SecretDreams

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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
The article title is fine. The title posted to HN (and other forums) should have outro or intro: In a study funded by X, "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk" Or "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
I think it rubs plenty of laymen the wrong way to not make it a bit more explicitly known. The world could use a bit less nuance in our headlines these days.
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
Dementia aside, there are plenty of very obvious reasons we should have been discouraging obesity and encouraging healthier eating and lifestyle habits. Lobbies and general government ineptitude have been a problem longer than obesity and t
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
I believe you mean scam?
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
It really does feel like this. But it can't go indefinitely. What may seem bleak today could look very different a year out. The velocity of this whole thing won't just apply to the upwards direction. But velocity down probably wi
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
I'm going to be very pumped when this comes crashing down. It's going to look a bit like oligarchs subsidizing consumer tech as they try to offload more ram than God could own.
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
The profit is in the stock price rising, not the actual revenue. They need stories to keep the stocks going up.
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
You're half right. UBI is probably the only path where humanity comes out OK in the not so distant future. But you don't give out UBI and let people become potatoes. You give out UBI to allow them to meet their basic needs and the
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
I agree with your perspective re: the tone of the OP. But they hold a perspective that we should also give credence towards. Your main point is the most valid - wait for the final report. But you should be saying the same to the article as
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
> The problem comes when the imagery is placed as a false value signal. If it is designed to send a signal of "this content took a lot of effort to produce because an image that would be hard for a human to make is attached to it&qu
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
It would definitely help and I'd support it. I would much rather pay a fixed cost to use the internet and remove all the poisonous crap we're stuck dealing with to "keep the internet free".
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
I would be completely aligned to this proposal if you think the bought and paid for governments of the world would do it and all the influencers out there selling vulnerable demographics pipedreams would accept it without fuss. There's
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
Don't know about boobies, but I would guess META/other infinite scroll products are this generation's cigarettes in terms of long term harm and we do a severe disservice to all young people that are exposed to this product. M
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
Yes, but it takes a lot of time to find a lie and very little time to conceive a lie. It's a losing battle as the percentage of honest citations drops (and it doesn't need to be a big drop to have a big impact.. think if the relia
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
Yep..the online link posters hit close to home. Big reason I hardly even engage in discourse anymore. Got tired of verifying links that don't have the claimed content in them.
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
Lol, this same behavior comes up more often than you'd expect in academia too. Many many citations that nobody cross checks that also don't support the originally cited piece of information.
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
> We are very rapidly automating humans out of the academic publication loop here It's a sad thing. But the monetization and enshitification of journal publications over the decade or so, even prior to AI, certainly has not helped t
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
You can't. This is a legitimate thing the government needs to step in and deal with on behalf of their people via legislation because their people cannot be reasonably taught to protect themselves.
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
There's enough evil malware provider blame to go around.
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
Yvon is solid. Bezo's ex is good. There's plenty of gray, too, where they're trying to give a lot away or make life better for everyone. But, fundamentally,bro become a billionaire, you exploited some people at some point in
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
Some of the richest people the world has ever seen seem to tick all the same boxes as the least likeable and most devoid of love and empathy. If only some billionaires (trillionaires?) could strike a better balance between successful and hu
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
Investors are buying into the fallacy that musk can continue to work as a hype man, rather than some visionary or innovator. They like that he can make stock numbers go up, seemingly against all odds and reason. Whether this trend continues
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by SecretDreams 2mo ago
It's odd to me to watch so many very rich humans speedrun the destruction of humanity. Like, is there a world where we hit AGI and it actually works out for us?
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by SecretDreams 3mo ago
We're maybe only the first half decade into it. Hopefully it doesn't last a century.
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by SecretDreams 3mo ago
I thought you were talking about the US for a minute...
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by SecretDreams 3mo ago
I'd feel better hearing this type of sentiment from someone with less vested interest in this type of sentiment.
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by SecretDreams 3mo ago
He's effectively setting the pace of the trends. Objectively, Bitcoin was a grift and money laundering scheme. LLM valuations vs what they've made so far is probably also quite a bit more towards the grift side (yes, I use them an
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by SecretDreams 3mo ago
Make money while there's money to be made then pivot to the next scheme? Gaming > Bitcoin > LLMs > Robotics Jensen's job is to just be one step ahead of the market dynamics to keep the investor dollars flowing.
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by SecretDreams 3mo ago
> Is it just a direct play to undercut the US providers because they view them as a threat? It's China putting pressure on a financing strategy in the US that was always a house of cards. It could also be China democratizing somethi
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by SecretDreams 3mo ago
For the younger generations, it's just called Tuesday.

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