paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What's the most impressive simulation of biological life you've seen?
Anicka Yi‘s recent exhibition in the turbine hall at the Tate Modern springs to mind. It was incredible. It was like having massive jellyfish flying around you.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch?
People like to credit their own hard work. You’ll never seen a winning athlete say how talented they are. We’ve created an an illusion that anyone can excel with hard work because it justifies inequalities. I was born good at drawing stuff so I capitalised on it somewhat.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch?
Drawing skill, in my experience, comes mainly down to natural talent. If you’ve not got much you’ll get little reward from investing your time.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
It seems you're looking at the probability the wrong way. There are thousands of chums all over the world making music. Some had more talent and were therefore more likely to become successful.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
What I do us use the time management feature with parental controls, so that I can't disable it. When I make the passcode I write it down and seal it in an envelope. I scramble my memory by saying random numbers so I can forget the passcode (though I probably would not be able to remember it anyway).
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: In defense of flat earthers (2020)
I think the earth is flat AMA
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway
The reason it works is because consciousness is fundamental to reality as shown by double slit experiments. The viewer creates their reality. A tree doesn’t fall in the woods if no one is there to see it.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Electrical engineer spends $150 a year to eat all his meals at Six Flags
I think exercise is more important than diet. There are many examples of people who literally only eat one food (often pizza) and doctors pronounce them surprisingly healthy. Athletes that need lots of calories often consume what would seem like a bad diet.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Online meetings are levelling the office playing field
I realise this is about meetings but working from home is terrible for me. Working from home is like how I imagine most people would feel sleeping in the office. I just cant really do it at all.
I've already got a final warning work, and it still feels impossible to do anything from at home. It's effected my self esteem and really damaged my career. I think I'll try to get an ADHD diagnosis and then I'll be considered disabled and will maybe get some help and legal protection.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever
I drive everyday in an area with lots of minis with these indicator lights and have never had a problem with them, I think they look great.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Are you playing to play, or playing to win?
I’d rather play the game I enjoy than win. I’m not that interested in winning, people don’t really like it if you’re beating them all the time. It’s more important to have friends than dominate at a hobby, having better relationships will lead to greater happiness, is that not the real game? I’m more interested in the aesthetics and flow of movements in games and the satisfaction that brings, I’ll never be the best, and I think endeavouring to always be better would just leave me with a sense of inadequacy. A focus on beauty and the ethics of a game will bring more joy to the world. Aligning with things where you enjoy the process will output success as a by-product as you’ll be practicing more than others as it won’t feel like work. I’m not really sure what the point of being the best is, to satisfy feelings of insecurity maybe.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England
I’ll die before getting the injection
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Pay Transparency Is Coming
Having lived with 4 PHD students while doing my masters it seems easier than having a job and generally suits people who are scared to enter the “real world”. These are people who are insecure about their intelligence and can suck up to their professors.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psychologists (2018)
36/40 never studied psych but have read a couple of books. This test seems too easy, though I'm a natural test taker and can usually tell what answers most tests want.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce catfishing incidents
We did do more rigorous testing after that which confirmed the hypothesis
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce catfishing incidents
After tinder came out my best friend was the first person I knew to have the app. He excitedly told me he was chatting to someone attractive and showed me the messages. Though they seemed to have already had a whole conversation it gave me a strange feeling. I told him I thought it wasn't a real person but wasn’t sure. So we sent the exact same messages that he had sent before and after getting exactly the same response we knew it was a robot. I think about this from time to time as this AI basically passed the Turing test and seemed to be on tinder with no goal to scam, and as dating apps were so new and rare that scams had not yet been formulated. The bots that followed in subsequent years were never anywhere near as polished or convincing.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: To boost your intelligence, learn how to self-soothe
This reads a lot like my life too, I just play up the stupid side really, people relax and like you more. I remember teachers being absolutely flummoxed by my grades and then would treat me completely differently, suddenly like an adult, as opposed to a retarded 10 year old. I also need to ask endless basic questions to understand anything and it seems to me like other people somehow have already received and read the rules to life. My understanding seems maybe to be able to reach a deeper level but takes longer to get to an intermediate level.
paperoli
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Have you improved non measurable qualities like intuition? how?
Are you able to do this? If so what methods led you to having that ability. I catch peoples thoughts sometimes, it's like they're being yelled into my head.
