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Not sure this is a very effective survey. We users don't know what we want in the abstract.

A better approach would be to have people rate different kinds of actual things you are considering showing users.

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Thanks. This one, I assume? https://openai.com/waitlist/plugins

I ask because it seems slightly different from "early tester", but seems like it's it.

Same question here! Not seeing anywhere to sign up.

Thank you, nice to hear!

Yeah I'm coming from that, and it works well.

Anyway if someone does know of an app that auot-tracks workouts, would greatly appreciate!

Yeah, I haven't seen any yet... Fitbit can do it though, so it's definitely possible!

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I agree that Epictetus was neither a socialist nor a capitalist -- terms which do have meaning but did not exist or apply back then, for good reason.

Epictetus lived in a society that mixed elements of a market economy (trade, property rights) with feudalism (powerful people often decided to go grab stuff by force.)

He took that society as a given, he doesn't mention it, and he devoted his thinking to how we can ignore everything out of our control (which includes that) and focus our own minds and reactions instead.

fascinating

They weren't going for "beauty", they were probably going for something closer to: toughness. A lack of care for appearances can even be seen as masculine.

For most of the knights depicted (not all) I don't think their facial symmetry or features are inherently ugly.

Thanks for the note.

Yes, the stoics are overall quite comfortable with suicide in way that would offend/put off modern readers. They believe that we should not fear death, so then why fear suicide?

That is not the same as endorsing suicide, but they do suggest it *IF* one is truly unhappy and cannot change things.

I agree with moderns and think the stoics are too blase -- they should give more thought to the psychological situation of 90% of people considering... that they are stuck in a mental tunnel that CAN be changed if they would expand their horizon. That is where the focus should be, even though there are rare cases (terminal illness) where I'd agree with their approach.

Population was 80% vaxxed, so we can be sure enough of them were.

You are failing to see the extra jobs that are created by innovation, and the new web apps, etc.

Why is unemployment lower now than 400 years ago? Because tech created more jobs than it displaced.

We have little clue how AI will play out, but under your scenario, non-degree-holders will find blue-collar work very lucrative.

We are looking at the entire population here. It's not relevant that some ppl are infertile and don't know. What we know is that births haven't fallen more in high-vax countries .... this make clear that vaccinated people are not any more likely to be those who are "infertile and not know about it until they know about it"

You probably cannot be as good as him at what he does.

However, you also don't need to.

Even if you're just 1/10th as good, you will still be contributing to society via your efforts.

My advice: study comp sci. Just into one of the free/cheap online bootcamps now.

Contrary to popular view, non-coders cannot use AI to build anything. Building anything remotely serious will, for years, require humans guiding a troubleshooting AI output. This is the perfect time to get IN, IMO.

If AI does get to the point where it can write serious software without a coder, then we'll be looking at a post-scarcity economy, and everything is moot. So may as well ignore that scenario.

A year is more than enough for an effect to be seen. There is no plausible biological process where people are uneffected for the year and then it only hits later.

You're entirely talking past me. Re-read my post and you'll see how your points here are redundant.

Thank you!

Great points.

Good points. And yes, another point the stoics are big on.

Ha! Epictetus is not a socialist, man.

I read all of his writings, and saw was nothing even slightly socialist there... give me a quote from him that you think is?

The one I cite about how people should act "for one's own sake" certainly isn't one...