Anotheroneagain

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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Coins are an iron age invention. Bronze age civilizations didn't know money.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
The reason why it sounds counterintuitive is that neurology has the brain upside down. It teaches us that formal thinking occurs in the neocortex, and we need all that huge brain mass for that. But in fact it works like an autoencoder, and
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Most of our animal relatives obtain the vast majority of their calories from fruit, that is, sugar. The tarsier is the closest one that doesn't.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
It isn't extremely high. I have no idea what you imagine that people used to eat. The typical pre 20th century diet was near 100% carbohydrate based, most people ate meat once a weak, if at all, and fat was scarce. The now typical meat
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
The problem with IQ is that it measures the cerebellum. People who lack abstract thinking will learn to rely on the patterns and statistics, and intuitively score high on the tests. The second problem is that people who don't have abs
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
That could explain how the lead poisoning crowd took over. No, there won't be any retractions, you will be "educated" that you are stupid, "anti science", and too stupid to understand the newly discovered "fac
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
There is nothing wrong with sugar, people can't burn it, because the body needs lead to break it into pyruvate. Then you need arsenic to input that into the krebs cycle. The mitochondria need a wide assortment of metals (likely at leas
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Rome fell after they stopped using lead. There is no evidence whatsoever that lead was widely known to be toxic, until a group of conspirationists took over the academia. In fact such a belief couldn't have been widespread. The histori
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
The elites have always been the highest in lead. Slaves etc. had none.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
The explanation is that IQ measures the cerebellum, and the declining nutrition and increasing brain damage forces people to rely more on the cerebellum, the statistical engine, instead of abstract thinking.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Exams are getting easier, because children are getting dumber, and wouldn't pass if they stayed the same.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
>Then people born in 2000 are exposed to far less lead and are super smart, What do you base this on?
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Fisheye lenses look crazy because they are deliberately made that way. Rectilinear lenses don't do it.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
The angular resolution depends purely on the aperture diameter, not the f-number. There should be no difference between capturing the image in high resolution, and blowing it up for a lower resolution sensor. All that should be needed is a
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
This has no future with 200mpx sensors becoming common.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
I think the best solution would be to keep samples around in somewhat reachable parts. Occassionally, people will get sick, and learn that the signs mean danger, without causing an accident of catastrophic proportions, and recognize the hug
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
As I understand it, those are used so that the press itself doesn't get worn out, and come in various types.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
I've been warning people for a long time that the drug only fakes the signal of fullness from the gut, and only makes you starve yourself. It doesn't actually fix anything.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Ornamentation makes perfect sense as long as it consumes rare resources. When you can find enough resources to build expensive ornamentation in good times, you can probably survive hard times decently well, only your ornamentation will suff
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
I don't get why so many such analyses get so focused on the textile industry, as if it was the only thing that mattered. It was the time of the rise of electricity, chemistry, and internal combustion engines. And England was an especia
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
I think on the contrary, the more you can restrict it to reasonable inputs/outputs, the less powerful LLM you are going to need.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Sometimes I like to think that these silurians stayed around, and decided to "civilize" us, not realizing that in the meantime we evolved intelligence that exceeds theirs beyond their comprehension. So they forced their civilizati
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Only if you assume it went the seemingly straightforward way, but it could have been more complex. Maybe at first there was no particular limit to unicellular life, and there were unicellular lifeforms both small or large. But the big ones
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Loans cause a depression when there is plenty. A farmer takes a loan when the price of wheat is $2 a bushel. But the economy improves, there is plenty of wheat for everybody, so the price of wheat halves. The farmer can't react to it b
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
I don't think this is actually true - the actual volume of the sphere grows, but the volume of one grows even faster.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Or, maybe we are not. The problem with cosmology is that it's based almost purely on theory and not data, to the point of speculation.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Overproduction was the problem at the time, not shortages. There was a shortage of money caused by loans - it was impossible to make money to both buy all the goods and pay all the loans. This is why money lending has to be banned, as it ma
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Neither is true. 9kHz, with two sidebands, means that the transmitted audio is limited to 4.5kHz, which is way too low to sound good. It was this, and not the noise, that made it sound much worse.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
Consider a medicine that completely cures Alzheimer's. It also necessarily increases the incidence of other causes of death, as those who won't die of Alzheimer's will die of something else instead.
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by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
She would be fine if she ate brazil nuts. Mercury only hurts you by depleting selenium.

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