That's on point. I've witnessed a similar transition within a company, and every time they tell you "automate X" and you ask "Define X", you get a wrong answer. Even basic calculations are often done incorrectly or with hidden and inconsistent assumptions. I was always too focused on detail to do what others did in my position: somehow deliver a number they like and stop asking difficult questions.
Well, he's not the only one living on a moving vehicle. Tons of homeless people get bus passes and ride around all day and night. A train ride is less bumpy, sure, but it's effectively the same. Although what probably happens is that this kid goes on weekend train trips and comes back home the next day, unless he's seriously mentally ill. Even the most dedicated backpacker would give up on this after a week. It's basically torture.
Hey, now that we proved that permanent attrition wars are a "viable" option that won't kick in a full scale war, we can start more! Think of all the profits! In fact under the threat of a full blown nuclear war, we can bring back full scale conventional armed conflict on the table, like the good old times.
sudo hyperfocus-like-I'm-a-sophomore-again
Sorry but 10 years of effort and no software trick helped me stop procrastinating, except pulling the cables off the router or going to a library.
That's an interesting article. I'm aware of this sort of radiative cooling, but usually convection and conduction, along with evaporative cooling will be much, much more important than radiative cooling.
I'd like to see some kind of report or article showing the cooling potential in W/m^2. I remember someone made a metamaterial optimized for emitting heat in the wavelength of the atmospheric window, but the value was quite low.
I recently became part of this statistic after my lifestyle changed. I went from having a job that involved some walking around to 100% computer work, commuting with a car instead of public transport and not having time to cook. The worst thing is that beyond a certain point, it's hard to even motivate yourself. Losing 5kg can be done in a month. Losing 20 or 30kg realistically takes close to a year of serious restrain.
People who blame fast food are only partially right. It's definitely an enabler because processed food just isn't as filling or nutritionally dense as "proper" home cooked meals.
But the biggest difference is that unlike my great grandpa I don't have to toil in the fields most days and it's hard to convince yourself to expend that kind of effort during the little leisure time you have.
I wholeheartedly agree. I used to visit my grandpa's village every year (somewhere in europe) surrounded by beautiful mountains. The nature was accessible by everyone - warranted they'd do a 2 hour drive on rough road, get a hiking map and hike to the top. You'd also have to pack lunch and coffee. Now a new road is build, several hotels including a luxury resort with pools, coffee shops, tourist traps selling "traditional" "local" products etc. It's just terrible. Before, you'd "buy" your way there with effort, now you just pay, and you take your laziness with you all the way to the mountain top where you buy your $10 coffee and instagram snaps. If you want to sidestep the "nature" part of nature just go to a city park.
I wouldn't expect google to mess this up but then again someone probably calculated value produced vs project cost and tossed this one at the bottom of the pile 10 times already. 66/100k people (0.066%, close to the definition for a rare disease) would be born on 29th of feb on a uniform distribution, probably minus another 5% or so because february is in many places the least likely month to be born into. And out of those people how many actually put in their real birthday? Still odd to mess up a subtraction though.
How about this scenario: In 20 years, this treatment is standard, but there's a catch: it's bundled with a wider behavioral modification treatment protocol, whereby they first reduce the cravings for drugs and alcohol, then they start showing you anti-establishment imagery, and zap the parts of your brain that respond to it.
In fact the second treatment is also standard issue for all those who are diagnosed with oppositionism, a growing mental health disorder characterized by symptoms such as distrusting government authorities and forbes 500 companies. Treatments show a 90% reduction of symptoms and improving quality of life, for example they no longer clash with authorities or make hate statements as defined by the patriot act II of 2028.
Obviously an exaggeration, but there is a real concern. The line is blurry and will be crossed if we let it happen. Taking intravenous drugs for 20 years does some serious damage. It's nice if we develop a treatment for it, but it also shifts the focus away from prevention. People shouldn't be reaching that point, and wouldn't if we were acting on it.
This sort of pathology is not present on all court systems. In many countries the prosecutor is not judged on "performance" metrics like conviction rate but on merit as judged by his senior peers.
Objectively the job of the prosecutor is not to convict the maximum number of people but rather to establish the truth and help the judge impose proportional sentences based on facts.
It's not a foolproof system but it seems to work much better than ones with "objective" criteria
This, alongside just-in-time printing, is why I've not bought a single book from amazon in my entire life. Do society a favour and support a smaller, independent bookstore.
You make the assumption that consumers want what they buy, consumers will just buy what's in front of them. In places dominated by big supermarket chains consumers have a lot less choice than it seems, as marginal costs for shopping a few items from elsewhere are high.
