What's the end goal of this remark? What's the end goal of learning to farm and produce food even when the weather and pest gods don't bless you this year? What's the end goal of learning to heat your hut instead of dying every winter?
Because it will utterly end all societal development.
Imagine if fucking Ghengis Khan never had to die.
Or Henry Kissinger.
Or Carnegie
Our system is struggling under the immense weight of old leaders and the best they can do is pump themselves full of weird drug cocktails to have some semblance of being alive. Imagine removing the last roadblock to eternal life for the richest human alive.
People would develop in different ways if they could live to be 1000. It would hardly end societal development. I imagine education would be a bigger deal, since you'd be in less of a hurry to get on with life at 18. Families would be larger as more generations were included, which could create more nurturing and supportive environments for at-risk children. You'd also have fewer trust fund babies living off of the inheritance from a dead relative. And the sheer amount of brainpower and life experience we lose every time a 90 year old dies is depressing; science, technology, and literature could all benefit from people living longer.
What is the purpose of this question? "Yeah sure, we're fixing people's problems that cause pain, suffering, loss of productivity, death, etc, but what is the ultimate goal?"
> swat your own house
> your house now has swat immunity
> swat every house in the country
> no house can be swatted again anymore
> swat officers lose their job
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. You are correct. Learning is made up of two processes: encoding and retrieval. Encoding dominates retrieval in that the better your memory is encoded the shallower your forgetting curve is such that you need less repetitions or possibly none at all.
Combining both: better memory encoding techniques and spaced retrieval is the holy grail. People who employ both feel like superhuman. For example, you can encode knowledge of a book with a mind map following specific principles and then schedule either a spaced cued recall with image occlusion or a spaced free recall or a mixture of cued/free by occluding large portions of the mind map.
In my experience though, I rarely need spaced repetition for knowledge I’ve encoded with a mind map. I have almost perfect recall of the map and an understanding of what it represents many weeks later with no repetition.
most things you have to rehearse or practice, or you'll forget them. only a few things (foods that make you vomit, for example, or neighborhoods where you get mugged) can be learned from a single exposure with no later mental rehearsal. better encoding helps a lot, but it's not a panacea
Mysticism with focus on a higher power (deity) has been tried and tested. Why re-invent the wheel? The existence of a higher power does not contradict the more rational modern science, and vice versa. They are both tools that we can use to enrich our lives.
Load a sufficiently large and complex spreadsheet in Excel vs Sheets and you'll have your answer. Sheets will freeze and Excel will open in seconds.
There's also a feature gap that Google will probably never close, because why bother if you can't load the volume of data those power users are working with in the first place.
Unrelated, but the other day, I searched something on DDGo on Firefox mobile in private mode, and a few hours later, I see a targeted ad related to that search.
Whats the deal with that? The only extension I have installed is Ublock mobile.
Well, it might be a coincidence, but it also wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't. Your identity was probably linked using fingerprinting. Private browsing mode offers almost zero protection against this. Even Tor isn't protected unless you enable the Safest security level (= completely disable JavaScript). This might even be done through multiple levels of indirection (mobile browser fingerprint -> Google account -> desktop browser fingerprint).
This is only slightly faster than hitting the Windows key, typing "Notepad", and hitting Enter.
Would be cool if it opened a single "notes.txt" document instead. That way you could bring up your notes, append what you want, and save/close it with a single hotkey.
It's about minimising friction in our tasks and reducing any unnecessary obstacles. Even seemingly minor actions that only take a few seconds can build up over time and generate a sense of frustration, especially when they become frequent.
Personally, I have found that dealing with this kind of friction can erode my overall productivity, as I unconsciously shy away from these tedious tasks that involve manual repetition, no matter how small. That's why many of us choose to invest a little time in coming up with these small automations that free us from the clutches of monotonous and repetitive tasks, allowing us to focus on the core of our work.
