David Chapman
@Meaningness
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
Joined September 2010
🆕 Mixing my personal history, a history of the technology, and recommendations: keyboards—and computers—great, good, and bad, from 1873 to the present! (Link in reply tweet ⤵️)
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@larsbrinkhoff @TomKnightSynBio Thanks! Wow, Imlac PDS-4... it's weird how much I remember about how much ancient hardware. Also the software. I haven't used OS/8 since 1978, but I expect if i sat down at a tty, I could put it through its paces. (360 JCL, not so much :)
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@meekaale hmm, "relentless optimization"... it seems your LLM has mistaken you for a rationalist
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RT @meekaale: I like thinking about light in this way like it's not just about having enough to be able to see it's more like a kind of sau…
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RT @meekaale: I just got a delivery of LED corn bulbs now I have 240W + 120W + 80W around my desk and it's pretty bright, but this was an e…
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RT @meekaale: @Meaningness 👎 enlightenment rationalism 👍 enlightening your immediate surroundings with corn bulbs
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@larsbrinkhoff Thank you! I had read that he designed the Space Cadet, but didn't know it was for the plasma lab. Do you know what sort of computer(s) the keyboard worked with?
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RT @larsbrinkhoff: @Meaningness John L. Kulp designed the Space Cadet keyboard, initially for the Plasma Physics lab. He made a TV system…
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"Isn't any work 'done by philosophers' automatically philosophy?"
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RT @LizHighleyman: 😆"The stock PDP-10 hardware was extensively reworked by the lab. One striking feature: it had the world’s first megabyte…
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RT @LizHighleyman: I had to use punch cards for my first freshman computer class in 1981 -- the following semester, that system was replace…
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RT @LizHighleyman: Fun read from @Meaningness, who I used to work with at MIT AI Lab. He's about my age & we grew up on a lot of the same t…
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