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The surprise would be if it didn't show reduced aging, calorie deficit diets are well established to produce this effect.
Re:Parking lots as economic drains on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:19PM (#46860865)
Distribute the currency appropriately so that pricing won't be abused.
Mass participation in systems can create emergent effects larger than the net sum of the parts. I opt out because first movers are unfairly advantaged; and because lacking proper safeguards, my participation would implicitly support those participants who profit from producing misery. I don't want to accidentally launder the profits from human trafficking nor commit my labor to build my own prison. The rhetoric promoting Web3 as an engine of progress and freedom simply oversold the capabilities of its initial design. That underlying long term vision may still be viable.

We can't rebuild the economy without also rebuilding the State, and that requires careful nuanced engineering and then the consent of the governed.

Re:Autism should not be treated as a single condition on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:50PM (#46151313)
Agreed; in short: any monolithic system will have individuals with natural dispositions transverse to that order, those individuals provide resiliance and novelty but also risk driving decoherence and defection. Yay pluralism.
Re:The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:55PM (#45982565)
You've drawn a neat dialectic between the hobbyist technophile and the community builder. If you want the help that you seem to eschew as rare, you could: share control through the delineation of roles, earn collective buy-in (consensus is built through some collective deliberation process, e.g democracy); otherwise, you're within your rights as individual.

Those who expect that "those who work will work for me" (the enslaver mentality) ... they also need boning up on social contract theory -- which as a leader you could nudge those individuals back towards good citizenship and maybe even gain useful support, but that's just your opportunity and not an imperative.

To extend: there will also be general alignment tendencies towards those readily mapped and expressed concepts within available language. Hard but useful concepts can get mapped to idioms. Modes of categorization will be influenced by these factors, which in turn influences many processes.
Re:AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering on Friday November 14, 2025 @11:33AM (#45928512)
The negatively coded, tribal/political speech can be referred to as 'Polemic' which stems from 'warlike' expression.
How does a skeleton get pregnant in the first place?
Re:Build Your Own Database on Friday October 31, 2025 @01:36AM (#45768738)
Presumably the analysis will retrieve stored memory states from the ingestion phase to then perform useful calculation, or else why is there a database?
“We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity,” says Dr. Faizal. “Therefore, no physically complete and consistent theory of everything can be derived from computation alone."

Sorry to be the hose but this seems like "I'm wet, therefore it's raining"

The random danger of NYC is part of its allure. People also benefit from appropriately challenging physical environments, as it enlivens and engages the body. Inattention in dense environments can lead to conflict and congestion, and so I suspect that the random observable dangers can serve some public good by causing general awareness and the self-exclusion of those who do not adapt to the needs of a dense place.
Re:Build Your Own Database on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @02:33PM (#45659720)
How do we reconstruct past memory states? That's the fundamental problem.

Efficiency of storage or retrieval, reliability against loss or corruption, security against unwanted disclosure or modification are all common concerns, and the relative values assigned to these features and others motivate database design.

Re:AI Is Different on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:12PM (#44919790)
Wherever the AI tells them to
And these apps represent an attempt to privatize the state
If your downspout is draining onto the sidewalk and turning it into an invisible ice rink...
Re:CU Randomness Beacon on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:45PM (#44501714)
Imagine the terrors of multiple government agencies synchronizing ID selection to an identical source of randomness. Congrats, you won jury duty, a tax audit AND selective service!
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:39PM (#43786010)
It's not so much dead as resembling a mangy, depressed tiger stuck in a cage at a discount-tier circus
Well narrated audio contains an interpretation, a layer of sublexical meaning that transmits value judgement, emphasis and often the narrator's imagination as to the nature of the character's voices. Often desirable, but sometimes we want our own interpretation, unique and uninfluenced by the narrator's biases.
How do you know that 'we are too many' is the truth? How do you tell others what to do (or not to do) and bind others to such an obligation without that which you repudiate? How do we 'naturally' overcome the individual's natural instinct to reproduce? What do you think is happening in the current middle east conflict? We are seeing this logic play out in horror and tragedy.

You elevate standard-of-living to the sacrosanct. The addict's standard of living was never so high as during the rush. Some will always pine for the good old days when their backs didn't ache and their burden of knowledge weighed less great. Parts of society are addicted to convenience and ease, but the standard of living is not singular, this preference is not total. Technocratic institutions require democratic feedback.

Premising our solution with 'the maintenance of standards' ignores the truth that change is hard and many will bear the weight of the necessary adaptations. If the distribution of weights seem fair, we will bear it. Seemliness is a difficult problem in a chaotic world full of untrustworthy actors speaking at a distance, words of disguised self interest. We cannot transfer the burden of responsible living to 'other people' while not committing to appropriate action ourselves.

Irresponsible reproduction does risk diseases of society and the individual, and none of this argument should construe a preference for unrestrained growth.

If your company has a board and a CFO then sure, go with the trusted solution. If you're starting a scrappy, modern, real world business, things like this can help avoid death by a thousand cuts that is paid microservices.
Sometimes you just don't want the Find-a-Coupon extension accessing Grandma's Zelle.
Re:Why flying insects gather at artificial light on Sunday April 16, 2023 @11:18PM (#35596511)
I chuckled when I read that the authors declared "no competing interests" as if the study could be funded by Big Flashlight.
Re:The Role of AI in Accelerating Skill Development on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:54PM (#35222221)
Treated as an opportunity for criticism, it can be an effective learning tool, especially for developing your critical literacy. Think of it as a game where the point is to prove it wrong.
That's how we get wonderful things like the East Palestine Disaster. Let's deregulate biotech! Coming up next after Shark Week -- Lab Leak Week! Let's deregulate environmental pollutants! You don't need clean drinking water! /s