that's putting it as politically correct as possible. It breaks peoples' trust in their ability to distinguish lies from fact. "I'm not smart enough for this but I also don't believe this or that guy." Ergo: let 'them' do what they want but I probably won't stop stressing people over it for a while, which is attention-breaking and distracting, especially since people do it all the time, at home, especially in the working class. And the stress builds up ...
if you mean it: fast 16 hours every day. this will boost your cognition right from the start. 23+ hours fasts once or twice a month. kills my old mans' ADHD and improves early alzheimers symptoms.
reduce fat intake to your personal min requirement.
controlled sleep deprivation, meaning no stress at all, every once in a while, 48 h, to 'reset the brain', no liquor, 16h+ fasts, coffee is ok. sounds like nonsense but try it and be happy.
By no stress I mean, no deadlines, only recreational coding and building stuff, no going through documents, minimum of screen time, best none in the night hours, puzzles and stuff are great. Nothing work related at all. Recreation is the goal. The controlled sleep deprivation is for organs, synapses, receptors.
You go hiking, talk with people through the night, write on novels or blog posts, then you go hiking again. Or swimming, or relaxed skiing, surfing, nightly museum or gallery events and weekends are the perfect time for this kind of thing.
The goal is to "empty your storage" of certain hormones and transmitters and get the respective organs and receptors to their limits, which they will barely get to after just 48 h of wakefulness, but it will be enough for your brain to notice the difference when you wake up afterwards. 'Holy shit, this is what it is / what it was like' ...
It's like getting a drop out of the fountain of youth. The boost will return after normal days and healthy sleep but work/life are crazy and TV/ads put an insane amount of obvious, subliminal, subconscious stress on our brains that we aren't aware of and that builds up in specific spaces that, after some 'amount', kind of constantly put some threshold under pressure which annihilates the boost of even good sleep, which is why you should do it regularly.
A lot of people swear on sleep but check their cabinets or ask them for their stack and you'll know ...
Because you can look away but you can't control what's ON your peripheral and so you have to get your hormone and transmitter producing organs, and just as - or even more - importantly, *the respective receptors*, to the point where they can produce and enjoy proper doses again.
Some bad analogies: Stretching is great but you need to stretch beyond a point to really enjoy the state and the progress afterwards. The same goes for strength training, we call it progressive overload. Too much is bad, especially on drugs, pain killers and stuff, but just the right amount without any additional stress and it works sustainably well.
If you know the right kind of researchers, they can certainly go beyond stones are hard and this is what 99 peoples' blood work and 4000 survey participants say.
do they know mastodon and have they seen those documentaries on what companies do via facebook and the data they collect!? someone should update them on what happened.
[1] Not Found. Which motivated me to let leGPT write a bash script to increment the URL and send requests in batch until it reaches 10k and returns all non 404 URLs if it finds any. still running, internets and hardware are slow or the curl command is.
EDIT: huh, should have known what was going to happen -.-'
> TL; DR Difficult after ~2.5 million years unless they had a nuclear war
Scary if they didn't!
EDIT: what else killed them off or where did they go and will they come back, so it's actually quite curious and less scary but it made me shiver when I read it the first time.
The incentives are stacked up really weird here. There are a lot of situations in which earning more money just means paying more tax and getting less social benefits, so your income stays about the same.
I'm personally leaving next year. But there are many other reasons.
Why was this downvoted? The current system of providing benefits to “poor” in Germany absolutely kills any incentive to earn more than 3k gross income per month.
Anyone earning more than that actually starts to earn less, as the benefits immediately go away (e.g. rent support) and leaving you with less money on the table.
A family of 4 (2 unemployed adults and 2 kids) qualify for 2k to 3k Eur (net) benefits per month, meanwhile any “working” adult get slapped with 51% effective tax rate without any benefits at all. Basically you share your income with another family just because they do not feel like working.
> meanwhile any “working” adult get slapped with 51% effective tax rate without any benefits at all
This number is demonstrably false. I just checked my payslip from last month. Gross salary is around 7000 euros, and net salary is around 4300 euros, giving an effective tax rate of 39%. And that's only if you consider health insurance, care insurance, unemployment insurance, and the statutory pension plan "taxes". I don't mean to enter into a debate into what constitutes a tax, but in many other countries, these types of insurances are handled privately, so the tax rate will "look different" without meaningfully describing the difference in actual expendable income. Effective tax rate on my payslip just for taxes that are called "tax" is around 20%.
If you are counting statutory insurances into your understanding of tax rate, then the part of "without any benefits at all" is just ludicrous hyperbole, or we have a very different understanding of the word "benefit".
I never thought about it this way. This explains quite a lot. I guess the only people who stay are those who don't have the creativity or desire to enjoy their wealth beyond just making it, whether they like their jobs or not, which, for some reason, does strike me as quite 'German'.
And wouldn't have finished on its own. Sometimes even other models or chats with more fine tuned context just don't spot the mistakes within n iterations. The human needs to, quite annoyed I must say, take a closer look herself. "What did you LLM do and how does it work?" Then you specify what must be done or do it yourself because you can't remember the term which would make the LLM find the right symbols, and describing the term takes as long as fixing the issue yourself. This applies more to new kids on the block than to experienced devs, depending on the complexity of the subject, of course, but is relevant for both because the creation, the final product, belongs to the human, as does the LLM. My chat, my LLM, my copyright. If it ever became important, I'd raise an army against their lawyers.
Well, I am paying for it, the subscription and or the API calls. And the chat is the service I and other users, including B2B, paid for. Dev and server costs are covered by that, theoretically and practically, because investors get what they paid for as well.
The LLM is instructed by my prompts. I'm giving the directions. At some points, the LLM will dynamically update the weights based on my input, it's knowledge being all that is in the higher public domain, published human knowledge. My communication is being collected to my own, and others, future advantage, which would not be possible if we didn't use the LLM. The devs can't make it much further without the user. The devs couldn't make it anywhere without the training data. 'My LLM' is the current chat window, whatevers' coming out of it, I am responsible for that, not the company who created it, and if I am responsible, I have to own it, just like I own the things 'my child' creates until that child is ready to own it's responsibility itself.
0. pihole, firewall, filter non-marketing shit you don't want to read about.
1. ubo is ok, uMatrix is better. takes time though
2. Get rid of all the big players' software, Firefox is one of them
3. You need your own proxies. Tor is a must for a lot of things
4. when it comes to hardware, nothing established, best not to have bluetooth
devices when you are in cities or commuting on trains, buses and so on
5. the dumber the phone the better, always unbloat, be in control of automation and init systems, control what happens after restarts and updates.
6. don't use saas. never use saas. if you can, check out the data sets they collect.
7. have an air tight system for a diverse range of use cases, like re-installing stuff
8. obfuscation, not just your fingerprint but your entire life. have two or three. get some bots, let them run weird shit on your networks.
9. if your place and time and social circle allow it, build your own physical networks.
10. the byte streams relevant data can be packed into are really tiny,
your bluteooth, the connection to your cell tower, your m1 or snapdragon going brrr for a tiny fraction of time can tell whole stories
but that's waaaay too much to just keep the ads away. just don't look
