[mamborambo]

In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIFO to manage allocations, planning ahead to break deadlock situations, managing parallelism, and JIT garbage collection etc.

[isolli]

It reminds me a bit of this book, which I recommend: Algorithms to live by.

[0] https://algorithmstoliveby.com/

[codetrotter]

Humans often like to compare the brain to technology.

For example, when gears were high tech there were people that drew heads with gears turning inside of the head, likening the act of thinking to the motion of gears. And I think in cartoons etc we still see this sometimes.

:D

[codetrotter]

Also relevant: “How an Algorithm Feels from Inside” (2008)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yA4gF5KrboK2m2Xu7/how-an-alg...

[duckmysick]

Yes, I remember those. And later, a light bulb flashing inside of the head when the character has an idea.

[sorokod]

Possibly our autonomic nervous system is closer to what we think is an OS. Abstracts over the low level operation of the wetware

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system

[rolisz]

And civilization is a distributed operating system! (I heard this from Joscha Bach)

[white_dragon88]

What is the operating system analogy for whacking off? Clearing the cache?

[sva_]

Luckily our computer hardware can Not self-repruduce yet.

[engcoach]

Sending an email to yourself

[sorokod]

Garbage Collection