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by cmehdy 5y ago
TikTok is a social network based on seeing people in portrait mode. There are entire subsets of it where music isn't the focus at all, and the fact that so many people do exactly the same dance on exactly the same song should hint at t
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by cmehdy 5y ago
After reading your post I understand that the challenge to show the picture is to test for a fake picture (one with only Waldo for example), so that makes more sense to me. Bob is just allowed to make sure the hidden image that Alice uses i
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by cmehdy 5y ago
Now the game "arxiv vs snarxiv"[0] will also make more sense to you! [0] http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
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by cmehdy 5y ago
If you are receptive to lists of gratitude, it is worth noting that one of the many tools of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is to try to keep a journal of everyday gratitudes[0] (something like "write 3 a day in a journal" wo
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by cmehdy 5y ago
I thought the discussion between "mathematics only models the world" vs. alternatives wasn't settled? (most recently I'm referring to Roger Penrose's views on the "epistemic argument against realism"[0], a
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by cmehdy 5y ago
> To become critical of me or my understanding shows how little you have learned from your experiences. That's just an attempt to shield yourself from any kind of external perspective. > Depression comes from the same place as yo
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by cmehdy 5y ago
I can only assume you refer to "level 5" from a personal source rather than DMT-Nexus (which only has 3 levels) or PsychonautWiki (which mentions levels rather freely and goes to Levels 8+, also spreading out the descriptions into
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by cmehdy 5y ago
What happens if you were to do two trips in a row, would you then have to change your mind to completely different outcomes each time? Would that one time in the middle be invalidated by the later trip? How do you go about quantifying which
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by cmehdy 5y ago
I have had limited opportunities to have ongoing talk therapy, but I've done a lot of the heavy lifting of CBT on my own throughout the years (both during psychedelic trips and in my day-to-day life). For me the psychedelic trips have
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by cmehdy 5y ago
Thanks for replying to all those points! I agree that all news is in principle good news for psychedelics, but the private interests still have a bigger reason to exaggerate the positives for any treatment for financial benefit. We even see
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by cmehdy 5y ago
As somebody who sometimes "treats" severe multi-decades-long depression with psychedelics, I'm not surprised that they'd have a positive impact but the news seems too unclear to my simple mind to make sense of a few thin
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by cmehdy 5y ago
They feel they can "keep" themselves, while also remarking that their self is deteriorating. It's not so much a love for the thing but a fear of the unknown - and in alcohol's case it's also very very much a chemica
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by cmehdy 5y ago
I'm not from the US but I have heard of a sometimes tough road to take no matter how anchored and "productive" you are. In case the road is blocked in the US I'll offer the insight that Canada is a very welcoming country
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by cmehdy 5y ago
Then I apologize for misunderstanding the point of the post, and it's probably better for me to leave the whole chain without edit after this realization.
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by cmehdy 5y ago
Because of the subject they're responding to, perhaps. They're a top-level visible reply to an article about a hedge fund 20-something getting sent to prison for years, so perhaps I'm dim but I'd say there are troves of
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by cmehdy 5y ago
I'm confused by this comment, (1) because you're hoping to know how a 20-something year-old led millions of dollars' worth of scams, to... emulate it? (2) because you feel stuck as somebody working at a FAANG (I know it might
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by cmehdy 5y ago
If you can read french, here's a page about why 16 isn't used (anymore!) https://www.guichetdusavoir.org/viewtopic.php?t=36236 TL;DR Running out of numbers and putting in temporary measures requiring the 16 as pre
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by cmehdy 5y ago
I found this[0] minimal style (not by me) particularly useful, with auto-folding and a thin visual footprint. [0] https://github.com/ongots/firefox-sidebery-minimal-style (screenshots further down the page)
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by cmehdy 5y ago
I definitely have Ancillary Justice on my to-do list, thank you!
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by cmehdy 5y ago
That seems like "serious" is supposed to mean "plausible within current context" then, not a philosophical take infused with seriousness about the concept of consciousness and sentience in technological beings (which is
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by cmehdy 5y ago
What do you think about the following (if you know about them): - Diaspora by Greg Egan (and honestly much of Greg Egan's work in general), which is basically from the viewpoint of an AI entity and keeps "unzooming". The very
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by cmehdy 5y ago
As a non-native English speaker I read "so-so automation" like "sus-automation" and found it oddly appropriate.
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by cmehdy 5y ago
I like the article for the most part. I've noticed many comments here are lacking the empathy that is so fundamentally needed in this world to help those who suffer alleviate the pain, so as a fellow struggling one I figured I could th
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by cmehdy 5y ago
If that helps, here's a global overview: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anti-mask_law A lot of the "rich" world had anti-mask legislation, and failing the presence of legislation a willingness to put pressu
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by cmehdy 5y ago
For other readers: this seems to be an internal google presentation made public to tell engineers to respect users' attention. I guess as a user of the website it didn't respect my attention enough to make me want to click through
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by cmehdy 5y ago
Do you have any reading you'd recommend related to this? I naively thought it would be some kind of Kalman filtering of sorts but from what I gather in your words it doesn't even have to be "that" complicated, right? edi
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by cmehdy 5y ago
We tend to go more and more towards the opposite though, as it's common to watch netflix and do something else, or listen to a podcast or an audiobook while doing pretty engaging activities like driving or sports. So I don't think
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by cmehdy 5y ago
Intuit and Equifax is like a duo of truly horrible companies that I'm definitely not surprised to know are working together. It's like Minus and Cortex except neither has big brains and the whole thing is not a funny joke.
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by cmehdy 5y ago
We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to
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by cmehdy 5y ago
Net-zero amongst companies is often a matter of paying a tax on what you still emit or shifting the accounting of emissions to not fully measure the entirety of your emissions (or to offload that onto other parts of society). It's fine

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