> I've been playing with the hypothesis that if information is controversial/surprising and targeted at laypeople, it is almost guaranteed to be misleading or outright false.

This is my general perspective with history books - most mass market history books simplify the complexity dramatically. You have to get into books with piles of citations before the complexity & nuance level starts to approximate something perhaps like a correct take.

This gets more and more painful the more 'hot' the topic is.

The Body Keeps the Score is stuffed full of, essentially, woo.

I assess it as being correct in noticing a lot of "smoke" around mind body connections. But I found almost all the causeual linkages to be "... really???".

Consciousness in general seems to be poorly understood outside of the "normal experience" state.

its an interesting concept.

I wonder how this plays out with Kaiser and other integrated practices.

They try to convince you that you're fine and don't need any treatment.

It would be good to see the old english letters brought in. I particularly enjoy thorn.

I am running a lightweight experiment - I have a Java repo I am vibecoding from scratch essentially. I am effectively acting as a fairly pointy haired PM on it.

The goal is to see what how far I can push the LLM. How good is it... really?

My chief thought about this deal is that Silver Lake ripped off the Skype employees with a claw back clause.

Good luck to the EA workers.

I would concur. It's my observation from 20 years of watching and participating - the volunteers are the retired, the wealthy, the underemployed, and the stay at home parent. "Normal" working people are not volunteering and handling the complexity of doing these things, they are at their work. I can only imagine that prior generations had the working parent participate through the free time freed up by the stay at home parent.

It suggests to me that there is a long running flaw. I believe Bowling Alone pegs the inflection point in the late 50s or early 60s, ('57?) and the substantative issues came about with the generation hitting the workforce in something like 1960. So the kids born in the 1935-1945 era had something in their culture materially different than prior eras that kept on spreading.

I'll add that there are some feedback loops making it worse. When these organizations aren't available kids are more dependent on their parents for something to do, which makes the already strained parents even less likely to take on volunteer work.

And then kids who grew up without mentors are less likely to try to be that for someone else.

Basically the orgs don't have enough volunteers to do important things, and the people don't volunteer because the org isn't important to them.

Yes, the network effect and cumulative impact is profound.

If I were to make a lightly educated guess - those who were teens in the 40s and 50s saw the world of their parents and their sacrifices, along with the totalitarianism of the USSR and Nazi Germany, and decided to pursue individualism over community. So as they got to an age to participate they opted out, as well as increasing the total social individualism. And here we are.

I don't know exactly what the way out here looks like, but I believe it absolutely means involvement with local organizations. Kiwanis, elks, rotary, religious, etc.

I personally have needed to sync something between 3 and 6 devices over the past 5 years on a daily/weekly basis.

I invite you to figure out how to algorithmically figure this out in a general case without needing Git Merge levels of complexity for data structures far more complicated than lines of code. Peer to peer device merging of arbitrary files for n > 2 conflicts.

The answer - the algorithmically simple and correct answer - is to have a central hoster and the devices operate as clients. And if you have a central hoster, you now gave yourself a job as sysadmin with requisite backup/failover/restore with data management responsibility handling the decade+ case. Or I could hire a central cloud company to manage my tiny slice of sysadmin needs and _not_ have a part time job at home just dealing with file management and multifile merges.

All models that are "I have a laptop and a backup hard disk" are _broken_.

Yeah, that's what they said back then too.

For those with ears, the old men always say the world is getting worse.