"I think its a fair point to say that most of humanity will probably be dead within 20-30 years. "

Why do I even read this stupid fucking website

To be exposed to ideas and observations that may be outside your normal perception.

Forewarning of the issues when it matters, following rational principle, is being forearmed in preparation (should you choose to act on that warning and hedge your survival bets for yourself and loved ones).

Those that accurately predict and prepare survive. Those that don't are culled when the environment becomes disadvantaged towards survival.

There is always an element of chance, but adaptation and flexibility greatly bias towards continued persistence.

Anyone working remote is just talking nonsense on this subject.

I am related to a journeyman electrician and journeyman welder.

They would give it up to work remote in a second.

As someone who has used zero social media in 10 years, this is incredibly trivial.

No one complains about being hopelessly addicted to listening to audio books or doing anki flashcards.

I suspect it isn't just social media but the cultivation of an online presence that is hopelessly addicting to many.

It is kind of like saying how do we get people to stop being addicted to smoking crack pipes. The crack is the problem, not the pipe.

Animals fly by flapping their wings, hence an airplane is not really flying. It can't even land safely in a tree!

Exactly. It's pointless to argue over whether an aircraft is really capable of flight, when small drones are already capable of outmaneuvering most birds on the birds' own turf.

I will never work in an office again but I suspect that the good/hard workers, are slightly more productive with work from home and are happier if they want to work remote.

The slackers though are slacking much more with WFH. At least in the office they have to pretend to be productive and that ultimately results in additional productivity.

There has to be scaling laws at work here. I work for a very small company and it is quite obvious who is slacking off remote. In a large company, it is probably much easier for the slackers to hide their lack of productivity.

There is a linear relationship between fat loss and caloric restriction until about 7 or 8% body fat.

The idea that caloric restriction is causing all this muscle loss is one of the dumbest ideas we currently have.

It is simply not true.

What is your argument? That losing weight does not result in muscle volume loss? That GLP-1s are somehow special and only losing weight via them causes muscle loss?

IFBB bodybuilders getting weekly DEXA scans and running multiple steroids including cycles specifically designed to help prevent muscle loss during cuts still lose muscle mass when losing weight for shows, despite taking every drug under the sun, working out an obscene amount, eating huge amounts of protein.

Your body will break down muscle when losing weight. You can do a lot to prevent the vast majority of it, but there is going to be some no matter what you do.

Tolerance for ideas one disagrees with has a very short history in space and time. Intolerance in this area seems to be the long run equilibrium and we are simply returning from a far from equilibrium state that could only last so long.

I consume many audiobooks and I usually love an audiobook narrator to the point they are a value add itself or I hate the way they speak and I literally can't read the book. The former is very rare though and the later much more common.

The ability to change voices to one that suites a person's taste is hardly a race to the bottom. It is a HUGE value add.

I am sure lamplighters were not happy about the light bulb either.

c'est la vie.

Breaking the audible monopoly sounds like a nice side effect too.

Protein powder is 90% marketing that is a distortion of reality and research for marketing purposes. None of this matters unless you are only getting your protein from one source.

If you are eating north of .5-7 grams per lb of bodyweight throughout the day you are not going to be short of amino acids when needed even if lifting really hard.

I like a protein shake because it taste good and different but there is absolutely nothing special about any of this. Protein powder has the absolute most bullshit around the product of anything I can even think of.

I listened to the Cursor team on Lex Fridman yesterday. The biggest thing I took away is they have some wild ideas with having agents running in the background that are following what you are creating, trying to find bugs.

I understand what you mean but surely those guys were thinking about this awhile ago now. That part seems obvious listening to them. They are thinking way beyond that.