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My intuition is that given the literal life or death nature of the enterprise, mushroom pickers should avoid leaning solely on any book, AI produced or not. Mu
by jbandela1 3y ago
My intuition is that given the literal life or death nature of the enterprise, mushroom pickers should avoid leaning solely on any book, AI produced or not.
Mushrooms in different parts of the world look different. There can be subtleties that the books leave out. Anybody can publish a book and most books disclaim liability.
The best way is probably to find a local trusted, experienced mushroom picker that you trust and follow them around for a bit.
There is a reason that surgeons to be are not just given a textbook on surgery and told to just read the book and they will be fine. Instead they follow around experienced surgeons for a few years learning from them.
- tapland 3y agoThere's a reason for that and one of the reaaons is surgeries don't primarily happen a few weeks a year and require you to find happy amateurs to teach you around where you plan to do them going forward.
- hilbert42 3y ago"My intuition is that given the literal life or death nature of the enterprise, mushroom pickers should avoid leaning solely on any book, AI produced or not." Exactly. There is no second chance from death cap mushrooms, and in recent years they've spread to places where they weren't once found. Most know that some mushrooms can be dangerous but few know how truly deadly the amatoxin in death caps can be. People where I am in Australia have died only in the last few weeks from eating them despite warnings after previous deaths. Note the warning sign in the link below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatoxin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatoxin
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