[HN Gopher] The Great Forgetting ___________________________________________________________________ The Great Forgetting Author : dnetesn Score : 36 points Date : 2022-12-24 11:55 UTC (11 hours ago) (HTM) web link (nautil.us) (TXT) w3m dump (nautil.us) | throwawayoaky wrote: | Idk the central metaphor of the article reads as legible and | correct to me. The take home message is that it seems complex- | but-stable systems must spend a lot of complexity on achieving | hysteresis across scales, and the degradation of such systems can | cascade into failure modes unexpectedly. Does that help? | giardini wrote: | Seems to me the central idea is to pay attention, especially | when someone hits their head. Get them to medical care pronto | and if you can't, give them an aspirin, put them to bed and | check on them periodically. Did I say "get them to medical | care"? | throwawayoaky wrote: | I mean your advice is correct but if you choose to only look | through half of the binoculars you're not going to get depth | perception. | [deleted] | cardamomo wrote: | https://archive.ph/B9VWu | GenerocUsername wrote: | I dislike these essay style articles that tell me more about some | writers day than the topic of the title | SQueeeeeL wrote: | Merry Christmas Eve, hope you're spreading lots of love and | holiday joy to all this year! | epsilonic wrote: | You're not alone | akamoonknight wrote: | I feel like humans in general work fairly well when story or | myth is tied to an explanation, but can understand that's not | for everyone. I'm reminded of oral histories that humans make | in order to warn about tsunamis. Her linking her brother's | ailments with the state of the planet drew me in and I learned | a few things that I can look into myself. For example, The | Great Unconformity I'm sure I can look up a bit about (and | sources are provided in the article) and similarly for the | possibilities of things that might give us insight into that | time period (also referenced and sourced in the article). My | experience is that Nautlius in general has this type of lyrical | prose and doesn't really pose itself as a peer-reviewed journal | or anything. All that to say that to minimize the story as | about "some writers day" feels disingenuous to me. | avereveard wrote: | These stories weren't really tied, more like intertwined. | | Maybe both of them were interesting, but I couldn't follow | either. | avgcorrection wrote: | People relating stories around a campfire and people writing | stories for the Web are not comparable. I certainly don't | have the capacity to be drawn in to _some writers day_ whom I | don't know with the amount of content that is out there. | | And even less now these days when some of them might be AI- | written. | dang wrote: | " _Please don 't post shallow dismissals, especially of other | people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something._" | | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html | kfootball15 wrote: | I could tell you were a software engineer before I even | checked. | avgcorrection wrote: | I agree. All topics I read about on news aggregation sites are | for the topic themselves. I don't want to spend eight | paragraphs of "my mother tends to get pensive and quiet around | Christmas now, eight years after my father passed" in order to | figure out that the article is about the new iPad. | | So for me it's not a good style. | FriendlyNormie wrote: | [dead] | indymike wrote: | This story was unreadable. | cheschire wrote: | It seems to require a patience I don't have. I'm not a huge fan | of Quentin Tarantino-esque articles that follow multiple | unrelated paths to an eventual tangential relationship. | kfootball15 wrote: | Why? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-24 23:00 UTC)