I think that you will find that the very concept of "meaning of life" is meaningless. There is no concrete, real-world thing that it refers to. However, some people do attain a certain bodily and mental state where they feel they are missing something, they feel like life is incomplete. This sometimes manifests itself as a nihilistic worldview (among other effects). It is also almost always accompanied by a feeling of disconnection from others, from society.
Now, for someone who is not in this particular bodily (and mental) state, life itself is a joy. The concept of meaning of life doesn't even come into question, because if you love waking up in the morning, love the work you're doing, the people you interact with and society and the world itself, you don't feel like you're lacking anything. There is no need for further meaning.
Also, this state, like all other bodily functions, is not a discrete, binary switch, but a continuous biological mechanism that takes a spectrum of values. It can be measured by simple tools such as the activation of the vagus nerve, brain activation pattern revealed on an EEG and so forth.
As for how to change this bodily function, unfortunately that is still a bit of a mystery. Some find that seeing a therapist helps, changing of your personal circumstances often helps as well. There are other promising mechanisms such as neurofeedback, but none of them have a perfect track record.
How would that fix the actual problem? And how do you judge what is a worthy discovery and what isn't?
As parent said, UBI would probably fix the incentive scheme, your solution wouldn't. You need to decouple the reward from the result so that research is done out of sheer curiosity and love of science.
You cant decouple this (fully) with UBI. Only a little research is done at a desk, a lot need equipment, sometimes very expensive. With UBI you just get the time but not the stuff.
Top half of the main page, top half of the ask page, usually only comments (not visiting the pages themselves unless it is something very interesting to me).
3-5 times a day. On average, I open 10 discussion pages a day, and visit around 3 links.
Thanks for sharing. Many people seem to be more interested in the comments than the original information itself. this is not my case even if I've fond exceptional information in the comment section sometimes better than the original link.
f = O(n) makes no sense either. It should be f ∈ O(n). However, notation serves us and we don't serve the notation. People say "Big O" when they mean "Big Theta".
What's the point of this? Yes, I am severely depressed among other issues I am facing. I haven't had a job in 3 years, after burning out and started having panic attacks. The finances are so stressful that are making me just numb. I can't make any decision, the executive part of my brain appears to have shut off.
Also, depression is not an illness. It's a defensive mechanism, just a symptom of a certain body state. It's a completely natural response.
It's important to understand the meaning of live in this context: The meaning of live is to preserve itself (and re/pro-create). Depression is a reaction to that this goal might not be reachable: Depression is putting you into an alert-modus, so that you work hard on fixing these/whatever (very tough) things to get back on track.
But I assume the SoC or the processor itself does have PCIe expansion ports, right? Internal GPUs should in theory work should the part be sold by itself.
Unless Apple starts selling some overpriced PCIe devices, don't hold your hopes up on this. Ram is soldered / integrated into the SoC. Tomorrow even the SSD will be (if it isn't already). Ultimately you will not be able to upgrade anything, just like your iPhone or iPad.
Apple Silicon has not yet been made available in a Mac Pro enclosure (where PCIe internal GPUs could be used). We can only guess what the story will be when it is, as no statement has been made by Apple either way.
This shifts the labour market, making a lot more jobs available and making it much easier to get a job for new people or the jobless. I don't think it would work well though. Ideas such as job guarantees for everyone often come up in UBI conversation so this is a related concept.
Mandatory retirement means that you're prohibiting people from working. It's such an infringement on personal liberty that it's politically laughable to propose it. Keep in mind that most politicians are over the 50 year age limit themselves. It's just impossible to realistically implement.
That's on top of the massively increased cost of the newly retired people, mental health crisis from being prohibited to work for the last 25-40 years of your life, getting rid of the layer of the workforce with most experience and expertise. It's absurdly dumb.
Being in a job is not required for mental health. Women all over the world ...millions of them even..find meaning in life being stay at home moms and working moms quit their jobs to find meaning elsewhere. They don’t suffer from ‘mental health crisises’
Employment is not a right. It is an economic transaction. Translating labour to wages is not a given right either without a contract.
Every 50+ person would have the opportunity to make a living and the social contract should make way for the next generation to make a living too.
Between the ages of 25-50, the working population supports the youth. After 50, the youth will support them. There is no need to fret about massive costs. If anything costs will come down. More people die of stress, hyper tension and heart disease than boredom.
Can you explain this considering that you're adding 15 years of financial support that need to be paid for and also additionally increasing that cost by making it compulsory?
Every nation has an economic engine. If there is no refueling schedule, then the engine will cease to function.
There is no real contradiction. It’s rather simple..I don’t think an economic engine should operate to take care of mental health of its employees. It should function to keep the economy of a country going. That’s it’s prime directive.
Meanwhile: how do you think women for millennia have managed not to be employed and find meaning in life. No one owes anyone a job. Being called to employment from age 25-50 is a duty to an economy that has 1. Supported you till age 25. 2. Will support you after age 50.
The rest is just numbers. Social and corporate accounting. It’s not rocket science.
I see this kind of answer frequently. In many places and situations, people are not so fortunate as to have a choice between healthy and non-healthy workplaces.
"If they reject you for that, you don't want to work there in the first place". Except if the alternatives are no job at all, or a minimum wage workplace with significantly worse conditions. That kind of answer assumes a certain privileged position.
Now, for someone who is not in this particular bodily (and mental) state, life itself is a joy. The concept of meaning of life doesn't even come into question, because if you love waking up in the morning, love the work you're doing, the people you interact with and society and the world itself, you don't feel like you're lacking anything. There is no need for further meaning.
Also, this state, like all other bodily functions, is not a discrete, binary switch, but a continuous biological mechanism that takes a spectrum of values. It can be measured by simple tools such as the activation of the vagus nerve, brain activation pattern revealed on an EEG and so forth.
As for how to change this bodily function, unfortunately that is still a bit of a mystery. Some find that seeing a therapist helps, changing of your personal circumstances often helps as well. There are other promising mechanisms such as neurofeedback, but none of them have a perfect track record.