Mr. Brightside-Genkai

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@GrandpaRoy2 need a high powered tesla coil to ionize the entire airspace into plasma and clump them together to be blown up by a single explosive charge... science fictionally of course.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

every idea has exactly one steelman and an asymptotic infinity of strawmen

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

the difference is subtle between retaliating out of self-defense or vengeance vs. retaliating to balance the cost of the initial offense to both sides out of principle. the first perpetuates the cycle of violence if one seeks to inflict greater damage and the second is justice.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@arcticinstincts it's very much not magic but also people wildly underestimate what counts as true play. there's a common tendency to re-enact memories of fun rather than earnestly explore the interesting novelties in the moment. it's a failure to embrace the judgement of god the universe.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@DanRosiak It's not a question of possibility but of practical cost which can be significant but is a common phase of life for anyone who's been lost and searching for direction. Once you have the right foundations of attitude and values the rest of the work is quite menial.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@DanRosiak I think the real answer here is the willingness to change yourself to fit the goal you want to pursue. Some people get handed the right fit of personality and mental habits to accumulate knowledge and skills from the get go but it's not impossible to overcome and catch up to.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@mauddweeb In the long run of life accumulated productive effort will drown out the effects of initial genius. The relevant commitments may require you to completely change who you are and how you think, but that's not an argument against possibility.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@mauddweeb While high IQ people at a population level tend to have higher polygenic scores for IQ-correlated gene variants, the statistical correlation is small and not deterministic, someone with average or even low polygenic score could still have high IQ and vice versa.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@mathemetica There is an algorithm to good critical and creative thinking, we just don't know how to explain it yet because it's distributed across many features of the mind. You just have to earnestly value and seek understanding over the course of decades.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@mathemetica While high IQ people at a population level tend to have higher polygenic scores for IQ-correlated gene variants, the statistical correlation is small and not deterministic, someone with average or even low polygenic score could still have high IQ and vice versa.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

Steve Job's vision that a good drag and drop UI makes any program infinitely better will always be relevant as long as we are monkeys that like video games. If a workflow is only tolerable to learn if you are paid for it or have passion for the result it must be optimized.

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@seconds_0 It just clocks professional and public speech writing as AI generated because AI is trained to use those cadences exclusively. Plus an AI would never say "In reality" in the second sentence like that, that's the kind of vague continuation that only human flaw could produce.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@RichardMCNgo so called free thinkers have no idea that a free heart is what truly grants one access to novel ideas

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@FinitePhysicist this will only create new and terrible unit conversion factors

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@big_boy_berto there's clearly a place for the carrot and stick metaphor as it's used. for carrot-on-a-stick we have already have Sisyphus.

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@insurrealist what even is the exact genetic basis of intellectual ability? if it's merely epigenetic rather than allelic then you too could have one of your descendants be a top mathematician if you live your life right.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@insurrealist yeah but also maybe advanced mathematics isn't as big a deal to deserve this kind of spite for omitting to comment on his natural ability. top talents everywhere all same the same thing because most people have some niche set of talents that may or may not be socially rewarded

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@NukitToBeSure @sdamico centralized positive pressure building air ventilation. put the Far-UVC in the HVAC system and leave it alone.

[Mr. Brightside-Genkai @RNGDestiny42]

@jarrodxmartian but who's looking into making the manufacturing tools cheaper?

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@ZyMazza we'd still want the capability for both anyways