Also consider the impact of milk. Directly around 1/2 the life of a single cow if you consume dairy over a lifetime. Indirectly the agricultural toll of feeding the cow on additional insects and rodents.
a couple related terms: skill corridor, or competency plateaus, exist when a community both fails to cultivate newbies (creating a skill floor) and brain drain as people above a certain skill ceiling tend to leave as they have better opportunities available.
Very helpful for me. Just noticed the other day that I didn't know what the use-mention distinction was actually about.
Each habit has its own reward structure. Those with smaller loops are much easier to inculcate. Thinking past the close (alternatively, ignoring semantic, or somatic, stop signs) could have enough reward that it could potentially stick.
3 to 18 months of making something a priority.
A breakthrough is just the beginning of at least 3 months, and upwards of 18 months to solidify the thing IME. It's difficult for people to make commitments this big.
In Therevada there's a saying that 'insights are infinite' meaning that there is no end to nifty things you can notice about the mind, but most aren't of durable value.
Nobody would see sad movies if sympathy and empathy were the same thing. Highly sympathetic people avoid those who suffer because they don't want to experience that. Empathy enables moving towards suffering because compassion is a positive experience.
Are there any papers on current efforts to tokenize video and estimating the size of available data for that?
Reasonable, I don't know much about the situation
Claude guesses 2-3 calves