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As our science and technology develop further, individual achievements may become increasingly rare as distributed groups become necessary to bring together all the knowledge required to solve hard problems. New advances in artificial intelligence may accelerate this trend, as the world of book knowledge becomes increasingly accessible, but the tacit understanding of unspoken practice remains within cloistered communities of experts. Access to the environments where knowledge resides is often a bigger hurdle to mastery than learning itself.
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Perhaps the most damning comment Bolton offers, in the end, isn’t about foreign policy but Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Trump’s reflex effort to talk his way out of anything . . . even a public-health crisis, only undercut his and the nation’s credibility, with his statements looking more like political damage control than responsible public-health advice.” John F. Kelly, Trump’s harassed chief of staff, mutters to Bolton at one point, “Has there ever been a presidency like this?” To which Bolton replies tartly: “I assured him there had not.”
Book Review of the Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton - The Washington Post
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In between his own exhausting twice-daily training regimes, Robin recorded the athletes’ pain thresholds before and after their regular morning workout on the rowing machines when training on their own, and then repeated this a week later when they worked out as a crew with the rowing machines linked up as a virtual boat. And then he repeated all this again a week later. In both series, the physical effort produced the expected increase in pain threshold when rowing alone on the machine, indicating endorphin activation due to the stress being placed on their muscles. But rowing in synchrony as a virtual boat doubled this – despite the fact that the rowers were not putting in more effort (as we could tell from the gauges on the rowing machines). Somehow, acting in synchrony ramps up the endorphin effect to much higher levels, though we still have no idea why.
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