In case of Ukraine one party has nukes, the biggest nuke arsenal in the world actually

I think it was meant like not (A has nukes and B has nukes) rather than (not A has nukes) and (not B has nukes). Strange wording, I felt the same way too.

Thats what i meant. Unles both parties have nukes, it will become a proper war where countries are destroyed

Looking at india pakistan, and ukraine russia, its clear whether you should give your nuclear arsenal up or not

That's what they meant: that's what war looks like when both parties don't have nukes. It's usually the defending party which benefits from nukes the most; and both parties having nukes makes every war a very dangerous affair (if it goes unchecked, as opposed to limited like India-Pakistan).

> We have multiple parts of the brain that interact in vastly different ways!

Yes, and thanks to that human brains are generalist

Only if that was a singular system, however, it is not. [0]

For example... The nerve cells in your gut may speak to the brain, and interact with it in complex ways we are only just beginning to understand, but they are separate systems that both have control over the nervous system, and other systems. [1]

General Intelligence, the psychological theory, and General Modelling, whilst sharing words, share little else.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119673

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau9973

Whatever sensible measure you can imagine, it’s most likely very strongly correlated with gdp

At some point they diverge, otherwise we wouldn't have Karnataka and the US sitting where they are for HDI rankings.

I think what you are describing is social anxiety, not just being introverted.

My spicy take is that ~90% of people who believe they are introverts actually have a middle level of extroversion plus social anxiety.

Yes. It’s even a part of Ray Dalio’s speeches on the topic. Here is one example where he mentions it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-refo...

> Do you have any proof whatsoever that non-programmers are using LLMs to write small bespoke apps for them successfully?

I’m radiologist, I’ve been paying for software that sped up my reporting like 200 usd per month. I’ve remade all the functionality I need in one evening with cursor and added some things that I’ve found missing from the original software.

People propose overwrought digital solutions because not selling online is worse in almost every aspect.

$256 is steal for what they are getting.

> I haven't read the underlying paper so maybe they addressed this, but: couldn't this just be because sedentary/unfit people tend to drive everywhere?

It could be and that's the point - the exact causal effect of fitness might be overstated because some mortality reduction might have stem from - for example - driving less.

That's a very good point. However the median follow-up in the study was 56 with IQR 50 to 62 years, I think that reduces this issue a lot.