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The links seem broken. On https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/supporting/, when I click the Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee links, they go to:

https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/supporting/patre...

https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/supporting/buyme...

(the text of the links is correct though)

This is 100% ChatGPT

I would bet it's Microsoft Teams

As always, treat any social science research with a huge grain of salt [0,1]. This goes double for opinion pieces, and any kind of media coverage of psychology research.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180219143031/https://putanumon...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oajlP-rqQr4

What does it matter? Remembering is not necessary for enjoyment.

ArchiveBox also saves a Readability version:

> Article Text: article.html/json Article text extraction using Readability & Mercury [0]

[0]: https://archivebox.io/#output-formats

I'm having trouble parsing this article. Quoting:

> Amit Sharma, currently an HR leader in a multinational IT consulting firm, who has dealt with employee rewards for more than five years, said there is a golden rule for any benefit. If it doesn’t fall under the three categories listed below, always pay cash.

> If the “perceived value of the benefit is greater” than what the company pays it should be a benefit. For instance, health insurance is usually expensive, so, if a company offers it, employees value it more. If a company wants to “give a message” using a benefit like a concierge service (travel bookings and tours) it sends out a message: Just focus on work. We’ll take care of the rest. Wellness-related benefits showcase a firm's desire to promote healthy habits.

> “So, if a Pizza party is for engagement with no clear objectives, it is a waste of money. Just pay the cash. But if it serves a purpose then they should consider it,” Sharma said.

English is not my first language, but this seems harder than average to understand. I'm curious if native speakers have the same difficulty, or it's just me.

For some reason I find this answer very funny. "I am like lion, I was born knowing".

I agree with the first sentence, I think we only differ in the second one, where you assign more probability to that "click" happening than I do.

But anyway, I can 100% agree with optimism being worth it. Thanks for the discussion!

I see your point. But couldn't you use the same argument without AI? The internet already has multiple mutually-exclusive narratives, and all of them have people that take them as reality.

I would argue that kids that grow up in that context either pick a side and engage in the eternal narrative war, or become cynics and despair, thinking that there's no objective truth.

Adding more narratives, now generated by AI, doesn't (IMO) change the current playing field that much. My bet would be that kids will become even more cynical: "if a machine can make anything sound like truth, there probably isn't any objective truth"

> that substrate for us is the real, and what kids who encounter AI now will understand intuitively is that the artifacts of language and the real are necessarily separate things

That sounds pretty optimistic. Wouldn't kids that grow up with AI consider it part of the real, by virtue of never experiencing a life without it? If I were to use the same logic for social media, I could say:

"kids who grow up with social media will understand intuitively that the artifacts of online popularity and the real are necessarily separate things"

which does not sound true to me.

How is Michael Malice alt-right? He's an anarchist

> Make these things less emotionally charged and political, and you'll get more support

Are we using the same Internet? Clickbait, outrage and emotionally-charged drivel triumphs over measured rational discourse every day of the week

He's not saying he likes them _because_ they are Norwegian, but rather that in his experience he tends to be attracted to Norwegian women.

I'm interested in your answer, not because I'm looking for a debate, I'm just curious about the situation in general.

But I also understand if you don't want to go into it. In any case, I wish you the best.

One of my Indian coworkers mentioned once in passing that he could cover his living costs for the year using 2 months' salary (we work for a US company, yearly salary is below 6 figures).

He implied that he could stop working and live comfortably for 20+ years using what he had saved in the past 5 years. Is your situation special, or are your monthly expenses that much higher?

> Is art going to be a part of the small amount of things that retain value?

It depends on how you define art. Creativity and intelligence are highly correlated, so if AI capabilities (intelligence) keep going up, it's only a matter of time until AI becomes very good at creating art that is enjoyed and consumed by humans.

On the other hand, with a bit of semantic sleight-of-hand, you could re-define art so that it only includes things made by humans, and try to artificially keep the price high that way. But I don't think it will work the way you expect it to. Rather, art made purely by humans will become a status symbol and it will be expensive not due to being technically superior, but due to its relative scarcity compared to AI-generated art. And the market for it will be much smaller than today, due to the overabundance of AI-generated art.

There is evidence that chronic (long-term) stress is pretty unhealthy for body and mind. It could be that the fast-paced last 5 years is finally catching up to you.

I would read the rest of the thread for ideas, but also consider talking with a therapist: having a trained medical professional giving you their perspective can be invaluable and save you lots of bashing your head against the wall (believe me, I would know)

The term to search for is aphantasia[0], although as far as I understand that refers to people who are born without mental imagery (as opposed to your case, where you had it and then lost it)

A quick search turns up "Charcot–Wilbrand syndrome"[1]:

  a patient loses the power to conjure up visual images or memories, and furthermore, ceases to dream during his sleeping hours

but it seems to be related to patients with some kind of brain damage.

Personally, my ability to visualize is heavily affected by my habits, particularly sleep, diet and exercise. Have you had any lifestyle changes recently that might explain changes in your cognitive performance?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcot%E2%80%93Wilbrand_syndr...

No worries, I found a used copy in a local bookstore, thanks!

> Maybe get it from Anna’s Archive

Yeah I looked for it there and in other places, but there doesn't seem to be any digital copy available at all (legal or otherwise)

Is there any way to get the first book in e-book format? I only see options to buy a used physical copy, and international shipments to my country are... untrustworthy, at best.

I meant further to the bottom-right. Here: https://imgur.com/00KDqpq

Just in case you missed it, the U3223QE does have one USB-C port for peripherals. See [0], bottom right of the image.

[0] https://i.dell.com/is/image/DellContent/content/dam/ss2/prod...

+1 to this. Huberman has the bad habit of constructing grand narratives that match his beliefs about health and reality, and packaging them as podcast episodes based on science. The only problem is that "based on science" might mean a single low-powered study, which Huberman cites and over-generalizes as if it was rock-solid fact. See this[0] discussion on Huberman's subreddit for more context.

Another example is his episode with Matthew Walker[1] (author of Why We Sleep), and his other episodes where he gives sleep advice citing Walker as an authority. The problem is that Walker's work is not good[2][3] (riddled with errors at best, fraudulent at worst).

To be clear: I'm sure a lot (if not the majority) of what Huberman says is correct, or at least matches our current scientific understanding. The problem is that some things are incorrect, and the layman has no way of knowing which is which (especially since all the content is presented with the same high-certainty "science-based tools" tone)

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/andrewhuberman/comments/smnnb0/crit...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbQFSMayJxk

[2] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850

I just created this account to thank you for posting this comment. After reading it I got and read the book you recommended, and it has really helped me with issues I've been struggling with for years.

I had not noticed the pattern of "avoid negative feelings" -> "negative feelings increase over time", and I actually thought problems like my anxiety had gotten better just because I had found more and more elaborate ways to try to avoid feeling it. In fact, it got worse and I became more and more avoidant of things that might trigger it.

Now the anxiety is still there, it still sucks, but I feel it without flinching and carry it with me without getting lost in the stories it tells. And by doing that, I have enough space in my mind to do the things I was avoiding and be more present.

So again, thank you for writing this comment. Know that you have really helped at least one person.