I've also found the trick to moving up IC ranks is to be less warm and empathetic.
Readit News>To an external observer, an object falling into a black hole appears to slow down and never actually crosses the event horizon, seemingly freezing in time.
It takes infinite time to reach event horizon, not the center.
> It takes infinite time to reach event horizon, not the center.
Even that is only true to a distant observer, not the one crossing the horizon.
from which perspective? I have yet to wrap my head around it(this usually means I am wrong about something), but there may be no singularity because it takes matter an infinite amount of time to reach the center due to time dilation effects.
https://modern-physics.org/time-dilation-near-massive-bodies...
This is the origin of my favorite science fiction theory. (little to no actual science but you could write a fun space romp around it) If you get a large enough black hole where the tidal forces will not rip you to shreds instantly, you could just scoot across the event horizon right, now what happens? you can still move around, everything feels normal, but really you have lost half a dimension, everything "out" from the center is completely gone from the universe. Now the theory, back to our universe, What happened to time? why does time only go one way? we can accelerate and decelerate along the time axis, but can't reverse it. Where has our missing half of a time dimension gone?
> but there may be no singularity because it takes matter an infinite amount of time to reach the center due to time dilation effects.
The outside observer’s view doesn’t stop physics inside. For a massive black hole, you absolutely do reach the singularity in finite time by your own clock.. likely minutes to hours for the largest ones we've known about so far.
wayeq commented on Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits mattwie.se/no-sleep-till-... · Posted by u/mattwiese
I'm impressed by your determination.
A while back, I had a big paper deadline a week away and knew I didn’t have enough time to finish without sacrificing sleep.
Rather than cutting my sleep short, I decided to stick with 7–8 hours of rest and instead lengthen my wake window. I worked out a schedule that gave me six nights of sleep across seven days. It meant waking up at stranger and stranger times as the week went on, and getting some odd looks from my roommates when I emerged from my room. But in the end, it was totally worth it. I was waking up well-rested and ready to tackle those extra-long days.
The effort paid off 100%. Not only did I make the deadline, but my paper was accepted as well. A year later, that same paper helped me get into my PhD program of choice.
It’s funny how these short bursts of intense effort can sometimes have such a big impact.
Best of luck with your side hustle!
> I'm impressed by your determination.
I'm depressed by their determination.
GPT-5 knowledge cutoff: Sep 30, 2024 (10 months before release).
Compare that to
Gemini 2.5 Pro knowledge cutoff: Jan 2025 (3 months before release)
Claude Opus 4.1: knowledge cutoff: Mar 2025 (4 months before release)
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/compare
https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/pro/
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models/overv...
Does the knowledge cut off date still matter all that much since all these models can do real time searches and RAG?
wayeq commented on Face it: you're a crazy person experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
I get the point, but this is fantasy thinking. The vast majority of people will actually never find that thing despite trying their entire life to find it, and for those that do find it, it will likely be a thing society doesn't care about. Obsession is a gift in my opinion, many people don't have it, and im envious of the clarity of purpose those that do have it seem to enjoy.
The primary reason Bill Gates is a billionaire is because he was born at the perfect time for someone to be obsessed with how computers work. What would he have done if he was born 100 years earlier?
> What would he have done if he was born 100 years earlier?
Introducing the Microsoft Slide Rule
"international law" is, i don't know how to say this quite right, largely for show
when both sides seem to be willing and eager to order, participate in, and cheer for atrocities from leadership to the common people... I don't want to take ideological sides or tally up crimes to decide who to root for in millennia old conflict mostly over a single city
it's a terrible shame for the people who want to live together in peace, clearly there are not enough of them
> "international law" is, i don't know how to say this quite right, largely for show
Turns out most law in western democracies was largely for show
> According to the US Food and Drug Administration, MRI machines have magnetic fields that will attract magnetic objects of all sizes
Good thing they sourced that fact, I never would have guessed.
Here's the bit on Youtube (I couldn't find an Archive link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSAxtIYM08
This is the right conclusion, and I love sharing that video for that reason.
As of 2025 everyone globally has everything they need to make the world a great place for everyone. Instead, people continue to take the lowest energy route for their personal actions, which means they do not even think about the externalities of that purchase from Amazon, the Latte from Starbucks, continuing living in (insert your broken system here), working for some billionaire etc...They just shrug and think "its out of my control, besides I don't have any impact and why should I suffer unnecessarily"
There are millions of examples of individual people who had no education, being actively oppressed and violently attacked changing their situation by either moving or overthrowing their oppressors. Harriet Tubman comes to mind.
It's never been easier to do that, but people would rather not.
The entire "illegal immigrant" concept proves it, people literally spending their entire life savings ($5000) to pay coyotes to smuggle them in horrific conditions so they can be slaves picking strawberries. I know a Houston restaurant owner who did that trek twice from Guatemala, getting deported the first time and he just saved up and did it again. While speaking no english. Tell me again about how it's not possible to do something. Meanwhile the citizens can't be bothered to learn about their own history or you know, do anything.
I've tried to start multiple non-heirarchical anarchist cooperative organizations and the number one challenge is finding people who will put the group ahead of the individual. It just doesn't happen. There are no organizations where that's true. No church, no government, no state, no charity, nothing, nowhere actually meets the test of holistic globally aligned "good."
I read the Medicins Sans Frotiers book long ago, even they were terrible and continue to fight internally [1]. Unions now make most of their money from capital investments [2], which is directly in opposition to their anticapitalist philosophical roots. All of this is because the members don't care and don't have any desire to have less, they all want more forever.
At this point in history, everyone has access to the information they need to make globally holistic decisions. It's not possible to claim ignorance, ignorance is strictly a choice and ultimately a existential personal limitation.
There are no organizations that exist for the benefit of society and they cannot exist because humans fundamentally lack the cognitive ability to think beyond Dunbar's number but their actions have global consequences.
Self elimination is the only possible arc for humanity.
[1] https://healthpolicy-watch.news/inward-technocratic-msf-lead...
[2] https://jacobin.com/2023/02/finance-unionism-union-density-d...
> Self elimination is the only possible arc for humanity.
Hey man, at least add a spoiler alert.
We eradicated smallpox and recovered the ozone layer through global coordination, not even a century after murdering each other by the tens of millions in two world wars. We're capable of both.
You're absolutely right!