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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
Most people quit, because it doesn't work: https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/aug/14/ozempic-wei... I hoped it will finally shut up those stuck on the dogma, but it seems the denial is far to
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
It doesn't need aliens. The people would have to encounter such things as the ruins of Jericho (destroyed at the beginning of the new kingdom period), or later cities burned down during the late bronze age collapse. Either could easily
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
There are documented cases where aliens weren't needed for that, either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomio_Kivung
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
Pretty much all such claims can be easily dismissed by pointing out that such advances 1. Can obviously be made 2. Can be made very fast There is simply no reason why major advancements in metallurgy couldn't have been made between 445
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by accidentallfact 10mo ago
The thing is, you could probably create something FAR more horrific by simply mixing spent nuclear fuel with TNT... Not that I want to give anyone any ideas.
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by accidentallfact 10mo ago
Not that I want to be necessarily contrarian, but just a few months ago I decided to stop worrying about using my phone, and it honestly feels like the most liberating decision of my life. There is nothing wrong with it. I think that many p
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by accidentallfact 10mo ago
I'm talking about all the mid 20th century talk about the "generation gap", "teenage rebellion", and so on. Essentially no stone was left untouched in how the society worked between the "conformist" 50s,
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by accidentallfact 10mo ago
I'm not talking about genetics. There must be something that causes brain damage (and it would probably be a good idea to find it and stop it). The change was too fast for genetics. It was essentially one generstion mostly normal, the
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by accidentallfact 10mo ago
It doesn't talk about neuro divergent people, but about non-brain damaged people, whose brains can still do dimensionality reduction, which allows them to deal with problems efficiently. The so called neuro typical people are people
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by accidentallfact 10mo ago
I think it isn't a mixing issue, it's an acting issue. It's the obsession with accents, mixed with the native speakers' conviction that vowels are the most important part. Older movies tended to use some kind of unplacea
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
It isn't only about the degree of wrongness, but its type: 1. Vacuous, which provide no useful insight beyond what is obviously deducible. Such as "nearsightedness is caused by the wrong shape of the eye". 2. Vanity, which pr
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
The filter is obviously supposed to be there, it's "neurotypical" people who have a problem. It means you need to use your higher thinking to do sensory processing. It's like if your GPU had burned out. So you had to fin
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
Both have the selective attention filter. Autistic people also have another, dimensionality reduction filter. So in autistic people it goes (raw sensory data) --> [dimensionality reduction] --> (latent space of abstract features) --&g
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
This is correct, except the last paragraph. Indeed, corellation equals causation for the schizophrenic. Which is why you often don't get neurotypical people - when they say A, they often mean to imply B, because they correlate. You a
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
It's the other way round - let's say you have a thousand inputs, and those contain 1 bit/s in a way that you can't pick one or a few inputs that allow you to correctly decode that one bit of information. Or let's sa
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
No, the core difference is the level of abstraction, and the inability to communicate between people with different levels of abstraction. The opposite of autism is schizophrenia, where abstract thinking fails completely, and the person is
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
I don't think there is any specific feature that makes potatoes unique. Two chromozome copies are typical for animals, but the number of copies in plants varies widely, and and often changes easily, even different variants of the same
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
You misunderstood. I meant that they thought that they were superintelligent people who should teach others and lead the world, but they had schizophrenia.
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
They are. Autism is normal, and neurotypicality is simply the socially acceptable/expected level of insanity. I know I have unconventional beliefs, but the reason is the opposite of what people describe here. There are no patterns and
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
Exactly. This well matches my hypothesis about how the brain works. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347211
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by accidentallfact 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073183