As someone who already has a four day work week every other week? Itâ(TM)s absolutely fantastic. I get a day to do errands on Friday, and then I actually get a weekend. I feel much more refreshed coming back to work the following Monday. Love my job, and even if the coworkers arenâ(TM)t always perfect, I have enough energy to handle all of it just fine.

What gets me is that if the data were actually used in a meaningful way, it could be revolutionary for people. If companies actually correlated things like sleep patterns along with habits, places visited, speech patterns, and socialization during the day, it really could change peoples lives and make for a deeper understanding to help people with their health, habits, social welfare, any number of things.
You could have an AI assistant that provides people for coaching needed to lose weight or to exercise or to stop smoking, etc.

The problem is these companies are too bureaucratic and too penny-pinching and beige to actually do any good or try something interesting and different.

I agree with you, giving a company all this information is terrible. Their stupid, expensive ventures are going to flop as long as they keep doing stupid things with the data, though.

Like a junkie they will keep hovering up electricity and data until they implode.

Wouldnâ(TM)t it be smarter to let them stay home and buy into all these outstanding artificial values that Amazon has for prime day?

First of all, it is not tearing either company apart.
Second, Microsoft is looking for business. Use. Case. Asking the hard questions and coming to the conclusion that Open AI is full of crap for most stuff.

Open AI otoh desperately needs to get under a corporate umbrella.

Microsoft will dictate the terms, OpenAI needs to save face, and MS knows the longer these âoenegotiations âoe go on, the cheaper Open AI will be. The emperor never had any clothes and MS got to have a peep show to see the truth.

Dixit? Deep Dixit (pronounced dikshit, actually) ?? Really???

Iâ(TM)ve known an Ajarapu. Phil Ajarapu.
A Gangarapu (gang rape you, yes)
Iâ(TM)ve known Ashit. Thoti. Gopi.

All great people! Really! But i just canâ(TM)t with the namesâ¦

Hochul said this? Yeah, sheâ(TM)s just grandstanding because she is desperate to keep her position. Sheâ(TM)s wise than Cuomo was, and keeps somehow fumbling the ball in every way possible. This woman is a disaster for the state of New York.

She squandered $300 million by stealing it from Department of children and family services to fund a pork project for her husband that no one asked for, a stadium in Buffalo that is useless most of the year.

This woman is politically inept, and is so blissfully unaware of the gravitas of this moment in history it is laughable. There is no way she will give anything to upstate New York. She is continued to defund and starve upstate New York of desperately needed infrastructure money, which is one of the worst things she could possibly do.

besides, NYPA would take 5-10 years to finalize these plans. At best we are talking15-20 years to get this project done.

Shame on you Slashdot, you are posting stupid political grandstanding instead of interesting articles.

They keep doing them because they sell REALLY well in China, dwarfing the American box office.
What modern Hollywood is telling you is that China already runs things. When China stops being interested in superhero movies, then we'll see a change here.

Every accusation is a confession. Golf clap for starting down the road to self acceptance.

Disagree.

Maslow's lacks cultural broadness and his methods were highly suspect.

https://simplyputpsych.co.uk/p....

And THIS is the kind of post I hoped would be at the top of the mod heap.
Very thoughtful! Thank you.

I worked like to add two things:

One, this study seems as if it would look at what people THINK they want.

Two, it is what they want right now. As we move toward a world where more and more people have less and less, I argue this is what people want right now, rather than what brings contentment long term.

Finally, as a Buddhist, I argue people REALLY REALLY have no idea that what they are looking for is a calm contentment. That comes from an outlook/conditioning of having enough. Sex and fun are just hedonism, which make us want more. Then we suffer to try and obtain more (looking at you, Elmo...) but it's neeeeever quite enough.

The real issue is infrastructure. people who live in apartments canâ(TM)t charge their cars and there arenâ(TM)t enough charging stations at work for people to plug in there.

people donâ(TM)t have time to wait 30 minutes or an hour to charge their car. They just plain donâ(TM)t. unless there was charging at grocery stores or something, which there also isnâ(TM)t!

Add to this the fact that about half the United States lives in a place that has really cold weather in winter and loses mileage. Battery heaters be damned.

The people who try and hand wave away these issues in the comments are living in an ivory tower. They have no idea what the average American is struggling through. there is no transition to EVS without enormous infrastructure investment in America, and since that obviously wonâ(TM)t be happening anytime in the next four years, I guarantee you that these EV investments from car companies are going to be a bust.

Jordan's original idea was a trilogy.
in the third book Rand is supposed to get balefire and then that's it. He wins.

he was successful with the books so he drew the whole thing out the same way that GRRM is doing.

Any time you see great wealth there is a great crime behind it.

I do, and there's nothing you can do about it because this is the internet so nyah nyah nyah!

Came for this, left satisfied. Would read again.