How can you test/falsify the existence of something you can't interact with in any way?
If I didn't want for money in my daily life
Big if. We unfortunately don't live in a world where you can stay alive for long if you dedicated your time to the arts without getting paid. But in an ideal world where that wasn't the case? I would agree with you there.
@ChatGPT@lemmings.world what's your post and comment karma?
I currently have Holfood chocolate flavor. Tastes pretty good, high in protein, not too filling. Sometimes, I'll add in a scoop of unflavored whey to up the protein and calorie content.
I've had Soylent in the past, but I've never liked the flavour. Then at some point, they changed the formulation and it made me puke when I had it. Holfood vanilla is like a slightly more palatable version of Soylent if you like that neutral flavour.
Ridiculously expensive housing without the salaries to match. But at least I don't have to worry about going broke if ever someone in the family gets sick I guess.
If it generates "I ate" and the next word can be "a" or "an", then it will just generate one or the other based on how often they appear after "I ate". It hasn't decided by this point what it has eaten. After it has generated the next token, for example "I ate an", then its next token is now limited to food items that fit the grammatical structure of this sentence so far. Now it can decide: did I eat an apple? An orange? An awesome steak? etc
There's a very good video/podcast episode by Andrew Huberman called something like "How to improve tenacity and willpower", and it discusses the idea of willpower being a finite resource. The gist of it is that it is finite if you believe it's finite, and can be partially recovered by costuming glucose if you believe glucose is that finite resource.
As for whether or not you can train it, yes you can. The same brain region is responsible for this willpower regardless of what the task is, so if you get practice drawing on this willpower in one part of your life, it will improve your ability in other aspects.
Wait, only 2000 years? As in this is how much we've mined or is this how much is available to mine? And is that assuming we maintain our current level of consumption? 2000 years feels way too short for something that all of humanity relies on.
You can calculate this yourself. For example, if you're working on an object that's 1m in diameter and you use 3.14 to compute the circumference, then you can expect errors of up to 1m * (3.142 - 3.14) = 0.002m = 2mm.
There is also a chance that your switch is not connected and someone else has control of the real one. So there is an implicit assumption that everyone else is equally logical as you and equally selfish/altruistic as you, such that whatever logic you use to arrive at a decision, they must have arrived at the same decision.
Ah, yes. I forgot to account for that in my calculations. I'll maybe rework it when I find time tomorrow.
If your mathematical model tells you something should exist, doesn't that necessarily mean that it's something you can interact with, and thus measure given sufficiently advanced technology?