There is enough social psychology​ research to suggest that most of the time people are more efficient alone than in a group, although some tasks take more than one person. Process gain vs process loss, social loafing, groupthink, etc., if you put four people on a team you might get 200%, not 400% return, or worse.

Interesting, for complex tasks that require thought, the most efficient grouping tends to involve groups with diverse backgrounds and a work culture that values disagreement… which is basically the opposite of what’s going on in American government right now, lol.

Concord

Haha, just kidding.

Funny enough there’s a whole section of social psychology dedicated to this type of causal attribution. See also: “it was lag!!”

Long story short: personal, stable factors we like it it’s a success, dislike in failure; situational, unstable factors we like it it’s a failure, dislike in success. Self-serving and group serving biases, basically.

I feel seen in this. Sure I’ve walked 4 miles at 1am a few times but who hasn’t?

I should use this as an excuse to finally get a NAS setup. Maybe.

Oh man, one could supply an entire army with the arrows shot at that guy, I’ll tell you hwat.

I mean clearly it makes no difference but yeah, lol

You know, with how distracted your average Tesla driver is, I’m pretty sure this would trick them even with them “driving” with AP on.

That’s more an argument in semantics. Developmental psych actually has this as a brain development stage, with the later stages being about critical thinking even if the earlier phase doesn’t seem so. Experiments were done where children of various ages were tested on benchmarks such as volume and kids under a certain age failed almost universally (I forget the age, something like 5 or 6) in the same way that infants lack object permanence. Later, at 9 and around 13 (?) the same framework argues that the brain gets basic and advanced problem solving and critical thinking, although even that theory admits plenty of people skip that last milestone.

Your point is more a common logical (sensory?) fallacy that plenty of adults fall into, but isn’t necessarily the same thing. At least, I think it is, I’m a bit busy right now to check and it’s bad enough I’m typing this out instead of taking care of my own toddler, lol.

I want to point out that, especially after No Child Left Behind, we’ve actively worked to teach-to-the-test in public schools. That was a bipartisan compromise to make education “accountable” that ultimately worsened education. Obama’s DoE helped, slightly, in 2015 adjustments but it’s still no where near where it should be and made only worse by a push to get more charters and affordable private schools that don’t understand pedagogy.

That is to say, uneducated isn’t quite right as It’s not a lack of education, but more of a misguided pedagogy that prioritizes rote memorization over deductive reasoning and critical thinking. It’s not a lack of trying, but an avoidence of evidence based approaches.

You know, this should only trick young kids as they genuinely believe taller = more. The fact that it probably tricks a ton of adults just suggests their critical thinking never made it past adolescence and we should be very concerned by that.

Ironically, a lot of stock trading already is done by bot, it’s a problem from a while ago. Not LLM, of course, much simpler but it’s why it sometimes goes hive mind.

Man, I want to be at that shareholder meeting; “how about we just don’t have a CEO and pocket the savings?”

Another tough but not impossible migration for my crew, but there isn’t a good enough alternative yet. Plus they finally got around to fixing streaming on Linux, apparently, and I’m about to swap back once my new m.2 is installed.

Product of the times isn’t a great way to put it, but you can certainly make the argument that most people have shades of grey morality.

Science can back you up, too, as I teach social psychology and when you dig in, you find that normative human nature is pretty complex but generally very supportive for in-group and mildly empathetic even with strangers. It’s only when you dehumanize a group do you get the worst behavior, and in all four cases you see that, be it slaves or indigenous people.

When you look at those times, it’s people who recognized their humanity that ended up in the just side of history.

I like the little butterfly effect details. Blazing Saddles even got a different person hired at this place.

Oh, and Godzilla is real.

Try out Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2. It’s one of those JRPG games with a lot of mysteries and loose threads and every single one of them end up solved by the end.

Others have good answers. My only answer is I sure as hell wouldn’t notice. I swear, I blink and several minutes seem to pass. Ugh.

Oh but one point, when I and others do notice (or rather, are told by smarter people), you sure as hell better believe people are going to be researching and trying to figure out how the fuck that happened. Could change how we conceptualize the time dimension forever.

I think it’s best to straght ghost them, but I haven’t personal had to do that to family-- only family friends. They won’t change their views for you, it’s really just for your own mental health and a clean cut is so much more satisfying.

It’s always probably they’ll change on their own eventually and want to reconcile and if that happens, there’s always a way to find someone if one tries hard enough. And if he doesn’t change? People like that deserve to die alone.

I do feel a bit like a Hank Hill when I rant about this or any other newer, unwelcome features. No, Outlook, I don’t want you to finish my sentences, you are wrong 100% of the time and I’d rather do it myself gosh dang it.