[HN Gopher] The Great Forgetting
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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?
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