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Current status: on a reply bankruptcy [skill issue] [researching how to get over it]
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Maya ☁️➡️🌸 (in London until 18 Jul)
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Maya ☁️➡️🌸 (in London until 18 Jul)
@mayaofspring
on a learning arc | alt: @springofmaya | also on 🦋
Singapore (sometimes London) Katılım Haziran 2024
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Twitter users upon learning that the word for cat in Chinese is "māo": ah yes, nominative determinism strikes again
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To think of it, there is evolutionary pressure on the human body to not expose too obvious switches, lest malicious creatures exploit those. Yet some straightforward switches (H👏R👏T) exist anyway. I wonder what it is that makes the difference and why hair is not among those
Maya ☁️➡️🌸 (in London until 18 Jul)@mayaofspring
It's not the main gap in medicine, but it's so inconvenient that we can't just yet flip a switch and tell the body directly to stop growing body hair in a given area. So many of us don't want it! Yet the hair growth process continues! Truly we've not mastered biology enough yet
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It's not the main gap in medicine, but it's so inconvenient that we can't just yet flip a switch and tell the body directly to stop growing body hair in a given area. So many of us don't want it! Yet the hair growth process continues! Truly we've not mastered biology enough yet
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the way to get there involves a careful analysis of coordination problems, positional goods, political power dynamics etc., but all the people who shout in that direction the loudest have in mind is demented ideas that sound naively good but kill the golden goose instantly
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My crank economics take is that it's perfectly achievable for a developed country to have a 20h work week where people live lives free of want, with current technology, and the barrier is entirely in society/laws/culture
but also you should never vote for anyone who campaigns so
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@ValsTutor (am I proposing doing a Singapore? maaaaybeee. Though I've been thinking recently that for all of Singapore's good PR around here it's understudied what they failed at in spite of (or because of) getting all the smart types into the government)
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@ValsTutor The problem is that while many people sense that something feels off about the current world, the prescriptions they tend to propose tend to be counterproductive and not thought out at all, hence the "you should never vote for anyone who campaigns so"
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@_AashishReddy though at a 20h week you need some ways to maintain information exchange between people working different shifts too
And you'd want to leave the option for the ambitious 10% to work for longer, so the gov intervention to force the change would have to design the incentives right
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@_AashishReddy So for example a 5-day 40h work week is largely a social convention, reinforced by employers (little upside to pre-emptively offer fewer hours) and applicants (they're competing with others for housing who do work full weeks)
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@ValsTutor well the corollary is that better technology won't necessarily get us there by itself
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@mayaofspring Hmm laws are technology and their quality depends on the people in the country. Getting magically better society/laws/culture bestowed upon us by ASI would indeed work but that's a more difficult task than improving normal technology.
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@_AashishReddy Indeed, though it's not the only barrier (otherwise Japan would be there)
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@mayaofspring The barrier is house prices so we should build more houses (and vote for people who (credibly) campaign to do so)
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Both headlines and tweets are tightly restricted in their character count yet headlinese and twitterese are quite different. I wonder why
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One problem I'm having is that, since I've stopped adding new cards when on the trip to reduce the load, the reviews got more boring due to the lack of novelty. A small non-zero amount of new cards would be better, to not feel like I'm running only so that I can stay still
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Tonight's resolution: no tweeting until I clear my Anki backlog (this tweet excepted)
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@CompaCompu @norvid_studies seeing like a state that can see all the trees
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@onehappyfellow no matter how low I go and how ill I make myself sound, I've become a permavoicecel 😔
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@atlanticesque (also reflecting on the fact that I know what the joke is about)
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