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Caloric restriction is probably exactly like exercise in that it was normal, so "scheduling" autophagy for the "famine" times meant it happened regularly and alongside similar systems.
What did it for me was that IF comes with muscle growth hormones increase.
I mean a 3-5 day hunt can look a lot like a marathon and a fast / IF mashed together.
If you haven't seen the movie, sorry, it's a giant omnipotent artifact that causes all kinds of horrors by just manifesting what nearby humans think strongly about.
AI seems to be dangerous precisely because we tend to think, write, and test it as dangerous. What if there's a lot more "expectation fulfillment" going on with these models than people might appreciate, by virtue of their fundamental architecture perhaps.
Don't get me started on people "asking AI what it wants" and getting obvious scifi tropes out - the question answers itself when you frame it that way.
But don't assume it's without its own controversy. Maybe the point of civilization is to allow people to help eachother by providing safeguards against treachery.
Maybe they should be forced to help eachother under threat of violence. There's a massive spectrum of "solutions" between those two, and UBI could be considered pretty close to forcing, depending on how it's implemented.
It's not pedantry or technicalities, a lasting system needs to benefit people and support / build shared principles. Ideally it'd support the principles that enabled it in the first place.
Will we say the same thing about the 4 million software jobs? When we're doing landscaping work in our 40s for 1/10 our past salary is that improved economic efficiency at its finest?
But you should know that it's a fairly narrow, political, and controversial thing to say that the purpose of the economy is to support people during unemployment crises. In fact it's so axiomatic that I really think it's worth calling out as part of the assumed solution not an obvious and foundational truth.
AI+game modding for the purposes of game exploration or AI exploration might just be the shot in the arm the industry needs for story-driven, interactive games that aren't confined to traditional scripts. It doesn't have to be far fetched over a 10 year horizon.
From my memory we often piled into the car, got dinner, and went home and my parents had to stay up late to clean while we went to bed.
In my wife's memory, one parent couldn't work - all this stuff had to fall on them.
I'm saying the $10 is a nicety, not a necessity. We would be ok without it. I just think we're a little better with it. It's a market system - if I need it, it's there at a price I can justify. Markets are a good thing.
Yes, doordash can prey on laziness, and people will fall into laziness, but in my example the _availability_ of the service is providing a price-adjustment for urgency that matches my own rational prioritization of the evening's needs. It's the most rational, mutually-beneficial argument I can make, and it's real in my house from time to time.
Here's how it works out rationally: I just got home from work, the kids are a mess, the house needs cleaning, and my spouse is having a work crisis. The kids favorite treat is chipotle. Of all the options for "use money to make this go away so I can focus on the problem" paying $10 surcharge for doordash is by far the cheapest.
"Hey kids chipotle treats are on the way - but you have to go get your room tidied and leave mom alone" actually does work.
6 million smart, rational engineers, mathematicians, actuaries, professors in the country, each doing this analysis, four times a year, yields 240 million dollars in surcharges without an ounce of laziness.
Then add laziness on top.
It's somewhat bombastic, but a really excellent book for overall "next generation" health.
As a MN'n, I have my own opinions about the escalatory tactics of protestors (the marches were awesome, but many of the follow/callout patrols seemed designed to get people killed), and the predictable response of ICE. All while I strongly oppose gov surveillance and tracking like this.
There's very little mutual discussion, brainstorming, anything. The slowness inherit in building software before made those discussions almost necessary, now they're post-hoc criticisms (PR "review") rather than fulfilling collaborations.
It's fine from a technical sense, but I do wonder what it does for culture.
It's always something I've hated, coming from software and working with experts. I always wanted to be the "software guy" who gets to learn the specialist engineering disciplines. It just felt like swimming upstream and the incumbent specialists always wanted to DIY.
Having said that, some subject-matter experts just don't have the stomach for it. They are so separated from software that they have a block to building even with AI. A good s/w-specialist pair is dynamite there.
its got a ton of useful options, preconfigured, integrates pretty easily, and can use any local LLM or data.
And what does this have to do with psychosis - is that a general catch-all term for using AI too much?
You're right that this would be awful if mandatory.
but it often was socially mandatory!
At least when those times come, the work can go much further before I have to actually "check in" vs doing some well-trod analysis via automation I've set up. That's great!
The amount of mental energy saved, and downright stimulation gained from seeing rapid feedback in a tight loop is making my workday much easier. I have enough left to continue it longer.
EDIT: Making the continuation mandatory would be a bad thing, but it's not bad that I can do this now.
That's small potatoes vs their new excess capex spend of 100sB/y.
That's small potatoes vs their new excess capex spend of 100sB/y.
This isn't the end.