Shankar Sivarajan

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One way to "see less of" something you hate is to stop it from being produced, and that may be seen as a better solution than basically averting your eyes from it. Rallying mobs to get whoever produced it fired has proven to be quite effective. 

While good to have for reference, I didn't find the enormous tables on Wikipedia helpful. Using the mass of the Earth as an example, I have no intuition for the number  : it's just ten apples with twenty-four smaller apples floating next to them (relevant xkcd). And I don't think memorizing these numbers, with spaced repetition or otherwise, is all that helpful for intuition-building.

For astronomical distances, what I have found helpful is to do everything in terms of the speed of light ( m/s = a foot per nanosecond).  The sun is 8 minutes = 500 seconds away. The moon is 1.5 seconds away. Jupiter is 45 minutes away, and doubles every step to Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

For the circumference of the Earth, the distance from the pole to the equator is a nice, round, 10,000 km. (Remarkably convenient coincidence!)

For masses, use the density of water: the Sun and all the gas giants are the same density as water. Earth is the density of rock, about  that of water. The density of metal is 10 times water.

I suspect the real reason is stopping competitors fine-tuning on o1's CoT, which they also come right out and say:

Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring

incorrect/misleading/unclear statements

I disagree that his statements are misleading: the impression someone who believed them true would have is far more accurate than someone who believed them false. Is that not more relevant, and a better measure of honesty, than whether or not they're "incorrect"? 

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One's heart skipping a beat. I thought it was just a poetic way of saying something like "time stood still,"  but no, it turns out it does do that pretty literally.

Remember: Bear spray does not work like bug spray!

"Medicine" is itself an example of the "noncentral fallacy" you criticize: it includes great things like surgery and trauma medicine, vaccination, treatments based on actual understanding of biology like insulin, and  miscellaneous drugs that are claimed to do useful things for mysterious reasons. While there are certainly effective things in that last category, like antibiotics and painkillers, the "epistemics" of the field strike me as pretty shit: if quinine were proposed as a treatment for malaria today, I expect the medical establishment to say things like "that's tree bark juice. You are not a squirrel."

The local flavor of quackery where I grew up was Ayurveda, and my view of the herbal remedies suggested by its practitioners is they're no worse than what they called "allopathy": try the thing, and if it works, it works.

Ah! Might I recommend Tengwar Artano instead? It uses the same glyphs, but includes many modern "smart font" features, such as ligatures, automatic under/overbar widths, and improved diacritic placement. (And perhaps most usefully, and my primary motivation for reëncoding it, it's easy to use it with XeLaTeX.)

Also, you probably want to use the Quenya mode mode for Namárië.

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