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I've seen plenty of evidence that goes against this. From what I have seen, short women will absolutely prefer a man who is taller than other men, regardless of their own height, s…

Could be, depends on the woman and what she values. Celebrities are usually in a league of their own. The way you have to see it, is that women look for a certificate of potential …

How do you know whether that's not just you growing as a person? A few decades is quite a long time, a lot of personal growth could happen in that time with or without this practic…

Thanks, I indeed meant existential crises, but it didn't hit me while I was writing.

It's a nice post, with a lot of valuable insights. There is one that I disagree with though: "Never abandon the root node". There are plenty of instances that show that in reality …

I believe that this is the case where the "self" needs some more work, as in it is not well-adapted enough to its total environment yet. This can be due to a myriad of reasons, neu…

You are still not being yourself though, if you have to suppress the tendency to call someone a dipshit idiot. It is arguable whether the "self" in that case needs some work or not…

That is right. The hierarchical nature of this setting makes it impossible to be fully open, unless you truly are the most uninteresting person on the planet. If not, open and indi…

This is indeed an important angle to consider as well. I think there is some nuance though, but it's hard to articulate. I think that is because there are some long term effects th…

There will always be a point where you simply snap under stress, no matter how well you rationally understand the difference between pain and suffering while being at rest, and you…

It's a very interesting phenomenon. It's often said that famous stars become delusional exactly because they are surrounded by yes-men who are too afraid of rocking the boat and of…

If that 30% of visitors with incompatible browsers has no overlap with the target audience you wish to reach, then what does it matter for your business? Of course, you do not know…

It's a sad state of affairs really. But I also think this high degree of slop everywhere will eventually shift what people and organizations deem valuable and how they scan or sele…

Very sad news, RIP. Particularly enjoyed his work for Duke Nukem 3D, you could easily tell the difference between the tracks made by Bobby and the ones made by Lee Jackson, Bobby's…

They're the same no? If I see exchange value in something, that is its use value to me: to exchange it for other things that I deem valuable.

I was hesitant to elaborate there, because the relationship between effort and value is quite complex. For instance, you can put a lot of effort into something, without creating an…

These kinds of principles are sensible at their core, and I am a big proponent of the mindset, but the main problem as a sibling comment pointed out in a way is that this assumes t…

I think part of the problem is also that many people simply work too hard or have too much going on in their lives to have any kind of cognitive energy left for this sort of mainte…

Yes, this is my experience for muscle at least. I used to work out 3-4 times a week, maybe a little more sometimes. Lately due to circumstances, I've been doing smaller workouts ab…

That really depends on who is the one that benefits from automation. Companies automate support systems in order to keep their support staff small, because apparently for many of t…

True. People don't do it though, because keeping skills sharp and using them takes effort, and we have a predisposition to be as efficient as possible with how we spend our effort;…

Money is how you test whether someone is currently in privileged circumstances (be it their own doing or not), not whether they are good at argumentation or decision-making.

I think you can quantify the amount of creative expression you engage in by looking at all the decision points in the creative process where you are directly involved in making the…

You're right. My point was more that LLMs are bad at (3D) math and spatial reasoning, which applies to renderers. Since Unity neatly abstracts the complexity away of this through a…

Actually, in the specific case of a 3D program it's the current generation of LLM's complete lack of ability in spatial reasoning that prevents them from "understanding" what you w…