memory loss: it's not just for sitcoms
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@whitequark weird cognitive biases, maybe. Maybe because I'm terrible with names all the time, and they have a much much weaker associative weight in my mind, than the actual work and ideas of a person. Fun fact about me: I really, really struggled in math class, because I couldn't make a solid connection between some person's name and e.g. a series they formulated. Like Cauchy series. @whitequark @datenwolf from my observations so far: legacy maintenance of a previous identity, difficulties with scaling (if system has many members), perceived insignificance (especially for median systems) @festla @datenwolf if i wouldn't bother to inscribe the smallest of smalls onto the world, that of my own name, i don't think i would have even bothered to exist? or at least to like... talk or publish anything @whitequark @datenwolf I have on occasion wondered if I invent time travel and future me goes back in time to do something to help current me, but then I realize future me would have told me to sell all my tech stocks in 1998 so there's that. i should extend the plugin to parse .eh_frame and add exception edges to invoke sites |
@whitequark extremely relatable content right here