In a Judeo-Christian context, God seems to operate in very abstract terms. "Let there be light" is a highly abstract instruction.
In some other religions and mythologies, there isn't a single God giving the instructions from outside, so it seems difficult to make the comparison there.
Abstraction is like a lever, and by first-order logic there is no way to avoid using an abstraction whenever we communicate, whether internally via vocalized thoughts, via hn or by some really old books. Maybe that's why humans want to believe that abstraction is so powerful. Thankfully, we're not totally wrong.
But thank you for making me imagine a world where the "Let there be light" statement has been meticulously explained in as much detail as possible.
"Then, He realized that adding an extra electron to Hydrogen was not such a good idea; the entire universe shattered, and, after a brief moment of embarrassment, he comforted himself with the fact that no-one will ever know of his folly.
He continued calculating the correct speed-constants for a particle he made called a photon, which wasn't exactly a particle, but it was small and didn't carry a lot of weight, it was everywhere, and it was mostly directional -- so he figured it might be useful for some sort of massively parallel input apparatus, and his creations can use it to understand all sorts of things about their environment and themselves. Eventually, humans will suspect that light is a wave, too; but that wasn't quite right, either. God made is difficult to figure out for copyright protection reasons, but here's a hint, and get your notebooks out: ..."
I once worked in a company that used a similar approach. So, for example, the "chief architect" would file a bug in the tracker titled, "Product X does not exist". It would then be up to the engineers to "fix" it by creating the product.
That itch you're feeling is the itch I feel when I write in a LISP. Other programming languages make up too many of their own rules and get in the way.
But those are just feelings, and if you forget that, you'll bring yourself into a manic state. heh.
and it installs all the requisite dependencies. Awkwardly, god runs as root and doesn't bother with virtual environments, so there might be some bugs due to version creep
I've been thinking about writing a technical analysis of TempleOS, in the style of the the Xinu OS textbook [1]. No strong reason for doing so, though it is curious how much more one could learn about him by identifying patterns in the code and OS structure.
It will probably take me a while to recover from my current burnout to look at a holy-influenced C dialect, though. A venture into the library of babylon requires preparation. So, I'm just passively collecting writings that already exist, and the likes, like you just posted. I'm on the #templeos IRC on irc.rizon.net, if you would like to chat sometime. It's pretty inactive, with sprinkles of relevant conversation occasionally.
Certain vitamins and minerals. Fat soluble vitamins can build up to the point of causing problems. Excess of iron and magnesium may have negative effect AFAIK.
For most people, excess magnesium levels would be pretty hard to reach. Unless you count loose stools as harmful, which some forms of magnesium supplements can cause.
Combining calcium and vitamin D can be seriously problematic. And high doses of calcium in general can make you more likely to end up with kidney stones -- those are not fun to pass!
Some supplements can even compete with each other for absorption (calcium & magnesium come to mind), so taking them together in a multivitamin is probably not the way to go.
Since the angle this website introduces itself with is:
"These are the world's most powerful people. Let's track their impact & inspire them to do more good"
This doesn't seem like a good motivator, because doing something for the sake of reputation doesn't directly incentivize solving a problem in an effective way.
And w.r.t. the title of the post, it seems like there are a few steps critical steps being omitted in the relationship between money donated and "doing good". For instance, not all organizations are as effective as others; if the motivator is to increase the $ count of donation, then what's the point in thinking about "doing good"?
Can I be ranked as "doing the most good" by contributing more money than anyone else in the list, while still doing measurable damage to parts of society that aren't being included in the metric?
See, if this website were neutral -- if it just showed the damn numbers without injecting it with an arbitrary value judgement, this would have been great. Instead, this serves to create anxiety to those who view it to do something for the wrong reasons.
The more I think about this, the more banal this site seems to me. I'd appreciate being pointed out if I'm missing something, but otherwise this website tells me more about the mindset of the authors than anything else.
This is the v1 of the site and I'm looking to improve it.
- How can I make it more neutral?
- Is it sometimes worthwhile to simply accelerate the deployment of capital? Can you combine the two incentives?
