Isn't this just Chaos Theory, Calculus, and the problem of Jerks (third derivative of position in regards to time)?
When you slice complex reality into smaller pieces, within the smaller piece you have a rough idea of velocity, and changes in velocity (aka acceleration), but you have no idea of future speed-bumps, aka the jerks (third derivative of position in regards to time) for that information is outside the frame of reference when you divided reality into smaller pieces.
Thus you have pictures of people / objects in systems but you are not truly understanding relationships thus you miss things even though you feel like you see things. It is all a theme park for our own amusement, it is not real, only hyper-real which becomes uncanny when we start noticing how the images are off.
In sum humans do not always optimize towards one variable like success / fitness.
Instead they optimize to many things like money, prestige, power, security, and so on. Much like you can't describe health as a single thing, when you collapse your insight to a single variable you miss everything in your simulation of how reality works.
This applies to an individual level but especially applies towards a cooperative level with multiple individuals. When we cooperate (or just act in ambiguous situations) sometimes trying to collapse your actions to "mental shortcuts" aka Heuristics in Judgment and Decision-Making to borrow some thinking fast and slow language further reduces insight.
The cost of soybeans is a lot cheaper to make an artificial burger (once they get the R&D down) than feeding the same soybeans to a cow and getting roughly 1:10 the calorie weight due to energy pyramids. You can get roughly 200 kg of protein per acre per year, while cows it is roughly 19 kg of protein per acre per year.
Of course this is talking future costs, for we are still perfecting artificial plants / proteins that taste like meat even though we been "branding" veggie burgers since the 1980s and the food science goes back hundreds of years prior to that.
People will often make choices of accepting an inferior product for vastly cheaper price. So yeah it is possible it is about how many choices you have and what are the different costs for each choice.
The illusion of control. It is the same reason people doomscroll on twitter hoping more information will somehow how change the result. Our brains, all human brains, are not rational but instead are their own thing.
Mental Illness as defined by the DSM as not thriving. You can have the symptoms of a disorder, but if you are thriving then you do not have the disorder.
>It can seriously mess someone's life up.
Treatment to try fix someone who is not thriving, is precisely because someone's life is already messed up. Yes treatment may make it worse, but it often makes it better and there are treatment algorithms where we use best practices of how to go from here, and what signs should we be mindful for often when the meds make things worse the doctor should be asking the right questions for there are warning signs when the med is making things worse.
There is a good video done by Philosophy Tube about this subject (it also talks about Jordan Peterson.)
Some words are inherently subjective, like we can't define what "healthy" is without using so many words that are beyond description. (About 10 minutes in this metaphor appears, when Philosophy Tube references Richard Boyd.)
Yept the "Middle Way" is both a rejection of pure asceticism and pure hedonoism, but a middle path between extremes. Material things can be used temporary but the goal is "to unfocus" and see beyond material things.
Reason and Language are useful as well, but the various buddhist teachers over 2400 years whole point is to unfocus and see beyond the limitation of how we try to use language to bring an artificial form of order that is not true understanding, nor is it true love or compassion. Instead it is a form of "clinging" that makes things feel overly familiar and safe when the nature of reality is constant change and finding peace with this "uncanny" and thus scary reality if we allow it to scare us in such a way.
Sigh that "Koan" is not literally about killing the Buddha. It is recognizing the divinity is not in an idol or image, including other people. That strand of Buddhism says enlightenment is first found within, and after you find it you see it also in the external world, not in a specific form but you see it everywhere.
Most likely that Koan comes from Linji Yixuan aka 1600 years ago, but Buddhism is likely 2400 or older years ago.
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Linji Yixuan also has another saying "If you meet your forefather, kill him" once again this is not literal but is once again excessive reverence to other relationships instead of finding family in all things not just a specific forefather.
A similar statement would be Jesus Christ in the Gospels such as Luke saying you can't be his follower if you love your father, wife, children, siblings, etc more than him. Jesus demanded you love him more than you love your own life, and your duty to his faith is greater than your traditions saying "I must wait" to follow you for first I must bury my dead father and so on. [Once again it is probably not supposed to be taken literally for the Gospels choose certain metaphors for dramatic effect about how one organizes ones priorities.]
