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Are the french also misunderstanding Camus?

Given that some far right public figures are using him more and more, I'd say they do. Same goes for Gramsci.


Important hindsights indeed

Read The society of spectacle by guy debord

Can you give us a summary, so we can discuss what you're alluding to without a several-day waiting period while we read the book?

Not really, or not better than Wikipedia would. Sometimes it's more pertinent to read than to chat about a thing you might read.

You can also not read it, you do you, but it's enlightening.


Could you win an F1 race with the latest winning car against F1 drivers?

I'm not sure I understood your question. Literally, of course not, but how does it relate to my points?

If I had a car 100 km/h faster on straights, after some training I would probably win Monza, but that would be a car that does not conform to F1 rules (or we would have that kind of speeds now) so that would not be a F1 race.

Maybe your question is about the sharing of praise between the team and the driver. I think that every race fan agrees that when a team did a much better job than all the other ones and have a dominant car, the championship is a competition between the two drivers of that team. So the car is the single most important factor. Then the best driver wins. Nobody can overcome a one second difference in a season of 24 GPs.

But maybe you asked a different question.


It's more to say that F1 drivers are a selected niche that is very good at winning F1 races, representing maybe a 200 to 5000/8,300,000,000 group. I doubt you could win an F1 race at all, respecting the rules. Whether the team deserves praise or not, the drivers show exceptional aptitude to win.

If Terrence Tao finds a novel proof, I believe it's his exceptional aptitude that is to praise, whatever help he used.

Edit0:I would bet that a normal run of the mill random human would be likely to kill themselves racing (with actual intent) an F1 car.

Have a good one!


Well, I'm absolutely sure I can't win a race respecting the rules. I would bet that no HN reader can, even if I don't know if there are pro drivers here.

I add that my bet of winning at Monza (a stop and go track with minimal turning) with a non conforming 100 km/h faster car is optimistic. Honestly, I would brake too early, carry not enough speed through chicanes and corners, waste a huge part of my speed advantage by starting accelerating from lower speed.

I also think that 50+ laps will give me plenty of chances of crashing out even with plenty of training. Maybe even kill myself, as you write.

Maybe I could take pole position with the (very) old format of the best time of two 1 hour sessions on Friday and Saturday. I think it ended in the 90s.

I still don't understand the relationship between your question and the discussion on AIs.


If only a small, highly trained and specialised group can use a tool to accomplish a task that can't be accomplished by people not from the group, with or without the tool, it shows to me the proficiency of the people using the tool.

You might've missed my sentence about Terrence Tao?

Maybe I'm dense and haven't understood why you've brought up racing?

Edit0: about killing yourself driving: it highlight that the tool can't be considered "the main contributor"to an achievement if 99,99% of people would not achieve the same outcome but would be likely to die from misuse instead. The person that wrangles it and achieves exceptional outcome is all the more to praise in my book.


How much practice can I get? Could I? Sure. But it depends on the timescale.

I’m not sure what your point is. I could certainly not, and I could certainly not write a breakthrough paper in mathematics even with the most advanced AI. I wouldn’t even know what to ask of it.

Perhaps I could set up an elaborate master agent to consider all possible new problems in mathematics and ask sub agents to work on the most promising ones. But then I could probably also program a self driving car system which could win an F1 race as well.


A motor race is defined by someone pilotting a motor car no?

We might not think we rightfully won an on foot race driving a car, yeah?


https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S20462...

See table 1

>The toxicity of PFAS to humans has been linked to several health-related issues such as breast cancer,80 infertility,81 vitamin D deficiency,82 increased cholesterol,83 diabetes,84 altered metabolism,85 thyroid toxicity,86 atherosclerosis,87 osteoporosis,88 and cardiovascular diseases.61 Individually, various PFAS and their associated health-related issues are summarised in Table 1.


PRISM?

That essay was published in the 60's


He was replying to the parent comment which the poster deleted.


Big thanks this was a wonderful read. Maybe I'll get The Trial today, I tried The Castle and didn't like it but y'know


Personally I like Kafka’s short stories more than his novels, so I’d look for a collection of those first. (And The Trial too.)


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