> a world in which investigative journalism seems to have vanished and bitter corporate rivals cooperate on everything from joint ventures to lobbying efforts
My point was that hard and fast startup tactics don't guarantee success (WRT the starship project), and mostly have little to do with whether a project succeeds or fails at all.
Over half of all startups fail within 5 years. In the space industry it's much much worse. Although as long as SpaceX has cash I guess they'll just keep on trucking.
What is the main value of link analysis? As far as cause and effect and the larger picture (especially WRT the time domain), a lot of it seems like reading signs in chicken gizzards. The more you put in, the less sense they make.
There's only so much useful information to be gleaned from this kind of geometry. Fingering out and tracing cause and effect is just about impossible.
I wish someone would come up with a half decent top-down timeline creation and analysis tool.
That is the what lies at the rotten heart of capitalism.
I mean, people say a lot of horseshit about what capitalism is or isn't ("I'm a capitalist because I'm for making money and profits.", etc), or creating a fake context where the only alternative is ownership by the state.
But at the end of the day it's about the worker employer relationship, period, end of story.
Sweet. Border's been shut down, but contacts within the Ovis aries antifacist underground have already informed me that measures have been put in place. Before it's safe for him to come out he will be entombed in a giant mound of sheep shit, which they assure me is electromagnetically impermeable and should stop him calling for help.
Ah. As someone who went through the same thing (minus the ptsd), next time you get in a bad mental spot go see a psychiatrist and tell them about the bipolar diagnosis. There are some very mild mood stabilizers out there nowadays that don't zombify you. (SSRI's can trigger manic episodes and cycling in people with bipolar, fyi).
Also just making sure you don't trying and deliberately alter your moods with caffeine, weed, or amphetamines will keep you relatively stable (even without drugs). Although if you start having a full blown episode it's worth keeping what I said above in mind.
Sorry if the advice is unwelcome. This is just what I found helpful.
People with bipolar often use caffeine, weed, or even amphetamines to deliberately trigger hypomania. Feels good, but unfortunately it also increases the frequency of depressed episodes. It's like Karma.
Depends. In the short term (12 months) CBT has been shown to be very effective. However, over two years it has been shown to be just as effective as doing nothing.
The problem of time turns up in multiple kinds of treatments, and I believe it has simply to do with how long the depressive episodes last. Usually by the time people seek treatment that will be at the peak of the episode. Regardless of the treatment, a couple bunch of month will pass and people find themselves getting better. I suspect most depression studies a deeply flawed because of this effect. At some point the treatment will stop working. But it's not that the treatment stopped working, it's that a new depressive episode has begun and the treatment never really did all that much in the first place.
> The problem of consciousness is about understanding systems which feed back into themselves, build a model of themselves, and reason about themselves. The structure underneath is well known, if not perfectly understood.
The problem is you could build a system that satisfies each of those states and we still couldn't prove if it had qualia or not. That is literally 'the hard problem'.
Another difficulty of consciousness is it may not be transient. It may pop in and out of existence, and the only thing giving each instance the illusion of transience are the memories each previous instance have generated. The problem now is the fuzzy definition of a memory and the many different ways the human body may store it (in genetics, neural pathways, in brain chemistry, muscle memory, etc). In order to locate the present consciousness you have to be able to track all of these memory systems to get a lock on to which active brain network shape may be the current instance of consciousness, which may at any time vanish and pop up in another network.
Consciousness not being transient is kind of terrifying. It's like a mental version of 'The Prestige'. Every night when you lose consciousness, or maybe every time you lose or change a train of thought, 'you' essentially dies, and is cloned/re-imaged by your memories at some other location in the brain.
One of the most articulate and complete replies I've ever received on this website. Thank you.
Skinwalker Ranch seems like a key to understanding the state of the art in UFO research. In a word: Farcical. Almost on a 'men who stare at goats' type level of ridiculousness.
https://blog.12security.com/darkness-at-noon-01-waxtitan/