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04:34  redlegion> fenn: common themes throughout my life. sentiments like "he tests well and he's very smart, but I can't get him to sit down to complete something for the life of me." nearly didn't graduate high school. attempted college four times, still no degree. I'
m currently working as an industrial automation engineer, so presumably the capacity to obtain a degree is there, but I can't seem to sit down long enough to complete one.
04:35  redlegion> reading is painful if I'm not immediately engaged by whatever book I'm attempting.
04:44  redlegion> honestly, it was pretty disheartening when my psych contragulated me on not having a criminal record or a history of domestic violence, since those things are apparently are statistically more likely associated with people who have ADHD
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05:06  srk> https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHDinos/ :]
05:55  lsneff> Thankfully, I’m not as bad as that, but I do struggle to get through long projects (like university)
05:56  lsneff> I think I’ve gotten very good at testing without studying because i enjoy studying so little
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06:22  jrayhawk> hey cool somebody made a comic about me
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07:38  fenn> so, uh, does anybody *not* identify with ADHDino?
07:39  fenn> is this my diagnosis calling from the future
07:39  kanzure> solely commenting "brave new world" is not civilized https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/tvxv99/chinas_geneedited_babies_will_push_bioethics_into/
07:40  fenn> "All posts must develop and defend a substantive philosophical thesis." uh, okay
07:47  kanzure> it's the year 2035. absolutely everyone has an ADHD diagnosis. the world economy has converted to the singular purpose of the production of adderall.
07:52  fenn> a virtuous cycle
07:56  fenn> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam_Seed#Plot
07:59  xaete> considering the chemical structure and active dosage of adderall, unfortunately it seems like even if you gave everyone it you'd only make a few billion dollars each year
07:59  xaete> the fidget toy market, on the other hand...
08:03  redlegion> true, and don't forget all of the things that lull people into hyperfocusing. for me it all went wrong at stout().
08:03  redlegion> er, stdout()
08:04  redlegion> clacking away in a terminal is the only thing I can do for hours on end, with few breaks.
08:04  xaete> scihub and its consequences have been a disaster for my sleep schedule
08:05  fenn> you mean having access to a library and actually being able to read papers?
08:05  xaete> yes, that specifically was the issue
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10:21  fenn> You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beatin
g its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without
10:21  fenn> your help, but you're not helping.
10:52  juri_> I kick the toutoise. clearly, it is here to steal my immortality.
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14:07  maaku> shoot the interviewer
14:39  kanzure> .tw https://twitter.com/davidrliu/status/1511034109312712704
14:39  saxo> Today we report in @NatureBiotech the phage-assisted continuous evolution (PACE) of all-protein, CRISPR-free base editors to enhance their efficiency and expand their targeting scope for mitochondrial and nuclear base editing.(1/8) / https://www.nature.com/
articles/s41587-022-01256-8.pdf (@davidrliu)
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16:33  adlai> lsneff: hello
16:34  adlai> I don't have magic bullets that cause neurologists to tell you, decades down the line, that your brain has been cured of ADHD.
16:35  adlai> I strongly recommend separating between problems you encounter that cause you to blame the symptoms leading to your diagnosis, and the diagnosis itself.
16:36  adlai> e.g.: "only got diagnosed at age <old>, due to not getting your shit together" - an example of a problem; "doctor wrote magic word on paper" - diagnosis.
16:37  adlai> my advice boils down to "find some way to express goals outside of your own brain", and repeat until you blame a different diagnosis.
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17:40  lsneff> I’ll think about that
17:41  lsneff> .t https://www.avalanche.energy/index.html
17:41  saxo> Avalanche Energy Designs
17:41  L29Ah> no <noscript> => bullshit
17:42 (*) adlai does have a page with the typewritten heading, "HOW TO USE THE INTERNET WITHOUT GETTING DISTRACTED BY YOURSELF", and punctuation left as an exercise to his future self.
17:43  L29Ah> don't get distracted from using the internet
17:44  muurkha> lsneff: what's the summary?
17:45  lsneff> New technique in the subclass of electrostatic confinement I believe
17:45  lsneff> Very small reactors (fits on a desk) in the 5kw range
17:45  lsneff> I don’t know if the science is sound though
17:46  muurkha> fusion?
17:46  lsneff> Yes
17:46  lsneff> Founders are both from blue origin and seem to be reputable
17:47  muurkha> is there a paper on arXiv or something?
17:47  muurkha> without something like that probably nobody outside the company can know if it's just fake
17:47  lsneff> It’s apparently based on some guys PhD thesis from a couple of years ago
17:48  muurkha> url?
