Kopia as encrypted backup provider?
Anyone have takes? Things I want:
- Encrypted backups, on my external hard drive + backblaze b2 (seems like it checks this box)
- Basically a reliable operation that's going to continue to exist, fix bugs, etc.
- Works nicely when people try to restore from backups.
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Overrated:
- Marcus Aurelius
- "Saint" Augustine of Hippo (are the haters Eastern Orthodox or atheist?)
- Cleopatra
Underrated
- Justinian I (who dislikes that guy?)
- Cicero
Cicero adapted the arguments of the chief schools of Hellenistic philosophy in Latin and created a large amount of Latin philosophical vocabulary via lexical innovation (e.g. neologisms such as evidentia, generator, humanitas, infinitio, qualitas, quantitas), almost 150 of which were the result of translating Greek philosophical terms.
In this house we respect lexical innovators (except for my irrational (?) dislike of the Lightcone Hyphen).
Elliot Thornley, Divia Eden, and I talk about coherence theorems
mutualunderstanding.substack.c…
I think it was a fun convo! A thing I like to do when I listen to podcasts with people I know is send people messages about what I'm listening to. If you're like me in that regard, maybe you'd like to leave comments here about things, and I can respond to them.
In what sense are there coherence theorems?
Talking to Elliott Thornley and Daniel Filan about Elliott (EJT)'s LessWrong Post "There are no coherence theorems"Divia Eden (Mutuals)
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Doctrine of the Mean trutherism
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Translate things
Sometimes people are like "noooooooo I can't just translate Tian as Heaven or Dao as Way or junzi as gentleman, the terms have slightly different connotations and are used by this writer in a sort of distinct way". Nah. Writers in English use common terms idiosyncratically all the time. If you're worried we'll misunderstand, put an asterisk the first place the terms are used and refer us to a glossary. In the meantime, the reader will have a better understanding of what the terms mean.
In general I think we should translate more things so that you can understand what people are saying. E.g. "Hamas" is just short for "the Islamic Resistance Movement", call them that or the IRM if you want to save space. Most English speakers don't speak foreign languages, and it's important to be comprehensible!
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i dont know words like junzi or Tian. With Dao I think we should use Dao. But shrug.
If this were about Buddhist terms I'd have more specific things to say.
But my sense of English is that it just doesn't even act like these other languages in very relevant ways. Pali/Sanskrit is super different as a language, for instance, and so you just can't translate the words into English without losing ~70% of the background meaning and connotation.
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oh i see.
yes i agree that context is important.
if you're just a casual audience, then i should use an English phrase in the conversation so you know what i'm saying at all.
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So you're saying people should write more like official subs and not fan subs youtube.com/watch?v=YvNxgHTWIl…
(I have never watched a fan sub but I have observed the urge of people who are really into a hobby using obscure language because they care too much about capturing nuances)
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(1) There's some truth to this. Violent islamists are on average, worse than most people in various ways.
(2) But also, they may see it more as a direct insult to God as opposed to an insult to them personally or their human social group. Compare their stance towards practicing Christians and Muslim apostates. Both groups go to hell, on the conventional conservative Muslim understanding. But they are much more bothered by apostates.
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I agree that terrorists are in some sense not serious and tbh I think it's for the best
or rather, second best, behind "not being terrorists"
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I feel like the "introvert/extravert" axis bundles (at least) 3 things together in a kind of unhelpful way:
- low vs high need to socialize
- low vs high gregariousness
- low vs high desire to talk to people you don't know
These are sort of related, but I feel like usually when I hear people talk about extraversion or introversion they would usually be better served by appealing to a sub-factor rather than the bundle.
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Yeah, this seems true. How do you define 'gregarious' separately from the other things?
Other dimensions could be related to social anxiety, awkwardness, and/or masking. A lot of the time when I "don't want to talk to people" or it drains my energy to do so, it's because I feel uncomfortable in the situation, rather than because there's something I inherently dislike/find tiring about talking to people.
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Free Manifold alpha
In this market about how many episodes of AXRP I'll publish in 2024, there's an 11% chance I'll publish less than 9, the number I have published so far. manifold.markets/DanielFilan/h…
(The motivation of the market was to test whether I'd succeed in publishing a ton - in fact, I've been down an editor for a bit which slowed me down, as did having a real job, but I still think I'll beat my all-time record of 10 episodes in 2022)
- How many episodes I'll release in 2025: manifold.markets/DanielFilan/h…
- How many YouTube views my peak episode will get in 2025: manifold.markets/DanielFilan/h…
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in reply to Daniel Filan • • •hadn't heard of it; I think I've seen
resticrecommended in the DataHoarders subreddit for ~the same purpose, though I haven't used that either. After comparing for ~10m, it looks like the main reasons people use Kopia over Restic are:while restic is a bit older, and has a bit more github activity, and it was a bit easier to find a design document that explains its encryption (restic.readthedocs.io/en/v0.4.…). I think personally after these 10m, I'd lean toward restic over kopia, but pretty weakly :shrug:
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Kevin Gibbons
in reply to Daniel Filan • • •I've been using restic (with B2) for ~6 years with no hiccups, including restoring in anger once (i.e. my local drives died). Kopia is newer and less popular; I don't see much reason to use it over restic unless there's some specific feature you want, though I also don't know of any particular reason not to use it.
(Restic's crypto has been informally reviewed by a cryptographer, who concluded he'd use it for his own backups; no idea what the state of Kopia's crypto is.)
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