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In philosophy there's a term "second order desire" which is "wanting to want" something. So, when you want ice cream it's a first order desire, you just want it. But when you want to eat healthily, it's often a desire for wellbeing, long-term goals, etc. Not a sudden urge for carrots.

The challenge for adhd is that second order desires aren't that motivating. When I'm in a sporadic fitness phase (seems to hit for a few weeks every few years) then I really want to exercise (first order desire). I'd rather do exercise than play on my phone or watch TV. But the rest of the time I want to want to do exercise (to be fit) and if I had a magic wand or a pill I could take I'd prefer that to the exercise, because it's not something I genuinely want for itself. But going for a walk somewhere beautiful, or going dancing with friends, are things I genuinely want to do, so are easy to achieve. And they have a byproduct of being some physical exercise.

Been a chef. It works pretty well for adhd, if you can find a job that has the right level of business and organisation to keep you in flow. It can be really fun reacting to things and having lots of short goals and dopamine hits.

But equally, once it becomes too busy (or the kitchen is poorly organised) it's easy to become overwhelmed and that can exhausting. If you're like most adhders I know, you might find keeping you kitchen organised and remembering where you've put that small tub with that essential garnish for the next order. As you search everywhere for it, you make even more of mess, and then you discover that it was exactly where you first looked, but because you're hyper and rushing you missed... And now you are even more behind with the checks and you remember that you forgot to put that vital thing in the oven two hours ago, so you're going to have tell the wait staff that the one vegetarian dish in the menu is finished.

Also, as everyone else is saying, being a chef is stressful, poorly paid, and easily leads to world of alcoholism and/or stimulant addiction. That being said, it can be fun! And being a good cook is a life skill. So, if you find a job somewhere that seems like a good vibe, go for it. But i don't think I could recommend it as a career plan.

I mean, I agree, I'm not going to be losing any sleep worrying about the unsatisfied billionaires. But what he's saying is that given the cost (losing 30 years of his life) the 'reward' ($35 billion) wasn't enough. He's not saying he doesn't like or want the money, he's saying its not enough to give up your life for.

If anything, it would explain why rich people keep pursuing money long after any sane person would be content with their millions/billions. Maybe if you just get given a few million you could be satisfied with it, but if you've had to sacrifice your life, friends, morality and so on to get it... And you realise it doesn't actually make you happy, so you keep chasing more, hoping that eventually enough will be enough. Better that than realising you're an idiot who fell for capitalism's big lie and gave up the stuff that actually mattered in life to get more numbers on a sheet.

That's interesting. How do they say it out loud? If 6am / 6:00 / 0600 is said "oh six hundred", is 0000 "oh oh hundred"? "oh zero hundred"? "zero thousand"? "quadruple oh"?

No idea why you're getting downvoted. Most of the time I've rented an Airbnb is because I'm looking for a homelike environment, kitchen, lounge, etc. Depending on what country I'm in sometimes it's cheaper to stay in a hotel, sometimes it's cheaper to stay in an airbnb. But they're very different experiences, so it depends what you're looking for.

We'd get non religious holidays developing / being promoted to sell a bunch of shit. Some people classify halloween as a "religious holiday" because of its roots as All Saints Day eve, but it's pretty clearly a nonreligious "dress-up / horror" holiday nowadays.

If there was no Christmas there would be some generic winter cosiness holiday (as xmas/ December actually is for most Western countries). I live in France and there's loads of "Christmas" junk but it's 99% non religious. Even compared to the UK, where some people complain about "Christmas loosing its roots", it's noticeable to me how few of the decorations or cards have any religious imagery (even pretty neutral things like stars or angels). There loads of snow and winter animals, no wise men/shepherds, let alone 'baby jesus'. France is officially opposed to religious holidays because they're a "secular state" but they keep a winter and spring public holdiays that are at the same time as Christmas and around Easter. But other public days off are just other non religious events (national holidays like Bastille day, workers rights on may day, etc.)

And in seasons like summer that didn't have big religious holidays (or not popular ones anyway), there's loads of secular sources of themes / merchandising. The Olympics and World Cup (or whatever sports your country is into) always end up filling the supermarkets with loads of cheap junk and create a shared topic to "being people together".

