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Yes this is much stronger and relevant evidence

When I watched a very short clip juxtaposed next to a clip of a nazi salute, then it looked like one to me.

But when I watched it in context, it looked like a man putting a hand on his heart and then proffering his thanks to the audience.

My belief is that it was most likely not a nazi salute and is not relevant evidence in the important task of assessing Musk's political stances.

It's fun to sit down and draw what the board looks like when you cut and flatten the torus before you watch the video!

Bonus points if you hit upon the other 2D projection that is useful (I didn't)

The way you learn is totally different from the way a novice learns; they don't have a vast memorised store of knowledge, let alone the connected structure over that memorised knowledge. When you learn something, it gets incoporated thanks to these foundations.

But the foundations start with memorisation.

Projects are less efficient for learning foundational skills. They have their place, but with infinite funds I would still give my children an education with a bedrock of boring drill and testing and memorisation.

I just went and had a flutter at being a high school math teacher. I went in saying 'I never used math to create until my honours year, I want different for my students'.

I soon changed my mind; I think those of us who become expert have often have really rich memories of a project where we learnt so much, but we just don't remember episodically all the accumulated learning that happened in boring classrooms to enable the project-induced higher order synthesis.

Nothing, they just don't make the headlines.

> Okay, but you can do the same in dynamically typed Python

But the rust code is still safer, e.g. you haven't checked for an `AttributeError` in case `req.cookies`, the point is Rust protects you from this rabbit-hole, if you're prepared to pay the price of wrestling the compiler.

Don't talk about it, be about it.

"deep sleep" here has a technical definition which wasn't what I assumed, and the top 10th percentile is 68 minutes of "deep sleep", so this is probably fine and not a problem.

I'm feeling a bit cheated it's 2025 and I just bought a brand new car that does not drive itself and runs on dead dinosaurs.

Depends if it's a currency or a store of wealth.

E.g. destroy half the gold in the world, price doubles...

The solution to pollution is dilution.

Dilution in time counts as well.

`What do you think is the root cause for this kind of thinking?`

It's probably quite advantageous to have some individuals irrationally hedging against catastrophe--even though they are likely to be wrong, when one of them is very occasionally right the humans survive.

Given that we can't yet predict our reality from the fundamental up, it seems like a failure of imagination to assert that you couldn't get some high-level-similar-to-our-cognition sentient beings under a separate set of coincidences.

I'm willing to run with the 3% figure... But I take issue with the linearity assumption that torturing 34 shrimp is thus worse than torturing a human!

I learnt this way of thinking about units in my engineering degree, and it is indeed incredibly powerful and I regularly use it.

But I would classify it as "algebra" instead of "arithmetic". Being fluent in manipulations like

60 km/h = 60 km/h * h/3600s * 1000m/km

is not a trivial modality of thought to unlock!

Is there some experiment you can do that shows some 'physical realityness' that the mathematical object can't describe?

If not, then whose to say whether the mathematical object is 'real' or just a perfect description? Is the difference meaningful?

On the other hand, better to do the weeding early than wait for it to get out of hand...

All else being equal, spaced out panels or no you would still want as much electricity as possible out of the panels!

>>> Maybe the only way to be good at reading is to just reading more?

Perhaps at some point you plateau and need to practice "micro skills". e.g. there's a point with chess where you stop getting better playing more games - but training puzzles can bump you out of the plateau.

Retraining as a math teacher here, so I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how kids learn stuff at the moment.

At one point in the article it states that indeed the trio of semantic/syntactic/graphophonic cues are used by readers. The article kind of dances around the point that even if these cues tend to be used by competent readers, it doesn't mean that training them directly is how novice readers need to learn.

I'm really coming round to this belief that there is no substitute for the "rote" drilling of basic skills.

Maybe given the choice of claiming disability and not working vs experimenting with new ways of working, OP chose the latter.

If so, would it be a case of letting yourself being exploited by the uncaring business? Or would it be a fair and productive desire to contribute?

I find it insanely useful for moderately basic tasks I don't do often e.g. "write me a regex that will match XYZ", or basic latex formatting. Much more efficient than googling for docs!

>>> Artificial systems don't replace humans

Artificial systems have yet to replace humans (possibly).

Just because it's been true up to now, doesn't mean there isn't a phase transition on the horizon.

It would certainly radically reshape it.

Maybe the end state is a utopia of human flourishing where no one has to do the shit jobs and we direct AI to create a paradise.

Maybe the ends state is a cyberpunk dystopia where power and wealth concentrates in the hands of those who control the AIs, and the masses fight each other to have the opportunity to sell their soul to be a suit while the rest starve.

Maybe AI progress takes a surprisingly long time, and the next 100 years sees a gentle continuation of the 20th century automation trend.

But I'd be surprised if we could put the genie back in the bottle.

Less lamentable than the health impacts (famine) of not centralizing and industrializing food production!

The soundtrack to my childhood.

Baldur's Gate 2.

"You must gather your party before venturing forth"

>>> I would build a startup instead of chasing job applications and begging for promotions.

Higher expected value and more free time being an employee, but work on your passion and the possibility of a stellar outcome building a startup.

Like OP says, advice is very specific to who you are and where you are at.

True.

But the tricky thing is at what level of supermajority should companies be allowed to discriminate against you based on your choices with your body?