King of the Chill

King of the Chill is Guy Andrew.
King Chill was a roaming igloo.
Try Me! is my new community.
GuySpace is my humorous blog.
Jude is about Jews and our haters.
Art Car Inspiration Day (ACID) is my blog about art cars and mutant vehicles.
Wordly Durdley is a Simpsons-Wordle game I made in under 1 hour.
Play Local Games was my first app.
(A better app, Hobiz, exists.)

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REPOST: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "The Fallacy of Gray"

Jun 11

Jun 11 REPOST: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "The Fallacy of Gray"

Philosophy & Time, REPOST

“Everything is shades of gray, but there are shades of gray so light as to be very nearly white, and shades of gray so dark as to be very nearly black. Or even if not, we can still compare shades, and say “it is darker” or “it is lighter.””

REPOST: Roee Goldberg, "Barack Obama Pinpointed Online Toxicity As A Major Threat To Our Future: Here’s What We Can Do"

Jun 5

Jun 5 REPOST: Roee Goldberg, "Barack Obama Pinpointed Online Toxicity As A Major Threat To Our Future: Here’s What We Can Do"

Technology, REPOST

“But, as many commenters have pointed out and academic studies have shown, trying to eliminate hateful speech by removing individual actors or groups rarely has the intended effect.”

REPOST: Matt Reynolds (Wired), "You’re Allergic to the Modern World"

Jun 1

Jun 1 REPOST: Matt Reynolds (Wired), "You’re Allergic to the Modern World"

Are allergies caused by toxins, climate change, hate for our mothers or something else? Read this Wired post to not get a straight answer.

REPOST: Max More, "Who are the Experts on Cryonics?"

Jun 1

Jun 1 REPOST: Max More, "Who are the Experts on Cryonics?"

REPOST, Technology

“We must face the fact that experts – even the best experts we can find – are often wrong or biased”

REPOST: Paul Voosen, "'It’s just mind boggling.' More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered"

May 21

May 21 REPOST: Paul Voosen, "'It’s just mind boggling.' More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered"

World, Technology, REPOST

With only one-quarter of the sea floor mapped with sonar, it is impossible to know how many seamounts exist… The vast majority—more than 27,000—remain uncharted by sonar.

REPOST: Brooke Houghton, "Someone In Toronto Asked Me Out IRL..."

May 18

May 18 REPOST: Brooke Houghton, "Someone In Toronto Asked Me Out IRL..."

Dating & Preferences, REPOST

“Seeing how someone acts in real-time — and when they don't have the opportunity to curate or edit themselves — creates a much more authentic interaction."

REPOST: Philip Ball, "A New Idea for How to Assemble Life"

May 13

May 13 REPOST: Philip Ball, "A New Idea for How to Assemble Life"

REPOST, Controversial

“assembly theory provides a consistent and mathematically precise account of the apparent historical contingency of how things get made — why, for example, you can’t develop rockets until you first have multicellular life, then humans, and then civilization and science. There is a particular order in which objects can appear.”

REPOST: Sunny Labh, "Tracing the Origins of Mathematical Symbols: =, +, -, ×, ÷, √, ∞, π, Σ, ∫, f(x)"

May 9

May 9 REPOST: Sunny Labh, "Tracing the Origins of Mathematical Symbols: =, +, -, ×, ÷, √, ∞, π, Σ, ∫, f(x)"

It was in 1557 when the Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde who introduced the equal sign. In “The Whetstone of Witte,” Recorde explainedhis choice of two parallel lines to represent equality, as “nothing could be more equal.” The symbol has since become universally recognized.

REPOST: Radimentary, "Pain is not the unit of Effort"

May 2

May 2 REPOST: Radimentary, "Pain is not the unit of Effort"

Controversial, REPOST

Oftentimes the defining difference between the protagonist and the antagonist is that the antagonist did not have enough pain tolerance and allowed the (unbearable physical) suffering in his life to drive him mad.

REPOST: Neia Balao, "Woman sneaks into Columbia University’s surf-and-turf event, reflects on institution’s ‘hypocrisy’"

Apr 28

Apr 28 REPOST: Neia Balao, "Woman sneaks into Columbia University’s surf-and-turf event, reflects on institution’s ‘hypocrisy’"

USA, REPOST, Dating & Preferences, Controversial

Brenna Lip (@brennalip), a New York City-based content creator, posted a TikTok in which she admits to attending a surf-and-turf brunch at Columbia University despite not being a student herself. What started off as a harmless ruse, however, soon turned into an eye-opening look into “the hypocrisy of this whole place.”

