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That may be true if you're severely depressed, but I think it can save you if you're starting to get depressed. That's what happened to me at one point, and an online comment saved me.

I was like 60% depressed but on my way there. I just took my first computer science class in college but I was overly ambitious when I participated in an undergrad CS research. The stress and imposter syndrome was shoving me to the downward spiral.

I posted some gloomy thoughts on an online forum. It was long ago, but I remember the post contained how I could kind of relate to the villain while watching the movie The Dark Knight Rises.

Some online person advised me "lift weights". I had never tried seriously lifting weights, but I was living in a student apartment 10 minutes away from the student gym, so I decided to give it a try. I can't forget the sensation when I did a set of bench press. After a period of amassing so much stress, each rep felt like I was reaching my hand into my brain, directly scooping out the waste and tossing it away.

I became much more active after that, and successfully finished the research and the degree.

It's like how homelessness is more reversible for people who became homeless less than a year ago, and why organizations focus on those groups.

Very cool!

However, I have a dumb question (as someone who doesn't know about electronics): how is it different from a YouTube lecture where the same content is demonstrated with real objects or with animation?

I'm not sure if the interactivity in these examples add much value to learning, as the buttons only serve as 'show me the next animation'.

If the eventual goal is to build a virtual sandbox that models the real world more closely, then I think this is a great first step and a great idea!

> we may see the rise of “developer-less” companies.

I think the opposite trend will also emerge and more than offset this. Yes, vibe coded tools may fit the needs of low-stake applications for some companies, but if it was low-stake enough to start with, they likely didn't hire many devs, if any. More likely we'll see non-tech companies starting to hire a dev to build custom software (e.g., ERP) suitable for their use cases vs. buying SaaS and paying consultants to customize it.

Learning about these companies is a good first step, but what can we do about it? How does this knowledge going to help?

Iterator helper methods will be a nice addition!

> The history lesson is that when the most of the GDP generation doesn't need without the help of the population, the result is a regime. Scalable and cost efficient AGI will do the same to countries that do not make most of their GDP from extracting natural resources because once the citizen is not needed for wealth generation, territorial control, etc., their political representation goes away.

That's a great insight