Predominantly Erroneous (Exohedron nonsense blog)

On the one hand, it's a pretty cool discovery on its own.
On the other hand, I really want to tell people that scientists have located a Silmaril. Or at least the Morning Star.

 

Every once in a while I stumble across discourse in the rationalist-adjacency and it makes me glad that I don't feel obligated to take part. Not only because it is dumb, but because the rationalist-adjacency is full of STEMlords.

 

The problem with being considered an expert on a thing is that not only am I expected to know facts about the thing, but also to have opinions about the thing.

 

It is very satisfying that the category of braids is in fact universal amongst braided categories.

 

There's a goose nesting in the parking lot at work. Fortunately there are plenty of other spaces.

 

The problem with not getting angry at people all that much is that I've never really learned how to deal with being angry at people.

 

Really the whole Lord of the Rings situation with the Ring and all makes a lot more sense if you can keep in mind that Sauron isn't just a dark wizard or an evil king but a fallen demigod, one of the Maiar, a student and aide of Aulë, the most trusted lieutenant of Morgoth. With the Valar keeping out of things, he is definitely the most powerful being in Arda by a large margin. That's why the White Council worries about him.

 

Apparently when someone says "It seems like you're taking it well", the correct response is not "I'm bad at emoting".

 

Trying to convince a coworker that not everyone considers the US's national security interests to align with "saving the world".

 

"Please select all of the squares that contain a captcha"

 

Every once in a while I remember that you can derive the magnetic force between two electrical currents via special relativity and that makes me happy. Not just that they're two aspects of one thing, but that they're aspects of each other.

 

Once again realizing that the reason that I'm finding it hard to make genre X is at least partially that I don't actually like genre X, so if a project spends too much time in genre X I end up disliking it and either abandoning the project or dragging it in a different direction.
For instance, every jungle track I make recently spends at least a week trying to be neurofunk until my desire for more aggressive basslines takes over.

 

It turns out that being project lead involves a lot of saying "that sounds like someone else's problem"

 

Remembering the various reasons I don't like how physicists present guage theory.

 

Realizing that the secondary of the two main characters from the sci-fi story plays the role normally occupied by the normal-person, everyman POV, to emphasize how nonsense-overpowered the main character is, except that she's from a society that most of us would consider quite batshit insane and therefore does not work as an audience stand-in.

 

Explaining to one of my older colleagues why I have like six different names that I go by online.

 

Every once in a while I remember that time back in grad school when one of my colleagues found a copy of the Wolverine movie that was from before post-production, i.e. before all the CGI special effects were finished. So there would still be the wires and green screens and the stuff that couldn't be acted was still low-poly wireframe modeling. It was pretty hilarious.

 

That kind of transhumanist amnesia where you've lost a bunch of memories but you still have the metadata for them (and the timestamps are definitely not consistent with what the doctor has been telling you)

 

When you watch someone dancing and instantly realize that they (or their choreographer) are more used to having glowsticks than not.