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I don’t think it’s only that, but in many Western European societies (and those derived thereof) it would have been unusual to have members of a family with surnames spelled differently, even if only the suffix.

So the whole family may just have taken the male head of house’s surname to avoid problems, or even been simply assigned his surname by immigration officials.

Many a name were changed at Ellis Island, for example.

The trend of surnames as given names is stranger to me than traditional gender reversal of names.

I’ll add: re-read books. When reading a book a second time (or third, or fourth) you’ll get new things out of it because you’ll spend less time and energy focused on the obvious things you’re already familiar with. And if it’s been some good number of years I think you’ll also find your memory of the book isn’t as good as you might have thought.

Sounds like they might have to pay experts to do it.

The question is whether this is attack has cost them more than that would have.

Then why did it say it was encrypted when it’s not?

Not sure if you’re joking but I will gladly replace going to the gas station with taking 10 seconds to plug in my car when I get home.

I find fascinating the difference between people who think of cars as a tool versus a toy. And certainly for some people it simply depends on which car.

For me, all cars are a tool. I don’t really enjoy driving. Driving is a chore I have to do in order to do things I do like.

I don’t yet own an electric car, but I find them very appealing because they would eliminate a chore from my life: going to the gas station.

I do wonder what it would be like to enjoy driving for its own sake.

> but Anthropic has a great product.

Give me $100 billion and I will make the greatest pencil sharpener that has ever existed, and possibly that will ever exist.

That’s not entirely true. There are parts of mathematics that have useful real world applications. Sometimes even the parts we thought were esoteric and abstract turn out to have applications that were not conceived of yet at the time of discovery.

What is “pure” energy?

That’s the risk. You can write it down or otherwise store it, but you’re trading one risk for another.

That feels like a broad generalization, but in either case that’s cultural. The underlying desires are still there, whether expressed or not.

How so? I think applied mathematics is the exception.

I’m pretty sure cryptocurrency enthusiasts are a small minority of cryptocurrency users.

Sure, the plot devices might be rendered moot by technological change but the underlying motivations remain the same.

Technology has changed, but humans haven’t.

It would turn the poor into organ farms for the rich. It would also further incentive coercive organ sales and provide cover for forced organ sales.

Commit it to memory, the original kind.

Fine, but first we must eliminate all poverty.

To simplify: it’s essentially work X hours per week, performing the job duties described for the position, the specifics of which will be supplied to you by your boss (they tell you what to do).

If your boss believes you are performing a satisfactory amount of work for the time spent, you keep your job. If not, or they just don’t like you for some reason not protected by law, you lose your job.

You do what they tell you and hope they are happy with the results.

No you do the opposite: you don’t charge those whose underlying values and beliefs you agree with. Everyone has broken some law.

So it’s there for them when they’re no longer a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.

> I can now easily work every waking minute, and some sleeping minutes, at a level approximately comparable to my prior 8h workload from 10 years ago.

That is not something that should be celebrated.

It is a warning sign.

I agree, but I was commenting on things as I believe they currently are.

I do recall, I’m more surprised anyone would believe it.

Good thing all employers are rational.

The opening premise baffles me. What kind of illusion must one be under to believe that employers would ever pay you the same amount of money to do less work?

Realistically there were only ever two possible outcomes: you do more work for the same amount of money, or you’re one of the ones who were laid off and your work was transferred to the former.

The only way it will result in less work and the same or better quality of life is if you’re self-employed or are employed by a compassionate human. Sadly that does not apply to the majority of people.

That’s not even remotely in the same ballpark. South America had already been inhabited by humans for roughly 50,000 years by the time Europeans showed up. And of course “European man” had no problem inhabiting South America once they decided to.

We are exploring. We no longer need humans to explore. I’m sure humans will eventually explore Mars, but we’re nowhere near ready for that. And likely won’t be in our lifetime.

If we can’t even return rocks from Mars, how are we ever getting a person back? It’s not even a given that we could get a human to Mars alive.

If people with your mindset were in charge, I think we would get there sooner, but there would be many lives lost and untold money wasted first. For what? To plant a flag?

The only part of the fruit you’d eat unprocessed is the pulp around the seeds. It’s pretty nice, but nothing extraordinary.

I don’t think anyone uses cacao seeds for anything except for processing.

There is significant processing required to go from cacao to chocolate.