I was unpacking and yesterday from a move and saw a copy of his "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" book and remembered he time he answered a fan email I sent to him with the simple reply "It's always nice to receive an email such as yours." - here's to hoping you are wrong about the soul Dan!
I firmly believe the only way to stop our culture from obsessing over the wrong things (politics, climate emergency, vaccines) is to give it something even worse to focus on - enter the War on Plastic! I genuinely hope this catches on and people start putting anti-plastic flags on their lawns.
I have noticed the same kind of degradation -- pair-programming with GPT4 used to feel like I was working with one of the smartest people in the world, and now it's really uneven.
The spontaneous toxic content stuff is a little alarming, but probably in the future there will be gpt-Ns that have their core training data filtered so all the insane reddit comments aren't part of their makeup.
I used to ride my bike to work in Boston, and one day I ran into the rear fender of a car who had cut me off, basically crashing into the car at pretty high speed, and the car didn't even notice.
I realized that even if I was a master at city biking, through no fault of my own I could easily die or be seriously injured, and I haven't ridden a except for fun now and then since.
tl;dr as others have pointed out 'globalization' is another term for Bretton Woods , i.e. subsidizing countries to be the USA's friend to defeat USSR, and now that USSR isn't a threat, the subsidies no longer make sense.
you are totally right - I just watched the original Point Break over the weekend and all the surfing scenes obviously have different human beings from the actors they are meant to resemble but your brain still wants to think they are the same.
It's been a little while - but I think it's because NP problems can be converted into each other, so if you can solve one of them in P you can solve all of them in P.
My advice is to read "Spiritual Laws" by Emerson - with an eye towards trying to discover your own "calling". This doesn't have to lead to another project, but will get you to start listening to your inner voice which you probably had to suppress for many years, but I'm sure it's still there :)
thank you - I thought someone might make a comment like this, which is why I added the qualifier ("weather which led to the dust-bowl") to distinguish it from the human factors - but hey - it's cool - and I love that you used the word "aeolian" - thats a really cool word :)
my point was just that weird weather has been happening for a long time, and if you think about it, if the weather people can't predict whether it will rain or not 2 weeks from now, how can they possibly predict there will be more or less storms 5 years from now, 10 years, etc?
I'm sorry, but this is utterly unhinged. There is no evidence of weather patterns of any kind, much less indications that we are about to face "extreme-weather". What caused the weather which led to the dust-bowl? What caused the ice-age?
The climate of the earth has changed for millions of years w/o humans, and while certainly greenhouse gases impact the current trends, they aren't cause for apocalyptic concern.
I realize many people will probably vote this into oblivion, but I do not think there is a climate crisis at all.