MrBlueIncognito

As the old saying goes, “all roads lead to Rome.”

That would also eliminate any positive effect that HN has on Google search results.

The idea of UBI, to me at least, is a mind-blowing one. It’s a shame something like this doesn’t exist on a large scale already. I know I’m probably missing something important here, but can someone outline any good reasons, if any, that it hasn’t been implemented yet?

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m terribly lost in the search for the right texts. Every time I come across a new book/resource, it compounds the confusion. I find myself incapable of sitting down with a book and working through it without switching to another book in-between. I’d be really happy to hear if anyone has found a solution to this unproductive but sticky habit.

I wonder if there will be a time when textbooks will be created in digital-first format, instead of being mere replicas of what print books are. It doesn’t have to be static text and images on A4 pages.

I went through them a long time ago. It’s not the most in-depth resource, but you will learn enough calculus for when you need to actually apply it or even just pass tests. Also learning math on KA is really fun, there’s something they just get right. I’d definitely recommend giving it a try.

If you don’t feel satisfied after going through the courses, you can always pick up a book afterwards to dig deeper.

The self-talk seems to be less than optimal. They are unable to truly accept their own love:

> Self: Hey Chase! Do you like me?

> Chase: I love your life!

> Self: Um

> Chase: Yeah, you’re so lucky. There’s not another life I’d want you to have

> Self: Ok

Count me in!

> It's marked as Known Unknowns, but what is unknown?

The infinite digits of pi that we don't know. But we do know that they exist, so pi, or any other irrational number, will aptly be called a "known unknown."

> Virtually all numbers are irrational.

For every n irrational numbers you name, I can name n+1 rationals. There is no firm basis to the argument that there are somehow more irrational numbers than rational numbers.

It is a really well-written piece that resonates within me, but I am compelled to point out that not everything that the author speaks of is a lost cause. It would suit us better to stop brooding over it, and to focus instead on what can be done to alleviate the situation. Just to offer a few examples:

> When will we have time to sit down, alone or with our loved ones, and look through it all?

The For You page in the iOS Photos app is a good attempt at resolving this. Every now and then the app will notify you with an algorithmically curated album that somehow does very well at keeping out the random food-pics, sunsets, and unmemorable minutiae. This system has its flaws, but it is something. And it has the potential to be a lot better in the future.

> Will Youtube still be there in 50 years? Will Instagram and Dropbox?

Perhaps it is time initiatives like the Internet Archive and GitHub Archived Project were scaled up with better funding. Even for now a lot of cultural knowledge is there and it is safe. People in the distant future will have plenty to look back upon. There are archived copies of HN, Wikipedia, Reddit, and so on.

> If you're young today, your formative years depend on auto-deleted snapchat videos, short-lived memes, stories told in computer games likely unplayable in 30 years.

As someone still in their formative years in this era, I seem to have more mementos (both digital and physical) than my parents did at my age. The only difference seems to be that my photographs are digital and more numerous. Also, the games that my parents once played are unplayable now.

Could it be that everybody has the same experience of fading memories as they age, regardless of the era they were born in? I would think so. In that case it certainly isn't attributable to the change in lifestyle brought in by this century.

Web browsers are already filling in the role of "super-apps." I can connect to thousands of services across the planet without leaving the window of my browser. What need will a potential super-app address that the open web can't?

We are screwed*

The article may have an interesting premise, however the only statistics we are offered in support of the author’s claim is two years’ worth of data (2021 and 2022). What about the more long-term trends? We might be missing the big picture for short-term cyclical trends. Also, the data for 2022 is, without doubt, incomplete.

I don’t understand what is so surprising about this. The world has been producing high-quality music for decades. The catalog of old music will always grow in size relative to the catalog of new music. Were we expecting the dominance of old music to decline for no reason?

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Edit: 100 points in 4 minutes

They'll just blame the other countries. The government, the police, and most the population exhibit an exceptional ability to believe in their own lies.

TL;DR two extremists make offensive statements on television, journalist tweeting a segment from it to bring it to public attention gets arrested.

You may argue that Mohammed Zubair is somehow an evil cynical person who wants to watch the world burn, but the fact is that tweeting a segment from national television is not a criminal offence and should not be treated as such.

> which is normal and typically goes unpunished and even unnoticed in India.

Kudos for living in an alternate dimension!

Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement applies here. You couldn't refute the central point of something you disagreed with, so you resorted to sarcasm and mockery. Perhaps it would've helped if you had a proper counterargument based on facts and reason. Maybe you could have encouraged us to see things the way you do, but the comment you just wrote will only serve to nudge us to disagree more strongly with you.

Sometimes these tangentially-related search results help people discover new things they would've otherwise missed out on. I believe striking a balance between recommendations and to-the-point results is necessary.

Apparently there's a score of 10.1 too :D

Get off Hackernews and do what? Next steps please T_T

The alternative is to encourage people to not overdo follow-ups. Those with a strong moral compass with understand your words and play fair, others won’t. This will place the former group at a severe disadvantage. The only practical way to level the playing field is what the article suggests.

Edit: now that I come to think of it, another potential solution might be to encourage the people who receive a lot of emails/messages to ignore follow-ups and only recognize the first piece of communication that was sent to them.

> Or are you saying that those are examples of low-quality information?

Yes.

This[1] poorly-made Khan Academy video from 2008 recorded in 144p would would not compare with something like the Feynman Lectures on Physics[2].

As for Wikipedia, they acknowledge their flaws.[3]

1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDJ1wVr7Is&list=PLqwfRVlgGd...

2.https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu

3.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_r...

If one envelope contains 4 times the money of the other envelope, then by swapping you either gain 3x or lose 3x, where x is the amount of money in the smaller envelope. Even in this case, the average return is +3x -3x = 0.

That they didn’t cite a reliable source. One can’t be expected to just “trust it.”

Outside the HN/tech-enthusiast bubble, yes. In my circle Instagram is the platform of choice. The majority is generally dismissive of Meta's privacy issues.

Let’s consider two individuals A and B.

A is a mentally healthy person living a fulfilling life. Will watching a disturbing deepfake affect A severely enough to cause them to commit suicide? No.

B leads a life of extreme isolation and faces troubling financial difficulties. They come across a deepfake that pushes them over the edge at the wrong time and they give up on their life. Is the deepfake to blame? Or were there more important factors that we could’ve focused on to save B and potentially thousands of others.

And since we’re discussing the unintended consequences of deepfakes, let’s not forget that a carefully crafted one can even save lives hypothetically.

> the inability to see friends

At least that last factor is directly correlated with online learning.

Also I know from experience that most students in online classes aren’t even actively listening. A good chunk of them end up on YouTube or Instagram.