More and more for practical purposes I tend to believe that - sit tight - everybody is solving or capable of solving the Poincaré conjecture. Let me explain.
Granted some people are simple, but most are actually very gifted at what they do ; it's just that the type of engineering they do is different than yours (or mine, whatever). Besos says "there is a million types of inteligence".
Some are good at making dramas for example - and they'd beat you at that game every single day. Some others are good at, I dont know, working out.
Many people are very very good at playing dumb is actually my very point. And they love that. If you are observant, you'll see little clues that they are geniuses in some ways. It's just that they dont care about advancement. In itself it's a form of dumbness but beside that, they freaking good.
You can easily do x2 on your percieved intelligence and engineering capabilities of people. They way way better at what they do than meet the eye. Especially nowdays as they are educated.
Robert Greene explains in a video his 48th law of power.
The rule is there is no rule. Life is fluid he says. You've got to pickup the little clues, use your intuition and your gut feelings.
This perfectly matches my experience of life. When you arrives in a situation with a premade plan and execute blindly, it often fails dramatically, even if on paper you did exactly what you were supposed to. Especially with people of course. You've got to go with the "flow", read the room, feel the air. Sometimes it almost feels magical. Even the light a particular day will be different and somehow, things are different - the people in the street, the mood of your boss, everything.
The great leaders are masters at that. I often think about the current China leader for example. It's just an example.
Do you picture what a person must pull off to get that seat? It's unimaginable. You've got to smell the "bullets" coming miles away before they're even shot, from a shooter you dont even know. Just on a hunch because that day, the light was different.
Generally prohibiting anonymous payments would at best have minimal effects on crime, but it would deprive innocent citizens of their financial freedom. The medicines or sex toys I buy is nobody’s business
The consequences of KYC are way worse than that. You have to interact with someone in power when you make a payment, thats the bad part. Cause that someone now have a good occasion to hurt you (racism, discrimination, political opposition, wars, etc).
Im speaking from experience here. Moreover the rich and powerful makes payments the way they want lets not fool ourselves.
Now granted they catch some dirty shit with KYC but we'd like to see some report on the extent of that at least.
What drives me mad is my lean 2023 windows laptop suddenly making noise because some installer or whatever started. If that was occasional, that'd be okay.
When I was a kid I've been taken in one of those - by the police. All painted black with some white stripes. I wasnt alone in the truck, they use to arrest people by the half-a-dozen back in the day (drunks, wanderers, brawlers, etc). They'd also release everybody after a while at a street corner with a big kick in the but.
Like you said, it's a feeling. Once you've identified it, just remember you have many many buttons that can be pushed to generate feelings. It's just a program installed long long long ago. Visualize that, breathe and just laugh at that poor bash program.
There is some usefulness to those feelings - this announcement will probably have an impact on your life soon enough. But you cant let every button push and distant threat pull you down can you.
Also remember, life has its own ways: as far as you know, it could also be the beginning of the best days of your life.
HN server runs smoothly and is having a walk in the park it seems - impressive compared to previous OpenAI annoucements. Has there been significant rollouts?
Based on collaboration and information sharing with Microsoft, we disrupted five state-affiliated malicious actors: two China-affiliated threat actors known as Charcoal Typhoon and Salmon Typhoon; the Iran-affiliated threat actor known as Crimson Sandstorm; the North Korea-affiliated actor known as Emerald Sleet; and the Russia-affiliated actor known as Forest Blizzard. The identified OpenAI accounts associated with these actors were terminated.
Let me tell you a mistake you're making. If I present you with a liquid in a jar that smells toxic, you're saying "we havent proven this liquid is toxic". Even though your own nose is telling you it just might be.
Food and the people you're spending time with are critical. You can be sick because you deal with a toxic person, particularly relatives or intimate relationship. Leaving that person will make a seemingly unrelated sickness disapear almost overnight (asma, back pain, etc.). It happened to me and my father. No rocket science here.
Thats why they all on medication in offices. They are toxic to each other, they get sick. It's just that sometimes the person go from toxic parent to office and never realize whats causing the disease.
All the "players" I know are on medication, period. I suspect cancer is following (just my view I have no source). So thanks but no thanks.
For me the next benchmark after perceived happiness is wether or not you're on medication (with rare exceptions). It you're on medication (rare exceptions apply), you can be driving the most beautiful of cars, your life is shit. Rare exceptions apply like you're working on something great or you have inherited your condition. You get the idea.
You think your job and you politics and your thoughts are not responsible for your condition? You think it's the cat? You havent read the manual.