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I apologize, not to be overly skeptical, but we don't know how many tabletop games the OP would have created if the internet was kept on. If it was something like 7-9, then the effect of not having internet as a distraction would be minimal.

But that may be just me; I'm always skeptical of statements of the sort of "I turned off internet/facebook/friends/etc. for a year, and look how much different life is". They may be true, but they are not generally true. I use the internet a lot and I also read a lot of paperbacks.

> While I'm fond of "deep work the idea", the book was a real disappointment. It's mostly selling the idea instead of explaining how to do something with it.

Sadly, most self-help book are like this. :-(

> Never, never, never will you hear:

> "We've got enough money, please don't send more!"

Well, research problems (such as the ones you quoted) can only be solved by substained effort and that requires substained cash flow. And there has been progress in all of them.

Real-life research is not like in Civ., where you can exchange $10000 for the invention of electricity. There are unknown costs that pop up all the time.

Would be nice to read some comments on that from practitioners. How far are we with being able to interpret neural networks at the scale used in industry? And what if the inputs are not images?

> If they are going to ban anything shouldn't it be all devices over a given thickness or internal volume?

That would be even more complicated for TSA.

Isn't that illegal?