what a dumb way to redefine winning... if your rival loses more than you means you have won.

they act as if with that assumption, but in fact what really happens is everyone loses. it's a lose-lose scenario

the most often overlooked aspect of "the present" is that it has a size or length.

so the "present" may be a second, zero seconds (with lots of math), or even 1000 years.

Right. In a sense even when planning for the future we are living 'in the present' since we aren't actually taking a time machine to the future but instead looking at present circumstances and planning some future change that we hope to enact or predict.

I think the issue raised by the article is that people's 'present' seems to be shrinking. Which as the sibling comment expands on means that people can't plan effectively.

Now with that being said I think that the article is a load of B.S. It is a ridiculous shirking of responsibility to say "I can't plan because I have this issue called 'temporal disintegration' caused by the vague trauma of current events". I am not saying trauma isn't real, but sometimes I see it used by people to externalize their locus of control. When has it ever been easy to be a human on this Earth? Get over yourself.

until trees with their wood laid waste to this balance?

at least until fungi figured hoe to break lingin?

Your dates are off by 100 million years. You're confusing the late Paleozoic for the late Mesozoic. Trees came first, the explosion of land-based bio-diversity happened more than 100 million years later.

that whole nanomachines sci fi, e.g. nanobots making grey goo or whatever is not as exciting if you consider cells are alreay microbits made out of protein nanobots

I've found that I have gotten better at this as I've gotten older. it does get easier.

I’ve been forced to learn how to deal with “DAAAAAAADDY!” whatever I’m doing, so now I try to do as little loading of state into my head as possible.

Part of that is meticulous notes on what I’m currently doing and planning to do, lots of “todo” comments and comments in general, etc.

The other part is just learning to live with interruptions through experience.

Some people might not have the same success, your mileage may vary.

I've got a set of sand timers (1 to 30 min) to handle such interruptions. Depending on how long it'll take me to finish what I'm working on, I'll just use one of those timers as currency to buy me the couple minutes I need to git commit my way out.

yes, I think it happens so you (we) can go hunting or harvesting or something, I can usually refocus that into cooking

which means it also ends (stops) there

the issue comes down to the possibility of programming a mobile smartphone using only mobile smartphones (in contrast with PCs)

I see this as a consequence of the overarching ideology of markets and capitalism standing in the way of humans exploiting the full potential of digital and internet technologies.

at this point this is a social problem to be solved politically

I wouldn't think that 3 months is enough time to decide if success has been reached

what I don't like about this (in general) is that it's part of the overruling ideology that will turn the internet from a place where you can look up how to make any recipe for free into a place where you have pay somebody a monthly fee to look up how much sugar per cup of flour goes in some dish (to put an example)

of course, this is not exclusive to this project in particular, but it's a crummy trend that just keeps getting worse. and this project is part of this wave.

I've thought about this and I think the choices here are:

- get everything for free, but it's all disorganized and someone else is selling your data to target you with ads - you can pay $45k for 3 months of cooking school - pay ~ $9.99 a month to both learn what you need and get help planning your weekly meals

In that case, is the third option all that bad? You can always go back to option 1 if you want.