mrleinad

> I would hope (at least at a physics level)

I think that's all this movement has: hope, but without anything real to back it up.

Virtue signaling seems to be their solution. I'm all for grounding Bill Gates to use a train to go anywhere, but I think we should have a serious discussion on the subject, with facts and not just "let's hope this works".

> PV panels become (on average) carbon neutral after three years of operation

That depends on where you install them. Almost anywhere in Europe it doesn't make sense to use solar, and yet they're doing it.[1]

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fn4clWEWAAkadtu.jpg:large

"Fossil Future" is an interesting book on this topic that argues we need to use more fossil fuels instead of less. And it makes me kind of agree with the author, since I learnt that solar and wind only makes sense to use where it can offset the carbon footprint that it created when it was manufactured. I totally vote for nuclear, and I hope that it picks up, but we'll need fossil fuels for multiple industries anyway besides energy. And if we say "let's expand R&D to find alternatives" even that probably requires more fossil fuels and not less.

Disclaimer: I don't deny global warming. I'm just not sure what the objectively realistic options are that don't include massively reducing global population and at the same time sinking millions into poverty due to lack of energy. We can go green, but we can't go green and have everyone maintain their living standards at the same time we also grow and perform R&D on multiple areas.

Oh, the short. I thought you meant a full length movie. Thanks!

Wait, there's a movie? I didn't see that. What's its name?

The happiness patch sounds like it would undermine everything else. If you want people to be able to make the best of themselves, you need strong people, not weak ones with zero resilience.

As I replied to another person: we're talking about nutrition and prostate cancer. Not about unmeasurable stuff like relationships.

> There is a lot of things we can't measure that are worth doing. Like maybe improving your relationship with your wife and kids

And what does that have to do with prostate cancer, I wonder?

Pornhub has done more for public healthcare than the average politician.

Because it raises the minimum level for everyone, and even if you're DaVinci, it's good for you that society is not full of cavemen trying to build everything from scratch.

Just remember: none of that matters unless you're taking measurements. Make sure to contrast and check whatever you do with regular blood tests that tell you whether you're doing the right thing or needs adjustments because if you continue down that path you're going to fuck yourself up.

Robots don't experience anything. They're not alive. Everything they do is something we code into them.

The rest of our fellow animal companions on this earth are thousand times better than any robot. If I'm forced to choose one of them, I wouldn't choose a dog, I'd go for one of the apes, octopus, crow, or maybe even a dolphin. But I'm fairly sure if they're given the option they'll rather stay here.

I agree, we need to focus on our local neighborhood. If there are breakthroughs, they'll come. We should make the most of what we already have.

I don't care for robots if we're not there to experience the universe. They're just a byproduct, a piece of trash we'll leave after we're gone. I want us to explore, not our toasters.

There are many significant physical roadblocks at the moment, and putting aside how cool I think that a galactic civilization would be, I'm not sure we can remove enough of them to achieve that goal.

FTL travel is impossible, and even the fastest ship would take centuries to get anywhere outside our solar system. That alone will restrict us to our little corner for the next millennia at least. Of course I reserve the right to change my mind if there's some groundbreaking discovery, but I find it unlikely. Add to that the possibility that we wipe ourselves out of existence (or the planet does), and I don't see ourselves getting to our 1 million year birthday.

It's probably not you, it's just badly structured legacy code, and you're trying to understand it all like you wrote it. Been there, it sucks.

Find someone who worked on it and have them explain it to you like you're a 5 year old. If they can't explain it in simple terms, you'll confirm that it's not the piece of cake you thought it was.

I don't dismiss that you might just need some sleep and are overworked, but since you're asking these type of questions, I'd say you're probably fine.

In those parts of the globe where it makes sense to use solar, and during the day, yes.

For everything else, you need a way to store the energy that can be measured in weeks, not hours. You also need to transport it. And you need to stabilize the energy output not to be entirely dependent on whether the sun shines. That's why hydrogen might be a good energy reservoir.

Crossfit. And bodybuilding of course.

Seriously, I had the same question when I read that.

Well, that's not working either

> What you have described is living your life where you satisfaction comes only from purchasing comfort.

I think there's a difference between having absolute comfort, and not turning up the heater in winter time, enduring cold inside your own house. Besides, it's not like he lives alone, his wife lives with him, and she has to endure that whether she likes it or not (they're old and there's no way for her to leave him, so let's not go there).

So, being a stoic is ok if that's what you like. But dragging others with you by force I think is not ok, and if you apply stoicism on things like not warming up your house, or not buying good food when you invite your family to gather in your house once a year having all the resources to be a good host, is not stoicism. It's being cheap for the sake of being cheap.

Also, my wife told me he's been like that his entire life. It's not like he turned cheap in his old age.

On my part, I'm not going to have dinner for Christmas at his house ever again.

Trying to be objective, isn't downsizing what all tech companies are doing? There's a lot of PR mismanagement here, but it seems to be in line with the rest for the moment (leaving aside EM bs). And Twitter is no Meta. There are no alternative products to bring in cash revenue, so hardcore downsizing it is.

With what money? He alienated all sponsors because anyone can successfully impersonate any brand in there now, and he's already spent >40b just to buy the damn thing.

> I assume I will NOT get the job

I apply that philosophy as much as I can. I get good results. But from time to time I get excited about some prospect of a job (or anything else) and thinking that doesn't feel so good.

Indeed

He's not spending it, but he invested it. So the money is still growing.

Virtuous would be to just give the money away to those he loved or needed that money (I'm not saying he should do that, I'm just following your logic).

As things go, he will have lived his last years like a poor man, and his family will inherit his money. He will have suffered for nothing, because he doesn't have enough money to make the rest of his family rich, just enough that he wouldn't need to suffer not having anything now.

Is this a good thread to recommend the movie "The Man From Earth"? Awesome sci-fi about living forever, made with just a bunch of people talking in a small room.

[0]Picard: "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal."

Riker: "Speak for yourself, sir. I plan to live forever."

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSX9e1TadA

PS: Gosh I miss having good writers in sci-fi movies.

Best to you, my friend. Stay strong.

My father in law is one of those. He has more money than he can spend until he dies even if he raised his standard of living 10 times. Yet he refuses to spend it, and would rather be cold during winter than turning up the heater.

I don't get it. But again, I also don't get living a life of pure pleasure, and not thinking at all about tomorrow.

I'd rather think about tomorrow, and spend today getting satisfaction from the work I do, so tomorrow I can say I did my best. But also putting in a few guilty pleasures from time to time. Not too much, because if they're scarce, there's more pleasure.

Cool idea, though I'd consider covering all bases in that implementation, and take into account that this website might be dead long before I will be.. ;)