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Timothy Rice

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τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν ὥσπερ γὰρ τὸ σῶμα χωρὶς πνεύματος νεκρόν ἐστιν, οὕτως καὶ ἡ πίστις χωρὶς ἔργων νεκρά ἐστιν Non est beatus, esse se qui non putat. 📍 Portland, OR timothyrice.org

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Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · Mar 29

Any time I hear someone pine for a post-scarcity economy I think about how I can buy 41,000 calories of flour for less than $10.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 12h

(You probably know all that already, but I wanted to talk about language 🙃)

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 12h

I think trying to divide your self into "real" and "not-real" is a false categorization, motivated by moralization and not understanding. There's "me on medication" and "me off medication", and you can choose the one you like better for a given circumstance.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 14h

This is among my favorite things that the internet has ever taught me.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 14h

My 6th grader tells me it's a dance. I'm 30% confident he's correct.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 1d

Thank you Ada! I appreciate the insight.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 1d

Do you know of other historical precedent for an effect like this and if anyone has written about this topic? Thank you!

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 1d

Thus, I wonder if some of the present social ills come from us outsourcing our sources of truth to camera output, instead of social bonds.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 1d

But it seems to me that this present state of media trust is actually the historical anomaly! It's only in the rough 100 years that we've been able to assume that any image/video/audio you saw was "true". That technology didn't exist at any other point in human history.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 1d

@adapalmer.bsky.social a question for you about history, GenAI, and public trust.

It seems to me that most of the fear I see about how GenAI will erode public trust are making arguments from an assumption that we've always had an ability to trust media evidence (photo/video/audio) as factual.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 1d

There's not enough outrage about the replication crisis in parenting.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 2d

Haven't seen it. Personally, when I look back on the period of my life when I felt these things, I didn't feel anger. I didn't really feel anything, just a bland numbness as time swept by. I wasn't mad, or joyful, or anything in particular. Just...existing.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 2d

Hmmm, not exactly what I see then. I don't see hatred, I see apathy. A discarding of reality for the imaginary, a determination to block oneself off from anything challenging, convicting, or unpleasant.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 2d

Does the omnipresent temptation of comfort and an easy life fall under the umbrella of acedia? That's the spiritual ill that I observe the most. A limitless and free selection of entertainment that numbs the spirit to the wonder of creation and Creator.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 2d

Oregon

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 4d

This is a marvelous phrasing that I have not encountered before, thank you.

Tempted to start responding to this line of inquiry with "actually human nature and culture are responsible for the great evils".

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 4d

What have you found is best when ultra-fresh?

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 10d

Additionally, we get way more help from grandparents than most do, as we chose to live very close to our families and get a lot of day to day support from them.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 10d

We also don't sign them up for a gazillion different activities, which is something that would be both logistically and financially unfeasible.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 10d

I've got four kids, and I think the biggest difference I notice between my and my peers parenting style is that I don't feel responsible for my children's entertainment. I'm very comfortable letting them feel bored on a weekend or after school.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 18d

And that's not even getting into a child's ability to generalize! I can teach them to fold a hand towel, and then say "go fold the bath towel the same way", and they'll understand what that means! I can even expand it to something like a piece of paper, or any other flat, foldable object.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 18d

This is among the many reasons that I'm very skeptical we're at all close to something that we would call AGI.

Forget a 25 year old, I can teach a 3 year old how to fold an put away a towel in like 5 minutes.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19d

Good morning.

Immigration is good. Trade is good.

There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 29d

I've noticed that every time I see someone use affiliate links, they have some sort of large, almost apologetic disclaimer. I'm not sure why, as it's about the least offensive method of money making.

Are some upset about affiliate links? I've never seen anyone mad about them but...internet...

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · 29d

I feel this way about a lot of the problems in the USA right now. A part of me wonders what it would look like if the south had been allowed to secede.

Or if state borders were allowed to be more fluid (see eastern OR wanting to join ID).

Timothy Rice @timothyrice.org · Sep 12

It is sometimes surprising to me how few people seem to write with a genuine effort to explain an idea, vs. write with an intent to impress an imagined group of people.

It's very obvious to a reader who is doing what.