Why are we getting fat? “Our great-grandparents (and the French) were able to maintain these weights effortlessly. They weren’t all on weird starvation diets or crazy fasting routines. And while they probably exercised more on average than we do, the… Read More »A Chemical Hunger – Part I: Mysteries
Think about what your LLM knows and provide the rest.
Easiest stuff is almost always the hardest.
Similar applies to our mental models (maps).
Almost anything you will do with enough effort will sooner or later bring fulfillment. Minimal interest into the task or topic at the start is usually enouhg.
Very short version after Europeans.
Seems like witchcraft. “The H.264 video, 300 frames long is 175KB. A single frame of that video in PNG is 1015KB.” https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
Even nowadays any gold coin has no useful value for day to day stuff. “functionally no one used gold in any amount in every-day transactions in the ancient or medieval Mediterranean (or most other places!), because a gold coin at… Read More »Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
Most of economy is like this nowadays. “We’re used to the monetized form of this system, where the state pays those non-subsistence laborers, who can then buy their subsistence needs from the broader civilian economy (the loop then generally being… Read More »Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It