I think most people will agree the threshold to be in the few millions. Some will argue for 5 and few for 50, but nobody can produce $1B of value. Take control of it, sure, but produce, no.
Most doctors will be able to turn around, pick the corresponding textbook from their library and show you where they learned something. Or point you to an actual clinical case they had to handle. If they had to, somehow.
Well, I would, but there's not that many of us. By 'us' meaning people who are willing and able to leave emotional attachments out of the fact-seeking process.
He should have lost his license after keeping up. There should be a serious fine (at least 10x the time of other people they have wasted) and loss of professional licenses upon the first repeat of the offense. You want to use AI to discover similar cases? You want to use it for ideas on how to structure your line of defense? Good. The moment you submit it's output under your name though, expect repercussions.
Thank you for posting this. I wanted to read a reasonable voice for a while, and I couldn't find anything. Search engines, traditional and LLM-based (ie ChatGPT) will actively censor all dissident voices, and it's just so tiring being unable to have a conversation with someone or read an article that's based on some common ground, some common assumptions between you and the writer.
A 90fps 8k UHD 10-bit movie that's 3 hours long is 120TB uncompressed. You might think that's too much, muh compression algorithms etc, but we have consumer devices that can use this kind of storage, and no economic means of transporting one-to-many, multi-TB files. I would absolutely welcome them, and use it to distribute the entirety of libgen (hypothetically, don't lock me up yet). Or really high resolution VR porn or documentaries. Either way there's good uses for it. It won't replace your hard drive but there's a market gap to fill.
Very true, and not just about privacy. Cynicism is flourishing in our societies for two reasons:
-It's supported by those in a position of power, as a cynic is someone who stops trying to counter them, often successfully.
-It enables us to stop putting effort towards a common goal without feeling guilt, as by telling ourselves "it's over" "we lost" "there's no point" we can just give up; trying to convince ourselves that our effort didn't mean anything.
This article is a great reminder that our effort matters, and this is not a win/lose game. There's always more to lose, and we'll find out how much if we don't try. There's no giving up on life, there's no giving up on participating in society.
We have to fight for our rights, even if it's small, inconvenient and seemingly thankless battles every day. This is what makes all the difference in the world.
I thought it was well understood that the most likely thing is just different physics we can't measure or predict? And in a quantum-mechanics type agnosticism we decided things that aren't measurable aren't worth trying to understand.
Honestly the whole thing would be funny if it's wasn't part of the dystopian society we're building. Is this... innovation now? What are we trying to optimize society for? Extracting maximum rents? But were will the money come from if everyone is doing the same thing and producing nothing of value?
When I had really serious procrastination problems, there's one thing that helped me: coming to terms with the needs, wants or realities I was suppressing.
You might "want" to get more work done, but what you really want is to go out for an overdue drink with a friend or your girlfriend, speak to someone you miss, get some time for yourself, get something else sorted first so it stops bothering you, or simply accept that the timeframe or goals you set for your self are not realistic and will need adjusting.
The other possibility that people spoke about here is physical issues. Tiredness will cause you to be unable to perform, and it'll often manifest as procrastination. Procrastination basically is you not doing something because you either don't want to, or you aren't able to. Find out why and fix the cause.
What's more concerning is the development of new types of weapons. Similar to WW1 I think many security consultants and leaders will slip into a mindset that these advanced weapons will mean winning wars fast and cheap. Which will not turn out well. Couple that with the power of modern algorithmic propaganda across the world and slipping humanitarian standards and the end result isn't looking good. Thinking strategic use of nuclear weapons might be ok and showing no fear of a nuclear war isn't positive either.
As far as technology goes, drones are just the lowest hanging fruit. We're seeing a nuclear space race happening, nuclear capable hypersonic reentry and cruise systems, atomic kamikaze submarines, and maybe the most insidious part is the less visible ones: AI based targeting, decision making and propaganda. The machine will push the button without a hitch and when people realize these half-joking idiotic online conversations have now become not only policy but set their lives ablaze it'll be too late.
Lots of folks seem to think that avoiding nuclear war last time was some kind of convergent self-driven process we let happen. It wasn't, it was conscious, difficult decisions by many people that let to this. Your decisions have an impact. It's a burden, sure, but take responsibility for it.
If it helps you it's great. I was drinking tons of coffee daily from my teenage years to my mid-20s. I didn't feel any ill effects from it. Now in my early 30s, it causes anxiety. I don't know how or why, but it's scary how caffeine and a little bit of tiredness turns me into a shell of a man these days. Having a safe stimulant to kick you out of inactivity is a great help so I'd say take advantage of it.