Shoulders of giants as a service.

So shifting high-emission production to China and then pointing the finger at China for products we consume is kinda dishonest.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-co2-embedded-in-tra...

I do art on paper and even I don't go through 500 pages in a year. It's at work, things like 60 page reports that need to be printed for submission (and then get printed 2x or 3x again because you can replicate it).

The ease of printing documents is the culprit, you can just replicate large physical artifacts again and again. You can't do that with your personal notes that probably only exist as unique artifacts and maybe get scanned into a digital archive.

Or is it largely dependent on multi-photon interactions to impart enough impulse on the electrons?

[0] https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=21511

Maybe you're familiar with Atomic Rockets, the collection of engineering and science discussions about hard scifi? If not, I may have got a rabbit hole for you that will eat an entire week, easily: [0]

(Edit: while the page starts off dismissing fighters for many reasons, there are discussions of many concepts with their merits and possible defenses of the concept)

[0] https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fighter.php

So what we'll remember is the cliché form of everything. That's worth something in terms of history but is it an improvement over primary source material?

Even if guns exist, there is an arguable thrill to reading about a character infiltrating a castle with a saber and two pistols that cannot be reloaded easily. Long ago, those were pirate or naval pulp fiction.

Imo any setting can produce great stories, it's in how they're told not in how the world works. Established genres of fantasy are just attractive to some people, since analogues of the laws and structure of the world are already partially known - and it's possible to subvert expectations while not alienating people.

So in the worst case: small input, giant irreversible effect.

With the expression I meant the realization of a business idea into a self-sustaining business.

The entire grade of the diploma was composed of all the verbal tests and the grade of our thesis (pre B.Sc.) - so there had to be a point where you knew virtually everything well enough to explain it at least in one way and derive some relations or sketch a derivation if prompted to.

The flaw here was the personality of professors - some were easy to piss off, others more patient.

To me, the poem paints an unreachable ideal of being that just doesn't resonate with me at all. It may just be me but in my mind it feels naive.

That is the absurd condition every human being finds themselves in. Camus sees two solutions that have been suggested so far in philosophy:

Suicide (which he rejects outright as too easy and lazy) and a "leap of faith". The "leap of faith" consists in finding by passion some irrational, maybe larger purpose outside of what can personally be known or experienced, a belief that negates this absurd condition. Historically, this is the domain of religion and spiritualism.

Longtermism seems to me just that: an existentialist escape from nihilism by the promise of some kind of vague purpose with vague metrics and an unknown, irrational payoff you will never know (at least for those subscribing to it without motives of profit).