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by afpx 2y ago
Given that it took about two centuries for the public to accept the heliocentric model, some patience may be needed. A great number of people only learn about gender through undergraduate education. And, iirc, only 25% of the population hav
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by afpx 2y ago
I'm seeing a lot of helpful discussion, and I'm learning a lot. It's been easy for me to skip over the hyperbole.
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I respect the research and researchers - but medical researchers are far removed from medical practitioners.
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by afpx 2y ago
I used to build microgrids and work closely with utilities - generation, transmission, and distribution. This was probably 15 years ago, but they talked about the 'solar death spiral' even back then. In my opinion, a lot had to do
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by afpx 2y ago
There's no way that doctors in the US continue their training. I suffer from a chronic illness. I saw 5 different specialists over the past 2 years, and each one gave me different treatment. A couple even relied on information from the
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by afpx 2y ago
Given the great benefits, I wonder why there is no country on Earth that has open immigration.
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by afpx 2y ago
Everyone connected to spacex via brain implant with him in control - i.e. the borg. If the guy has demonstrated anything, it's that he wants total control.
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by afpx 2y ago
The fox population has grown a lot near me. I often have a couple foxes sleeping in my back yard at night. I used to have a major squirrel problem, but The foxes ate them all.
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by afpx 2y ago
But there are many, many things that suck about my game. When I asked it the question, I just assumed it would pick out some of the obvious things. Anyway, your reasoning makes sense, and I'll accept it. But, my homo sapien brain is ha
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by afpx 2y ago
Could someone list the relevant papers on parrot vs. non-parrot? I would love to read more about this. I generally lean toward the "parrot" perspective (mostly to avoid getting called an idiot by smarter people). But every now and
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by afpx 2y ago
How do you fix wealth inequality? That's what I want to know. I feel like we're so far past the point of no return. I'm sure they're all eagerly rubbing their hands together waiting to be a Duke in Peter Thiel's new
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by afpx 2y ago
I thought that was their strategy, though? Dismantle the executive branch to the point where the president has little power.
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by afpx 2y ago
It’ll be handled by the courts then, right? Personally, I like the bold approach. I really dislike Trump and would never ever consider voting for the guy. This isn’t the outcome that I hoped for, but I appreciate that he’s trying to do some
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by afpx 2y ago
This paper may be interesting to some of you: Discretization of continuous input spaces in the hippocampal autoencoder https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14600
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Should have been here 4, 8, 12, and 16 years ago.
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National Lab? Maybe Argonne?
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by afpx 2y ago
It's a reasonable question. Looking back, I can see how it seems that way. On the contrary, I believe people should do what they want. I've always supported my sister, my nephew, my friends and their kids, and their kids' fri
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by afpx 2y ago
Thanks - very eye-opening. My rough calculations show that four million US lives could have been saved over the past 100 years if only we had adopted handedness-sensitivity and modified schools and workplaces to account for left-handedness.
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by afpx 2y ago
I don't mind if you call me a 'crank'. At least I'm not being shouted down - and I appreciate that. It's important to understand that I believe that gender dysphoria is a real condition. I mainly question the scale,
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by afpx 2y ago
Calling it “established science” seems like an attempt to shut down scientific discourse and normalize gender dysphoria even though it is a complex topic that causes distress to many people and has ongoing ethical concerns. It becomes even
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by afpx 2y ago
I have some anonymous accounts, and use AI to avoid being identified.
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by afpx 2y ago
Could I buy a physical device like RSA SecurID from my bank branch or post office and log into a closed VPN-like network where all the servers are run by verified users? I know there are problems with that idea.
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by afpx 2y ago
Also, some people have 'religious experiences' that set their minds on certain paths. Whatever the underlying neuroscience is, it results in qualia that is hard to ignore. I'm a 2nd generation atheist who suffers from depress
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Elon Musk Clueless Trying to Pilot His Boosted PoE2 Account on Stream [video](youtube.com)
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by afpx 2y ago
I like your description. I sometimes wonder if the final equilibrium state will be most people working on addictive products and the rest working on addiction treatment.
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If both sides agree on a standard definition of harm, maybe some of the debate could be solved. For example, is the feeling of potential harm, harm? I saw a local government debate recently about a local policy that would require significan
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by afpx 2y ago
The change was quite shocking. For 25 years, to get a new job I’d send out 5 resumes, get 4 interviews, and 3 offers. This time around, I sent 200+ resumes, got 2 interviews, and ghosted on both.
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by afpx 2y ago
Unless there’s something important, I check my email about once a week these days. Otherwise it’s just for authentication.
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by afpx 2y ago
How do you find a good volunteer organization? I volunteered for a couple years at different orgs, and it was a bad experience. All the bad parts of the workplace but with worse people and no pay.
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I wonder how the internet would have turned out differently had an internet safety industry been developed for decades beforehand.

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