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Think of this equation:

happiness = things_you_have - things_you_want

It's much easier to reduce your desires than it is to buy new stuff. Your resources are scarce and your desires infinite. If you can convince yourself you have everything you want already nothing can touch you. Write down a list of reasons to not buy the new hotness.

Stoicism has more to say on this, for example negative visualization. If you feel upset with your spouse or kids imagine them being hit by a car and dying in your arms. Car or truck? Did the car stop, or speed off? Burial or cremation? What will you say to your family, their friends? Manufacture details and explore their emotional impact. The frustration just evaporates.

Words like "natural" can be tricky. Dying when struck by a bus is natural. That doesn't mean that busses are a natural feature of the world, or that you shouldn't look before crossing, or that an ER shouldn't make an effort to save the bus-stricken.

What do you make of the fact that connecting aged organs to young mice restores the organs? I think we should pursue drugs and treatments that improve function in aged populations, do you? Maybe ageing bodies just need to be occasionally cleaned out to restore healthy function.

Maybe it is "natural" to die, but unnecessary to suffer collapse along the way? Worst-case we have to compete in our careers and marathons with then healthy elderly and endure that same happy fate ourselves.

"attempts to reproduce similar findings in humans have failed"

CPH treatment may be useful in dementias of medium level in quite old groups of patients, since 48% of the verum group displayed improvements in the memory functions against 28% of the placebo group.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2506844/

"The drug thus might simply be a treatment for the type of genetic disorder that the mouse model"

Got any experimental or observational evidence for this hypothesis?

"how they want"

That's what those marketing dollars are for. There is a practically infinite supply of free games, but somehow parasitic pay-to-win dark-pattern companies stay in business.

"constantly productive"

I hope that everyone feels like they are making constant progress towards their own goals. If someone wasn't they might bury their head in a stream of constant distraction. Wouldn't that be a shame?

Who is they? We should promote amateur science among those with the means, ability, and integrity.

That seems to me to be the best route to more drugs, cheaper drugs, and increased scientific literacy among the public. So much public reward and so little personal risk.

Sigma Aldritch has 25 mg for $400. Your hobbies could include a personal bio-science company. Wouldn't that be a more interesting future self?

More on ISRIB from the same people:

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667625/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4341466/

Also, Centrophexine (aka Meclofenoxate on wikipedia) (and probably DMAE) works in humans with dementia using similar mechanisms as I understand it:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2506844/

Any details?

What applications and what measures did you try? Feel free to share just links.

Maybe they would prefer KPIs like "increase sales", "average issue resolution time goes down" instead of fluff like "more @mentions used in chat to increase staff engagement".

This data is a wet dream for middle managers locked out of creating actual value and doomed to micro-manage.

It has to in order to do things that scale.

I can buy wonderful handmade artisanal croissants at my local bakery, but they will never feed the number of people that Conagra can. (E.g. They make Peter Pan peanut butter and everything else in your cabinet)

You could host your email with a small family owned and operated company, but it will never be as cheap as gmail.

Imposing legibility is also a requirement to making a market. That's what makes products similar across different manufacturers/providers. Remember the bad old days where this programming language meant you had to use that database? Imposing legibility means that you can swap out one vendor for another! Suddenly, you have the freedom to choose.

Don't, we're still in the just-discovered-beer-and-dont-know-my-limits stage of things. Better days (and much darker ones too) ahead. :)

I didn't see anything like that on their Wikipedia page. Perhaps you could share it here.

I remember several years ago there were self-defense classes hosted by gay men, for other gay people in my city. Pre gay-marriage and post Matthew Shepard, obviously. My recollection was that it was entirely the gay community and no NRA outreach.

It would dramatically improve my opinion of the NRA to learn that they sponsored or materially supported such an effort.

So that you can hand it off to a non-technical person.

Have you tried to teach anyone SQL before? A spreadsheet UI is accessible to a wider set of people.

I like these resources. The most general are first, more specific toward the end.

https://pragprog.com/titles/tpdsl/language-implementation-pa... Language Implementation Patterns Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages by Terence Parr (Antlr)

https://craftinginterpreters.com/ by Bob Nystrom

https://interpreterbook.com/ Writing An Interpreter In Go by Thorsten Ball (also has a compiler book)

The Implementation of Lua 5.0 (short) https://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf

A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time https://carolchen.me/blog/jits-intro/ by Carol Chen

video series: JIT programming language development in C https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3gDvF-Fbpw&list=PLvdK1vRmp8... by Dmitriy Kubyshkin

They didn't like people buying VCRs either.

