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The study [0] finds that because mongooses don't know which offspring belong to which moms, all the pups are given equal access to food and care - brilliant example of ignorance promoting fairness in a mammal society.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23910-6

Of course, brand image et al.

Wow, so many people here are reacting so strongly for and against this move. We need to try and look at it objectively [0].

Regardless of what the official statement is, the most obvious reason for this move has to be because weight loss is an area that is riddled with misleading claims and scams, thus it makes for bad user experience.

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

I'm not sure if I'm the right audience/user to answer your question but here's an offshoot thought: Wouldn't there be some value in building something like what you are suggesting but for electric vehicles only?

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I don't think there are general prescription to overcoming such feelings. We have to deal them in our own unique ways. Having said that, a good place to start may be by accepting and not judging yourself for being a misanthrope.

When I find myself caught deep in the struggle of trying to change my own mind, I sometimes end up feeling totally blocked and frustrated. It may sound absurd and counterintuitive, but I find that backing away from that struggle frees my mind to then naturally start seeing a more wholistic view of things and resolve such feelings.

Go easy on yourself and remember such resolutions can take time.

Wasn't this obvious and foreseeable for everyone?

> but if there are no results for my problem, where should I go?

Start working on solving it yourself. Publish your findings. Be open to feedback and critique. People who are interested in working on similar problems or have something to share will find you.

Having said that, I agree that we perhaps may need a platform for something like this, since solving problems in my opinion is all about points of view and options. An open platform with simple rules that lets everyone participate in solving all kinds of problems will be a huge step for mankind even if only less than 1% of all proposed solutions make sense.

Some more thoughts on the subject.

Problems have a property of converging into patterns of similar types across different domains. I wonder what kind of solutions may emerge, if some of our unsolved problems[0] were dumbed down into simpler stories/relations (everyday metaphors) and then be openly made available for anyone to take a shot at.

But, building such a platform is going to be nearly impossible because that very desire is top-down in nature. Even if something like it does accidentally emerge and come to exist, will we act thoughtfully and utilise it like we should? [1]

Good luck!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Tao Te Ching.

And also 'Instant Zen' by Foyan (136 pages).

Lol, made me chuckle.

But I'm good with Firefox + uBlock Origin.

Linked Paper https://www.embs.org/ojemb/articles/covid-19-artificial-inte...

Lemmino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUjuwhQPKs

Good to see [0] Polya's book mentioned (and linked) in the article. For anyone interested, it provides a pretty good general outline for problem solving techniques. [1] There's also a YouTube video of him explaining some of those methods.

[0] https://math.hawaii.edu/home/pdf/putnam/PolyaHowToSolveIt.pd...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gbw-Ur_do

Google Analytics dashboard is (and has always been) pretty bad design.

The author, Michael J. Tisza also shared some details in this twitter thread https://twitter.com/MikeTisza/status/1400528027285557248

I've done plenty of research on this topic and I'm immediately reminded of [1] James Webb Young's short but brilliant book called 'A Technique for Producing Ideas'. I first came to know about it on [2] Kirby Ferguson's YouTube channel. Other resources that are equally good are [3] John Cleese's talk on creativity and his [4] little booklet on the same topic.

Also ideas can seem fascinating by themselves but only chasing ideas (without validation/trials) is an obsession you don't want to have. Please remember to strike a healthy balance between generating ideas and executing them. That infamous claypot anecdote from Art & Fear by David Bayles on quantity vs. quality comes to mind.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/technique-producing-ideas-simple-form...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJ3oy-rWUk

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Short-Cheerful-John-Cleese...

April 1st 1999 in the footer had me thinking.

To a lay person like me, this does seem like a plausible explanation. But I'm sure there could be more to it.

This person is outlining a good approach that educators must take towards students. But sadly, I don't see this change happening any time soon.

Academic circles often consist of some of the most close-minded people, with extremely rigid and archaic notions of things like how students ought to behave or think, what kind of questions they must ask etc.

What an incredible story this is, an absolute must read for all.