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i turn my clamification dial to 100% & the capital of the netherlands becomes clamsterdam. i turn it to 200% & it becomes clamsterclam

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lien

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People don’t realize how much we sound like other things because we are created from the same laws of physics. “That potato in the microwave sounds like it’s screaming” is funny because it really is, air is vibrating out of a small hole which is how our throat works too. The babbling river that sounds like humans whispering, that’s because it’s a wet hollow cave with echo delivering the same functionality. The river doesn’t just sound like us, we sound like a river. They use a metal trashcan to create a lion’s roar for movie sound effects. But the truth is, not only does a trashcan sound like a lion, a lion sounds like a trashcan. Cars purr when you turn them on. Everything is like everything else. Inanimate objects are not so far away from life as it seems.

Remember the next time you feel more alone in the company of large buildings, or maybe less alone among the rocks of the river, that they are not completely unlike the parts of you.

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I always think: most companies are selling you some kind of real product, but they are also scamming you a little bit. Every company arrives at some ratio of real product to scam for their business model. How do they arrive at it? Like where is the equilibrium they find, or do they even find an equilibrium? For any given company, why is the real product to scam ratio what it is?

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Humbling to research what I thought was a famous philosophical thought experiment only to find that it originated as a LessWrong post.

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Worst thing ever is when you enjoy a relationship between two characters in the same way that one might enjoy watching a horror movie but everyone else in the fanbase enjoys it in the way where they’re making cutesy ship art and posts about how perfect they are for each other and how they’d better be ‘endgame’

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There are two types of genius: one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth. Just so, there are among peoples of genius those to whom the woman's problem of pregnancy and the secret task of forming, maturing, and perfecting has been allotted—the Greeks, for example, were a people of this type; also the French— and other who must fertilize and become the causes of new orders of life—like the Jews, the Romans, and, asking this in all modesty, the Germans?

Peoples tormented and enchanted by unknown fevers and irresistibly pressed beyond themselves, in love and lusting after foreign races (after those who like "being fertilized"), and at the same time domineering like all that knows itself to be full of creative powers and hence "by the grace of God". These two types of genius seek each other, like man and woman; but they also misunderstand each other—like man and woman.

Nietzsche is truly the king of posting on the various racial characters. could he have meant this sincerely, seriously? its hard for me to tell. surely he's aware on some level that "jews romans and germans are like men, greeks and french are like women" is a silly take. but like, there is obviously SOME sense you could squeeze this statement into, where it would have true semantic content (altho i think to do that you would have to strip away most of the statement; he's thinking about this in terms of concepts that dont refer to things that exist in reality. but those concepts are *derived* from things which really existed and which you could talk about)

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Comparing DNA to computer memory makes transcription factors seem really weird.

like in computers a memory address is the same kind of thing as what's in the memory, it's bits

a DNA computer could work like that too? Like you could have DNA sequences that "refer" to other DNA sequences simply by being identical to them. Copy to RNA and you have a probe that binds to the "target". So a gene could be preceded by a certain sequence, its "address", and it's "found" by a complementary sequence binding to this address.

I guess that would create a problem where the probe sequence also binds to its own template that it was copied from

anyway, the way this actually works in cells is through transcription factors, which are proteins. And they aren't guided by a piece of RNA like Cas9, the enzyme used for crispr genome editing. Transcription factors find to specific sites in the DNA. But I don't know how "programmable" they are. Can you make a transcription factor for an arbitrary site? Whereas if transcription factors were RNA guided you could, the way we do for crispr.

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a gonad is a gonoid in the categoony of endofucktors

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not cool I know but I actually do kind of fucking love science :/

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in a not so different world where dev jargon took a slightly different route we'd be emanating objects from classes instead of instantiating them

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starting a sentence without a filler word feels wrong.

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city new new new city

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daal should be like, the default vegetarian/vegan (i dont think its hard to veganify? i use butter) food. its such pure nutrient slop, its awesome. depends on your recipe of course but youre getting at least 7 or 8 g of protein per 100 calories. its on roughly the same protein:calorie ratio as tofu (like 9-10 per 100), but its yknow. a meal! you can eat! its tasty cooked food! i cant believe i only started cooking it in the last like 6 months or so. and if you have a pressure cooker its super easy too. theres not even any chopping!