BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Yes, they certainly can. However, the prevalence of side effects with psychedelics is in the single-digit range, whereas with SSRIs you're almost certain to be experiencing some sort of - often severe - side effects for the rest of yo
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
SSRIs are by no means safe or well-tolerated. They have all sorts of severe, life-altering, mostly permanent side effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_i... There are countless heartbreaki
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> This is a kind of strange take. Do you think conference topics are mutually exclusive? To some extent they are, yes. First, it's about what people spend their time and focus on. If you're focussing on regulating, there's
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> The AI Act is a big set of legislation which is interesting and impactful. Why would we not set dedicated time aside to talk about it? Well, in other parts of the world you have people talking about progress and how to advance the huma
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Money. It's as simple as that. Europe (glossing over relatively minor regional differentials here) still is one of the richest places in the world. They just decided to use those resources for the wrong purposes. Again, it's as si
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> I attended a conference on the AI Act I find it quite baffling that there's even such a thing as an entire conference on a specific law. > Regulation is intended to be strongest in a quite narrow set of use cases explicitly def
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Financial resources, mostly. The EU is still one of the richest regions in the world, the emphasis being on 'still' here. If they don't act now and if they don't act decisively, the EU will be economic backwater in a few
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
In terms of resources currently still available and if they put their will to it: perhaps. It might be an uphill battle, but it could still be possible. However, given the current environment, it's impossible for this to happen, becaus
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> unless you're being treated by a psychiatrist Quite to the contrary, while there is plenty of evidence of specific types of therapy yielding actual results, there's often very little evidence of the methods commonly applied b
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Because pure black doesn't exist in nature and usually is perceived as jarring. Common design principles therefore advocate for using a colour that's almost - but not actually - black.
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Neil Harbisson – the first legally recognized cyborg(en.wikipedia.org)
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Sounds (pun intended ;-)) intriguing. Is a specific visually perception related to specific sound, e.g. like the classic example of a musical note evoking the perception of a specific colour? On a slightly related note, being colour blind N
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I see numbers - time-space synaesthesia(bjoernkw.com)
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> I have distinct memories as a kid of mapping things into abstract 3d spaces. The number line in my head is a weird 3D thing I still visually navigate whenever I think about numbers. I do the exact same thing! I wrote a blog post about
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Because pure black doesn't exist in nature (well, save for black holes, that is) and usually is perceived as jarring. Common design principles therefore advocate for using a colour that's almost black.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
The key term is "Early Modern English". The Oxford English Dictionary might be a good starting point: https://www.oed.com/discover/early-modern-english-spelling-g... Actually, reading Shakespeare perhaps is t
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
When using 'thou', thou shouldst of course use the corresponding inflexion, too: "Where dost thou blog?"
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Neitokainen(en.wikipedia.org)
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> $30B in an app to hail a cab Whereas, in some places in the EU (Germany for example being particularly notorious) you can't reliably hail or pay for a cab by digital means - because "the rules"™.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Before 2022, their de-facto headquarters and most of their employees were still located in St. Petersburg, even though the main company was registered in Prague.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> This is false. Many innocents are killed including children That article - just like all other sources - mentions one 8-year-old girl, not "many innocents" and not several children either. Hence, this is deliberate misinforma
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Now I'm struggling to see the differences between their activities and blowing up airplanes or launching rockets from schools and hospitals. Well, the obvious difference is that blowing up airplanes or launching rockets at residen
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
This is where superconductors come into play, i.e. materials that allow you to move electricity at no loss due to electrical resistance. The problem with those (traditionally, at least) has been that they usually operate at very low tempera
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Unless I missed something, you have yet to share the science that supports your view. There you go: - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9368251/ - https://www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> but your response suggests science isn't driving your beliefs here I find this kind of argument - which indeed seems to have become quite fashionable during the pandemic - to imply that dissenting opinions aren't supported by
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Your claim was that "lockdowns" did little or nothing I still stand by that claim. Compared with alternative, less restrictive measures, lockdowns achieve very little, especially when considering the massive downside they com
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Maybe. That's far from certain, though. What's more, this would have come at a tremendous cost - and not just in the strict economic sense of the word. Lockdowns and other restrictions do have severe side effects.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
I'm very much in favour of using (or even mandating) air purifiers and dissuading (or banning) people from going to work or sending their kids to school with a communicable disease (including any respiratory illness, not just COVID-19;
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
I suppose that might ruin the fingerprint, but worth a try.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Although this statement of course has been made with tongue in cheek, it's worth pointing out that with modern devices borrowing a finger only works if the finger is still warm (which usually translates to the owner of that finger bein

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