Forking the LibGen to save 20% of file sizes will be counterproductive. Yes you save some storage but the network effects is more important, for people willing to contribute to "the one true thing" actually provides more seeders than the 20%.
Furthermore the 9th Circuit does the most basis and almost all of their court cases are not taken up by the Supreme Court, that means less than 1% of Court Cases are overturned.
Source for numbers but other places have written about this.
Agreed generally but as my own memory of reading these research papers and what wikipedia points out that lactase persistence is not caused by a single gene but there are several different gene variants that can produce this same effect.
And we know since the mid 2000s by a dozen or so genetic studies that these genes did not arrive from a single culture or single timeframe, but are an example of "convergent evolution" aka it was beneficial for humans generally and thus when independent random mutations occurred they persisted longer for those people were more likely to breed and thrive. This happened several times in human history and are not a singular event.
And thus individual humans may have Lactase Persistence in adulthood and other individual humans may not have the persistence. Furthermore how much Lactose you can process with the Lactase enzyme is a dependent process where some people can handle some quantities but not too much quantity of Lactose all at once.
Kroger is the second largest supermarket in the US (after Walmart) that has many subsidiaries grocery chains that they have acquired in its 100+ years of existence. Pretty much Kroger bought up other "family" grocery chains and then keeps those chains local names such as Dillons, Frys, King Soopers, City Market, Gerbes, Kwik Mart, etc.
Safeway by contrast is part of the Albertson and Albertsons and its Subsidiaries is the 3rd largest Supermarket chain.
How is this different from the Miller-Urey experiments from the 1950s ? I am asking this for someone who is more knowledgeable and technical than me.
"To my understanding" ? Those 1952 experiments yielded 20 amino acids, and this experiment in 2016 to 2019 experiments merely are demonstrating RNA can be made with a similar experiment? Our cells naturally use RNA, specifically mRNA in a "translation" process at the Ribosomes part of our cells where the Amino Acids are used to create longer protein chains.
Am I remembering my AP Biology correctly or did I get something wrong?
This is big news when the Facebook employees we are referring to starting salary is 120k a year and the median employee is 240k a year. [Note many people who work for facebook are some form of contract employees and thus do not make this, but it was also not a contract employee who recorded this conversation for they do not get to sit down with Mark in these weekly meetings.]
Even if you are not happy with everything about Facebook that income level often prevents this type of behavior for the incentives of company and worker align generally. And it is a big deal for this was a new thing, not a thing that never happens, but also not a thing that happens often that it becomes the new normal.
The bigger thing is a mismatch between the employees of facebook and the management. These weekly meetings happen all the time, what is different is now the employees are recording them and releasing them to the press. This means at least one employee no longer thinks the interest of upper management and the workers align and she or he spent forethought in order to record the conversation and then spent time afterwards figuring out a way to contact the press.
This is a there there, even if the actual conversation transcript is banal and what you would expect from Zuck.
>The world of medicine will be in trouble without our system, because govetnments are really not that good at innovation.
Medicine is not like building a factory, completely different capital model for Medicine is about "discovery" there is a universal truth out there (yes there is differences in genes not making it perfectly universal) , and advances in medicine is figuring out this discovery.
It actually appears most of our medicine discoveries use basic research that is governmentally funded and not privately funded.
Pretty much you are applying top down ideology that government is bad no matter the situation or context.
All of this is true, but it was the SoftBank capital flow that made this all possible until now. The reconinging and reform would have happened sooner with WeWork if SoftBank was not providing "free jet fuel."
>Softbank is an enabler.
Enabler is true, but a lever requires both the rod and the fulcrum the rod pivots on. Without the enabler the lever would not exist.
When you slice complex reality into smaller pieces, within the smaller piece you have a rough idea of velocity, and changes in velocity (aka acceleration), but you have no idea of future speed-bumps, aka the jerks (third derivative of position in regards to time) for that information is outside the frame of reference when you divided reality into smaller pieces.
Thus you have pictures of people / objects in systems but you are not truly understanding relationships thus you miss things even though you feel like you see things. It is all a theme park for our own amusement, it is not real, only hyper-real which becomes uncanny when we start noticing how the images are off.