Most people that retire don't turn into murderers or anarchists. I find very interesting how people tend to picture the worst possible scenarios, maybe a lot of Movies or TV influence?
A lot of people that retire from their careers pursue other interests that fulfill their needs, maybe it will be the era of amateur artists everywhere.
Others prefer to manually do tasks that can be automated.
Others could engage in cooperation with robots because humans will always have creative desires.
Most framework devs don't have any incentive to stop adding features. What was a simple and elegant tool ends up trying to do much more and the additional complexity negates a lot of the benefits.
I think total disconnection on weekends cause more stress on Mondays and that's why most people hate them, you need a lot more cognitive effort to resume work.
The study group were mostly customer support agents. The nature of that work is very different from other knowledge workers so probably the results don't map to more creative fields.
I wonder if these improvements in memory alteration will make it possible to create micro models using an approach based on pruning non relevant connections but preserving the reasoning abilities of large models like GPT4.
Express was really cool and different from what was out there at the time (at least in terms of simplicity and JS support).
But nowadays there's not a lot of difference between them. Sure, some are more ergonomic than others in certain areas but the patterns are almost the same in all of them.
There's been a lot of reporting on how testosterone and sperm count levels are decreasing without a clear explanation on why and lots of hypothesis so finding clear links between sedentary jobs and fertility is interesting.