Don't worry about it too much. That article doesn't link to a study, so we don't know what it actually says or how it was conducted. The article itself doesn't mention if the study tried to distinguish between correlation and causation with fast walking and longevity.
For an example of the problem, I tend to walk fast. But also, my family history shows a very strong tendency toward longevity (most of my known ancestors who didn't die as a result of injury lived to be more than 100 years old). If I live that long, is it because I walk fast or because I have favorable genetics?
So, this is a single article vaguely discussing some findings of some sort that were made by a pedometer company for marketing purposes. I would take anything it says with a huge block of salt.
On another note about doing everything slowly, several decades ago I worked with an electronics engineer who I still consider to be the finest engineer of any sort that I've ever encountered. But he was slow. He talked slow, he moved slow, he worked slow (although the quality of his work was such that it rarely needed revision, so ended up being fast in the big picture). He lived to be more than 80.
You can do the same with wood, just do not glue it. On the other hand there is something to be said for making something that looks a certain way (even if it is hidden in the final presentation) for the enjoyment of the craft person. On the other other hand, it can cost more and be more time consuming.
I have not been to Mexico City or Vancouver but would like to see both.
It seems much of the US (and maybe the rest of the world, I don't know) is becoming very homogenized. Especially along large roads and highways. This is not a new or startling observation, but I do miss the diversity that I remember from my younger years.
My reply here is just bout the one quote. I more or less agree with the sentiment of your post. But..
Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!?
I think the point of the game tetris is to build a wall or at least could be thought of that way. Each line that you completed and moves off the bottom of the screen is a completed section of wall and the goal is to make a hole free wall for as long as you can.
I think it is more like human values are so all over the place that there is no real meaning in the phrase. For all my life I have heard, from humans, everything from peace and love to destroy all humanity. Then there is everything found in fiction.
So, what is going on here. It seems like I have been reading similar stories. Are researchers giving a prompt like "Do your worst. Hack into some business" or giving free access to a bunch of tools and prompting "Do something interesting". Is this like the blackmailing LLM that was given compromising emails and told to do what you have to to not get turned off. I am sort of assuming they did not just turn on a computer and run a model and it started to act on it's own initiative.
> Are researchers giving a prompt like "Do your worst. Hack into some business"
I mean basically. The hack the business events were result of training model for hacking, then testing its hacking abilities while not sandboxing it properly.
It looked a little interesting but I am not so sure I really like it. It does not seem to really explain so much as show another way to represent things. Such as In 1+2×3 why does 2×3 go first? My understanding of things is that it is conventional order of operations. I was not sure what to do with the Algebra Explorer. I could move things around but not sure what that shows.
It looked a little like the graphical programming that I have looked at in the past. Maybe it should move a little more in that direction.
I was listening to a math podcast a while back and someone said "I am a conservative" and then was quick to add "with a small c". That might be an important distinction.
This mostly makes sense in non-American places that have a Conservative Party - so e.g. "small-c conservative" refers to the ideology and "big-C Conservative" refers to the party. (Same with liberal/Liberal.)
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