I wanted to get some Marain characters tatted with neat line work, my initial thought was to get “Av Anam“ or “Av Anamnesis” tatted on my wrist but in marain characters. It’s a reference to the starship I pilot in space engine which is a General Contact Vehicle with the name “Anamnesis”, so it’s kinda meta in a way.
Thoughts on how to give it a more culture “flare” and where to find the official characters ?
Sorry if this is a common question around here but with how the AI industry is advancing I’m wondering a few things about comp. neuroscience career prospects. To preface I’m 23, I haven’t done any formal education yet for reasons I won’t get into here but I’ve always been passionate about subjects revolving around mathematics, astrophysics, engineering, programming, neuroscience & it’s adjacent fields.
When I was a child I was shown a complicated neurosurgical process on YouTube by my aunt in the early 2000s, in all honesty it was probably meant to freak me out but it did quite the opposite and I’ve been intrigued by neuroscience & things like the philosophy of mind ever since.
For along time it was mostly background interest and some self study on certain topics but as I’ve gotten older and I’ve started to try & define a career path for myself I feel like pursuing something related to computational neuroscience and mind machine interfacing is where my life trajectory is headed.
I‘d even like to start a foundation or company someday revolving around that (which is lofty for someone who at 23, hasn’t even begun the formal education process yet).
My main question is, is it too late for me to jump into the formal education process and eventually meaningfully contribute to the field? It feels kind of daunting, especially because some of my more well positioned peers will have already graduated with their bachelors and be well ahead of me career wise.
My goal is to pursue a career involving comp. neuroscience & mind-machine interfacing both on the theoretical & engineering side of things with some mix of bioethics.
thanks in advance for advice about this dilemma.
The last one has people calling me a liar or assuming that I faked the run
finally a sub 20 5K runner
Girlfriend broke up with me last year because I tried to explain my sexuality to her during a psychedelic trip, my only goal since then has been to become objectively physically perfect so no one could ever deny that about me… and somehow it still isn’t good enough for anyone.
What do I have to do, become a Demi-god in every aspect except the actual deification?
So I’m in my early 20s and I lost my job a year and some change ago, I have no income and nothing to my name currently - however I did have a car gifted to me that is worth ~20,000$ USD.
My current plan is to sell the car and get most of its value back, I’m expecting something between 17 and 19k. I still need transport so I’m planning to buy a 600cc motorcycle + gear and the courses needed to ride. that will set me back about 12-13k I’m assuming.
with what’s left over I plan on getting some personal enrichment items and then putting the actual amount left over in a savings account. What would be the wisest thing or things to do with the cash left over?
A stagnant UBI alone would still dystopian if advanced AI and robotics make extreme abundance possible, it’d end up being a pittance check.
If a future AGI powered economy generates unprecedented productivity, but the average person only receives a fixed survival stipend while a tiny ownership class captures nearly all of the gains, then we haven’t solved the problem we’ve just stabilized techno-feudalism.
The goal shouldn’t merely be “prevent starvation after mass automation.” It should be ensuring that the productivity gains of machine civilization raise the material floor for everyone dynamically.
In other words, as automated productivity scales, baseline human purchasing power and quality of life should scale with it.
Not as charity. Not as welfare, but as a kind of basic human inheritance entitlement derived from humanity’s collective scientific, cultural & technological development that made those systems possible in the first place.
A static UBI could still trap people inside artificial scarcity while machines generate near post-scarcity levels of output.
& critically, distribution mechanisms shouldn’t become fully centralized digital chokepoints either. People should still have decentralized means of exchange and participation that preserve autonomy, privacy, and resilience outside purely corporate or state controlled platforms.
UBI is only the first step. The real question is whether automation leads to managed dependency under concentrated ownership, or distributed abundance & genuine post-labor agency… something more akin to a protopia rather than a dystopia or a utopia ( which quite literally means nowhere)
A stagnant UBI alone would still dystopian if advanced AI and robotics make extreme abundance possible, it’d end up being a pittance check.
If a future AGI powered economy generates unprecedented productivity, but the average person only receives a fixed survival stipend while a tiny ownership class captures nearly all of the gains, then we haven’t solved the problem we’ve just stabilized techno-feudalism.
The goal shouldn’t merely be “prevent starvation after mass automation.” It should be ensuring that the productivity gains of machine civilization raise the material floor for everyone dynamically.
In other words, as automated productivity scales, baseline human purchasing power and quality of life should scale with it.
Not as charity. Not as welfare, but as a kind of basic human inheritance entitlement derived from humanity’s collective scientific, cultural, and technological development that made those systems possible in the first place.
A static UBI could still trap people inside artificial scarcity while machines generate near post-scarcity levels of output.
& critically, distribution mechanisms shouldn’t become fully centralized digital chokepoints either. People should still have decentralized means of exchange and participation that preserve autonomy, privacy, and resilience outside purely corporate or state controlled platforms.
UBI is only the first step. The real question is whether automation leads to managed dependency under concentrated ownership, or distributed abundance & genuine post-labor agency… something more akin to a protopia rather than a dystopia or a utopia ( which quite literally means nowhere)