That feels quite sad, honestly… I wish you all to find fulfillment and happiness without the need for sugar supplements

I agree: a university is a workplace for a lot of people, and work is expected to take place during working hours, by definition in our society that means 9-5. I never even heard this discussion being brought up, honestly

So the respect option is the most likely

That’s not the time travel I like because it doesn’t create any fun paradoxes!

I support the “unique universe” idea, with all the paradoxes that that can generate. So, you send the ball back to 1969. Has the ball then been bouncing up and down the room since then? You should have seen it when you threw your “new” ball, then!

Or the same ball cannot exist twice at the same time, then somehow the 1969 ball stopped existing when the now-ball got created. And you will never get your ball back because it disappeared in the past.

Or the universe fixes itself, then when your ball disappeared in the time portal, the 1969 version somehow reappeared in the room, but that is the paradox that needs the most “fixing”, so I don’t prefer it

I wonder: was it a sign of respect towards the uncle or was it an insult? Or neither, just cool?

I have some national pride, usually about small things that I know my country cares overly much about and some cultural quirks I care about (how to serve coffee, the structure of a conversation, obscure literary references and so on).

I have some patriotism, as in: I want my country to be the best version of itself it can be. Keeping the good parts (not many) and evolving the rest.

Then, I am very cynical, so the little patriotism is submerge by a distant distaste and expectation of everything to fuck up.

(European here)

Indeed very interesting. Honestly, it still seems that the reason for inflation is “not backed by real good and something else we don’t quite understand”, in particular considering the examples of bills of credit in North America

The assumed reason for inflation, as I understand it, is that on one hand things devalue over time and on the other we build our system around infinite growth and rewarding innovation (many asterisks here…)

During the Middle Ages, neither statements were considered true, the world was considered stagnant and there was virtually no inflation. That was before the banking system - so with 0% inflation i would expect the banks to collapse…

And then… I don’t know! Stuff is hard and economics harder…

Judgemental stare

Overall, I disagree.

I have a good friend that never contacts me first. But if I start the conversation, they engage, often propose extra plans and are great to hang out with. They just postpone reaching out.

I have friends that often beat me to the punch, and initiate the conversation first way more often than I do. I am grateful and we then have nice chats. Only sometimes we end up making plans, but I always thank them for reaching out.

I have vague acquaintances with which I exchange birthday wishes every year. If by chance we were meeting up again, we would have a pleasant surface level conversation. They used to be friends, but we live far away now and the friendship dwindled. Still going to send birthday wishes to minimally keep in touch. That’s fine too.

How are the two on the same level?

Production is absolutely not the bottleneck, here. We are producing too much, constantly.

Most of the world is far from replacement levels of population and the global trend is a decrease in fertility. Overall, we are at 2.4 kids per woman, the replacement level being estimated between 2.1 and 2.3 (depending how likely you think it is to die from wars). This data has been (mostly) decreasing since the 60s.

This is already happening, but i don’t think it’s fast enough: with the exceeded life expectancy, we are first seeing an increase and aging of population. Only after the wave of now 50-60 year olds will be dead will we see a stable degrowth. Is that soon enough? Sure it’s preferable to extermination?

Obviously, it’s the man doing science and the woman interested in clothes

Yes :) since the topic was coming back in another thread, I felt more explanation was nice

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Just to built on this and give some more unasked for info:

All of AI is a fancy dancy interpolation algorithm. Mostly, too fancy for us to understand how it works.

LLMs use that interpolation to predict next words in sentences. With enough complexity you get ChatGPT.

Other AIs still just interpolate from known data, so they point to reasonable conclusions from known data. Then those hypotheses still need to be studied and tested.

Bubbles can move freely once created, so they have more freedom than cookies that are stick in place. Thus, bubbles will look for optimal volume to boundary ratio with less constraints

As others have said, I find it more common when I am traveling short term than when I move from a place to another.

I think part of it is that moving has a strong emotional impact, so I am unlikely to forget about that in my wake time. But my dreams are often set in my hometown, where I haven’t lived in almost 20 years… the brain is weird!