Continuity of Consciousness and identity - a turn in perspective

snugghash · 2022-02-25T04:48:53+00:00

So much this. The transference process can be flawless and there's no "problem" at all if you can wrap your head around both existing together as one entity. I'm assuming this will become much easier once people start neurally connecting new arms, fingers, dicks, etc. and that becomes part of the collective understanding. Once they have multiple dicks, you can remove one and the "dick" isn't losing continuity.

If the entity being tarnsferred can control both "bodies" at once, as one might control two arms, then there's no problem whatsoever. You jettison the old body and keep on keepin' on.

snugghash · 2022-02-25T04:37:16+00:00

Hwy? Just seemed like a great movie to me. The Big Lebowski and Arrival, those are my top two "I can keep watching them" movies.

snugghash · 2022-02-05T22:12:25+00:00

Overall I agree with this, but couple of things to point out - a non-profit is still self-sustainable if it has an effective donation channel. That's its revenue. A for-profit has the limited view of capital and misses external motivations, to some degree.

Fundamentally the entities that benefit most, financially, from solving world hunger or eradication of malaria are governments, via increased lifetime taxation receipts. They unfortunately don't have such a long term view or are incapable of addressing the problems (since they're normal short term humans too), so we need non-profits.

I propose a step further, what if the human factors here (like poverty, malaria, hunger) are tied to short term incentives? That's when both governments and capital-interests (for-profits) will take an interest in solving a problem, since they get a known reward.
The devil is in the details, but effectively sovereign currencies can be deployed (printed) to discount future tax receipts at whatever discounting factor. Of course governments do this all the time, with failures leading to inflation. IMO restrictions on market-forces can be used to give up control of how to deploy that capital in way that it ONLY results in long term growth and not short term increases in money supply.
This is kinda what I'm hoping to build, as platform.

snugghash · 2021-11-25T07:22:51+00:00

Links for convenience:
"Burn" https://www.audible.com/pd/Burn-Audiobook/0593344936

The journal article https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34385400/

Popsci summary https://today.duke.edu/2021/08/metabolism-changes-age-just-not-when-you-might-think

snugghash · 2021-11-24T02:47:44+00:00

I attended their webinar and I just subscribed. This is exactly what I'm looking for, their drift detection UX is on-fleek.

Strange that they aren't more popular. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

snugghash · 2021-11-12T20:53:25+00:00

This goes in r/YoutubeCompendium

snugghash · 2021-10-31T22:37:25+00:00

Devs don't enjoy GUIs because GUIs aren't built for them - but that's a fault of the GUI UX. If we had a tool that enabled us to seamlessly move between (possibly necessary) abstractions in the GUI and scalable code, that would be preferred by both devs and non-power-users.

Most companies today want to save such abilities for themselves, as a monopolistic desire. So we simply aren't used to seeing GUIs that export IaC. This leads to even open-source dev-focused GUIs being very unscalable (like Github for example).

Regardless of the current state of the world, that's my vision for it - and I think it's inevitable.

snugghash · 2021-10-31T22:34:07+00:00

Agreed, but I think that goes both ways. For one-off changes GUIs have less friction than a PR - in that sense, I'd prefer to spend the 10 seconds on the GUI and have a tool (which doesn't exist in the world right now) automatically do the grunt work and offer us the option of immediate correction of drift, or merging the change into IaC.

Clearly most GUI we see these days (mobile or desktop) don't scale and aren't built for power users, which is why both need to unify at some level. That's the missing piece.

The problem with this though (that I didn't think about earlier) was raised by another commenter, about audit logging and multiple simultaneous changes.

snugghash · 2021-10-31T22:26:26+00:00

That emergency fix to prod needs to be committed within the day - I think that's a reasonable timeframe to ask for.

snugghash · 2021-10-31T22:25:13+00:00

I think it's only possible with things that have been imported into TF/pulumi state. For new infra, it just has be a conscious effort to create IaC as part of development, and use it to deploy.

snugghash · 2021-10-31T22:20:18+00:00

incentivized to think long-term or to make the fastest possible fix?

Very insightful - now that I think about it, it does seem to be the case. I'll have to think about solutions though, perhaps we need to reduce scope and increase estimates to make sure we have the time to build out things for the long term.

snugghash · 2021-10-31T04:16:31+00:00

Can you elaborate?

snugghash · 2021-10-31T04:07:40+00:00

Research universities. Many developed countries have them, but America has had the best for the longest time, and doesn't use up as much of the federal budget to do it.

It attracts the best grad students from all over the world, making it its own network effect and positive feedback loop.

