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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
On the nature/nature aspect people are already predominantly nature. For the nurture component of the residual the early years are very formative. As an expat who has spent much more of my life outside my country of birth than in it, a
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
AFAIK, in the case of Microsoft, it's less FOMO and more about execs being able to impress their peers at other companies. So not really a fear of missing out but a desire to have an exclusive access to a technology that has already be
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
At 69 that's pretty close to half of his life, and since it's the early half there is more weight to it as it forms the context from which the rest is understood.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
It’s a peptide like insulin. It’s made through recombinant DNA which can be done with desktop bioreactors, it doesn’t take a whole industry to make this stuff.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Reports from friends in the EU is that doctors are prescribing it for all sorts of things off label. Autoimmune, ADHD, OCD etc. I take it for ME/CFS and it works well for me, but I get grey market supply. I’ve been on a low dose of it
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Your logic is scattered and incoherent. You still haven't pinned down your definition of metabolic disorder, as mentioned my definition includes those caused by auto-immune. I explicitly stated that poor quality of food eaten too regul
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
You have to be careful how you define metabolic disorder, do you mean entirely genetic of which there are not many, or do you mean auto-immune of which there are very many. To the point I'd even suggest that it's the dominant fact
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
When giving a generalization it's important to constantly note that exceptions exist. On the percentage of exceptions I think it's higher than commonly thought for a few reasons, most autoimmune disorders are still undiagnosed and
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Rehashing my regular humans are not calorimeters post. Metabolism is driven by hormones, it’s very possible for signaling peptides to prevent weight gain no matter how much a person eats. While a person who eats nothing will clearly lose we
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
After a lifetime of being told it was a personal failing and expect a pill to fix our problems it turns out that what was we needed after all. I had uncontrollable weight gain, a comorbidity of ME/CFS. GLP-1 agonists has helped a lot
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
That’s what made it impressive in the first plane.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
All sides were rapidly rearming, it was far from unexpected.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
It’s a bit less impressive considering they are tardigrades and can survive almost anything. Though I guess tattooing a hardy animal is more difficult.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I remember my first hit of modafinil, it was a rush, too much energy and unpleasant even at the half dose of 100mg. But this appears to only happen to people who have a pre-existing dopamine dysregulation. I've given modafinil to many
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
AFAIK it's the speed of the effect that is the dominant cause of addiction in this class of drugs, the drug has to outrun counter effects in the brain. Modafinil is slow onset and long lasting. It's also a weaker ligand so the bod
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I think one of the causes of addiction is dopamine dysregulation where the normal feels bad and drugs help fix that, at least temporarily. I wonder if instead of using strong drugs such people would be better off skipping the addiction part
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Another one is to say random words and they’ll think you have a disability, but be careful saying random words will mess with your head a bit. Perhaps prepare by pre-generating a list of random words to read.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I think it is you who is blinded by your prior biases. It's not that I have 'some data', it was a mountain of data, and it was my full time job to analyze it specifically for behavioral information with a number of other rese
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I would like to do it semi-passively through talking while I’m doing other things like going for a walk, doing chores etc. I don’t have the time at the moment to sit down and focus on this.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
As mentioned I’m in the rather unique position to have analyzed the complete browser history for a substantial number of people - I have learned far more than I wished to. The behaviors of very high IQ people are rather distinct from regula
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
They do seem close to being able to, I'm mostly waiting on someone to provide it as a service - I don't have time for side projects ATM.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
One concern that I do worry about is if LLMs are able to present an false attractive view of the world that the user will become increasingly dependent on the LLMs to maintain that view. A cult of 1. Reminds me of the episode 'Safe Spa
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
It wasn't that I observed them being foolish but many behaviors are subtly linked to intelligence and can be combined to create a proxy IQ. It also helps when people search their SAT scores. I noted that the people I typically interact
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I see the same. I'm waiting on LLMs to get good enough that I can use them to help me learn foreign languages - e.g. talk to me about the news in language X. This way I can learn a language in an interesting and interactive way without
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
If you are suggesting that people shouldn't underestimate the difficulty of the jobs of others - my answer is a strong yes. People should strive for accuracy in all cases. But I did suggest that even if true it does not negate my asser
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Eventual plausibility is a suitably weak assertion, to refute it you would have to at least suggest that it is never possible which you have not done.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
There are few things more damaging in life than being overweight - as can be clearly seen in shorter lifespans. Obesity is roughly equal to smoking.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Underestimating the complexity of other fields is not mutually exclusive with overestimating the intelligence of others. The real issue is that society is very stratified so smart people are less likely to interact with regular people, espe
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
For many people ChatGPT is already the smartest relationship they have in their lives, not sure how long we have until it’s the most fulfilling. On the upside it is plausible that ChatGPT can get to a state where it can act as a good therap
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by cjbgkagh 2y ago
The point of the virtue signaling is that it’s cheaper than actual virtue while retaining much of the same benefit. Practicing virtue signaling and not virtue is pretty natural.

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