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No, it is evidence. It is evidence that can be questioned and debated, but it is still evidence. Second, you misrepresent. The therapists that I have heard recommend Rosebud were not paid to do so. They were doing so because they had seen i
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Reminds me of the old, with treatment, most colds will be cured in just 7 days! Without treatment they generally last about a week. That said, do not underestimate the health benefits of the placebo effect. It can help a lot. Particularly w
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Indeed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... is a worthwhile read on this. Wikimedia is on an internal expense growth spiral that won't stop until they max out on the willingness of
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You don't seem to understand how burden of proof works. My claim that LLMS can do effective therapeutic things is a positive claim. My report of my wife's experience is evidence. My example of something it has done for her is some
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Case studies support this. Which is a fancy way to say, "We carefully documented anecdotal reports and saw what looks like a pattern." There is also a strong parallel to manic depression. Manic depressives have a high suicide risk
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I think that you will find a lot of strong opinions, and not a lot of hard data. Certainly any approach can work out poorly. For example antidepressants come with warnings about suicide risk. The reason is that they can enable people to tak
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I agree that the tech industry is the root cause of a lot of mental illness. But social media is a far bigger concern than AI. Unless, of course, you count the AI algorithms that TikTok uses to drive engagement, which in turn can cause soci
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Yes. Most would benefit from more exercise. We need to get sufficient sleep. And more sun. Vitamin D deficiency is shockingly common, and contributes to mental health problems. We would also generally benefit from internalizing ideas from D
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We don't know how that search was done. For example, "I don't feel my life is worth living." Is that potential suicidal intent? Also these numbers are small enough that they can easily be driven by small groups interacti
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The general rule of thumb is this. When given the right prompts, LLMs can be very effective at therapy. Certainly my wife gets a lot of mileage out of having ChatGPT help her reframe things in a better way. However "the right prompts&q
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Note for the future. We reveal our own biases when we reject what is said by those who do not share them. For the record, here are my biases. I hate Trump. I think that he's a threat to democracy, and I wish that red America would wake
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You shouldn't be citing articles about the first 100 days, when you're given a reference with much more current results. There are many different pollsters, each of which has slightly different numbers. Here are Nate Silver's
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The point is not to convince Trump supporters. It is to make independents start to question, and create support nationwide among Democrats who like to see Trump squawk. Thereby propelling the politician behind these ads to more prominence i
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From that article, I can tell that there are farmers, and farmer groups, who are pissed off for good reason. But Trump carried rural counties by 93%. Given how well his general polls have held up, I am highly dubious that most farmers in mo
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Do you have a reference for this? https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... shows me that, while a lot of people strongly disapprove of Trump, he retains a very strong base of over 40% of likely v
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I have to wonder why some enterprising Democrat doesn't run an ad with this clip, with language talking about how thin-skinned Trump is, and how the Republican party has lost its core principles. What can Trump do? Get mad? That will d
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The trick isn't winning when the celebrity is at the table, it is in getting the celebrity to the table, then keepong the victim there. It's not about winning mote on each hand. It's about keeping the target happy as money dr
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The use of a fd for access to a file is one of the places where Linux follows a capability model. Not coincidentally, this is a part of the Linux API which is has not proven a good target for attacks.
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In particular the big win with a true capability system is avoiding the confused deputy problem. True capability systems avoid it by always associating the action to be taken, with the reason why you should be able to take it. And so a depu
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The structural support needed to keep the rocket from crumpling under the throw is extra weight to carry the rest of the way. This is why Starship is aiming for a catch rather than legs. Legs that work at 1g added too much weight.
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I have seen people that I would have never expected to have heard about HN, show up here. The odds that someone tells the family to come look may not be that high. But they are very far from zero. Most other internet forums that I've b
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My personal best guess is no. That a low-level shingles infection getting into your brain can cause Alzheimer's. And therefore a shingles infection creates a risk of Alzheimer's. The way that the vaccine preserves us is by reducin
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Yet again. Preventing amyloid-beta buildup cures the mouse model that we have for Alzheimer's. We have on the order of a dozen drugs that got to stage 3 trials based on, "prevents amyloid-beta buildup, and cures mice." In eve
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The biggest SQL antipattern is failing to recognize that SQL is actually a programming language. Therefore you should create a consistent indentation style for SQL. See https://bentilly.blogspot.com/2011/02/sql-for
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I replied to you there. But in section 4.5 of this "rebuttal", he admits to the flaw that I just pointed out, and dismisses it as logically possible but absurd. The fact that he grants that it is logically possible, demonstrates t
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The mistake that you are making is to imagine that I must be making a mistake. Let's take a few examples. He claims that a robot which is able to engage in Gödelian reasoning, cannot possibly be computable. Logicians agree that this cl
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I am amused that my unintended repetition in the last two paragraphs demonstrates how unsound my absolutely human brain is. (Unless I'm an LLM. I'm certainly unfunny enough to be one.)
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I can't speak to the general opinion among philosophers about his argument. But my opinion about philosophy is such that their opinion would not sway mine in either way. I can speak to the general opinion of his logical arguments among
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The fact that he repeated the same logic errors at book length doesn't change the fact that they are errors. And the question of whether they are logic errors is a question of mathematics, not philosophy. Dismissing the conclusions of
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Funny. My Tesla has proven itself to be repairable. And has needed fewer repairs than my ICE car. As for the "will soon require", as https://www.motortrend.com/features/how-long-does-a-tesla-ba... verifies, a

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