Hugo Mercier is the originator of this: https://philpapers.org/rec/MERTSO-7

"reasoning evolved not to complement individual cognition but as an argumentative device" -- and it has more positive effects at social level than at individual level

https://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Mercie...

Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory

> and it has more positive effects at social level than at individual level

Now it raises the question should we be reasoning in our head then? Is there a better way to solve intractable math problems for example? Is math itself a red herring created for argumentative purposes?

Mildly related: TypeScript Call Graph - CLI to generate an interactive graph of functions and calls from your TypeScript files - my project.

https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph

Interesting idea called transparent self model by Thomas Metzinger, author of The Ego Tunnel where he explains it further.

The gist from my memory of 15+ years ago is that the brain needs to model the world and then itself within the world, creating a model that is transparent to itself, situated in the world.

Trying to get a new release of Video Hub App - my 7+ years passion project to browse videos from local storage in style. Maybe will finally finish the (optional!) facial recognition feature I started 5+ years ago.

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://videohubapp.com/

Plug for the Shavian alphabet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

"a constructed alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonemic orthography for the English language to replace the inefficiencies and difficulties of conventional spelling"

Couldn't you use a subset of IPA for this? (Not a language person, so I don't know)

Mildly related: my favorite tool for viewing .git diffs diff2html - a CLI that with one command opens the diff in your browser

https://diff2html.xyz/ -- https://github.com/rtfpessoa/diff2html

Mine is meld. (One my phone now, so cannot compare which one seems superior)

Meld is good but sadly it doesn’t have an official build on Mac, which I use.

I like https://diffs.dev, it has a pretty sleek look and has an extension to make it the default diff view for github

Humbly sharing my own project: Video Hub App which lets you browse your videos in an elegant infinite scroll gallery with various ways of searching, filtering, and tagging. Only local - nothing goes online with my app.

https://videohubapp.com/ and it's open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Looks nice. Does this allow the export of the organizational and meta data?

The "hub" or database / save file has extension `.vha2` but it's a simple text JSON with this format:

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/blob/main/interfac...

Cool. Why not an embedded player, it would make browsing much faster than opening opening up the default system player?

Variety of reasons, not all fitting everyone. For my preference I like the minimalist MPC-BE interface at full screen on a separate monitor; others might prefer GridPlayer or something else. I feel like external player gives everyone the customization they prefer.

Embedded player would require making a tremendous number of design options: where does it reside in the interface, what does it cover up when open? and if it can pop out as a separate window, what value does it bring over an external player?

Also shared in the article is FrankenPHP - "Modern PHP App Server, written in Go"

https://frankenphp.dev/

Thank you for sharing, GRACE-FO feels to me like a brilliant design!

Useful: https://css-tricks.com/what-does-playsinline-mean-in-web-vid...