I wonder if the experience of ‘shortcut’ is part of the motivation, so that as soon as you’ve established a path, what constitutes ‘shortcut’ also changes. I’d be interested to know if curved paths were more desire path-resistant, because they appeal to an intuition about adjusting (and therefore optimizing) course.
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If you ever talk to someone confused by this, maybe ask them to lightly push the front magnet in the direction it’s trying to go.
cholesterol@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Up to half of the earth's population doesn't have an inner monologue, up to half of the earth has never had a shower thought2·20 days agoThe inner monologue is thinking by ‘hearing’ your own voice ‘speaking’ in your mind. It’s the mental equivalent of literally talking to yourself.
Do people have a non metaphorical inner monologue where they physically hear thoughts?
Yes, in the sense that they hear themselves ‘voicing’ out their own thoughts. If you have the ability to form images in your mind, it’s like that, but with sound.
cholesterol@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Bazzite 42 listed in June 2025 Steam Hardware SurveyEnglish2·21 days agoI don’t know if there is any, but I just came across this talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfWjhEWyblo&t=15868s
This language is a bit concerning
cholesterol@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Bazzite 42 listed in June 2025 Steam Hardware SurveyEnglish11·21 days agoThey won me over since Sunshine on Fedora was a hassle to install and gave me corrupted graphics. Wouldn’t be surprised if Fedora’s codec-hell had something to do with it. On Bazzite everything I needed was preinstalled and worked out of the box.
cholesterol@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they’re notEnglish4·24 days agoAdditional meta-analysis confirmed that left-handers are overrepresented among artists and musicians – but not architects, as is often claimed. Expanding their investigation beyond those fields, the team re-analyzed data from a large study drawing upon U.S. government surveys with information on occupations and handedness. The data included nearly 12,000 individuals in more than 770 professions, which were ranked by the creativity each required. By this measure combining “originality” and “inductive reasoning,” physicists and mathematicians ranked alongside fine artists as the most creative jobs. When considering the full range of professions, the researchers found, left-handers were underrepresented in those that required the most creativity.
Just drink cat piss
cholesterol@lemmy.worldto Hardware@lemmy.world•Nvidia bets on Gates-backed TerraPower micronuclear providerEnglish10·1 month agoIt’s one thing the AI messes up the ‘radioactive’ symbol, but it’s weird they just went with it anyway.
cholesterol@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of communityEnglish102·1 month agoWould they equally write ‘mothers’ vs. ‘childless women’ in another article about remote work, I wonder.
cholesterol@lemmy.worldto Funny@sh.itjust.works•The only argument I will, begrudgingly, acceptEnglish1·6 months agoThe Earth’s surface area is about 70% percent covered by water.
More than 95 percent of the water is in the oceans, and they make up less than 1 percent of the Earth’s total volume.
If you go by mass instead of volume the fraction is even lower.
Note that my (implied) emphasis is on experience. If the experience is what is important, convenience isn’t actually what creates desire paths. Instead it’s the experience of making a personal choice to increase efficiency, of joining a club of renegades who brave the path less traveled, etc… So maybe allowing for that experience in the managed environment is another way of limiting desire paths.