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Some google representative once said something like "any search result requiring users to go beyond the first page is considered a failure". I think this is where it went downhill. And now AI answers try to condense the handful remaining results into a single answer. But search actually has two purposes, searching for something specific (where above statement might make sense) and exploring something, where you WANT to see more than just a handful of results. Imagine trying to do a literature review with a search where you only get a few results, how could this ever be exhaustive.

Paperclip all humans into bottles filled with nutritious fluid and drug them all the time or let them dream about a better time, I heard 1999 is a good year they could dream about. Healthy happy safe - without exception.

Robert O. Becker also studied this. His book "The Body Electric" (1985) was quite interesting. Nice to see some more recent research into this topic.

For a few minutes after reading this I was worried about smartgit losing its way. But it seems they actually still offer perpetual single-payment licenses, where you purchase a few years of updates, usable after update period ends.

> It puts a name to a considerate consensus-based way to approach change

When reading about nemawashi I immediately thought about its usage in software refactoring.

This is something you often intuitively do when making bigger refactors. Lay the foundations before actually doing it. Affected code parts and stakeholders should not be surprised by one big change. Instead they should be consulted before hand, building consensus, modify the planned big refactor itself and preparing the individual parts for it by small changes. Otherwise you will encounter a lot of friction, introduce bugs, etc.

It is very nice to have a proper term for this.

In my opinion it is plain fraud: intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly.

There is this concept of the "Four stages of competence":

- unconscious incompetence

- conscious incompetence

- conscious competence

- unconscious competence

At first you are unable to do something, but you don't even know it. Then you learn about your incompetence and begin to work on it. Eventually due to conscious effort you achieve conscious competence. Doing it long enough you don't need to spend conscious effort to be competent - you just do it, and you do it well.

I think this unconscious competence is very similar to Wu Wei.

That official identity documents requiring a smartphone is the "smallest imaginable amount" is questionable. With this proposal I can not even go on vacation without a smartphone.

Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I still think humans should be able to do basic life actions without a smartphone.

I read the pie chart as this:

Only 11.5% barely notice them or can completely tune them out. 88.5% are annoyed by them with varying degrees of annoyance.

They believed the scurvy protection came from the sourness of lemons, so they switched to lime which is even more sour than lemon, but contains less vitamin C.

It is estimated that the full electrification of all railway tracks in Germany will be completed not earlier than 2070.

But maybe I am confusing "Deutschlandtakt 2070" and the electrification of the tracks.

Maybe we need to integrate the AI golems as persons into society, so they can learn and interact with us as individual persons, like us.

But remembering Battlestar Galactica, cutting the interconnectivity was the prominent defense against cylons.