It depends on if you think how you feel when doing something is a meaningful difference or not I guess.

This isn't an account of the cultural moment that indi-fashion hub Harajuku had before its gentrification by Major international brand stores, or a inane J-Travel blog complaining about being out of shape and there being too much walking, It's a possibly interesting story of personal growth only coincidentally related to Harajuku.

Took a really long time to get to that point.

This is how Tim Ferriss writes, unfortunately. I think he thinks that doing this is a "hack" that drives engagement.

Perhaps. But these days it reads like AI slop.

I see this a lot of these meandering essays or whatever from thought leader types: write a lot of fluff about a subject and make it sound like you're the first person to have a thought on said subject.

I’m thankful to have learned how to skim and scan.

Nah. You close the tab and move on with life.

I didn't know what Harajuku was, and thought it was going to be some Japanese term for some psychological concept, like ikigai, kaizen, wabi-sabi, or something like that.

Disappointingly, it's about personal shrinkage - weight loss. Yes, you have to want to do it; people fail because they get hungry, and that can be surprisingly hard to fight. The magic GLP drugs work because they suppress hunger, at which point not eating becomes easier.

Yes. I spent a bunch of money on many of the optional extra imagining scans on my last health check up only to realize this afterwards. Humans have survived this far without this data. It would be better to spend resources on preventative things or lifestyle things known to promote health, than to obsess over seeing whats going on inside.

If it’s constantly 5-7 years behind isn’t it moving at the same speed just with an offset?

If it's a constant offset like you say, and given academia publishes and industry often doesn't, that might suggest it's dependent on the rate of advancement in academic research. Not in this field so I may be wildly off.

only if they are always going in the same direction

Unless this ASI either way, turns the world into an opencast mine and burns off the atmosphere on the way out..

This could be a good guardrailing technique. Keep people away from your hard limit refusals by ring fencing them with frustrating pedantry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBkWtDAPBY De-crop

But also what about .. Even now there is a range of forensic tech that can be used to statistically indicate if an image has been doctored, or generated, wouldnt't adding more and more real world data to the capture increase the bar for doctoring, so that only attackers with infinite resources can do it? At least it would stop Bobby Rotten from doing it.

I’ve done a short deep dive on this, for some cases that possibly would have went court. The tools we have today don’t reliable indicate if an image was doctored necessarily. Most open available scoring and tools like VAAS, DIRE, and Sherloq are decent today. Figuring out if an image that has been doctored, especially with solid proof, is only reliable if the image has metadata to prove it. If they export it to another format or screen capture it and the metadata is lost, it is purely still a guessing game.

The human condition is delicate and mortal, when you realise this you realise how important it is to do everything you can for Elon Musk while he's still alive

Did you buy SpaceX stock? Will you buy more and keep buying?