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New comment by plakspin in "Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy"

plakspin — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:12:45 +0000

I looked up the average cost of living in Alabama. It says it is 54k for a family. Do you think that is realistic? The reason why I ask is that US incomes always confuse me. Incomes seem quite high and I understand that taxes are much lower than here (Finland). As an uninformed outsider with these costs of living 100k for a couple seems quite nice and a gross income 130k appears absolutely rich. Am I missing something? IlJust very curious always as some of the income programmers with my experience get in the US seem absolutely unachievable here.

New comment by plakspin in "Robust autonomy emerges from self-play"

plakspin — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:21:36 +0000

You know how a loud sound or a flash of light can alter your dream ... For example you hear your alarm clock and all of a sudden you are dreaming you are in an ambulance?

My theory is that we are always in a "dream" state. Stimuli that manage to reach our conscious attention will alter this dream.

When a asleep only very strong stimuli will reach us so for the most part our "dream" is in a feedback loop mostly doing its own thing. When awake though we have a much more weaker filter for stimuli . The direction that our "dream" takes is fully controlled by it.