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Thanks. Outside weight-class or aesthetics-driven sports, it’s hard to imagine any scenario where a GLP-1 analog creates a net advantage. In endurance disciplines the binding const…

Fax is still acceptable in parts of healthcare for a reason — privacy under low-tech constraints is an actual requirement. Dial-up was slow, but at least the internet still felt hu…

I’m not an expert, but GLP-1 is a hormone. Wouldn’t using something like this trigger anti-doping concerns if an athlete took it? In sports, manipulating appetite or insulin pathwa…

If you compare the viewership of Game of Thrones with the readership of the original novels, the gap is enormous — not because one is “better,” but because different media win diff…

If Jim Keller says it, I’ll believe it. My Ryzen agrees — the fans just spun up like it’s hitting 10,000 rpm.

Exactly — if we want redundancy, we should plan and build it. That’s why I offered one possible implementation as a hypothesis, not as a law of nature. If you have a better non-ide…

Thanks for sharing this. It made me wonder where a future goes when it keeps trying to define both barbarism and normalcy. As a small tribute in return, three films came to mind: B…

I get the intuition behind fully socializing it, but I wouldn’t go that far. Single-operator systems lose redundancy fast, and that’s dangerous for infrastructure. A layered mix — …

The long version would take us far off-topic, so here’s the short one: if the tax-paying base collapses, none of this matters. At that point the debate isn’t about pricing — it’s a…

My point was simply that electricity has a “civilization tax” aspect to it, and lower baseline access feels closer to the kind of future-proof system we should be aiming for. If th…

That makes sense — but it feels like the balance could be better. If we treat baseline access as a kind of ‘civilization tax,’ the pricing shouldn’t feel punitive for low-usage hou…

It’s strange that in 2025 we still don’t have even a minimal, per-capita baseline tier for electricity. If a household uses less than the monthly per-capita average, why not cap th…

I might be missing some procedural detail, but if there’s no formal “warning → fixed-window for correction → penalty” sequence, isn’t that just state overreach? If the issue has ex…

Which one ends up being more accurate — quantum-computing forecasts or fashion-magazine trend predictions?

If the official time drifts by 4.8 microseconds, should I worry about my VHS timer recordings?

When I buy clothes, I always “choose” the outfit the mannequin is already wearing.

Statistics about humans only work if the population equals the sample, if every respondent tells the truth, and if the quantitative definitions are correctly specified. If any one …

I prefer “rare” to “well-done” — in steak, and in life. Algorithms tend to optimize us toward well-being as “well-done”: predictable, consistent, uniformly cooked. Safe, measurable…

If a model eventually scores perfectly on every benchmark yet ends up practically useless, what’s the next step? Benchmarks measure competence inside a predefined problem space, bu…

I wasn’t talking about human reinforcement. The discussion has been about CoT in LLMs, so I’ve been referring to the model in isolation from the start. Here’s how I currently under…

I might be mistaken, but as far as I know there is currently no other LEO broadband provider that is meaningfully comparable at a global scale. Starlink is often treated as the ref…

Ultimately it just becomes a question of where you want the choke point to live — in a state actor, or in a private operator. Neither option is risk-free; the failure modes simply …

The analogy breaks at the learning boundary. Humans can refine internal models from their own verbalised thoughts; LLMs cannot. Self-generated text is not an input-strengthening si…

Winning on a particular objective function never guarantees long-term or general adaptability. It only proves success under one set of constraints — not the ability to survive when…

If anything, this just highlights the need for Starlink-style connectivity and off-grid power. Of course, once jamming enters the picture, even that lifeline disappears.