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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Stop using timezones? So every day would actually be two weekdays because at some random point in time it would switch date during the day. Let’s meet next Monday wouldn’t even specify a single day anymore in most countries. And there is no real benefit to stop using timezones, just downsides. Yes you’d know which time it is anywhere but you still wouldn’t know of they are awake or not and have to either look it up or remember it - the same you have to do now.





  • Not true. You have math thank for that and there is a good reason for numbers like that (and why Babylonier used them). They are very useful to do calculations in your head, especially division because the have a lot of factors. The concept is called highly composite numbers (HCN) and superior highly composite numbers (SHCN). They are practically “anti-primes”. That’s why base-6 or base-12 are objectively a better number system than base-10 but it’s pretty much too late to switch now.










  • But by that definition passing the Turing test might be the same as super human intelligence. There are things that humans can do, but computers can’t. But there is nothing a computer can do but still be slower than humans. That’s actually because our biological brains are insanely slow compared to computers. So once a computer is better or as accurate as a human it’s almost instantly superhuman at that task because of its speed. So if we have something that’s as smart as humans (which is practically implied because it’s indistinguishable) we would have super human intelligence, because it’s as smart as humans but (numbers made up) can do 10 days of cognitive human work in just 10 minutes.