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> Okay, but you can do the same in dynamically typed Python

But the rust code is still safer, e.g. you haven't checked for an `AttributeError` in case `req.cookies`, the point is Rust protects you from this rabbit-hole, if you're prepared to pay the price of wrestling the compiler.

Don't talk about it, be about it.

"deep sleep" here has a technical definition which wasn't what I assumed, and the top 10th percentile is 68 minutes of "deep sleep", so this is probably fine and not a problem.

I'm feeling a bit cheated it's 2025 and I just bought a brand new car that does not drive itself and runs on dead dinosaurs.

Depends if it's a currency or a store of wealth.

E.g. destroy half the gold in the world, price doubles...

The solution to pollution is dilution.

Dilution in time counts as well.

`What do you think is the root cause for this kind of thinking?`

It's probably quite advantageous to have some individuals irrationally hedging against catastrophe--even though they are likely to be wrong, when one of them is very occasionally right the humans survive.

Given that we can't yet predict our reality from the fundamental up, it seems like a failure of imagination to assert that you couldn't get some high-level-similar-to-our-cognition sentient beings under a separate set of coincidences.

I'm willing to run with the 3% figure... But I take issue with the linearity assumption that torturing 34 shrimp is thus worse than torturing a human!

I learnt this way of thinking about units in my engineering degree, and it is indeed incredibly powerful and I regularly use it.

But I would classify it as "algebra" instead of "arithmetic". Being fluent in manipulations like

60 km/h = 60 km/h * h/3600s * 1000m/km

is not a trivial modality of thought to unlock!

Is there some experiment you can do that shows some 'physical realityness' that the mathematical object can't describe?

If not, then whose to say whether the mathematical object is 'real' or just a perfect description? Is the difference meaningful?

On the other hand, better to do the weeding early than wait for it to get out of hand...

All else being equal, spaced out panels or no you would still want as much electricity as possible out of the panels!

>>> Maybe the only way to be good at reading is to just reading more?

Perhaps at some point you plateau and need to practice "micro skills". e.g. there's a point with chess where you stop getting better playing more games - but training puzzles can bump you out of the plateau.

Retraining as a math teacher here, so I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how kids learn stuff at the moment.

At one point in the article it states that indeed the trio of semantic/syntactic/graphophonic cues are used by readers. The article kind of dances around the point that even if these cues tend to be used by competent readers, it doesn't mean that training them directly is how novice readers need to learn.

I'm really coming round to this belief that there is no substitute for the "rote" drilling of basic skills.

Maybe given the choice of claiming disability and not working vs experimenting with new ways of working, OP chose the latter.

If so, would it be a case of letting yourself being exploited by the uncaring business? Or would it be a fair and productive desire to contribute?

I find it insanely useful for moderately basic tasks I don't do often e.g. "write me a regex that will match XYZ", or basic latex formatting. Much more efficient than googling for docs!

>>> Artificial systems don't replace humans

Artificial systems have yet to replace humans (possibly).

Just because it's been true up to now, doesn't mean there isn't a phase transition on the horizon.

It would certainly radically reshape it.

Maybe the end state is a utopia of human flourishing where no one has to do the shit jobs and we direct AI to create a paradise.

Maybe the ends state is a cyberpunk dystopia where power and wealth concentrates in the hands of those who control the AIs, and the masses fight each other to have the opportunity to sell their soul to be a suit while the rest starve.

Maybe AI progress takes a surprisingly long time, and the next 100 years sees a gentle continuation of the 20th century automation trend.

But I'd be surprised if we could put the genie back in the bottle.

Less lamentable than the health impacts (famine) of not centralizing and industrializing food production!

The soundtrack to my childhood.

Baldur's Gate 2.

"You must gather your party before venturing forth"

>>> I would build a startup instead of chasing job applications and begging for promotions.

Higher expected value and more free time being an employee, but work on your passion and the possibility of a stellar outcome building a startup.

Like OP says, advice is very specific to who you are and where you are at.

True.

But the tricky thing is at what level of supermajority should companies be allowed to discriminate against you based on your choices with your body?

You could both be right, especially depending on where you live and work.

When I got my AstraZeneca vaccine (in 2021?) I remember it was common knowledge that fatal blood clots were a side effect, and from the evidence at the time I estimated that the chances of it killing me were 1 in 500,000. Have those odds changed with new information?

With doctors you can parallelize treating different patients pretty easily.

But it's also the beauty that a few people can create so much value.

And how many of these projects couldn't be picked up and urgently patched if the proverbial bus does come along? Like it wouldn't be pretty, but would it be possible?

I think from the outside, it doesn't matter whether the mass is uniformly distributed throughout the volume or concentrated at the centre - you would feel the same force of gravity. (I'd be interested to hear if there is an experiment you could do just measuring gravity to differentiate between the two!)

>>> If we were to somehow come to believe that consciousness is just an illusion--no more than a biochemical phenomenon, and no more special than transistor switching.

I believe this and yet I personally seek to inflict as little horror as possible, and am moderately restrained in the amount of force I believe the state should use.

I don't think the point here is to make a math paper understandable to a lay person, but rather make it interesting and contextualize it for other academics.