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He has written a lot of sci-fi that has to do with technology including cryptocurrencies and the metaverse(he was potentially the first use of the term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse). That would be why it can get attention, he is a writer who has explored these topics a lot so you can say his relationship to it is thinking and organizing his thoughts about tech / tech-dystopia.

Not answering your question really but I will say the "[...]defensive, it's very easy to look down at therapists with a bit of disdain and contept, rendering them ineffective." part is not on the therapist necessarily. Therapy is not some magic thing that is going to "fix" problems. Coming at therapy with a defensive and disdainful approach is only going to take away from your therapy and will require work for you to get over that in therapy. In fact it might be a great starting point to go into to re-frame your thinking to assist in the rest of therapy.

I was just reading in Vice[0] about talk like this. I am not saying OP is necessarily saying this but it does seem similar.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-ci...

We all know someone already is doing this and they will make the "this memo does not exist" site. HN front page next week.

There is non-defense and non-gov work in DC. It was growing when I left several years ago but it is probably still there. A half decent site that covers tech related news in the area is https://technical.ly/dc/ so you can get a feel for what they talk about. In general, if you are already doing remote work and just moving for the area it is a great city with a lot to explore/learn/do.

Something that still requires a little more knowledge but makes Louisiana slightly more known is that New Orleans, or NOLA like the news source is named, is in Louisiana (it is where the LA from NOLA comes from). New Orleans is slightly more known than random places but still requires a few steps of thought. All this is to say, it is funny to add in the 'little known' part but LA in this context was always going to be a little confusing.

That is exactly the reason I have tried to explore the Solarpunk sub-genre[0]. It isn't that the work is necessary optimistic but it seems like the genre focuses on problems that currently exist and where to go from here.

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

This is not exactly what you are looking for but you should browse Papers with Code:

https://paperswithcode.com/

"The quantum computers you interact with in IBM Quantum use a physical type of qubit called a superconducting transmon qubit, which is made from superconducting materials such as niobium and aluminum, patterned on a silicon substrate. Such systems are not natural qubits, but are instead formed by isolating two energy levels out of many to form our approximate qubit."

https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/docs/iqx/guide/th...

Here is a link to Amazon's release:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing...

I often say to people that the most important thing physics gave me was being comfortable not knowing something. My math and physics education have 100% changed the way I think and address problems in life, despite not going into a physics career.

Since it is a book thread:

The Information: James Gleick - really made me take a step back to think about what information is and how we talk about it

Reinventing Discovery: Michael Nielsen - It was some years back now but I had trouble reading it because I kept having to write things down or read about a new idea the book just put into my head. It really was thought provoking at the time.

This should have the [2020] in the title, but it was interesting at the time to read for sure.

A few other resources because this one seems to read just like a PR:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/11/rolls-royce-tests-hydro...

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/rolls-roy...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63758937

https://simpleflying.com/rolls-royce-hydrogen-tests-turbine-...

Meta's page: https://ai.facebook.com/research/cicero/diplomacy/

Github: https://github.com/facebookresearch/diplomacy_cicero

In the US it even varies by state, which has gotten people in trouble with recorded phone calls.

There is a summary of what this means from their first press release:

https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/edannounce/new-in-prx-qu...

"PRX Quantum began publishing Tutorials to help the quantum community educate the next generation of quantum scientists. Rather than provide a comprehensive overview of the field, as is typically found in a Review paper, Tutorials are hands-on guides written by experts invited by the editorial leadership of the journal. Tutorials focus on the essential knowledge and relevant references that will allow newcomers to a research field, approach, or methodology efficiently move forward with their work. For example, they should ideally help researchers migrate to a new field, bridge knowledge gaps for interdisciplinary collaborators, and contribute to the education and development of PhD students and postdocs. They focus on explaining well-established milestone concepts, the latest techniques, and developments in the field, providing a flavor of current research."

I think the argument is mostly that there are universal truths than math and physics describe not that our current level of math and physics are universal truths. So finding an example that we do not understand fully doesn't mean that there aren't truths in other aspects of math and physics. As for things like complex numbers there is an underlying debate that has been around in philosophy of science and math that distinguishes between discovery and invention. Our representation may have been invented but we discovered some thing that works historically and has predictive power.

There is a conversation going on at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33231563 from a different submission.

Full title: Experiment on YouTube reveals potential to 'inoculate' millions of users against misinformation

Paper:Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo6254

The paper: To image, or not to image: class-specific diffractive cameras with all-optical erasure of undesired objects

https://elight.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s43593-022-...

Full title: Linking the nonmaterial dimensions of human-nature relations and human well-being through cultural ecosystem services

WaPo article about it with a few quotes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/08/05/...

Web Archive of WaPo: https://web.archive.org/web/20220818151446/https://www.washi...

There is a good book that goes into some of the history and context around the river and how we got to this point.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

By: John M. Barry

Full title of the press release is "Gartner Identifies Key Emerging Technologies Expanding Immersive Experiences, Accelerating AI Automation and Optimizing Technologist Delivery"

The paper that seemed to have prompted this Physics Viewpoint is:

Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

And a PDF link: https://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRev...

That experiment is also used to teach about selective data exclusion (potential scientific fraud) as well as a resistance to challenging an already published value (future experiments searching to verify Millikan's value rather than show it was incorrect or off) in a lot of experimental classes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment

Really not getting into anything that looks like a flame-war here, the obvious solution is a better balance between everyone not a who is better argument but rural areas often are more heavily subsidized per capita and do not have the same economic generators that cities do. None of that is to say urban is more important or rural is more important. Statements like where do you think all the people who actually make things live undervalues the absolutely essential interdependence between urban and rural areas.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-rural-america-needs-c...

I don't know how relevant the parent comment is but I will say it is very common and seemingly often expected for the wedding party to be in part family members.

The paper "Generation of High-Resolution Handwritten Digits with an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer"

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.03...

I haven't checked out the book yet but I really like his actual website [0]. This is a great example of trying to make your research/field accessible and various levels, or at the very least making it a little more engaging.

[0] http://www.thomaswong.net/

Not the article but a phys.org write up of the article: https://phys.org/news/2022-07-chromosome-loss-heart-failure-...

Also the article in Science is actually titled: Hematopoietic loss of Y chromosome leads to cardiac fibrosis and heart failure mortality