the sensation of feeling an answer to a big question fleeting just beyond the edge of awareness, seeing only glimpses makes me really want a slightly bigger head
if you play the game on easy mode, you eventually get the point where you want to restart on hardest level, only now you have one life, skip to hard mode and try to play the perfect game with no regrets
Plants suck at converting photons from the sun into energy (0.15%) vs pv solar panels (20%) - the one thing going for plants is they self replicate. But if we have a choice of how to use land & how to store / consume energy it should be PV + battery + electric system
I know there is a mismatch in capability and regulation when I spend 50%+ of my time now manually driving as the car has banned me from autopilot for not paying attention. the manual driving is far more dangerous than a distracted person letting autopilot drive
nothing makes you appreciate how much more energy could be extracted from high energy photons than standing in the sun on a hot day and feeling your skin burn
intelligence is the universe evolving to more efficiently explore the state space of what’s possible - we live in the most interesting of times & places
good reminder that we're living in an explosion, funny that things still seem slow & normal day to day
and recorded history is still only around one millionth of earth's full history
hard to imagine what future will look like +250k years from here