Note that my (implied) emphasis is on experience. If the experience is what is important, convenience isn’t actually what creates desire paths. Instead it’s the experience of making a personal choice to increase efficiency, of joining a club of renegades who brave the path less traveled, etc… So maybe allowing for that experience in the managed environment is another way of limiting desire paths.

I wonder if the experience of ‘shortcut’ is part of the motivation, so that as soon as you’ve established a path, what constitutes ‘shortcut’ also changes. I’d be interested to know if curved paths were more desire path-resistant, because they appeal to an intuition about adjusting (and therefore optimizing) course.

The inner monologue is thinking by ‘hearing’ your own voice ‘speaking’ in your mind. It’s the mental equivalent of literally talking to yourself.

Do people have a non metaphorical inner monologue where they physically hear thoughts?

Yes, in the sense that they hear themselves ‘voicing’ out their own thoughts. If you have the ability to form images in your mind, it’s like that, but with sound.

Additional meta-analysis confirmed that left-handers are overrepresented among artists and musicians – but not architects, as is often claimed. Expanding their investigation beyond those fields, the team re-analyzed data from a large study drawing upon U.S. government surveys with information on occupations and handedness. The data included nearly 12,000 individuals in more than 770 professions, which were ranked by the creativity each required. By this measure combining “originality” and “inductive reasoning,” physicists and mathematicians ranked alongside fine artists as the most creative jobs. When considering the full range of professions, the researchers found, left-handers were underrepresented in those that required the most creativity.

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This is the first time I’ve seen this take upvoted.

It’s one thing the AI messes up the ‘radioactive’ symbol, but it’s weird they just went with it anyway.

Would they equally write ‘mothers’ vs. ‘childless women’ in another article about remote work, I wonder.

You’d think a solar powered sugar factory would know about sugar.

Never thought about how ‘shapeshifting’ always assumes volume- and mass-shifting as well.

There’s stuff in there like shapeshifting into a hawk and then your legs break, because the bone diameter/mass-ratio is too small.

For my last install I had to remove either the SSDs or NVMEs (don’t remember which) or the installation would just fail. This was a ‘known’ issue! Fortunately haven’t had to boot it for months…

I’m glad you guys are happy, but I’d want the foundation for trust to be my dedication to my partner, rather than my lack of ambition to socialize irl. -Ideally, and obviously things are rarely ideal.

The biggest giveaway here is ChatGPT answering any question with one word without being specifically told to do so.

The Earth’s surface area is about 70% percent covered by water.

More than 95 percent of the water is in the oceans, and they make up less than 1 percent of the Earth’s total volume.

If you go by mass instead of volume the fraction is even lower.

Checkmate, managers

Now that there is an old Dell Inspiron. I had one with that shell ca. 2006.

There’s this worry that high intelligence itself drives you to be more dismissive of other people. I don’t really think that’s the case. I think intelligence can help you understand and sympathize better with other people.

Anyway, if you go by IQ, the upper one percentile score about 135 or higher, so that’s where your dividing line would be in raw numbers.

But since intelligence is distributed in a continuum, it wouldn’t make sense for everyone at or above 135 to consider everyone else equally ‘dumb’ - even if they did choose to use the IQ-scale to gauge everyone’s ‘stupidity’.

To do so would be like you getting first place in a spelling contest by a single point and then concluding that the person in second place (and everyone following) must be completely illiterate.

All that being said, the one percent really are very far from average. One way of putting it is that these people are further from the average than average people are from the ‘extremely low’ range (>69).

One of the reasons I recently opted for the M1

That’s a bit too far back. Just a bit.