17:48  lsneff> Can’t find it
17:48  lsneff> Apparently http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/38527/163114839.pdf?sequence=1, but seems to be removed
17:48  lsneff> From over a decade ago actually
17:50  muurkha> archive.org isn't helping
17:50  muurkha> why aren't you helping, archive.org?
17:50  lsneff> Anyway, it’s Tom McGuire’s phd thesis
17:52  lsneff> https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/38527/163114839-MIT.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
17:52  muurkha> nice!
17:53  muurkha> thanks!
17:54  muurkha> see also https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2008-4675
17:56  lsneff> Interesting
17:57  muurkha> also https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10894-018-0150-9 and https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/129867/1237644263-MIT.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
18:06  adlai> how do they prevent the desk from collapsing ?
18:06 (*) adlai is not kidding; maybe someone has read the paper, understood "the science", and has patience to explain
18:07  adlai> it's well within 'idgaf'-range if some magic catalyst causes fusion above the desk, and destroys the desk with runaway radiation.
18:10  adlai> my understanding, of the consequences of the fundamentals, rather than experience with engineering, is that plasma confinement, while entirely possible, typically does not fit on a desk when the plasma gets hot enough to be useful.
18:10  adlai> I should probably fuck off and leave y'all for a few decades.
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18:15  muurkha> it's an interesting question, but even if you have to replace the desk every few megajoules that wouldn't stop it from being economical
18:16  muurkha> I think inertial electrostatic confinement in Farnsworth fusors produces plasma that's plenty hot, it just takes too much energy to be economical
18:16  muurkha> but I've never built one, so maybe I'm mistaken
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18:37  lsneff> I’ve also heard that electrostatic confinement fusors just have to much lose
18:39  muurkha> they have to lose much?
18:39  muurkha> they have too much loss?
18:47  superkuh> Like nailing jello to a tree. I still have highest hopes for dense plasma focus fusion.
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18:57  lsneff> I normally think of companies as being rational. Why start a company if the basis of your product doesn’t work or isn’t going to work? I definitely don’t believe that anymore and I guess I’ll see if it applies to that company eventually
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19:35  maaku> lsneff: you sweet summer child. come back out to silicon valley and lets educate you on the wide world of investment scams
19:37  maaku> even non-cynically, VCs will fund a project if it seems like something will come out of the technology development even if it wasn't the original idea
19:37  maaku> or if they have a good feeling about the founders themselves, in which case the investors are expecting a pivot eventually
19:40  maaku> in this case it could be "Smart founders from Blue Origin with a proven track record doing something in the fusion space. Company may pivot if the idea doesn't work out, but these guys are likely to do something of value."
20:17  muurkha> lsneff: I think you probably haven't worked at a company if you normally think of companies as being rational, and maybe you think of all that stuff about Parkinson's Law and Murphy's Law and the Peter Principle as being purely humor
20:18  muurkha> maybe you can sign up for an Organizational Behavior course at the business school before you graduate
20:19  muurkha> I'm not saying Avalanche Energy definitely won't work, but the prior probability is fairly low
20:21  muurkha> historically revolutionary sources of energy are few: agriculture (circa 10000 years ago), draft animals (circa 5000 years ago), fossil fuels (circa 900 years ago), steam (circa 250 years ago), internal combustion engines (circa 150 years ago), solar energy (circa 100 years ago), and nuclear energy (let's say 80 years ago)
20:22  muurkha> so the chance of a revolutionary new energy source this decade is maybe on the order of 10%, and there are a lot of contenders, so I'd say Avalanche's chances of grabbing the brass ring are 10% conditional on it happening, 1% overall
20:23  muurkha> I know there's a lot of handwaving there but my point is it's not something that happens several times a decade like creating a new #1 social network
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20:35  lsneff> I’ve worked at several companies lmao. I even said in my comment that I didn’t believe that anyone (though I agree my wording wasn’t great)
20:35  lsneff> *anymore
20:37  muurkha> oh, sorry, I misunderstood!
20:37  muurkha> geez, what a jerk I sound like
20:42  lsneff> It’s all good :)
20:49  muurkha> :)
22:01  fenn> always remember to add &isAllowed=y to your URLs so they know you're authorized
22:03  fenn> https://www.ialtenergy.com/compact-fusion-reactor.html
22:05  fenn> avalanche energy's "orbitron" looks like a smaller, more manufacturable version of the same field reversed configuration reactor
22:11  fenn> i wonder if john slough or david kirtley are involved somehow
22:14  fenn> according to their page it is a different concept than field reversed, instead using crossed elliptical orbits, whatever that means
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