Another French holiday is the midsummer "fête de musique" which was created by the government decades ago to replace the dangerous (notionally Christian but clearly pagan) "fête de Saint Jean" where people built big bonfires and young men tried to jump over them (leading to lots of injuries!). Now all cities and towns and even small villages will organise some concerts or live music evenings.

Tldr : if companies weren't promoting religious holidays, they'd just find other holidays to sell stuff.

I would have misgivings of using the character with René, but it wouldn't be hard. He's changeling, god dammit. It was one of the weird conceits of DS9 that odo kept the same humanoid form, and so the changeling who interacted with him did too (along with implausible excuses about "not being able to master the humanoid face", or the changing virus).

Having spent time with the founders, you could easily recast "Odo" as a dozen different characters of different species and genders. Perhaps he has transcended the attachment to a single form that he developed from living among solids? I feel like watching some good actors do Odoesque performances could be quite interesting!

I think your right that corporate stuff (including mass market blockbuster stuff) will increasingly be done by AI. But given a lot of it is currently "written by committee" it's not really that different. The writer of Halloween 47: The Last Killening might have been an indvidual, but it probably got redrafted by another bunch of writers at different times, and studio execs made changes, etc. It's unlikely the work of a single visionary.

But I believe that parralel is with industrial food. Living through the mid twentieth century, watching people go from cooking at home to buying frozen, freeze-dried and other processed meals. Or eating in fast food chains where all the food is packed full of additives in some factory a thousand miles away. Some of it was good (being able to get certain ingredients year round, or easy access to food from far away) but a lot was pretty depressing, and easy to imagine a time where we forget how to cook and eat real food entirely.

But that's not what happened. Sure, some people only eat processed crap, but also people have become more and more obsessed with local, handmade stuff, or authentic or fusion recipes from around the globe. In the 80s/90s it felt inevitable that there would end up being basically 3 beers to pick from. Now there's an endless wave of craft beers, etc, etc.

So with AI. It will take us a while to get used to. Corporations will use it to make money and make our lives worse. But it will also be a useful tool for help actual people be creative and make things for other humans. And in the end, there will always be a demand for the best, or unique, innovative stuff, and that will probably mean human created, not AI.

That's crazy! My initial reaction was... But how do you know what your committing to, what your rights and responsibilities are etc... But after 2 seconds thinking about what I know about USA, it seems about right.

I often have dreams about having conversations with peoole I know, often abiut really mundane stuff. It's very annoying, because my memory isn't great i genuinely struggle at times to figure out if it happened for real or was just a dream. Often I realise because it was impossible, like I'll be telling my parter that I chatted to X about something and they'll ask "when did you see X?" and I'll realise that I haven't seen them in weeks so I can't have had that conversation. It's even come up at work and I've had to check with coworkers, "have we spoken about this already?" (although I try and keep the "or did I just dream it" to my self).

I don't disagree, those kinda things (stimulation, people) can be issues for ASD, but I think they can also be ADHD issues. I love people and am very sociable, but because i struggle to talk about things "normally" and get bored easily I really prefer small groups of close friends.

I'd happily hang out with my close friends pretty much all the time, especially if it was just two or three of us. But if its a big group, I get easily bored and end up interrupting / dominating the conversation, or I just switch off and play on my phone, or just leave.

Even if when I'm having fun in a big group, I will involuntarily start eavesdropping on another conversation that's happening in the group and stop being able to focus on what the person I'm talking to is saying. If its a fun drunken party, it can be okay to shout across the room to join another conversation, but it's often very rude, especially to the person right in front of me that is telling me something and I've just started to blank... So small groups are easier.

Similarly, I love the busyness and novelty of the city, but since moving to the countryside with my partner, I realise how much background noises and stuff happening was really distracting me and making it harder to be focused and relaxed. So now, I do prefer the country.

Tldr: if you have problems with attention, that can impact social interactions, and how you react to stimulation. This leads to similar behaviour as someone with ASD, but for different reasons.

