Existence itself is a miracle - the rest is science.
There is no single meaning to existence - if there were, we’d be slaves to it.
Within existence, there are rules of logic and science. If it was magic, the world would be un-navigable.
Truly the best of all possible worlds.
Filling forms and all types of tedious admin stuff is just getting done in one try with GPT-5.6 Sol now. And GPT Work uses tokens a lot more efficiently for this stuff than Codex.
I can't believe humans were gifted a planet full of famine, disease, and death and invented fusion, vaccines, moon rockets, and so much food that most people die from obesity.
@foundmyfitness As far as I understand it, the issue is with the fish oil-based supplements going rancid easily. Supposedly, most of the omega-3 supps are oxidized and lose the positive effects by the time the consumer takes them. Or isn't that so?
@levelsio Download Dminder app on iOs. In general, 10 min each side at noon in shorts +shirtless is enough vitD. Stay covered in clothes rest of the day to avoid sunscreens, use sunscreens if you can’t (maybe the zinc based ones).
@ad0rnai Isn't the best self-test always open question ("what is?") instead of multiple-choice? Former requires better memorization+understanding and latter is probably useful mostly for multichoice student tests, idk about IRL usefulness.
@ehikian Please, make them searchable by the date added, ideally through some filter UI or at least through search box filtering like in advanced search. There is no way I am scrolling to the first added.
THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy
“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?”
— Marian Tupy
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
— Thomas Edison
Lies
We are being lied to.
We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.
We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.
We are told to be pessimistic.
The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.
We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.
We are told to be miserable about the future.
@fasc1nate Idk what is the correct approach here. Seals are literally sea dogs, but I would not want to jeopardize the no-human eating deal we have with orcas.