Going away for a long weekend with people makes you bond so much closer with them vs. something like hanging out from time to time/traditional friendmaking. Even if you sit around doing remote work or doing nothing most of the time. Seems like something people should do more of.
Did this recently with a group of people and even though I spent maybe only a few hours with each person individually, walking in nature or just working at a table together, I feel WAY closer with them vs. if we had gotten dinner and had deep conversation 5 times over 6 months
Makes me wonder if this is an instantiation of some evolutionarily-motivated social primitive that paid huge dividends in historical social groups.
Kind of like how people have talked about modern day festivals like burning man tapping into a group-selection level evolutionary motive (pressure release valve by way of temporarily suspending social norms).
Both this and festivals seem to make people unreasonably happy.
@nickcammarata@Lan_Dao_@InquilineKea could this general school of thought/aesthetic be called "rational romanticism"? Recognizing lizard brain tendencies, but not always invalidating them?
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Humanity is on the cusp of practically limitless energy via nuclear fusion and basically nobody is talking about it, which is nuts.
I left working in fusion because I was skeptical of the field's ability to progress, but my mind has totally changed (1/n)
Humans have built >100 tokamak fusion devices, which use magnets to confine and heat fusion fuel. We've hit a peak energy out/energy in (Q) of ~.67
Empirically, it turns out that Q scales *kind of* with the magnetic field cubed. 2x the magnetic field, 8x the efficiency. (2/n)
WELL, recent advances in mass manufacturing high temperature superconductors make WAY higher magnetic fields possible, and hence make Q >> 1 fusion possible! (3/n)