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Work peak and professional decline (2019)

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Post by spullara »

denkmoon wrote: post #100
caeril wrote: post #10

Related: The notion of "retirement" is a relatively recent invention. Traditionally, when you were too old to work the farm or prove the theorem (sorry, cognitive decline is a well-documented thing, and tends to coincide with physical decline[1]), you would "retire" to a productive life in less-demanding pursuits: caretaking of the grandkids, woodworking, food preservation, writing, etc. It's important to maintain ho…

Does one ever get too old for programming? I suspect I will be doing this until the day I die. Hopefully in my old age I can work on things I want to though.

I will be very surprised if I stop programming.

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Post by AYBABTME »

peatmoss wrote: post #146
iancmceachern wrote: post #40

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And when compared to air travel and hotel stays (which come with large water and heat costs associated with daily laundry) it's actually less of a carbon footprint.

Now I’m dreaming of a recreational dirigible. Imagine drifting from town to town at low altitudes, relative quiet, and with a comparably low fuel consumption. This sounds like heaven.

A sailboat is 95% of this but you're floating around the oceans instead of the air. In both cases you'd need to be worried about storms and hitting stuff, and in both cases you're pretty fuel efficient.

Re: Work peak and professional decline (2019)

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Post by quickthrower2 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #129
quickthrower2 wrote: post #83

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The greenhouse effect doesn’t care about why the CO2 was made. A portable house and essentials weighing probably 5kg can go on your back.

Are you prepared to legislate what constitutes allowable leisure activity? Require people to justify why they aren't choosing the smallest plausibly usable car, if they can justify a car at all? Submit to the government every vacation plan, every potential career change, every hobby to make sure it has the least environmental impact? For every choice you make, I guarantee someone can point out how you could have been…

Nope I would legislate via carbon tax. Then someone is paying more to use the suv unnecessarily that’s up to them.

Re: Work peak and professional decline (2019)

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Post by r-zip »

sinenomine wrote: post #77

This is an article written by a journalist. If we want to get to the bottom of things, we can open Google Scholar and search for related peer-reviewed publications, finding [1][2] in the process. What do we see in [1] and [2]? A very prominent downward trend ( https://i.imgur.com/avKUvTd.png ) on all but a single cognitive test, which is verbal knowledge. All the important cognitive abilities related to thinking and…

I think it's important to note that the first graphic you posted doesn't include longitudinal data (i.e., doesn't correct for the Flynn effect). Compare to: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683339/.

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Post by blaser-waffle »

sinenomine wrote: post #88
readme wrote: post #82

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young people think they're invincible i'm only in my 30s and already started my retirement hobby (wordworking) i'll take this career as far as I can but you never know when the day will come that you've had enough and can't bare to go to work anymore -- it gets harder to just leave a job for another one if you don't like it when you're in your late 50s.

I'm in my late 20's and I notice my mental energy/sharpness being slightly lower compared to what they were at my peak age of 22. I learned to compensate for this with some behavioral and biochemical kludges, but the reality of the trend is pretty obvious at this point. Ten years ago I picked up biology and recently added to it ageing research as a hobby, we'll see if it pays off eventually. In mice ... many things o…

Sitting at a desk all day will kill you.

Biggest difference I noticed in mental decline was % of sedentary time.

COVID has been a good control since the gyms are closed and I'm in Canada, so the winters forced me inside. Night and day difference between last year or the years before.

Re: Work peak and professional decline (2019)

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Post by userulluipeste »

sinenomine wrote: post #88
readme wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

young people think they're invincible i'm only in my 30s and already started my retirement hobby (wordworking) i'll take this career as far as I can but you never know when the day will come that you've had enough and can't bare to go to work anymore -- it gets harder to just leave a job for another one if you don't like it when you're in your late 50s.

I'm in my late 20's and I notice my mental energy/sharpness being slightly lower compared to what they were at my peak age of 22. I learned to compensate for this with some behavioral and biochemical kludges, but the reality of the trend is pretty obvious at this point. Ten years ago I picked up biology and recently added to it ageing research as a hobby, we'll see if it pays off eventually. In mice ... many things o…

Regarding my early to mid 20s, I remember the crazy amount of information, which I was constantly attempting to ingest "to catch up", that left my mind scrambled for many years after. It was so pleasant to observe later (in my mid 30s) how gradually I got my clear mind back and my focus improved. If I really had a higher mental ability in my 20s, I surely overdid it.

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Post by naewonawonga »

daniellarusso wrote: post #84
mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #79

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Why hasn't EV tech hit the RV world? How many batteries could one of those Greyhound bus size RV's, or smaller ones, hold? Maybe it has and I'm ignorant. I get that corporate shipping industries would benefit but a lot of delivery vans are the same platform as an RV. I think a Ford F350 is the size of those 25 ft uhaul rentals - about same size as a decent sized RV. RV's typically park somewhere for days, campgrounds…

Cybertruck can tow a fairly large Airstream.

Cybertruck is not real.

Re: Work peak and professional decline (2019)

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Post by iancmceachern »

d3ad1ysp0rk wrote: post #62
iancmceachern wrote: post #40

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And when compared to air travel and hotel stays (which come with large water and heat costs associated with daily laundry) it's actually less of a carbon footprint.

The average room takes 2 loads of laundry, which would be in the neighborhood of 10kw of electricity. 1 gallon of gas represents the same energy (ignoring losses) as 33kw. The average 2017 car in the US got 25mpg. So with a 15+mpg difference, you'd need to either drive 5 miles or less per day (0.3g difference), OR average 100 miles per day and have the hotels wash the laundry 20x as much.

Missing a lot of costs for hotels, also missing the air travel which is the single largest contribution to emissions in this scenario.

Re: Work peak and professional decline (2019)

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Post by iancmceachern »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #48
iancmceachern wrote: post #40

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And when compared to air travel and hotel stays (which come with large water and heat costs associated with daily laundry) it's actually less of a carbon footprint.

mind showing your work?

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/when-is-flying-greener-than...

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/09/evolving-climate-...

"In addition, Sivak suggests carpooling, as having three or more person in a vehicle “completely” changes the comparison with flying. Indeed, with a few people in the car, “driving becomes less energy intensive than flying (even after taking into account the increased weight that the vehicle needs to carry).”"

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