There are a lot of people who basically believe in a conspiracy of stupid people while at the same time believing anyone who believes in a conspiracy is stupid.
It is an amazing trick of modern propaganda. These people are so manipulated they can't even see the completely contradictory double think they are engaged in.
It just always happens to be the "dangerous" ideas are those that they don't believe in lol. How can anyone be so fucking dumb.
Having lost 30lbs so far in 2024, you are highly under estimating the devastation of our gluttonous foodie culture.
All the factors you mention I suspect are completely meaningless in comparison to consuming excess calories and I am pretty sure research would back this up.
I was starting to have various health problems a year ago this time that have all gone away literally like magic.
I think what you are talking about is actually a form of denial. Blaming meaningless variables we can't control so we can ignore the fat elephant in the room right in front of us.
Having worked at large corporations and now a small company, I think the reason for this is so no one can be blamed for anything when things go wrong at a large corporation.
The main function is that it insulates upper management from any responsibility of what is going on the ground. They don't even really know. If something goes wrong you can fire some useless cog in the machine 3 links below but they still have an important title so the optics hold.
Without all these layers then upper management has to actually take responsibility for the operation of the company. Instead, they get a nice asymmetrical bet with looking like a genius if things go well but plenty of fall guys if things go bad. It mirrors the pay out of their stock options. If things go well they make a killing, if things go horribly bad they only collect their inflated salary.
The asymmetrical bet is well worth all these useless meetings to them. It is just an operating cost of the rules of this game.
As someone who doesn't use social media this analogy strikes me as a rationalization for something you know is bad for you and a waste of your time but you can't stop so you make up this fiction about how you would lose more by stopping.
An alcoholic who can't stop going to the bar because they will lose their drinking buddies is not a dollar auction.
As someone who doesn't use social media this analogy strikes me as a rationalization for something you know is bad for you and a waste of your time but you can't stop so you make up this fiction about a dollar auction.
An even more fundamental problem is in trying to judge something completely subjective like how good food tastes.
I assume you believe you have good taste in food and I very well might find what you think is good to be terrible. It is not impossible the majority finds what you think is good to be terrible too.
My experience is that the only way to know if I like a dish is to eat it and reviews are completely useless.
I have heard of a few philosophers of their day years back being considered "the most learned man in Europe". Not the smartest, but the most learned. Learned implies agency, smart implies something innate.
With the advent of IQ tests and the computer you get the brain as computer metaphor gone much too far.
Terence Tao has a 64 core threadripper, so if you are just using a 4 core i5 don't even bother.
Then of course if you believe an i5 is basically worthless it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy even though for most tasks both would be plenty fast enough.
I don't personally see a solution other than student loan money being much harder to get.
There is so much bad research because there are too many researchers.
For myself, I think I am smart enough to have worked on a PhD in economics but not smart enough to have done anything worthwhile or to have advanced the field. I am certain I would not have. Then in the face of this massive student loan debt I would have produced junk research and try to game the system to make the investment worthwhile. The incentives are all ridiculous in the current system for most.
The idea politicians will cut student loan money in order to produce better scientific research would be a good way to optimize for losing an election.
Personally, I don't think there is a way out. If anything it probably just gets worse.
I question how valuable the ontology is even once you come up with it.
It seems to me if the idea behind all this was that valuable, it would have transformed banking in the 2000s and all banks would currently run on Palantir products.
Like the graph for songs in the example, Palantir always seems like some some kind of technological theatrical performance to convince non-tech people that it is more than it really is.
I almost never put my camera on. I think people mostly like turning their camera on to show off their home office, living room or book case. Beyond that, there is just no point. It is a distraction overall.
Business meetings in headsets is just completely delusional. It is one of the dumbest tech ideas of all time.
I suspect this quickly will be like specializing in the repair of cheap, Chinese made desk lamps from Walmart.
If the cheap desk lamp breaks, you don't pay someone to fix it. You buy another one and often it will be a newer , better model. That is the value proposition.
Of course, the hand crafted, high end desk lamp will be better but if you just want some light, for many use cases, the cheap option will be good enough.
Totally agree the difference is in the scaling properties.
On the other hand, I look around the room I am in and it is filled mostly with "low quality" Chinese made products. While you can't compare these products to expensive, expertly crafted, high end products, there is another scaling law at play when it comes to price. The low quality Chinese products are so cheap that I don't even consider the more expensive options. When the low quality desk lamp is close enough and 20x cheaper than the well made desk lamp, there is no decision point for me.
It is an amazing trick of modern propaganda. These people are so manipulated they can't even see the completely contradictory double think they are engaged in.
It just always happens to be the "dangerous" ideas are those that they don't believe in lol. How can anyone be so fucking dumb.