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The lack of consistency is a big issue. It may well be able to organize your trip to mexico, but then it tells me that "the product of two primes must be prime because each factor is prime" ... how will one ever trust it? Moreover, how to use it?

If a Tesla can get you there with 1% human intervention, but that happens to be the 1% that would have killed you had you not intervened ... how do we interface with such systems?


To add to your point, current technology does not even suggest if we will ever have such an AI. I personally doubt it. Some evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem.

This is like trying to derive the laws of motion by having a computer analyze 1 billion clips of leaves fluttering in the wind.


hmmmm .... PTSD? he's probably just in the same existential funk 90% of the rich world is in. action is the way out, whatever that means for you.


No, it's not the same.

Action is good, but if the emotional state is too bad, you can't just act your way out of it. You'll just overreach and break down again. You have to metabolize your emotions. For example through grief and acceptance.

I've tried action and many other things for decades. What finally freed me was crying it out for a few weeks, and now I'm fine. Now I can take action to get out of a funk.


i should be more careful with my comments then. such a wide spectrum of human experience. glad you're freed :)


I've only learned about this stuff in my late 30s, although I was deeply affected since childhood. I don't think your comment was particulary callous or ignorant. It just scares me when I see actual trauma being trivialized and thrown in with the "usual" stuff that stresses us out and feel a need to point out the difference.


so maybe for you living == achieving? maybe takes this as a golden opportunity to reassess things. do something for you! that has no meaning, or purpose. just to do it. see what happens.


you wouldn't go insane. you would adjust. it gets easier.


https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/write-vomit-draft-impo...

... once you're using your brain again, all these questions just melt away.


I have done this more than once and it is great. Point django at your db, dump the models, and then use django's test framework.


it is so easy to forget we're in this together. it's nice to be reminded. peace and joy fellow travelers.


"and kept them in sync by having IntelliJ keep the branches in sync."

that's the sign that it should be one repo.


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