Or at least try to maximize the amount of my brain I can use for useful tasks rather than just running away.
A more promising and efficient direction would be to consider model selection at the task level where only the most relevant and useful tasks are used for multitask learning.
Sleep is common to mammals, birds and reptiles and has been conserved through evolution, even though it prevents us from performing other useful tasks, such as eating, reproducing and raising young.
And yet a YouGov survey found more than eight out of 10 businesses who used unpaid interns admitted they undertook useful tasks.
Fortunately, says Dr Umbreit, many useful tasks can be carried out using less force, so safety standards will not make robots so feeble that they are no longer useful.
All to the contrary, she says elsewhere, quoting the British writer John Carey, "one of history's most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful".
Men can fill that role, for example, by moving the heavier items and unscrewing lids on jars, and doing other useful tasks with which they are so very good at performing for us.
Today's Republican Party may be able to perform useful tasks with its current hyperindividualistic mentality.
But they excel at other useful tasks such as pattern recognition.