"comment-subject-author":"this is a comment, we dont need out of band communication, thats a bug, not a feature"

I feel like it's origins in LinkedIn, the performances people are expected to put in there, and the fact that it runs on a virtual machine, often on a cloud machine make the irony too great to be believable.

Scaling to meet the workload using machines may be as simple as paying the AWS bill. Scaling up people, even at profitable well-functioning companies, is hardly a solved problem.

I believe this is the essay you mention: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fnkbdwckdfHS2H22Q/steelmanni...

It had this context appropriate quote:

"One performs the rain sacrifice and it rains. Why? I say: there is no special reason why. It is the same as when one does not perform the rain sacrifice and it rains anyway. When the sun and moon suffer eclipse, one tries to save them. When Heaven sends drought, one performs the rain sacrifice. One performs divination and only then decides on important affairs. But this is not to be regarded as bringing one what one seeks, but rather is done to give things proper form. Thus, the gentleman regards this as proper form, but the common people regard it as connecting with spirits."

This marks the of the end of a cooperative relationship and the beginning of a confrontational relationship.

Imagine getting a phone call like, "Can we send our license specialist to your premises and conduct an audit of your code?".

Leveraging Qt code just went from an asset to a liability.

Can't vouch for it, but there may be an alternative:

"CopperSpice is a set of individual libraries which can be used to develop cross platform software applications in C++. It is a totally open source project released under the LGPL V2.1 license and was initially derived from the Qt framework. Over the last several years CopperSpice has completely diverged, with a goal of providing a first class GUI library to unite the C++ community."

https://www.copperspice.com

The website looks nice, but I can't find any prices. They won't let you register with a web email (eg gmail) account. Not cool.

I really enjoy the craftsmanship in project like the SerenityOs operating system, the Zig programming language, and similar projects in the HandMade network (games and debuggers).

I hope this is only the beginning of a renaissance in quality independent software.

I would like to see bounties offered no questioned asked too.

That way someone on the payroll of nefarious inc. my decide to share it with Google or Apple the same time as their boss.

The slots needed be so limited.

MIT has takes 3,000 students, Canadian universities take 30,000 students. (Remember Canada has 30 million people and US has 300 million.)

- https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html

- https://www.univcan.ca/universities/facts-and-stats/enrolmen...

My pcbs existed in design software before they were manufactured. I expect that is the more common case today.

I ran my code against a dev database before it went to prod.

Cars without human labor is definitely a thing. Lights out factories.

I remember reading about a Salesforce conference where the customers cheered when the c level promised "no programmers necessary".

If something acts as though it understands a thing then it does. What else could understand mean? Behold the damage that Searl hath wrought, lol.

Maybe it makes more sense to talk about predicting the behavior of a system independent of the composition of the system.

Imagine an AI assistant that tried to maximize well-being across time, instead of engagement (aka arguing with strangers).

Imagine a job board that maximized its users income over time.

These would become essential services, right? Let's line up these incentives :).

Yes, but I experience meaning independently of those effects. I think that most people think those effects are what create the experience of meaning.

Boltzmann brains experience meaning too. Not that is does them any good in the way that it does for biological system.

It's not like we have a planet rich in meaning and then the sun swallows the earth and all that meaning retroactively disappears. It just exists in the past, not the future, and I think that is sufficient.

I always thought it was funny when people thought that the heat-death of the universe had moral implications. Like that killing someone means they never existed, or something.

I don't think I am "equivocating between disgust and lack of interest".

My motivating concern is universally dropping fertility and whether the reasons are disgust and disinterest, they both cash out the same way. No babies.

So, yes, they exist as two distinct categories, both inside a larger category. I'm talking about that larger category.

Let's imagine that people want to have sex, but they can't find the time in their busy lives. I would lump that in with disinterest. Now, whether you would or not is a discussion about your language preferences. You are entitled to language preferences, but I'm more interested in the slow suicide of everyone around me.

I find this slow suicide fascinating.

Maybe everyone is too busy arguing on the internet about what words mean to have children. That's weird and bad. That's a future we should avoid.

I thought the pre-industrial role of women included crafts and gathering. I would put those under the "providing" umbrella.

If we imagine that fathers taught their children to hunt and fight we would expect children to be raised those abilities too.

I wonder if role specialization is more prevalent now than it used to be. Perhaps some pre-industrial societies were more egalitarian than we pretend to be today.