On top of it, “plane” is all over the article.
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Of course, as long as we have had enough understanding that we can affect others, there has been a demand for exploitation through bias.
I think the hope here is that we would create positions that allow BE to benefit others AND businesses by helping people make better decisions. It sounds a bit utopian, but it's certainly not impossible that everyone could benefit from people making decisions that are beneficial to their well-being.
A trial shows that people often exhibit behavior A. Why they exhibit behavior A may be complicated.
In your example, there's a sense of authority and conforming to a norm that can be used to describe those behaviors. But there's also the cognitive barrier (which we call lazy) that requires someone to exert mental effort to change away from a default.
It's not that one is wrong and the other is right. All of these may be right. But B.E.'s best contribution to society isn't to explain so much of _why_ we act in these ways - but instead to accept that despite our desires or perspectives of rationality, we do act in these ways.
Understanding the "why" may help us to make better decisions, certainly; however, being too prescriptive about "why" may lead us down the wrong path.
Every (somewhat major) decision I'm making now, I'm constantly reminding myself of various biases and silliness that I participate in unwillingly (or even sometimes willingly).
I would say this study has been immensely helpful, and Thaler is a huge contributor to this for me. (Freakonomics, also, has been a great learning resource.)
For anyone interested in this subject, I recommend Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman. (You'd think I should get a referral bonus as often as I talk about this book.) It quite literally changed my life. Of course, Nudge is the other juggernaut in the field.
In fact, if anyone is particularly interested, I'd love to chat. Profile has contact details.
I've wanted to practice behavior economics meets technological innovation for a long time now - but you're right, there doesn't seem to be a demand for this.
For those keeping count, that's a 55-year-old bird. Flies like a dream. In fact, we flew it last night. Recently put in a brand new engine. We'll be upgrading avionics soon enough, too.
I got my pilot's license this year, and hope to continue the tradition of flying my family in the plane.
Take care of stuff and it can last a long time.
I run Developer Tea, and not only is it relatively successful as a podcast, but it also is truly a fulfilling thing to be able to share opinions and have people respond out in the open.
With that said, I'd love to be interviewed for your initiative! I'll shoot you an email.
Somewhat sad that you pulled sports into the equation as a part of the negative persona. Also, kind of ironic that you didn't pay attention to the sports event they invited you to. :)
(End sportsball shaming!)
Constantly gauging the aging people around me, anecdotally trying to gain evidence as to what makes the longer-lived live longer.
Understand a few things:
1. It's natural to fear death 2. Fear is a motivator to protect us 3. We can't protect ourselves from the inevitable 4. Everyone who lives will experience death
Because of these three things, we can start to understand that our anxiety about death, while well-intentioned, can become irrational. We convince ourselves that we have the power to prevent death, because we have the power to prevent or treat many diseases. In this way, death is treated as unnatural. We see death as the end of consciousness, and we fear it because of our instinct.
I, like AnimalMuppet and others on this thread, am a religious person (Christian with some extensively explored views on deism, Calvanism, etc). This gives me a sense of hope, that consciousness and being have meaning beyond my seemingly short life.
Our brains are tricky things. We convince ourselves of non-truths often. Understanding that our brains are not our "selves", that indeed we can view the brain as a part of the whole, we can begin to externalize the strange occurrences in our brains and study them more objectively.
This objective study of the mind helps us separate our "self" from the body altogether. For me, this is my true identity and spirit, that feel altogether out of place in a frail body.
Consider meditation. Certainly get exercise; it will help you become healthier, and reduce anxiety (proven in study after study). Accept inevitabilities, and focus on the moment you are in now.
If you would like to talk more about faith and religion, I and I'm certain others on this thread would be happy to discuss it with you!
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I'm probably still gonna be in for one either way. Maybe we can work together to figure out the "sleek" upsell? :)
My only qualm: it looks a bit like lincoln logs or tinker toys. We would probably paint it, but the links kind of stand out. Makes it feel a bit like a woodshop.
Perhaps some customized sides would make it look a bit more streamlined? Certainly would cost a bit more though.
I'd also really like to see things like a subcollection of the network, and how they would interact if they were put into a discrete network.
Cool stuff!
I think the thing I'm having trouble with, quite honestly, is the marketing site itself.
A few notes of opinion, but do remember this is purely opinion.
1. Is it PitchIt, or Markido PitchIt? The first one works. The second one is confusing. 2. The landing homepage top area feels cramped to me. Additionally, there are three different typefaces, four counting weights, that are fighting for my attention. 3. May want to lose the blue shadow on the play button. 4. The stock photos are a bit distracting, and resultingly aren't as effective as if you were to provide simple screenshots, or even a simple infographic. 5. The large crossed out circle (cancel sign?) feels fairly negative, and is one of the first things I see on two separate pages. 6. Overall, the design seems to harken back to a Windows 98 aesthetic for some reason. And, that may actually be totally fine.
I certainly don't intend to provide negativity, only honest feedback and response. And, as a post-disclaimer, I am fairly sure I am not a part of the target market.
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My wife has celiac disease, which is basically a gluten allergy. Her grandfather had sprue, which was renamed to celiac more commonly[1].
As much as I hate anecdotal evidence, I personally do feel significantly better on a day to day basis when I eliminate the most hefty forms of gluten (bread, for instance). Could have absolutely nothing to do with it, but it seems to hold even when I eat gluten free substitutes. Again, an anecdote, but look into celiac for more solid research on the subject.
[1]http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000233.htm
Things slip through the cracks and go to production, and then everyone complains and then things with too much color get pulled.
It's somewhat of a double-standard critique.
Can we all agree that there are a massive number of views on this, and the range between the views is quite a bit closer to continuous than absolute?
For instance, there are those of us creationists who believe in the story of creation as somewhat allegorical, a cultural way of explaining a complex series of events that originated from an intelligent design, possibly including a singularity, evolution, and whatever else might be considered the "anti-creationist" view.
The concept being discussed is the limited scope of simulation. However, it can be assumed that everything affects (or can affect) everything else. The only way to know whether or not one thing may affect anything else is to simulate it.
How could you know the sphere of causality without simulating everything?
An object's light cone is not a property of the object; it is the result of the properties of the object as they related to the light shining on that object. If the source of that light isn't represented in a simulation, then unless that object produces the light itself, the object must be dark or the simulation isn't accurate.
The discussion is about simulating a universe. Unless there are truly discrete systems within that universe, you can't do that simulation within a limited frame.
I think what the author was alluding to, though, was to say that the actual rendering of the view, rather than the calculation of the view, would be limited to the current frame of reference.
Take a piece of paper. Focus a camera on that piece of paper.
Turn on an overhead light. Did the paper change?
Now, imagine this not only to be a visual representation as limited as this, but instead causality. Then the causality sphere is, theoretically, as big as the universe itself.