[HN Gopher] The best things and stuff of 2022
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The best things and stuff of 2022
Author : rgrieselhuber
Score : 108 points
Date : 2022-12-13 14:27 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| ncr100 wrote:
| Serious gratitude journaling here, love it.
| civilized wrote:
| I dipped into a couple of the links. I can recommend _The
| 'Shamanification' of the Tech CEO_
| (https://www.wired.com/story/health-business-deprivation-tech...)
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| The author, an anthropologist, argues that the fads we see tech
| CEOs indulging in today (nootropics, intermittent fasting, weird
| diets) are similar to the practices used by shamans in hunter-
| gatherer societies to show how special they are, making them
| credible interfaces with the supernatural powers they claim to
| channel.
| boringg wrote:
| I've always thought of the intermittent fasting + "weird" diets
| as a way to extend life quality and reduce negative health
| exposures a la Peter Attia.
|
| Nootropics coming from a combination of more readily available
| sources, community effort now that internet is available to
| share results and lack of scientific focus/studies + with I'm
| sure a healthy amount of marketing spend from nootropic
| manufacturers.
| civilized wrote:
| Some of this stuff has some scientific support, but e.g.
| Elizabeth Holmes drinking only vegetable smoothies is obvious
| bullshit.
| boringg wrote:
| I think that's the interesting part of it -- that there is
| a lack of definitive scientific work being done so people
| are experimenting with it. My feeling is Peter Attia seems
| to come at it with robustness though all of this stuff is
| so custom and I'm sure there's a world of COI in the
| background.
| abecedarius wrote:
| Yeah, if you're a person who'd invest a big chunk of your
| life into a zero-to-one effort, you're more likely than usual
| to think the health establishment missed some opportunities,
| and that you have better than average judgement of the
| apparent opportunities and their risk-to-reward. This should
| explain such people trying such things, without shamanism.
| (OTOH yes, the startup-CEO population includes _mimics_ of
| this type of person.)
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| You can come to this belief through either actual discernment
| or entrepreneur personality disorder. Me, I at least agree
| that there's a health establishment that could be a lot
| better at settling on truth, and that discernment is a
| quality that varies.
|
| Skimming the Wired piece, the closest to the above that I saw
| was:
|
| > So are CEO-shamans putting on a show? People everywhere
| intuit that self-denial and other shamanic practices
| cultivate power. Being human, tech executives presumably draw
| the same inferences. At least part of their decision to
| engage in shamanic practices, then, might stem from a sincere
| desire to be special.
| RoddaWallPro wrote:
| I _llooovveee_ these end of year lists of yours and read them
| every year, thanks for posting them!!
|
| EDIT: And to anyone else who might consider writing one,
| especially if it has a Books or long-form article list, do it!
| Jun8 wrote:
| _The Hill of Dreams_ is a great recommendation, it doesn 't get
| mentioned often enough (or at all :-) I think. I think his _The
| Three Impostors_ is even better.
|
| If you like this sort of weird early 1900's mystic book, be sure
| to also check out David Lindsay's _Voyage to Arcturus_
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Arcturus).
| fogus wrote:
| The early 1900s mystical fiction is a rabbit hole for sure.
| Voyage to Arcturus is a very good recommendation! Others in
| this vein include, but are not limited to:
|
| Armed with Madness by Mary Butts
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| The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
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| Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser
|
| The Stone Dragon by R. Murray Gilchrist
|
| and so many more.
| sAbakumoff wrote:
| this is so weird page, wtf isn't it on facebook, twitter, tiktok
| or something else.
| fogus wrote:
| i'm struggling to understand the question.
| Lio wrote:
| Why shouldn't the open web still be a thing?
| Lio wrote:
| > _ZX81 Goes Nuclear - Controlling a Nuclear Power Plant_
|
| I'm going to have to read that one and very carefully. The ZX81
| may the single most unstable thing I've ever come across.
|
| My resounding childhood recollection was that if someone sneezed
| in the next town the connection to the 16Kb RAM Pack (required to
| do anything) would shift and everything would be lost.
|
| Even Sir Clive's suggestion of using a "small piece of Blu Tack"
| couldn't save it.
| once_inc wrote:
| His Scifi reading list is great, though very much lacking at the
| end.
| fogus wrote:
| Agree, but keep in mind that the sf list was posted in 2012.
| misiti3780 wrote:
| I look forward to this every year.
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