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> But somewhere along the lines we're going to have think about the R&D of the big picture in non-hand-wavey ways.

How?

>Outcome-oriented design involves orchestrating experience design with a greater focus on user goals and final outcomes, while strategically automating aspects of interaction and interface design.

Dark patterns is another type of "outcome oriented design" where the outcome is the user subscribing/not canceling/paying needlessly. Adding "strategic automation" will doubtlessly just make this problem worse.

Mine has proven equally reliable to a mechanical toilet, while providing considerably more comfort. This actually makes sense when you consider all the mechanical complexity in a typical toilet is getting replaced with a series of solenoids. Flush is now just energizing an electromagnet, rather than the gravity-powered dance of floats and valves you're used to.

There's also fun to be had trolling toddlers. Sometimes when my 2yo closes the toilet I'll sneakily open it with the remote and she'll yell at it "NO!" and slam it shut again.

There was a good Chinese Pod episode on this but I can't find it now. One of the things I recall was to express emphasis, make the tones really obvious (almost like a beginner might, consciously speaking them).

If your operation has reached the point where milliseconds matter..something likely has gone wrong.

I'd be curious to see data on how other cognitive metrics change in absence of atmospheric nitrogen. Abstract reasoning / mental math abilities / etc. It's possible some actually improve, just like I might rush and make more errors while doing something after drinking a few coffees.

It'll be hard to make traditional motor windings out of this particular material because AFAIK it's a ceramic, but perhaps with thin films on flex PCBs it would be possible.

I'm imagining a future where a superconducting layer on a PCB is just another checkbox you can choose when ordering small runs of boards.

[ ] 1 oz copper

[ ] 2 oz copper (+$2)

[X] 10 micron LK-99 (+$10)

Another thought - I think the first place we'll see this widely rolled out is in IC's (waiting for the Asianometry video on it). IC's are already planar, they're small so exotic materials aren't a big contributor to costs, and they're very power dense. Replacing a metal layer with a superconducting one could enable greater gate density and potentially significant improvements in efficiency. I don't know by how much because switching losses are probably where most energy is dissipated, but it's an incremental change that seems compatible with the process.

They've optimized the fitness function "cuteness^2 - propensity to bite". So even when they're tearing up my arm it's still so adorable.

The paper glosses over the technical design of the solar shield spacecraft. I'd like to understand how they will maintain their attitude given how huge they are. Would gyros be enough to counteract radiation pressure?

Another perspective if we consider AI akin to nuclear weapons (a simile many have made already): If the law-abiding cease development and malicious actors do not, the worst case may be that the resulting AI is non-aligned with humanity's interests. If the "good guys" develop an AI with alignment as an intention, then there are at least good AI to counter the bad AI.

Of course they may all ultimately end up colluding to destroy us. My point is it's not just as simple as "someone who's behind might catch up and make more money".

Key point I think should be more prominent:

The effect was on cultured brain cells. The reason brain tumors and other disorders of the brain are so hard to treat is that the blood-brain barrier keeps many big molecules out. That doesn't mean the molecule isn't therapeutically relevant, only that there's a ways to go to making it useful for actual humans/mice and not just cells in a petri dish.

Still a fascinating discovery and I look forward to more research.

Edit: Not totally true, the actual study link has more details.

>We further found that dietary supplementation with H. erinaceus crude extract significantly enhanced recognition memory.

The human BBB may still be an obstacle but I'm sure we'll see more studies soon.

> ... reaches up and flips the pressurization switch, cutting off bleed air to the cabin. The airplane rapidly begins to depressurize ...

I cannot believe that a "kill everyone" switch actually exists, and if it really does this seems like a bug. Especially because not hitting the switch would also kill everyone.

My pipes are all copper, and the hot water contains a non trivial amount of lead (from the solder used to join the pipes). I had it tested - around 20 ppb.

We don't drink or cook with the hot water, but in theory if the plumbing was PEX we could.