> Your sense of self isn’t located in a single part of the brain — it emerges from a complex interplay of cognitive processes that change over time.

Good guess there, Masud, but do we actually know this?

Damage to the pre-frontal lobes can thrash the personality more than damage elsewhere, so it seems plausible that the processes and relationships that hold up the self concept are likely concetrated there.

Intertesting. Tantalum is already used in electronics for capacitors (Ta2O5 or something like that).

Only when required, though. It's a conflict resource (which tends to make it more expensive).

Same would apply here, but the paper talks about moving molecules around so maybe quantity would eliminate the issue.

Working in Python feels like cruel punishment to a present-day Lisp person who had nothing to do with the AI winter; Lisp clearly chose the wrong target for its revenge.

If everyone simultaneously imposes the same cooldown period for picking up a new dependency, that's as good as nothing at all. The malicious change just sits there for 20 days (or whatever) with nobody looking at it or running it. Then it hits everywhere at once.

However, a randomized cooldown may be a good idea. To borrow a pandemic term, it flattens the curve.

These would be fun for voice control in a video game.

Which would be called Castle Woofenstein.

> Speaking and discussing with other humans [who aren't incessantly blathering about AI] is obviously the most effective way to mitigate these problems.

Slightly FTFY.

Attacking the Pope did wonders for Sinead O'Connor, so what the hey ...

Yes, that is a thing.

Also fabricating integrated circuits on a diamond substrate.

That was a design feature of democracy all along, not a bug.

This is not the reality in every democracy.

I live in Switzerland, which has a highly functional democracy.

Basically they just need one more option:

> You'll never get me to use the app so stop trying.

I mean for the sake of the completeness of their how-to-get-people-to-use-app research, not just the benefit of the user who doesn't want the app.

You will not convert 100% of people to the app, unless you shut down the website, or make it so unusable on mobile that it might as well be shut down.

If they shut down the website and the decent third party apps, I'd actually stop browsing Reddit.

That sounds like a net positive, to be honest.