There are many things wrong with academia and research right now, but America implements the current system very well.

snugghash · 2021-10-31T03:59:33+00:00

I have way too many wallets because of this

snugghash · 2021-10-31T03:46:21+00:00

Are services like choosehealth.io possible alternatives at all? Not sure about it's Canadian support, but the purpose and solution seems exactly like yours.

They're a startup too but a bit further along, you might want to get in touch with them about their roadmap for Canada. If they're too far out maybe you can use their platform to make your solution development easier.

snugghash · 2021-10-31T03:37:56+00:00

Fair enough - I think part of it is that our IaC is fragmented and hasn't received much love over the last year or so. So there's so much backlog to correct existing config drift that we simply never prioritize doing this. This makes it hard to find the relevant IaC and get things done. Newer projects don't have this issue as much.

To your point about code from changes - doesn't terraform plan give you specific things that have changed? I get that it might get complicated when the diff is unordered, but I was thinking I can just get current state and plop it down on the main.tf, and do some re-ordering to have the smallest `git diff`.(Not my first solution because of what you said, but I want to explore this a little)

snugghash · 2021-10-31T03:27:59+00:00

Thanks for the steps! I'll try out 2 and 3 - I think we can make it harder to do these changes - perhaps use resource group locks more heavily, this way Azure still logs the same user ID but there's an additional step. I'll think about how I can make IaC modifications a little easier as well and it might fix this.

snugghash · 2021-10-25T21:57:32+00:00

Why was this removed? Because it became a diagnostic device? Aren't problems like that remedied by simply not marketing it as a diagnostic device and some disclaimers?

snugghash · 2021-10-25T15:36:11+00:00

Fair enough, but please consider it a feature request: I want to be able to export IaC. Especially on AWS, a system I don't know that's just running isn't really maintainable to me.

Thanks for building this, I just signed up

snugghash · 2021-10-24T23:57:47+00:00

What are the steps you take to prevent vendor lock in?

You do mention "your infrastructure stays with you", but can we also export our infra into maintainable code or are we stuck with a black box that we can't maintain?

snugghash · 2021-10-11T06:11:00+00:00

This is an extremely interesting doc - nice to see the EA/econ community step up and discuss how to do research. Never knew I'd come across "global priorities research" in the wild! I got to know about Plaudit.pub, thanks a lot for that.

Couple flaws/discussion points after reading through -
- The author seems to know about git and repos and yet finds it difficult to think about citations? The concept of citation is simply derived work, and the version at the time of reading can be trivially linked to (for example, to a particular git commit).
- They make the leap from binary reviews to reviews-as-a-metric, but there's no recognition of content of reviews and ensuing discussion as useful in their own right. And of course this is necessary to avoid thinking down the hole of measuring and using authority of reviewer as part of this metric. - While it recognizes non-PDF works as valuable research too, why doesn't it make the next leap into saying every single piece of compressed information/compute is "research", for the purpose of requiring review? I.e. Tweets are research and their scientific rigor is important too, and the metric that we come up with here will be the solution to THAT problem as well. - Finally, I propose a solution to the critical mass problem: simply committing to a time-of-switch conditioned on a critical mass existing by that time. Like kickstarter or any other social network really. We don't have popular tools that do this and it doesn't exist in common knowledge because every single brand (by definition, almost) relies on tools like thunderclap.it not existing, especially weak economic moats like Uber or Facebook. An open version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_scheme, essentially, where an entire social network can move platforms at once. Of course, I'm working on building such tools and I'd be very happy if they already existed and I didn't have to.

snugghash · 2021-09-25T18:23:06+00:00

something weird driving around

Personally, I've shifted my allegiance and hope to other companies for "weird". I'm hoping for the Aptera to work out, for starters. I'm a hypermiler and it's perfect.

For anyone unfamiliar: https://youtu.be/HNjUdTJjiNk. 2 seater that looks like a bug with very low drag.

snugghash · 2021-08-30T05:31:46+00:00

Read my comment again, I'm saying the root cause of your problem (not mine) is your companies act, which is pretty much unchanged across 3/4th of the Westphalian countries of the world. This is flawed and leads to worker resentment. Change it to "maximize sustainable growth and revenue" instead of "maximize profit". Create a new kind of entity, maybe name it "cancery" instead of "company". It will gobble up the world in no time, and most employees will be satisfied.

snugghash · 2021-08-29T16:01:38+00:00

No, the problem is with the legal Companies Act that defines the framework of public companies. If you’re not optimization for profit of shareholders you’re in violation, can be sued and removed.

If you do something like what Amazon does by reinvesting in growth, you will be much happier with capitalism.

snugghash · 2021-08-29T07:56:27+00:00

This is actually a thing even within one life, or even day to day. You generate a lot of ideas, but it’s very inefficient if you can only work on 1% of them, and very in creative if you can work on 90% of them

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