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Solving hard mathematical problems is a strong signal for capability but would it not be preferable to through all these resources to urgent existential issues such as climate change? Finding technological solutions in those areas would be the ultimate capability signal as political alignment at global scale is almost certainly impossible.

Any book recommendations on the subject (or similar subjects)?

> And the strengths of C# are [...] Runtime-level coroutines so you don't need `async/await` everywhere

If I'm not mistaken, that isn't the case. Could you elaborate?

If I had to make an educated guess, I'd say Greece doesn't think about these types of public spaces as much as other countries do and the ones that do exist are probably a bit hostile towards the homeless.

Nowadays, it's usually not the lack of aircons that is a problem in greek households. Compared to local wages, energy prices have risen so much that lots of people cannot afford to keep their aircons on.

How so?

I'd love to believe that, but unless our timeline is disrupted (world war / climate change / regulation re: power generation and consumption), I unfortunately can't imagine a future different to the one I described - and I've tried!

Pandora's box is open; we're moving towards a world where white collar workers will be working 24/7 and they'll be expected to do so.

It won't matter if I'm washing the dishes, walking the dog, driving to the supermarket, picking up my kids from school. I'll always be switched on, on my phone, continuously talking to an LLM, delivering questionable features and building meaningless products, destroying in the process the environment my kids are going to have to grow in.

I'm a heavy LLM user. On a daily basis, I find LLMs extremely useful both professionally and personally. But the cognitive dissonance I feel when I think about what this means over a longer time horizon is really painful.

I've used this approach in the past with great success:

https://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.h...

All Evan Miller's posts on user ratings are excellent - https://www.evanmiller.org/ and search for "Mathematics of user ratings".

Thank you for your reply. I'm not a native speaker and find your writing style quite intriguing, which always makes me wonder "what does this person read?". Could you suggest a couple of your favourite books?

Apologies for this public private message, there seems to be no contact info in your profile.

Out of curiosity, why was this downvoted?

If you found this article interesting, definitely give "Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future" a read. One of the most eye-opening books I've read in the past few years.

If this is your first kid, keep in mind that the negative emotions you may be feeling are amplified a lot by all the exhaustion - physical and mental - a new baby brings.

FWIW, in one of my previous jobs, in a company with 1.5K employees, there was this engineering architect with great insights, deep understanding of the overall architecture, and true impact across the board. I would always follow the slack threads he was contributing to as there was always something to learn in there. It took me by extreme surprise when I learned he was completely blind.

I wish the best to you, your kid, and your family.

Semi-related: I guess some companies have already started augmenting their search with the use of LLMs. If you've worked on a similar project, what is your (very) high-level architecture? Did you see a noticeable difference in relevance and query time?

One has to appreciate how someone put conscious effort to write a "Synopsis" that's larger than the book itself.

Genuine question - could someone give some insight on why the post was flagged? I found the article interesting and it wasn't my intention to divide the audience. If anything, I believe lots of the comments here contribute positively in forming a more educated and all-round view on the matter.

That is a great answer, thank you so much!