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by _yb2s 2y ago
This is such an interesting and weird phenomenon, in the context of the complexity of human made nuclear reactors. I once read a horrifying fiction story about a pre-industrial culture that used nuclear reactions in open piles of uranium or
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I find it hilarious how anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist sentiments are heavily monetized with targeted products. You can buy t-shirts on Amazon that say “stop buying shit you don’t need.” I am embarrassed in hindsight that as a teenage
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It was because they could only image a dead/fixed 2D cross section on an electron microscope. The 2D cross section of a vast interconnected network of tubes looks like disconnected small “beans.”
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Are you kidding me? How could you simply take that at face value?
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Your comment assumes that the constitution and democracy still stand- which does not appear to me to be the case. Hopefully I’m wrong.
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We're talking here specifically about how to solve the problem of academic fraud- not how to solve the problem of treating trainees more fairly. That's an important problem also, but not what my comments were addressing. Still, I&
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Published historical pay will be 12 month salaries. Most non tenured professors will refuse the optional summer salary and work all summer for free, because they have to pay for it from their own grants- it means hiring one less student, an
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by _yb2s 2y ago
UC postdocs are unionized… but it’s not a great union. The higher paid postdocs saw their pay and benefits go down from the union.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Those numbers aren’t accurate anymore they’re out of date and now much higher. Also, I voluntarily pay my students and postdocs 2-3x those numbers currently. But ultimately (1) those are seen as training positions that lead to a tenured fac
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Snow Crash is so hilariously, and intentionally seemingly low effort it couldn’t be pulled off without a lot of actual skill and effort. It’s literary modern art, and it is fun.
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The NIH already has total funding limits for grant eligibility, and the issue of competitors blocking your publications is pretty much eliminated by asking them to be excluded as reviewers, because we almost always already know who is going
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Yes, they're regular iphones, not different in any way.
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Interesting observation that the rationalists doomsday AI scenarios all are essentially just obvious horrific consequences of utilitarian consequentialism backed by unlimited power- yet they insist on trying to live by acting this way thems
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Trump isn't literally Mussolini, and he isn't even personally a fascist, just a political opportunist with no principles- but the movement he is part of literally fits the entire first paragraph of the Wikipedia article to a T.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I don't think Trump is personally a fascist, just an opportunist that is suffering from NPD, and found traction to get attention and power with a particular political movement. I don't see the value in arguing this point- if you a
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I’m not on the left but I know what fascism is, and this is both the same strategy and same ideology. The only reason I can think of to say it’s not is if you genuinely want fascism- but are worried the negative connotations of the label mi
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by _yb2s 2y ago
We are on the brink of a fascist dictatorship and hardly anyone is noticing or taking it seriously.
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Correction: they’re both owned by Verizon
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Probably better to look and decide for yourself, but generally they teach specific techniques to reason more effectively in certain situations. They introduced me to Bayesianism, which is something I now use extensively in my science career
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I don't think that's a fair way to characterize the ADHD community's stance. I follow some of the 'leaders' of the ADHD community including William Curb (Hacking your ADHD) and Jessica McCabe (How to ADHD) and they
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think the lowest effective dose of the mildest possible stimulant is a pretty good strategy for people with ADHD doing any type of creative work. It also probably helps to take it intermittently so you can have the benefits of both being
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm also an academic researcher with ADHD, and feel exactly the same as you. Sometimes my hyperfocus and sense of adventure leads to big discoveries and resulting publications that keep me successful... but that is interspersed with mo
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by _yb2s 2y ago
ADHD is ultimately a disability of reduced executive function, and all of the seemingly disconnected symptoms are connected by that common fact. Everyone has challenges with executive function in life - especially if chronically sleep depri
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That might have changed, it was an older high end Samsung I had with updates blocked. I used Tracfone for years, but the block on tethering was particularly annoying. Visible is basically the same service also owned by Tracfone, but unlimit
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It's only a really good deal if you don't use much of the $10/gb data, and also don't really make calls ever. I use enough of that that switching to another prepaid carrier with unlimited data and minutes was cheaper. Al
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Phones that come with low cost prepaid no contract plans, and are boxed to sell from a display rack in a department store, but can also be purchased online. “Burner” because you can set them up with no personal details- popular for criminal
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I’m not religious and open minded about new stuff but ultimately decided the ancient Stoics system of morals works perfectly for me- and is more time tested than even Christianity. I think the rationalists decision to use consequentialist m
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I see a lot of parallels between the rationalists and the Beatniks- both seem to be a social experiment of radically throwing out the existing culture and lifestyle, and trying to think through something new from scratch. In both cases ther
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> completely normal community apart from the rationalism I don't think widespread polyamory, group homes, radically different social norms around language use and conversation, or reorganizing your entire life around mitigating AI r
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I recommend it- with a month prepaid it unlocks and you can then use it on any carrier, and still costs less than half what it costs new from Apple. For example, a new SE3 is $189 right now from Tracfone. Much cheaper than even the cheapest

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