Unknown Unknowns man. We may be able to iterate faster with a computer model, but the next step will be animal models perhaps followed by human test subjects.
Maybe shoplifting is a sign of what you say it is.
Could also be a sign of breakdown in law and order because property crime is increasingly ignored, and so people do it because they know they won't get punished.
Just as biological parasites exploit their hosts without reciprocating, free riders in society take advantage of resources without contributing back. This behavior, if left unchecked, places a burden on those who do contribute.
A society that fails to address stealing is like an organism unable to fight off a parasite. It may function for a while, but the harm eventually becomes too great. This is why well-designed disincentives for antisocial behavior are crucial for maintaining long-term societal health.
Members of society are not external organisms, they are the cells that make up the organism that is society itself. The most effective ways in which organisms fight these issues - take cancer for example - is to prevent the issue to bring with, not to supercharge the immune system against itself. Much like an immune system too eager to go after it's own cells can cause autoimmune disease, fighting antisocial behaviour primarily through repression leads to societal ruin.
Some qualifiers would be helpful to engage with you. Certainly threat of punishment shouldn’t be the only motivator in a healthy society, but it probably needs to be one.
I suspect this is all well understood by the authors. We do research one simple step at a time, then we sell it as "look at this amazing thing" because we like funding (which enables future research and eating food!)
I worked 3x12 in grad school. It was the most productive i have ever been. Relaxing is actually kinda critical for solving nontrivial and complex problems.
The desire to return to 3x12 is one of my biggest motivations i consider when contemplating becoming a contractor instead of a fulltime SWE.
According to https://opensourcepledge.com/join/, it appears that Open Source Pledge doesn't actually collect money. They are simply a listing page for companies that have met some criteria for open source donations.
There was also "group", I think it was called? You could select multiple things, including programs, to copy into archive memory - that way the original would still be there so they could see they deleted something, then you ungroup it later to restore it.
So, um, this website expects a nontrivial amount of their traffic to be sight impaired. It probably isn't designed this way for your benefit if this is your complaint.
- It could be just what it says on the tin "letting the blind see".
- It could be a reference to the real neurological condition where one can in fact see but the conscious mind is convinced they cannot.
- It could be a reference to the novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts, which is relevant to the above neurological condition but is really about just how bad humans are at perceiving the world around them and being unreliable narrators.
I realized back when he started naming the spaceships, Musk has read many of the novels I have, but seems to have taken radically different lessons. The potential misinterpretations of "Blindsight" are the utility of sociopathy in society and acceptability of manipulation to manage unreliable humans.
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