I do think they can happen together like malnutrition and obesity. Pursuit of recognition, intellectual property, remuneration, war machines, etc, will naturally drive new strategies for academics to compete with capital-intensive AI research. One strategy will surely be new types of silo-ing, whether that will kill the post-enlightenment spirit of math we’ve come to love is still an open question

Source?

I remember them referencing global cooling on science Friday on NPR as late as 2005

> Proper hard bread couldn’t be home baked.

In the US, hard bread is often called hardtack. The National Park Service publishes a simple recipe: https://www.nps.gov/mana/learn/kidsyouth/hardtack-during-the... . Here's another one from Australia: https://herreshoff.org/2020/04/a-recipe-for-hardtack/ .

The only real question is which kind of flour to use. I'm sure it ought to be whole wheat or a blend of whole wheat and white.

In the 1700s.

> It was made from a special winter wheat flour and slowly dried in a kiln or an evaporation loft

Maybe the flour is difficult to buy or most people don't have a way to dry the bread? Being on the ocean, St. John's is a pretty humid place.

Today as well. You need special equipment and a lot of time to remove all the moisture without burning it.

Sure, you can probably find a way to achieve a "good enough" result with normal household appliances, especially when it doesn't actually need to be stored for years and you're just going to soak it again for some tranditional recipe.

But it's a lot more effort than most people want to invest when they just want to replicate that recipe.

I live in the same city as the factory mentioned in the article. It's hard enough to even make croutons this time of year due to the humidity. My wife is a fairly experienced/talented home cook and over cooked two batches last week trying to get them right.

I agree,

I also think it’s more like delayed gratification. Good incentives are for good people bad incentives are for fools. The further you can push back short-term incentives in favor of long-term, the better your life will be. Like we all “know” that love is better than coffee but in the morning many of us would/do choose coffee. Food, drugs, porn all short-term pleasures are “less good” than prosperity, but we often choose the quick dopamine hit over the long, difficult road

Curious, what do you mean with prosperity in this context?

I mean, tautologically, I guess all the good parts of prosperity and none of the bad. Not a proof of correctness but a list:

1. Wealth gotten by one’s own work, or by wise management 2. A lender never a borrower 3. Desires generally satisfied 4. Leaving an inheritance for children/future generations

I tend to think of the Kulaks that Trotsky wanted to work with but that Stalin sent to Siberia

No they just loudly say “It would be a shame if an unfortunate accident should occur to these bloggers”