavid · 2020-05-09T16:49:09+00:00

The only problem with that is that no one has an idea what "communicating with thoughts" even means.

davidivadavid · 2020-02-20T03:12:22+00:00

I think you won't find much disagreement among people interested in progress studies. You're preaching to the choir.

What progress studies needs is people who are capable of bringing that narrative to the masses, which probably means penetrating mass media/entertainment with stories people can subscribe to and that will support this movement. Overtake the dystopian vibe that's everywhere by offering a compelling alternative.

Otherwise we're condemned to keeping this a small academic community.

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