I checked it out, the first post:

Here’s the thing that keeps me up at night about AI augmentation:

GPS navigation has now been widely deployed for over a decade. Multiple studies show measurable decline in spatial reasoning ability in heavy GPS users compared to control groups. Place-memory, route-planning, spatial orientation — all demonstrably worse when the system handles it.

This is a problem because: navigation was never supposed to be cognitively demanding. We weren’t supposed to be outsourcing something that mattered. And yet.

We’re about to do the same thing with everything else.

There’s a critical difference between the calculator and the AI wearable. The calculator outsources execution while preserving mathematical reasoning — you still have to know what the numbers mean. The AI wearable that handles goal decomposition, priority weighting, and scheduling optimization outsources the strategic layer itself. You might have excellent taste in outcomes. But the capacity to decompose goals and rank priorities — that’s the muscle you’re not using.

The cognitive debt is invisible because you still feel like you’re thinking. You made the call. You just made it with AI-generated options in front of you.

The GPS precedent is the warning nobody’s taking seriously.

We know the answer to the question “will heavy AI augmentation reduce unaided human cognitive performance?” We already know. It’s yes. The question is which capabilities we’re willing to let atrophy, and whether we get to choose.

This isn’t an argument against AI. It’s an argument that some cognitive offloading is net negative for the human, and the GPS data is the proof.

The real skill in the AI era might not be what you know or even what you can do.

It might be knowing what to protect as native.

Seriously, Fezzik moment here.

Wonder what it’s like to be at mckinsey and after your company has been advising corps to cut staff and do stock buybacks for 40 years as an infinite money glitch suddenly you’re the bloat.

Yeah this is years old; WA and more recently CA and others have pay disclosure as well. Those same shite employers likely can’t afford not to hire from entire swaths of the country so will retreat back to their idiotic shells and post/hire for any state as “remote”.

I’ve never been in a single accident and drive a basic compact sedan I bought new off the lot 10 years ago. I could buy it used today, with current mileage for about the same price I paid new. I’ve paid about half the initial purchase price in insurance premiums.

Being a good driver sucks, but it’s kind of like healthcare where…wait a minute I’m healthy and getting fucked there too. As I age I’m going to street race and try to gain as much weight as I can.

That flank. Sigh. I remember the turn after Occupy. It went from economics to being cool to just broadly bash men. I specifically remember outspoken, angry women at marches and protests and was like wait, where did the economics go? Like 60% of Republicans wanted wealth reform during occupy. It unfortunately coincided with really great–though apparently transitory–improvements in lgbtq rights. It was so weird to me that self-labeling “feminists” were suddenly talking like it was a zero sum game; for women to rise and improve and build and grow, men had to be put down. That is of course the language of someone seeking power, a charlatan, but it became quite normal. Even questioning the broad criticism of men wasn’t appropriate in “liberal” press or circles for a good decade. The whole "yeah but bashing men isn’t right/fair or clumsy” finally started working into the Atlantic, NYT and other large publications in 2023 but the damage had been done.

It of course drove lots of men right to the tall radio, podcasters–and those were young adults then–i can’t imagine what it was like growing up since then as a young person with the normalization of some of this stuff.

No it isn’t.

(Yes, you’re correct)

No it ISN’T, it’s just CONTRADICTION.

5 minute rule is good, also because people coming into a gym or starting a new exercise routine have a lot of energy and no muscular endurance nor is their body used to working out the joints, tendons etc. they will push themselves to “work hard and make progress” and then be in pain and it builds fear and reinforces negatively working out. Many a ship sunk by not really, really easing in.

Even a super out of shape body is amazingly capable of exercise and movement if you ease into it. Then when you have some baseline with your body “ok we can walk for 20 minutes now”/run for t minutes now/do x situps etc., then you can slowly start to add intensity, weight, etc.

Go slow, go light, succeed.

Right, it’s why I shared this; the economics of it are undeniable and I hadn’t seen or read much of modular building technology in this kind of combined implementation so I hoped it might help visibility for those looking to consider options.

It’s not going to make single home developers change overnight, but if it’s safe, decent and affordable compared to the stuff that is currently thrown up it could help turn the tide. That’s to say nothing of those who currently are unhoused and don’t want to be but the time and materials investment is too enormous for local communities to consider building housing on their own.

That presumes the standards of potential beneficiaries of affordable housing. Globally?

There are many cities, even in “wealthy” nations who have awful options–or none–for people. This could help some, and help ease market leverage incumbent landowners have because development is slow and expensive.

I bought it new last April from mint mobile: 399 with 12 months of phone service(I’m on $15/5gb/12 month plan now). Saved me $10/month vs. visible and I had to get a new phone anyway as my p5 was aged out of security updates. Basically with the savings on my monthly bill it dropped the price of the phone $120 in my first year so $279 for a new phone and 12 months of service.

The 9a is starting to drop prices, if you need to re-up with a carrier I’d look for deals, might be able to get one new for the same price or less.

You are probably caught in a catch-22; many such HR systems didn’t used to require security questions to make resetting passwords easy. Then, of course with modern data breaches the companies over time added in the requirement. The problem being when they added the security question requirement, they didn’t do the critical piece of requiring all current users to update/create security questions so any login attempt outside SSO and you’re screwed. Someone else’s problem boss!

Jack black isn’t funny at all. He’s worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US “comedy”; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can’t stand him.

They will sell it to the highest bidder, likely foreign. That is the whole point of the “sovereign wealth fund”. Trump and the Uber wealthy see it as an asset to plunder, who cares if Bahrain owns Yellowstone or you have to pay Bezos to fly over the Amazon Canyon? The future is amazing!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wo9l--9bpms

It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.

Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.

I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator’s personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.

“upgrading”