My mindset, to be clear, is that we want more people to strive to be like Bill Gates with their wealth. Even determining who that is right now is extraordinarily difficult. Making the data public is step #1, and then figuring out how to help them leverage philanthropy effectively is step #2.
Just show the numbers. If there's something you'd like to show what the numbers mean, then be careful about explaining that. Make clear distinctions between metrics and goals. Think about all the metrics you think will tell you that you're approaching a goal; then find all the ways they will break. I already said how your metric-of-choice is broken and cheat-able.
"Is it sometimes worthwhile to simply accelerate the deployment of capital?"
Is this what you believe your role is?
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"My mindset, to be clear, is that we want more people to strive to be like Bill Gates with their wealth."
You're going to burn yourself out by trying to find human levers to change the world. Some of us will be there to welcome you to the club, but I know some people who haven't made it. I'm not one to say whether you should hop on or jump off that train. Usually, there's something else that's going on in my life that leads me to that kind of mindset.
There are contradictions in our language and value-systems, and it's total bullshit, but we chose to pretend to believe them because that's what you need to do to get in for the ride. Lots of people forget that they are pretending, and some of re-remember it in adulthood or something.
So the difficulty in determining in "who that is" might be one of those contradictions popping up.
I'm curious if it'd be beneficial to randomize the order of items under each category, per client. That way, a traffic spike on your site would less likely result in traffic spikes on the first items on the lists from non-picky buyers.
OPs article does have merit, as far as giving a first-person account of treating the virus and quarantine procedures, but you'll learn a lot more about the virus itself if you follow the research.
“ nCoV2019 has a furin-sensitive motif at the traditional S1/S2 border fo the spike protein, i.e. RRAR, that was lacking in SARS (which depends on cathepsin cleavage a few amino acids downstream). nCoV2019 lacks the secondary minimal furin cleavage site, i.e. RNTR, that is found in SARS. Therefore, the endoproteolytic cleavage pattern is expected to be different between nCoV2019 and SARS.
Prediction of O-glycosylation sites reveals a cluster of Serine residues, just before and after the RRAR cleavage site, with a high propensity to form a “mini-mucin” patch at that site. It is positioned to protect the putative fusion peptide region in the native or pre-fusion Swiss-Model projection of the probable nCoV2019 structure.”
Not sure how to ‘follow the research’ when the first page has 12 proper nouns/terms I’ve never encountered...
So this is a discussion of the differences in how these viruses uses their respective spike proteins to trigger endoproteolytic cleavage in the host cell. Specifically, what the impact of different positionings of their amino acids is.
For example, the idea "Furin-sensitive motif" means that there is a section of the spike protein which contains the amino acids described (RRAR), which is sensitive to the protein Furin in host cells.
1) In complex problems outside your domain, trust the experts.
2) These experts should go out and sell the truth in way laypeople understand them. Which is incredibly hard as everyone prefers dooms day scenarios it seems.
Just kind of sad even HN doesn't get that as this thread clearly shows.
In a Judeo-Christian context, God seems to operate in very abstract terms. "Let there be light" is a highly abstract instruction.
In some other religions and mythologies, there isn't a single God giving the instructions from outside, so it seems difficult to make the comparison there.
Abstraction is like a lever, and by first-order logic there is no way to avoid using an abstraction whenever we communicate, whether internally via vocalized thoughts, via hn or by some really old books. Maybe that's why humans want to believe that abstraction is so powerful. Thankfully, we're not totally wrong.
But thank you for making me imagine a world where the "Let there be light" statement has been meticulously explained in as much detail as possible.
"Then, He realized that adding an extra electron to Hydrogen was not such a good idea; the entire universe shattered, and, after a brief moment of embarrassment, he comforted himself with the fact that no-one will ever know of his folly.
He continued calculating the correct speed-constants for a particle he made called a photon, which wasn't exactly a particle, but it was small and didn't carry a lot of weight, it was everywhere, and it was mostly directional -- so he figured it might be useful for some sort of massively parallel input apparatus, and his creations can use it to understand all sorts of things about their environment and themselves. Eventually, humans will suspect that light is a wave, too; but that wasn't quite right, either. God made is difficult to figure out for copyright protection reasons, but here's a hint, and get your notebooks out: ..."