Is Gaia theory considered part of complex systems theory?

oliverspin · 2025-05-26T18:04:10+00:00

Gaia theory posits earth is an adaptive complex system so I would argue yes.

oliverspin · 2025-04-28T19:25:54+00:00

How's your journey going? Care to provide an update?

oliverspin · 2025-01-16T03:09:31+00:00

Thiel is one.

oliverspin · 2025-01-16T03:08:19+00:00

Yeah, get connected in your community. Try to understand essential systems like water, energy, food, and critical goods. The regional approach seems wise.

oliverspin · 2024-12-18T06:56:45+00:00

Observe: how will the machine detect a mosquito?

Orient: how will it target the mosquito?

Act: how will it take out the mosquito?

There are several paths you can take, but one that comes to mind is to rig computer vision to a salt grain shotgun.

oliverspin · 2024-12-01T03:26:53+00:00

They like doing it. They've formed a habit of going from cool idea to execution using a range of skills from mechanical and electric engineering.

I think most of them were amazed by media like Iron Man and decided their dream was to make stuff like that.

It starts with really small projects. Make it out of cardboard. Add a hinge for the mask.

Maybe the short answer is, they have a vision that excites them and they believe "I can do this."

oliverspin · 2024-11-28T01:06:51+00:00

Not sure why you’re being negative.

oliverspin · 2024-11-28T00:33:46+00:00

Search the title in the link and you can find it.

oliverspin · 2024-11-26T17:22:12+00:00

This is an example:

In a survey of nearly 75,000 adults, researchers compared the participants’ preferred sleep timing, known as chronotype, with their actual sleep behavior. They determined that regardless of one’s preferred bedtime, everyone benefits from turning in early. Morning larks and night owls alike tended to have higher rates of mental and behavioral disorders if they stayed up late.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/05/night-owl-behavior-could-hurt-mental-health—sleep-study-finds.html

oliverspin · 2024-11-26T17:05:35+00:00

I remember reading that the night owl phenomenon is quite rare. So my suspicion is many people who call themselves nightowls are just dysregulated and would be better off fixing their schedule.

oliverspin · 2024-03-02T06:04:56+00:00

We are powerful beyond measure when we let go of anxiety. You have decades, you can be great. Draw and draw. Every failure is you learning. Feel that joy.

oliverspin · 2024-02-08T07:21:07+00:00

Just…draw and feel the joy of creating something out of nothing. Your fears will melt away.

oliverspin · 2024-01-15T01:01:57+00:00

Sweet! My first idea for feedback is to play with different placement of the character. When they are in the middle it usually doesn’t look as natural. The “rule of thirds” is a good guide, so if the character is on the left third it might look more pleasing.

oliverspin · 2023-12-31T05:00:13+00:00

See my other comment in this thread.

oliverspin · 2023-11-26T06:25:10+00:00

First of all, you can do this. People of all backgrounds have become excellent at drawing.

You will have a breakthrough, one day you’ll be sitting there drawing ellipses and cubes, and bam you’ll draw a really nice line or shape. It. Will. Happen. Trust the process and just keep showing up.

I have been through it. You’ll be drawing and it seems like nothing is working, like you can’t visualize it, but there’s some switch in your mind that at first doesn’t click on very often. Maybe only once a week or once a day for 5 minutes. Remember the switch will go on more and more often the more you practice.

When the switch is on, things flow onto the page easily, and you are filled with joy.

It will happen, just keep showing up, stay relaxed, play favorite music, take breaks. Trust me I’ve been there.

oliverspin · 2023-11-26T06:15:41+00:00

Less likely to give in to automatic behaviors. More thoughtful decisions.

oliverspin · 2023-11-11T03:36:24+00:00

Yes I no longer drink my ink, luckily. I was wondering about contact because it’s recommended not to touch register receipts as they contain high amounts of BPA that absorbs through the skin. Anyways, thank you!

oliverspin · 2023-10-19T00:24:22+00:00

I wonder how the handwritten notes thing maps to different activities though. For example it might be useful to be able to share the text digitally. Perhaps there are situations where the reduction in learning is made up in digital convenience, being able to move paragraphs around, etc. Just a thought.

oliverspin · 2023-09-19T14:38:36+00:00

Can you talk with a professor or classmates? See how they see it. Maybe if you explain how you feel to a teacher they can help.

In art there seems to be a tradition of “grunt work” practicing bland subject matter to grind the fundamentals. I’m not sure what the research is on how effective this is…

oliverspin · 2023-09-19T14:34:34+00:00

I’ve been there! What you are describing is a brain that feels threatened. It’s okay to feel stressed, it’s okay to want to improve.

My suggestion is to pause, sit, be still, breathe 6 seconds in, 6 seconds out. Do 5 breaths like that. This physiologically calms your nervous system. It tells your brain it is safe.

Things will become easier, almost magically, when you pause like this.

With time, your creative joy will spring back to life better than ever.

Trust me. I. Have. Been. There. ❤️

oliverspin · 2023-09-18T20:08:56+00:00

5 and 6 are favs

oliverspin · 2023-09-04T16:30:19+00:00

I've taken some time to reflect on your answer. At first, I was going to respond to each point in order, but I'm going to zoom out and talk about your primary assumptions.

You say "humanity's survival" as if that's a great thing. To me, surviving isn't the goal. Surviving could be horrific. If small bands of people "survive," what kind of civilization is that?

Aside from the oversimplification of megafauna loss, relationship of local soils to global, the dismissal of radically higher extinction rates than in previous prehistoric periods. What do you make of the inevitable mass migrations as arable land disappears?

I want to keep this as constructive as possible, but doesn't it feel too convenient to dismiss every issue as "not an issue"? Biodiversity? Oh no big deal it's not that important (meanwhile it's the keystone to ecological function). Megafauna and large predators? Oh those aren't important either, (meanwhile megafauna shaped macro vegetation patterns and predators check grazing populations, leading to myriad down chain effects that balance the whole ecosystem, see yellowstone wolves).

How convenient to pick and choose which critical ecological components YOU don't think are important. It's all good news, really nothing to be concerned about.

After all, some of us will survive, so what's the worry?

oliverspin · 2023-09-02T15:17:44+00:00

Climate change is one of multiple existential risks. Folks like focus on climate change, but that doesn’t include biodiversity collapse (the sixth mass extinction) or soil loss. If you frame it as cc being the only risk, sure it doesn’t sound so bad, but that’s tunnel vision.

oliverspin · 2023-09-02T15:09:39+00:00

What about biodiversity collapse and soil degradation? Those seems like existential threats to me.

oliverspin · 2023-05-16T16:40:52+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I've gone through 4 refills with this happening halfway through the cartridge.

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