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Anon orders food

While there is nutrition value to some bugs, most grasses pass undigested through the human gut. We are not ruminants Also if you leave bugs for a chicken to eat, you can have eggs instead.

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[OC] People tried to beat the stock market 100K+ times in a simulation. They lost, a lot.

When you play the market, you are handicapping yourself with your trading costs, which as a small player will be high. After this, you are betting that you are smarter than the average dollar invested. This is a bad bet.

You could win, if you got the right hands. But the more trades you make, the more your results trend toward your average, and the more the information asymmetry hits. Do you actually know more about these trades than the industrial investors who do this for a living?

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Before satnav we'd need to use an A-Z, we would learn the route and eventually not need the A-Z. With satnav I can drive to the same place 5 times and I don't know the route. This is AI today.

I think this is a neurodiversity thing. Different people find different things challenging, and I've noticed within my circle of friends that navigational ability varies wildly. I would find it unlikely that I'd have trouble finding somewhere I went using satnav once, but I could also see someone else using it several times without it teaching them the route.

I imagine that in the same way some people will use AI and have it be a learning experience, while for others it will be a crutch.

It might be more of a problem for people who grow up with it though; less of them may find the need to develop the underlying skills.