I'd never suggest anyone to try a cigarette, but from my experience being addicted to nicotine is not easily translated to being addicted to cigarettes.
It takes a really different state of mind to start a cigarette habit especially due to awful taste and effect of ingesting a strong concentration of chemicals on your body that has nothing to do with dosed concentration of 'mostly just' nicotine.
It may be anecdotal and subjective reasoning, but I battled vape addiction differently than cigarette addiction. I'd classify tobacco addiction more of an emotional addiction, while vaping was more based on nicotine addiction which was more mechanical and predictable than the former.
Work, friends, financial and other lifestyle decisions. All tend to have risks to ruin yourself and your life permanently.
I think that relationships are crucial for the quality of living and not seeking depth in those may be more detrimental than most things I mentioned above.
Especially, the today's 'connected' societies which often give false premise of socializing and promote ideas of isolating yourself from deeper relationships.
I’ve just written a small anecdote with GPT3.5, where it lost count of some trivial item quantity incremental in just a few prompts. It might get better for the orders of magnitude from now on, but who’s gonna pay for ‘that one eventual mistake’.
Reminds me of the time when GPT3.5 model came out, my first idea I wanted to prototype was ERP which would be based purely on various communication channels in between employees. It would capture sales, orders and item stocks.
It left so bitter taste in my mouth when it started to lose track of item quantities after just a few iterations of prompts. No matter how improved it gets, it will always remind me the fact that you are dealing with an icky system that will eventually return some unexpected result that will collapse your entire premise and hopes into bits.
This will not be an argument but my perspective as an amateur investor.
Main difference between gold and bitcoin is in its history. Gold as a type of investment instrument has already earned its reputation and status. It’s not just a commodity, it’s a financial instrument that had its use in building and making of history and it’s well integrated, recognized and supported by most government and societies.
We still don’t know what Bitcoin really is and how it behaves. It could be valued 10k times up or down next year and there could be no clear reason why that happened. Bitcoin is not in hands of most powerful companies, people and governments and change of its value would not affect anything but net worth of certain individuals or organizations.
By no means, I think bitcoin is here to stay and it has a very clear future as an investment and payment instrument. But I think it’s really silly to say Bitcoin is speculative as much as other investment instruments.
>We still don’t know what Bitcoin really is and how it behaves
We know both of those things 100%, it's in the source code and ledger of every transaction that has ever occurred from it's inception. We certainly do NOT know that in regards to gold, nobody has a good picture of the world's total gold reserves and where they are, the extraction rate, or it's exchange. A lot of what people say is true of bitcoin but not of gold seems to be precisely the opposite.
As far as what should bitcoin's utility be valued at to the world at large, sure this is in a volatile state, but I don't see how that bears on it's classification as an asset.
LLM tech is breaking records in popularity because it’s extremely user centric. It reminds us of a friendly teammate that seems seasoned in all areas we talk about with them. It’s a pleasure to talk to them now and then, we enjoy the vast source of information it provides us no matter what the subject is. But then, we ask him to do the work for us…
Or imagine having a senior engineer in a subject you are clueless about (e.g. Haskell) and think about how annoying would it be for both of you to communicate out some advanced functionality program.
Analyzing, researching, learning and making decisions are a crucial part of doing work. LLM apps are useful at another approach for learning and researching, but if you solely rely on them their drawbacks are going to keep you behind.
I understand the issues you experience. I don’t get the point you are trying to make.
I have a cheaper smartwatch and a dirty cheap robot cleaner.
Cheaper smartwatch has e-ink screen, notifications, payment, health monitors, etc. It doesn’t have all possible smart features, but in return I got 30d battery life.
Cheap robot vacuum cleaner is based on basic sensors, no lidar or recognition systems. It gets stuck in cables, it misses 10% of spots, but it captures 2 cup sized ball of dust every day.
I am happy with both. Especially because I researched and found what works for me. Maybe the ‘best’, ‘smartest’ and most expensive products in the market isn’t neccesaary what everybody needs?
Wasn't there a version with self winding but no surplus return to battery. It had no health sensors though as a extrem low energy device.
If I recall correctly the winding energy was directly used up for operations to spare the battery. Someone help me out, the core was some SOC from TI..
It takes a really different state of mind to start a cigarette habit especially due to awful taste and effect of ingesting a strong concentration of chemicals on your body that has nothing to do with dosed concentration of 'mostly just' nicotine.
It may be anecdotal and subjective reasoning, but I battled vape addiction differently than cigarette addiction. I'd classify tobacco addiction more of an emotional addiction, while vaping was more based on nicotine addiction which was more mechanical and predictable than the former.