Gormo

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by Gormo 8mo ago
This is a normative cultural question, not a medical one. The CDC is far outside its expertise and its proper remit by involving itself in this topic.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
No, nicotine is actually addictive in that it creates physical dependency.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
So now you're demonstrating that you can criticize social media for its own flaws without having to conflate it with something else. I don't disagree with anything you're saying here, but nothing you're saying here in
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> Sounds like you need to read up on dopamine and addictions a bit more. Nah, I just need to not equivocate between them. The use of the same term to describe activities that produce a dopamine response as is used for ingestion of che
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Looks like it's a really polished deployment of em-dosbox, i.e. DOSBox via Emscripten.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
No, it isn't. Tobacco is a physical substance that alters users' biochemistry and creates a physical dependence. Social media is information conveyed via a computing device. You can criticize social media for what it is in it
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by Gormo 8mo ago
What about all of the long-tail providers that are often listed on lowendbox.com and similar sites?
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> Any agentic use case you can imagine you can start to tackle. If "agentic use case" is shorthand for "use case that would benefit from giving non-deterministic systems blanket access to private local data and external ac
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by Gormo 8mo ago
I think it's possible to criticize things for what they are, without having to resort to conflating them with other things. Excessive gambling doesn't have to be equated to physical addiction in order to be regarded as a bad th
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> Short Form Content is high dopamine low effort. Yes, it's addictive, close to Nicotine even. Sorry, but this line of argument just isn't acceptable. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter created by the body itself, and is released
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> I have to point out that your original post is technically correct because you specified "medical expertise" as the focus of your argument and psychologists aren't MDs. It's also correct because "harm" is
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by Gormo 8mo ago
That'd be true if there were more TUI applications being developed , but I'm not sure that's necessarily the case, since there have always been a lot of them out there. It seems like people are talking about them more often
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> If we subscribe to Economics' broken-window theory, then the investment into such repetitive work is not investment but waste. Once we stop such investment, we will have a lot more resources to work on something else, bring out a
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by Gormo 8mo ago
I'd go beyond that and even say that one might consider something harmful, but be willing to endure a certain level of harm in pursuit of something of higher value. For example, I once asked a smoker why she smoked, and the response wa
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> The foundation of law is not scientific exactness or scientific empiricism. It is the mechanism by which a state establishes norms. Exactly. So it sounds like you're agreeing with me that qualification of a particular effect as &
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Sure, but those local laws have no relevance outside their jurisdiction. In this case, it's not clear that California isn't trying to extend its reach beyond its own borders.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> Well maybe you should endeavor to get some knowledge? Yet it seems like you are saying it's irrelevant because you are uninterested in suppressing the movement of firearms, because it's not an "attainable goal". So
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> okay it's not a slippery slope, but it's something similar (that's why I said "feels like"). He's trying to establish a continuum of things that have a variety of addictive properties in an attempt to disc
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> Good things there are entire fields of medical experts working to understand the exact mechanisms and harm and we're not leaving it up to you. No, that doesn't work. Harm is a normative concept, not an empirical one, so ther
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> Are you willing to concede most guns used by criminals in Mexico come from the United States? No -- nor am I willing to assert the opposite, because I have no knowledge of the topic. I will ask, though: why is the place of manufacture
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> These are objective facts. The characterization of the federal government as "broken" (at least in this capacity) and "dysfunctional" is a normative judgment you're making based on your own subjective value pre
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Actual text from your link is: > (a) Any business that produces or manufactures three-dimensional printers for sale or transfer in California shall take both of the following steps This is worded a bit ambiguously: it's not clear wh
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Most "progressive" policies are, and have always been, scams aimed at tricking people into allowing the state to consolidate more power to use for ulterior purposes. A great deal of regulation is sold to the public in the name of
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by Gormo 8mo ago
How about "when your career depends on appearing to solve problems, fake ones are much easier than real ones".
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Inkscape does that perfectly.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
But "capitalism" doesn't actually exist as such -- it's just a concept that represents patterns of human behavior that stem from human beings' pre-existing motivations inclinations. Treating descriptive models as th
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by Gormo 8mo ago
That seems like a bizarre comparison. Is TikTok high in nicotine?
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Alternatively, it may mean that people are largely hypocritical, and evaluate themselves and other people by different standards.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> this feels like a false equivalence and slippery slope fallacy. The slippery slope fallacy is purely a logical fallacy, meaning that it's fallacious to argue that any movement in one direction logically entails further movemen
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> Which also includes the education system training you for the labor market. Does it? That's an assumption many people make, but I'm not sure that this was either the original intent -- public schooling was driven largely as

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