Hamas are awful, and murdering the innocent is always vile. The problem is that both sides have an endless "but they started it!" going on. Hamas terrorists kidnapping and murdering innocent people: awful. Isreali military bombing innocent people :awful. Both sides claim to be defending themselves. Both sides are making things worse for themselves and others.

But Isreali will win by slowly murdering the Palestinians. Hamas will not win by occasionally murdering Israelis. Because the combined forces of almost all Western governments are onside with the Isreali government.

So, illegal terrorist acts are rightly called out, and funding to Palestine stopped until it can be proven the money won't go to Hamas. But, even when the UN or indvidual countries call out Isreal for war crimes or illegal actions, they don't stop funding their military. Per capita, Isreal spends more on its military than the USA (Israel (_{$2770), United States (}$2405) with the USA providing 20% of Isreal military spending. So it's an extremely lopsided bothsidesbad situation.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-military-aid-does-the-us-give-to-israel/

I work with a lot of nonnative English speakers, and someone sent out an invite to a meeting on Thueisday and my brain melted.

I think you're right that (at least for good quality voice acting) we'll need an input source, but then it can be adapted to sound like the desired voice. Which will be great for keeping characters sounding the same, or having one person 'voicing' a whole team of characters.

But I think good voice acting is hard, and a lot of stuff is very subtle, so I don't think it'll be as easy as "the sound designer" records all the voices, unless they are also a good actor. If i read out a Shakespeare monologue and then use AI to make it sound like Patrick Stewart or Christian Bale, that won't make it sound very good. Because I won't emote and pace the text in the way that they would.

But for simpler stuff (narrating a nonfiction book) or stuff where the quality doesn't matter that much (lots of cheaper voice acting on shows and games doesn't seem like it would be hard to replace with an AI) the tech will be amazing.

But we're so tuned into human communication and voice, that I think it a lot of it will be passable but underwhelmingly mediocre for a long time. Even Carrie Fishers lines in the last Star Wars movie sounded flat and fake, even though they were actually delivered by her, because they were used out of context, so the timing and emphasis and pace all sounded off.

Any evidence for that theory? I guess I've used Bluetooth hesdphones for years, so I've not got skin in the game. Lots of android devices seem to not have a headphone jack. And each part removed is one less part to pay for, or replace, or have to water proof. I've not looked into it because I'm happy to trade sound quality for wireless convienece, but umarent headphones that use the usb c port comparable in quality to 3.5mm?

But if there's a leaked memo or something that it was a concerted plan by the company that would certainly be bad.

That's not quite right.

The United Kingdom is the three countries of Great Britain, combined with Northern Ireland. And it's the "official" country / nation, has a seat of the UN security council etc. But NI, Wales and Scotland are all countries, and in many peoples they're nations too (depending on how you define such things).

I really want to like this and keep trying to convince myself that the little problems would be manageable... I'm not too fussed about bezels, the camera or the screen not being that bright. The processor and "sluggishness" seem like the main issue - is it noticeable during day to day use? I don't play games but I do flick between apps a lot, is it noticeable?

And the charging seems frustratingly slow, even my midrange phone for a few years back had 65w charging. Is there an external battery charger? That way I could always be using my phone and just have a couple of spare batteries that can be charged externally.

I think it did effect things. SMS is weirdly popular in the US (i think it's might be cause they didn't use it much in the 90s?) but people I know in France and UK still use texts for some things, even if messaging apps are where most of communication happens (French people even use mms which is insane).

I know that I managed to convince a number of tech-shy people (including parents) to get Signal by telling them replaced their sms app, so it wasn't a whole extra app / network they needed to use. It was great for me because I could ditch WhatsApp completely. But when signal stopped supporting sms they went back to just whatsapping and texting, so I cracked and reinstalled WhatsApp to keep in touch with them.

Really nice to read comments like this. I feel the TLJ debate has a tendency to "deal in absolutes". Personally i enjoyed it more than TFA, and defintely liked where I felt it was setting up the rest of the series... But it had a bunch of flaws, and some of the hate was understandable, even if unnecesssrily vitriolic. And despite some of the stupidness, I'm still content with it as the final film in the Star Wars octology. An optimistic note of hope in the face of adversity, we don't really need to see how it all pans out...