Except this guy has REALLY big feet...

Well, you know, it was only eight years after Lifeboat... I can't really blame them.

I have to say - it's VERY depressing reading that and comparing President Eisenhower's thoughtful words with the bile, bombast, and often even absolute hatred that's regularly spewed by the current occupant of that office.

Not sure you quite get how dopamine works.

Maybe we'll get lucky and that'll make Sam Altman's head explode!

That's simplistic. I like the flavor of coffee... but sometimes I like the flavor when it's combined with cream.

I mean when someone cooks a stew, do you tell them they wouldn't have to make stew if they just bought higher-quality carrots?

Of wine? ;-)

Your "medicine" isn't allowed to taste good, after all.

Nonsense, I have it on good authority (from a Very Stable Genius) that this is the most transparent administration EVAR!!

This "change of direction" probably has more to do with Trump and Co. being able to wet their beaks.

Here's a little more detail.

Researchers a few years back ran tests. ADHDers and neurotypicals were asked to harvest berries and edible plants.

Neurotypicals tended to over-harvest and damage bushes to the point where recovery would be slow if possible at all, and tended to pick areas clean, wiping out local populations of edible plants.

ADHDers tended to move relatively quickly from area to area, harvesting a decent amount from each area but not excessively. The quantities tended to be at the sort of level that have long been established as a good balance, such that plants and populations would tend to actually do better the following year. Not only that, but they tended to gather more.

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Crofts and small farms rapidly went to three-stage and four-stage crop rotation, but different fields would be with different crops. This meant that the failure of a single crop would be much less of a survival thing.

You'd see fields with a mutitude of diverse crops, because diversity was critical. Failure was highly likely, so you localised it. Failure in one area had no meaningful impact overall. Things like the Irish potato famine and the parsnip failures across France in the 1700s were relatively rare in history. Likewise, when industrialisation wiped out cottage industries, farms that had been very successful suddenly went bankrupt and mass starvation was common. The ability to task-switch and have a large number of small projects going was essential to life at the edges.

You're absolutely right, more ADHD would have indeed curbed the excesses. The industrial revolution caused huge problems by trying to do too much with too little diversity. Which eventually destroyed the economies built around the early mills, because the markets were too easy to undermine. There was no capacity to switch. But during the IR, the obsession with coal meant nobody really looked at alternative fuels or alternative activities. Economies became tightly constricted, which was devastating when it came to global warming, but equally devastating when it came to distributing metal-devouring bacteria (which did enormous damage to infrastructure) and radioactive particles (old mill areas are still unusually radioactive).

More ADHD wouldn't have eliminated the problem, but it would have diversified the solutions and would have diversified the markets, resulting in a much more robust, much healthier marketplace and a much more robust, much healthier population.

Uh, no. As in, 100% of gatherers would be ADHD. IF they weren't, you'd be extinct within the year. 20% of the hunters would also be ADHD, because over-harvesting was also going to wipe out your food source. 100% of your explorers would be ADHD, 100% of your experimenters would be AuDHD.

ADHD was essential to survival. If you didn't want to die out, you stuck the neurotypical outside so that the wolves and other nasties actually hunting (tigers wouldn't be present) would get them. Neurotypicals were the main threat to survival.

I don't drive like a maniac, but I probably wasn't particularly careful about the clutch... not to mention that, for some years, a fair bit of my driving was on the hills of Seattle.

Regardless, the distance you've gotten out of your clutch is extremely impressive!

It was definitely quite odd. I'm very impressed by the balance the robots displayed; on the other hand, the aiming of their attacks (which were predominantly kicks) also seemed almost unrelated to where the other robot actually was (TFS' "sometimes" is an understatement).

Each robot seemed to have a very limited set of moves - just one or two specific attack moves, but several celebration moves.

I was a bit concerned that a human might be the target for a random roundhouse kick to the head towards the end of the video.

... and it made it look almost real. So did it get a gift card to Bed, Bath, and Beyond?