I really think you're wrong about this not being controversial. Yes, a lot of people will want it, but there will definitely be ethical objections, medical objections, social issues, etc. for anyone using a drug to increase height.
Aside from that, the amount of people who are willing to take the side effects of growing is not going to be that large. I think most short cisgender men aren't actually insecure enough about it to take medication for their height. Then you're going to have to develop therapy to make sure that people are able to deal with the psychological aspect of continuing to feel insecure despite improvements in appearance, like they do with extreme weight loss or plastic surgery.
If someone did successfully create a product to increase height, it would create a lot of people who realize they are insecure about everything else after they get taller lol
Hmm not necessarily just ai, but Futureshock, The Third Wave, and other related stuff by Alvin Toffler has really influenced my thinking. There are some things that don't hold up in any book about tech, but i like his writing in general.
Newb feelings: stuff is changing really fast and hopefully it's good! Old people who don't even know anything about programming are running everything and refuse to retire and let us get on with actually doing stuff.
Young dudes are way more respectful of other engineers' actual skill, and less likely to ask female coworkers on dates or do other weird things that drive them away. My mom has actually seen a few younger guys step up and defend her after like forty years of handling these dickbrains on her own. The social side of things, at least in most companies we've seen, has become moderately better for everyone who isn't at work to get a date.
> Old people who don't even know anything about programming are running everything and refuse to retire and let us get on with actually doing stuff.
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> Young dudes are way more respectful of other engineers' actual skill
Directly contradict each other. Those "old people" you're insulting probably know more than you think. I'll admit that I'm biased, being a graybeard myself, but I don't know of any engineers my age that are still working who don't have a modern skillset.
Oh sorry, I don't mean old engineers who actually keep up with tech. There are plenty of people who are young and don't care about improving their skills, and plenty of old people who are smarter than everyone else. I think part of it is also that my awareness of this is from big companies that do military contract type stuff, and there's a lot of people who have just been around forever and climbed the corporate ladder with things other than engineering skills who are not good at communicating with engineers. Though I guess this is now a selection bias because in twenty years maybe the zoomers will be in charge and do the same thing :P
Ah, my mistake. I'm a bit touchy about age-related comments because it's become so incredibly common for young devs to assume that older devs have old, out of date skills. So I flinched.
That's another thing that makes me think I need to get out of this industry.
I get it, getting closer to 50 myself. I've seen plenty of older devs that try to coast it in at the end. I never had any intention of ever retiring, so I just keep learning. Still spend 10-15 hours a week reading on things. I don't always have the motivation to actually experiment on non-work projects as much though.
So, i have gpt4all on my laptop and i mostly use it for random fictional writing fun stuff.
Aside from that, it would be cool to have some kind of automatic inventory and info system for items in my home that can make minor assumptions about what you want, or do a "twenty questions" game to help find a word you forgot. My gf is dyslexic and can't remember words that she's only seen in writing, so she sometimes gets really irritated when she's trying to explain stuff and she can't even think of what letter the word starts with. I notice that when she wants to think of a specific word like "conglomeration" she has a very hard time thinking of how to describe the concept. So something that would be like "are you thinking of a noun? Is it a person, group, etc?" without her having to write a stating sentence would be helpful. It would have to just have a "start questions" button, bc she will get stressed by trying to think of how to start the writing lol
May I ask you how fast is gpt4all running on your laptop? I've tried to run locally on my desktop and it worked really well, however the "response" time it's pretty slow.
I've tried a bunch throughout my life, my mom has always been a supplement hippie, but i never notice an effect.
I took vitamin D for a while when i had a blood test showing that i was at the lower end of normal, but it didn't seem to feel any different. Aside from that, i have been on a prescription snri for almost ten years, and i consume coffee and marijuana often.
I tried melatonin, but I cannot confirm that it's any different than a placebo. I also tried progesterone and felt no effect, but my mom is in menopause and swears that it helps, so maybe I'll do it again when I'm older if i get hot flashes and stuff.
But yeah basically I'm a supplement skeptic unless you have blood tests indicating a deficiency.
Biochem is hard. People have been trying to do this for like a century, and they either fail or they're a scam. Also, extreme muscle tone is really painful, weird looking, and physically inconvenient for most people. If you don't work in the fitness or modeling industry, there's really no reason to get jacked.
Ooo that sounds cool. Yeah i don't see a lot of historical fiction that goes back really far.
When i was a teenager i read this one called Cathy's Book that had little notes and an actual phone number you could call to hear the characters. I'd love to see more fiction using elements outside the book like that.
I think just letting them play with regular programs or kid versions is better than games. When i was a kid, i would use some kid version of Paint that had little clipart built in, and then i would just play around on word trying to make signs and pictures and junk.
I never got super into video games because my dexterity is crap at high speeds. But as i got into my teen years, my grandma who was super into photography gave me her old laptop. I was really into changing the color of pics, trying to give people makeup, etc. I also really like specific data software like RadarOmega.
In general, i would say try and get fun stuff that doesn't have the pressure of timers and points and game over screens until the kid is old enough to understand competition and games in real life.
