madmask's comments

On: The Rise of Whatever

[madmask]

The point is what value can the common man reasonably provide in the free market to support a family when most of white collar work is also automated?

The industrial revolution automated a lot of blue collars, AI is starting to seriously automate white collars to the point less people are needed.

They are automating the mind, there’s not much else to compete with to provide value. Which color people should pivot to?

[johnnyanmac → madmask]

>Which color people should pivot to?

At this rate: red.

On: Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System

[madmask]

And the horizon you see standing on the beach is just about 5km or 3 miles away!

On: What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

[madmask]

Building muscle is a real reason

On: What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

[madmask]

That’s almost nothing. 1 hour a week, at least in Italy, and mostly sports stuff close to cardio no weight training.

I feel good with at least 4 hours a week of bodyweight training plus some cardio.

On: Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs

[madmask]

Also italian

On: The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

[madmask]

Yes. See Europe

On: Poll: How often do you bathe?

[madmask]

Apparently not because I am fine

On: Poll: How often do you bathe?

[madmask]

Every day. Now that I am in my own home I actually have a warm bath every evening, it’s a great way to end the day. I can skip one day in rare occasions but feel too uncomfortable going more than that, not because of stink or others noticing but because I just don’t feel clean

On: An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution

[madmask]

I wonder what uncontacted tribes think about starlink

[mock-possum → madmask]

If I hadn’t known what starlink was the first time I saw it, I would have assumed it was something artificial - the spacing and trajectory is far too regular to be a comet breaking up or something like that.

[chii → madmask]

well, if you could observe these things with the naked eye, they might imagine it's similar to a passing meteor.

[teamonkey → chii]

You absolutely can see them with the naked eye. Very easy to spot on any given clear night if you know what to look for, especially when they’re moving in a cluster. They don’t look like meteors, far too slow.

[madmask → chii]

I saw them myself with my naked eyes! They look like the iss

On: What my stroke taught me (2017)

[madmask]

I have no inner monologue unless I switch it on consciously, which I don’t like doing as it slows down thinking by orders of magnitude. In your example, I see things like graphs, numbers, maps, make connections and see possible futures, no explicit words involved.

Edit: I also tend to “simulate” what is going to happen by conjuring up a small video of people dealing with the situation, or myself in that situation.