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by automatoney 5y ago
Should the title be changed to the more journalistic "died by suicide", or just "died" with suicide left to the article body? "Committed suicide" is generally not the recommended phrasing largely due to associa
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by automatoney 6y ago
For anyone wondering about the field that studies this sort of phenomenon, welcome to the wonderful field of historical linguistics! Historical linguistics is a really cool intersection between anthropology and linguistics - in short the id
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by automatoney 6y ago
Sexuality consists of much more than plain sexual imagery - one of the key examples in the article states "Neither character is glamorous in this scene, but their relationship feels frisky and lived-in and charismatic and real." M
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by automatoney 6y ago
You are completely correct that words have contextual meaning. Is part of that context perhaps historical or sociological? Why is it that male words also serve as our generics? Is there a history there worth examining? Downthread someone ha
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by automatoney 6y ago
There's a pretty strong argument that guys isn't a fully gender neutral term. For example, I think most people would read "I have dated a lot of guys" as meaning "men". Or perhaps take for example the title of
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by automatoney 6y ago
This post is decently interesting and fun although I can't really understand where it's going? I see the connections between the ideas the author is making but overall the post feels rather meandering. Aside: I hate to be a gramma
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by automatoney 6y ago
I use DDG and I usually have a pretty ok time without swapping back to google, or when I do I frequently don't have a better time (although much of the time I do!). Also for programming, DDG has a really nice stack overflow custom resu
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Talking the Dog: Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse [pdf](deborahtannen.com)
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by automatoney 6y ago
Not sure about filtering for practical focus/impact but https://arxiv.org/ is an amazingly useful and informative repository of papers that you might like. Also google scholar is good, but more general.
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by automatoney 6y ago
The problem is that mental illness affects your ability to think. Most of the time, someone contemplating suicide is not making a rational choice about their future - mental illness often impairs the ability to make well thought out decisio
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by automatoney 6y ago
Just wanted to highlight this piece from the article: "Depression and other mood disorders are widely recognized among the most important risk factors for suicide... [Bertolote and Fleischmann (2002)] report that 98% of those who died
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by automatoney 6y ago
Maybe the argument that suicide hurts the people around the person who killed themself can be helpful by reminding people that there's others who care about them who would want to help if they could. Either way, it seems to be enough f
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by automatoney 6y ago
Y'know the boyfriend twin thing makes me wonder... how successful might a dating app be that just takes a front and profile photo, and then matches people by facial similarity? The attraction comparison is mostly from me being pretty v
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by automatoney 6y ago
People might not randomly meet in the street, but they certainly meet through hobbies, work and random social events. If you have some dating requirement that instantly cuts your dating pool significantly, the chance of finding someone at a
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by automatoney 6y ago
What I'm wondering about is what the attractiveness distribution looks like for gay men and lesbians (and also bi/pan people, although there's probably less data to pull from there). I would guess that for gay dudes it matche
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by automatoney 6y ago
I'd say it's definitely very possible to be a quiet nerd who also has not the best attitude towards women so I don't think the bad rep just comes from the "bro" side of things. As an aside, calling women 'femal
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by automatoney 6y ago
Would you consider the threat of violence to be violent? I agree that you can handcuff someone without hurting them, but I would argue that 'force' is only possible due to the implication that non-compliance will lead to violence.
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by automatoney 7y ago
I definitely agree with your points, although I think this reframing of the problem from "we need to explicitly state what we want" to "we should teach robots to want to learn what we want" is at least conceptually very
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by automatoney 7y ago
I'm all for this and I love that there's a big push for thinking about ethics. What I want to know is how can people find ethical companies? Most advice ends up being "stay away from Amazon/Google/Palantir/Face
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by automatoney 7y ago
I wondered about the same, see my sibling comment. They all had been shocked and had said they'd pay to not be shocked again.
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by automatoney 7y ago
Thanks for finding this, was it linked in the article and I just missed it? Either way, I was wondering if people shocked themselves out of curiosity, but the part after what you quoted says "Note that these results only include partic
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by automatoney 7y ago
So the article mentions "that one study found people preferred giving themselves electric shocks rather than have nothing to do" which sounded like an interesting study. The link provided was to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
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by automatoney 7y ago
It's so interesting how powerful word embeddings (or in this case account embeddings) are. This reminds me a bit of the 538 article[1] about doing math on subreddits - I'd be interested to see what sort of math you could do on ins
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by automatoney 7y ago
Even if you have no contractual obligation to listen to your coworkers, in general many people enjoy, and potentially expect, to become closer with their coworkers which is generally accomplished through sharing personal details and emotion
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by automatoney 7y ago
Could it be the case that your in-group includes strangers and those who have been wronged, but does not include some other group of people? Maybe 'people who don't care about others'? Or maybe it's the people who perpet
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Google Maps will now let users share the locations of police speed traps(businessinsider.com)
1 points by automatoney 7y ago|1 comments
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by automatoney 7y ago
I'm not going to argue whether or not anything you've said is untrue, but you're leaving out some pretty important details which puts the protesters in a worse light. First of all, one of the initial demands of the protest wa
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by automatoney 7y ago
I've never thought about how changing social norms affect people on the spectrum, but it definitely seems like it would be a lot harder to get pronouns right. In my experience with trans friends, pronoun misuse would just come with a g
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by automatoney 7y ago
It doesn't solve the pronoun problem but if you haven't heard of them, Grice's Maxims[1] are fun to know about. Basically the idea is that you can generally assume that people you're talking to will follow certain rules,
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by automatoney 7y ago
Quick reply to your aside: singular they is very grammatical and has been in use for centuries. From Merriam-Webster: "they has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of singular they mi

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