REPOST: Selena Simmons-Duffin, "'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy"

Apr 9

Apr 9 REPOST: Selena Simmons-Duffin, "'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy"

"Everybody has a pet thing they worry about and say, 'it's oral health' or 'it's suicides' – everyone has something that they're legitimately interested in and want to see more attention to," says John Haaga, who was the director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging at NIH, before he retired. "The great value of an exercise like this one was to step back and say, 'OK, all of these things are going on, but which of them best account for these long-term population level trends that we're seeing?' "

Apr 5
Apr 5 REPOST: Anders Corr, "China’s Genocide in Tibet"

Controversial, REPOST, World

REPOST: Slate Star Codex (Scott Alexander), "BLACK PEOPLE LESS LIKELY"

Mar 29

Mar 29 REPOST: Slate Star Codex (Scott Alexander), "BLACK PEOPLE LESS LIKELY"

Controversial, REPOST, Dating & Preferences

The eight points above add up to a likelihood that black people will probably be underrepresented in a lot of weird subculturey nonconformist things. This is not a firm law – black people will be overrepresented in a few weird subculturey nonconformist things that are an especially good fit for their culture – but overall I think the rule holds. And that’s a big problem.

REPOST: William Brooks, "Does ‘the West’ Still Exist?"

Mar 12

Mar 12 REPOST: William Brooks, "Does ‘the West’ Still Exist?"

REPOST, Controversial, Philosophy & Time

On a more nitpicky, “who cares?’ level, the so-called West is now associated with New Zealand, Japan, Israel and other countries that are East on a traditional, Euro/US-centric map. This West/East division perpetuates that these maps are more accurate than others. West is a cardinal…

REPOST: Eric Schmidt, "Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics"

Mar 1

Mar 1 REPOST: Eric Schmidt, "Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics"

REPOST, Technology, World, USA, Controversial

If necessity is the mother of invention, war is the midwife of innovation. Speaking to Ukrainians on a visit to Kyiv in the fall of 2022, I heard from many that the first months of the war were the most productive of their lives. The United States’ last truly global war—World War II—led to the widespread adoption of penicillin, a revolution in nuclear technology, and a breakthrough in computer science. Now, the United States must innovate in peacetime, faster than ever before. By failing to do so, it is eroding its ability to deter—and, if necessary, to fight and win—the next war.

REPOST: Jason Crawford, "Can submarines swim?"

Feb 24

Feb 24 REPOST: Jason Crawford, "Can submarines swim?"

REPOST, Technology

Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting? Usually in fiction, if the AI says something factually incorrect or illogical, that is a deep portent of something very wrong: the AI is sick, or turning evil. But in 2023, it appears to be the normal state of operation of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or “Sydney”.

REPOST: Hannah Arendt, "On Forgiveness"

Oct 3

Oct 3 REPOST: Hannah Arendt, "On Forgiveness"

Dating & Preferences, Philosophy & Time, REPOST

“Forgiving, in other words, is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly, unconditioned by the act which provoked it and therefore freeing from its consequences both the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.”

REPOST: Stephen Katz, "How to Speak and Write Postmodern"

Sep 1

Sep 1 REPOST: Stephen Katz, "How to Speak and Write Postmodern"

REPOST, Philosophy & Time, Dating & Preferences

If that doesn't work, you might be left with the terribly modernist thought of, 'I don't know'. Don't worry,just say, 'The instability of your question leaves me with several contradictorily layered responses whose interconnectivity cannot express the logocentric coherency you seek. I can only say that reality is more uneven and its (mis)representations more untrustworthy than we have time here to explore'.

REPOST: Middle East Forum, "{Islamist Mayor}’s Bigotry and Apparent Voter Fraud"

Jul 8

Jul 8 REPOST: Middle East Forum, "{Islamist Mayor}’s Bigotry and Apparent Voter Fraud"

Controversial, REPOST, World

"Ghalib mocked African Americans following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police."

WhatsApp 'Delete Message': feature or a bug?

May 16

May 16 WhatsApp 'Delete Message': feature or a bug?

Technology, Dating & Preferences, REPOST

“It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature.”