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by concinds 4y ago
There's 2 huge huge problems not mentioned in the article: 1. Take Taleb's piece on IQ[0]. Which journalists have the mathematical background to understand it? None. Most of the psychologists who reponded to Taleb didn't unde
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by concinds 4y ago
> even if this were true, chemicals are turning the people gay, trans, ect, that shouldn't actually invalidate their identities or for that matter mean we shouldn't ban the chemicals I think given the existence of detransitione
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by concinds 4y ago
The more discerning question to ask is: In that video, Alex Jones was quoting (in his own, 'passionate' way) a study that linked Atrazine (a widely used herbicide) to hormonal disturbances[0]. Mainstream media had access to the sa
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by concinds 4y ago
Agreed. In general: 1) Successful people tend to be found in selective environments. A website that lets anyone in will by definition be filled with junk, bored people, teens, and time-wasters. Since 'successful people' know this,
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by concinds 4y ago
The increase is almost entirely in bisexuality. I think the biological argument is strong.
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by concinds 4y ago
Doctor are unlikely to help, since most medical societies consider 300ng/dL (incomprehensibly low) T levels acceptable. With this (and a sadly too large number of other conditions), doing research and being one's own advocate will
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by concinds 4y ago
The "high-performance" doctors (for athletes/businessmen) I've seen tend to be very pro TRT. If you're low T, TRT will increase your energy, confidence, sex drive, serenity, and quality of life; and it'll also
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by concinds 4y ago
We do know approximately how emphatic he was internally, since the WaPo article reposted in its entirety the internal Google Doc he sent to executives on LaMDA being sentient. Here's the language Lemoine actually used: > But is it s
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by concinds 4y ago
> I'm just not sure that adding, for example, the ability for the AI to hold a grudge, is very useful or strictly a requirement for sentience, and it could even be potentially dangerous. I'm convinced at some point we'll h
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by concinds 4y ago
The question of whether AIs really do "feel" (what you seem to be addressing, through the "psychopathy patient" reference and talk of sentience) is interesting, but is it where we draw the line? Data in Star Trek can&#x2
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by concinds 4y ago
The most off-putting thing is when some commenters incoherently go from arguing religion is a private matter and should not be revealed even when asked, to arguing "belief in a dude in the sky" is a pathology or "crazy"
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by concinds 4y ago
He's not the only Google engineer to believe we're uncomfortably close: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia... Given how vibrant the academic/philosophical discuss
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by concinds 4y ago
Something I haven't seen anyone bring up yet: The author works for Google's "Responsible AI" division. I would very strongly hope that religious people would be welcome there, obviously along with atheists and people o
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by concinds 4y ago
The argument isn't "you can only be moral if you're religious", it's: "modern Western moral attitudes, even explicitly atheistic ones, are strongly influenced by historical religious ideas, and therefore the id
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by concinds 4y ago
No psychiatrist would diagnose someone based on public performances, and non-psychiatrists using pop-psychology to do so is very unpleasant. This is a wider cultural trend too. The prevalence of Dunning-Kruger pop-psychology YouTube videos
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by concinds 4y ago
Huh? I keep seeing people make this point, but the premise is defective. Investors clearly reacted negatively to Elon's Tesla stock sale, despite the Twitter 'excuse'. Furthermore, if Elon wanted to minimize Tesla sell pressu
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by concinds 4y ago
The fundamental problem is that Tesla's Autopilot is defective. It has repeatedly steered people into highway barriers, and sometimes has no clue which lane it's in or where it's going. See the opening of this video: https:&
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by concinds 4y ago
I take it back. Safari definitely does the same thing when you get to 3GB of swap. What's worse is that Apple has a pathological aversion to transparency and just can't admit this is a known issue and that a fix is coming, so we c
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by concinds 4y ago
I have the same issue Try opening 25+ tabs in Chrome, and the whole system will slow to a crawl (with a measly ~3GB swap if you have 8GB RAM). Safari doesn't seem to have this issue. Force Chrome to aggressively suspend tabs, and the i
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by concinds 4y ago
I don't understand the comments here. AI means we can literally brute-force any scientific mystery by trying out millions of algorithms until we find one that fits (like Wolfram's New Kind of Science). General relativity was a bri
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by concinds 4y ago
All direct mail marketers do this, because it allows better targeting (& re-targeting old prospects & previous customers) but Brave explicitly said they didn't, and only went through the USPS's service.
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by concinds 4y ago
The weirdest Apple Music bug I had was: Watching Netflix with Safari, and then going to the Apple Music local library ("Recently Added", then click on an album) literally broke Music. It looked like this[0], all the Music toolbar
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by concinds 4y ago
It's especially horrible if you have lots of playlists, and like to add playlists from Apple Music to your library. You can't add Apple Music playlists to playlist folders, and playlists can only be sorted alphabetically. On the M
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by concinds 4y ago
> If they want to retain or grow their paying subscribers Apple needs to improve their software with the same attention to quality they devote to hardware. I get your point, but no, they just need to sell more devices; act anti-competiti
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by concinds 4y ago
My point is that Apple Music payouts are an identical percentage of their revenues to Spotify's; that means that any campaign to make people switch to AM will just mechanically make AM payouts decrease, and Spotify payouts increase unt
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by concinds 4y ago
The "comparing royalty payouts" talking point needs to die. Read this article to learn how $ payouts per stream are determined: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2022/02/music-streaming-real... It&#x2
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by concinds 5y ago
> So it's possible to say "Russia is invading Ukraine, so every Russian must die"? Certainly not, but people on social media are never this precise. Bigotry will be implied, or unclear; but the effects are the same.
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by concinds 5y ago
You are correct. "We won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," says Meta. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/11/facebook-... They define credible as:
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by concinds 5y ago
"We won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," says Meta. They define credible as: having two "indicators of credibility", such as location or method. That is a considerably higher bar tha
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by concinds 5y ago
It's why I never use my 32GB base iPad; install more than a few apps and you run out of space. Turn iCloud Photos on? Even with "Optimize storage", that'll keep about 3-5GB of local thumbnails on your device, wasting spa

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