Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
Yep, we can measure ATP and so on at the cellular level, but we don't have much of a picture of how that maps onto the physical/psychological sensation of "energy". Like we know at a crude physical level, we can give som
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
Yep - people wonder why we can't treat ME/CFS, we don't even have decent biochemical markers for "fatigue" vs "energy", beyond trivial stuff like blood oxygenation and lactic acid. Nor are there much in th
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
"Cause" is necessarily a slippery concept in a dynamic system governed by feedback loops so complex that we only understand maybe 20%.
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
Not necessarily fake. Mind/body homeostasis is WAY more complicated than that. To use a computing analogy, which doesn't map perfectly onto the body, if consciousness awareness is userland, you can have things go wrong which are l
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
Perhaps because it involves immune system dysregulation.
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
Sleep is more common across the tree of life because it's older. Older than bilateral symmetry even - jellyfish are thought to sleep, sponges however do not. Jellyfish don't have spinal columns, lungs, gills, livers, kidneys, hear
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
In that scenario, the AI owners become rentiers - able to charge as much as the market will bear for brokerage - and everyone else gets to offer their services via said brokerages, which charge the customer the most they can bear, and pay t
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
What's worth stealing, to a dude with a robot? Chances are, whatever it is won't be found in a regular residential property.
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
My point is that, in a higher organism, it may be essential to how a lot of their processes function, in that it was infrastructure that already existed at the time those processes were developed, so they were in turn developed to depend up
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by Earw0rm 4mo ago
Probably because it evolved very early (like before bilateral symmetry, multi layer body cavity, or kidneys early... maybe even before multicellular animals early) and so has been incorporated as an essential pillar into multiple processes
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
"If you pay 3x more for your appliances (TV, dishwasher, oven, etc...) you don't get something 3x more reliable/better engineered." You do at the bottom of unregulated markets. For dishwashers and ovens, safety regs gene
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
Seems we've fallen straight back into false dichotomy land. In that there are a dozen shades of grey between "fully-automated, no humans assembly line" and "person using only hand tools maintained by hand". Tools _a
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
Which then begs the question, what is IQ actually measuring - something more like innate intelligence, or a fairly big slice of learned, habituated test-taking ability? Regardless of what underlying trait it's actually measuring, the h
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
Or are smarter people better able to regulate their food intake? (Either innately, or because society gives them other privileges which makes them less likely to overeat)
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
It may be helpful here to think about, at what point does a sense of self, of varying degrees, become evolutionarily advantageous? An animal that doesn't have some kind of pair bond or social arrangement, and doesn't raise its you
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
When you actually get to drive it as it can be. Maybe you live somewhere that's possible, or not too far from such a somewhere. Rare to find such places within 50 miles of a big city though, unless you're in Germany and have the a
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
How far are you running total, both per run and per week? Running will absolutely help your health, but on its own it's unlikely to get you thin. It's hard to burn enough to make a big difference without it chewing your body up in
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
Kejelcha is 6'1" and under 130lb. What fat stores?
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
The brain is a dynamic system, and a poorly understood one at that. It relies on active processes in order to not degenerate (likely the main reason why sleep deprivation is eventually fatal). Science is still some way from cataloguing all
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by Earw0rm 5mo ago
And as with a lot of cancers, it seems to be perturbation of a dynamic system rather than a single, mechanistic cause. Think of it like brushfire in an ecosystem, or species population imbalances leading to catastrophic breakdown. These are
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
That's normalising clean-ness (i.e. the state of being free of all psychoactive chemicals) perhaps too much. The original humans adapted to a wide range of diets across the world (one reason why we're such a successful species), b
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
MSDOS and similar single-user OS were not originally designed for networked computers with persistent storage. Different set of constraints.
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
I'd argue that's /because/ we regulated aviation (and also some annoying physics limitations), so we never had the option of becoming fully dependent in the way lots of places have on cars. Less than a century ago, so wi
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
Yes, if such places are plentiful. It's a messy situation where revealed preference (house prices in walkable areas, Amsterdam and Paris increasingly full of rich young Americans) vs immediate consumer choice (more cars! More convenien
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
We pretty much did with aviation.
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
It's fine if people choose it. It's not fine if that choice denies other people the choice not to. And there seems to be a lot of the latter. For example, when shopping facilities or hospitals are built so as to be, de-facto, only
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
Work and wider social participation, and a sprawling suburban geography that has people living far from friends and family. The alternative - small, crowded population centres where everyone knows everyone and three, even four generations l
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
Also, socially conservative, multi-generational households (sharing labour and childcare between women relatives), less expectation for mothers of young kids to be away from the home, and a much lower expectation of what "housing"
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by Earw0rm 6mo ago
Double-buggies on public transport and more than two kids on a typical cargo cycle aren't fun either. Granted the age-span that's necessary is a little shorter than car seats. That said, have 3 kids aged within 5 years of one anot
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by Earw0rm 7mo ago
Incredible to accomplish that in a day - it took the rest of the world another decade to make Twitter sound like 4chan, but thanks to Elon we got there in the end.

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