That's not right, the great filter comes after the development of intelligence

A Great Filter could come before or after intelligence.

For example, predation could be a Great Filter. We made it past the threat of predation, but perhaps most life forms in the universe don’t. In this example, life could be pervasive in the universe but it’s optimizing for defensive attributes like speed and armor rather than intelligence. That could explain why we don’t see aliens colonizing the galaxy. With the Great Filter behind us, nothing would be stopping us from colonizing the galaxy ourselves, we just might be among the first to do it.

Putting the Great Filter in front of us postulates that many life forms have achieved our same accomplishments but haven’t colonized the galaxy. It could be because of doom and gloom scenarios like war, aliens, cosmic catastrophes, etc. Or it could be a beneficial Great Filter like enlightenment and the lack of desire to propagate and consume endlessly, or the ability to survive in deep space, leaving stars and planets untouched.

That last bit is the part I always think about. You could easily hide an entire civilization in space, and there’s a lot more “space” than “planet”

I felt similar reading that book. She seems very clear that she wants to develop paradigmatic physics, and wants Assembly Theory to be paradigmatic, but there's not a lot of meat on the bone.

I had a fun fling with EXWM, but having your window manager sharing its single-thread with emacs just doesn't really make any sense.

The commonly accepted solution, if this is an issue for you, is to run two instances of Emacs: one to edit in, and one to run EXWM. The days of "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" are well behind us; one can easily afford to run two (or many more) emacsen. And it can't be that much more bloated than, say, kwin...

If it seems interesting to you or you're experimenting with keyboard-driven tiling WMs, though, I would highly recommend this particular fling.

Been using it for a couple of years, and in practice it does not cause me much trouble, at least not for me.

Can you share more about your particular setup? I use a pretty vanilla setup of Doom emacs on Linux, and while I really wish to give exwm a try my experience with emacs has been too unstable so far. E.g. it sometimes crashes when it gets an I/O error trying to write a file (which happens when a USB drive is removed by accident). A more common annoyance is the entire program freezing while waiting for plugins that should be asynchronous, like Tramp or some LSP servers.

Single-threaded? Not anymore!

Not true at all, Jesus was a 2nd Temple Jewish teacher of some sort (likely apocalyptic prophet), historians and scholars agree on that.

What does "Jewish" mean in that context? The dominant religion at the time was a sacrificial cult centered on Temple worship. rabbinical Judaism as we know it today developed over centuries after that temple cult was fully decimated by the Romans. Its completely anachronistic to say "Jewish" refers to Jesus in the same way that it refers to your local synagogue.

Right, Jesus is to be understood historically as a 1st century Jew who lead a movement. Just as Paul is understood historically as a very early Christian (and Jew), not a modern day one. Paul wouldn't have even understood something called Christianity as a separate religion.

After years of working with gspread, I finally found out there's a SQLAlchemy dialect that works with Google Sheets. I can't believe what a huge workflow upgrade this affords. I wanted to spread the good news.

I think the popular knowledge was based on the bering straight ice age migration story, which has been mostly debunked. how the americas were peoples remains an open question https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopling_of_the_Americas

You say debunked then link to an article that starts:

>The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago).

That is what is common knowledge afaik. What has been debunked?

Yeah idk maybe I misunderstood what's going on

> how the americas were peoples remains an open question

Did you mean "peopled"?

Yes

Love prefect! but for workflows involving concurrency, Prefect code needs to get somewhat invasive.

Prefect relies on prefect.task()-wrapped methods as the lowest granularity of concurrency in a program, and requires you to use the (somewhat immature) prefect task APIs to implement that concurrency.

more on this complaint here: https://austinweisgrau.github.io/migrating-to-prefect-part-3...

This is an excellent write up thank you for sharing! Yea, our concurrency API needs an upgrade - coincidentally this is going to be a theme of the next sprint or two so I hope I can report some improvements back soon.

The "leaving ecosystems alone" ship sailed almost everywhere on Earth tens of thousands of years ago. Humans have always been a part of, and had impacts upon, the ecosystems we've lived in. Certainly moreso in recent centuries.

Not to say that further interventions will be helpful in "reestablishing balance".

Even the concept of "balance" or homeostasis has long been recognized to not really exist in any ecosystem.

Motherduck has an excellent article about this: https://motherduck.com/blog/the-simple-joys-of-scaling-up/

That seems much more like a limitation of their analysis to me

This. There’s obvious differences in salvinorin and psilocybin effects and both are well represented in the data. But keep in mind the current paper only looks at existing categories of visual effect. The second study might include a finer taxonomy.