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by corry 2y ago
I'm 100% onboard with the 'Lawrence of Arabia inspired Dune' theory but I think one of the cleverest things Herbert did with Dune is to introduce a 'visionary substance' (spice) into the otherwise austere Islamic-ad
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by corry 2y ago
Yes, exactly! Part of maturing is realizing that you are but a link in a chain; and all the potential futures in which you saw yourself as the protagonist fade into a fuzzier (and less direct) set of potential futures which your children wi
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by corry 2y ago
I get migraines about 6 - 8 times a year, complete with visual aura and very occasionally speech aphasia. I tracked them in a spreadsheet for years so have a rough idea of triggers but it's proven fairly bad at predicting. I've tr
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by corry 2y ago
Yes, you can't use official labs (which of course would be the gold standard) but you can order and use kits from places like Meraculix (who have a US distribution point, so the tests travel via domestic mail within the US). Not risk-f
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by corry 2y ago
Fair points! I guess I have more optimism for the modern incarnation, but history does indeed suggest otherwise.
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by corry 2y ago
I hear you, and it's a good warning, but I think the word "often" in your first sentence requires some qualification or maybe nuance. It's no different from any other potential for abuse from someone with power - the way
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by corry 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, although I'm curious what prompted this to be posted in 2025? I've heard from a few underground psychedelic facilitators that LSD is one of the best 'medicines' for therapy of various kinds, but (a) t
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by corry 2y ago
IMO it's a mistake to get too caught up in the (admittedly self-described) goal of modelling AI's economic impacts. Instead, this is a super rare and valuable look into who/what/how folks are doing with Claude across mil
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by corry 2y ago
I believe this is a well-understood feature of the dopamine system? The sensitivity of the receptors is like a balance scale, and will correct to one side if the other is flooded. Give yourself big dopamine rushes and the scale balances by
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by corry 2y ago
Love your point here - the non verbal-ness of it feels like an increasingly rare thing in our lives (especially in tech). Music and I suppose other traditional 'fine arts' (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc) are these windows into
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by corry 2y ago
Absolutely terrible take. Creating music that you yourself love -- even music no one else will ever hear -- is a peak human experience that I wish everyone got to experience. The joy of creation is truly wonderful for its own sake. Can AI h
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by corry 2y ago
I can't be the only one that sees "wokeness" and general political radicalization (on either side) as being explainable by the collapse of religion and nationality as the key sources of identity and group-inclusion. Political
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by corry 2y ago
I mean, an LLMs ability to solve a logic puzzle seems like a weird way to gauge how it could be USEFUL to you (even if it otherwise would be a good test of how 'intelligent' the LLM is). Do you search Google or Reddit and wish you
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by corry 2y ago
Whatever other zaniness is going on with Musk/Sam/etc, I can't escape the feeling that if I had donated a lot of money to a non-profit, and then a few years later that non-profit said "SURPRISE, WE'RE NOW FOR PROFIT
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by corry 2y ago
A few months ago I learned to solve the classic 3x3x3 using the beginner's method [0]. Basically, you memorize a set of algorithms based on the current state of the cube and what overall stage of solving you're at (you first solve
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by corry 2y ago
I think that's 2/3rds of it, but I think you'd need to add the final 1/3rd which is a shared metaphysical set of values. In other words, the tribe needs to be about more than just kinship and belonging - there needs to b
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by corry 2y ago
I was writing a similar comment when I read this one. Hard agree. The collapse of religion and its close-knit communities has created a vacuum that gets filled with (checks notes) -- vapid corporate culture BS, identity politics (actually,
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by corry 2y ago
I think I put my finger on exactly why it sounds a bit uncanny-valley: it sounds like humans who are reading from a prepared 'bit' or 'script'. We've all been on those webinars where it's clear -- despite the i
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by corry 2y ago
Huh? It's obvious to almost everyone that Dropbox is in a tough position in that it's largely failed to expand its offering beyond the very original product and value prop, which is also being eroded by the other major players. So
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by corry 2y ago
This is my #1 question on GLP-1: are we just seeing how humans do much, much better by being lean vs. the direct result of the drug? A lean current-epoch human -- with our food abundance, access to modern medicines, higher standards of life
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by corry 2y ago
True, but (a) maybe it would evolve "naturally" given enough time, and (b) the things that humans create are a product of evolution too, no? Albeit not directly through the mechanism of natural selection.
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by corry 2y ago
Interesting thanks for sharing - maybe I'll try again with another device.
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by corry 2y ago
I've used the Braun wrist cuff, and while the heart-level feature is cool and perhaps good enough to mitigate position issues, I found that it was very unreliable vs. cuff measurements. What do I mean by "unreliable"? Two thi
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by corry 2y ago
Hey I hear you, appreciate the perspective but I'm borderline keto most days -- almost zero sugar, very few carbs, etc -- and yet still here. So while this may explain some amount (perhaps most?) of peoples idiopathic/essential HB
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by corry 2y ago
Totally agree, although perhaps the real gift of this technology will be from the fact that people can be more aware of the underlying conditions (high BP) and tighter feedback loops on how to reduce it / manage it vs. just helping not
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by corry 2y ago
100% hard agree. I'm now paying most attention to my overnight rate, like in the middle of the night - but even that takes a few hours to get down to the minimum value. Fascinating to see the big spike prior to waking up that signals y
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by corry 2y ago
Hey I have firsthand experience with it as indicated in the post. Probably a few months worth of wear at this point. BP remains a great mystery to me, even with the device. My cardio fitness is pretty good despite carrying a few extra pound
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by corry 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. For me, I can see that DURING exercise, my blood pressure is quite raised but then drops down lower than usual in the hours that follow. However, I think that's more a function of resting HR - which remains elevated
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by corry 2y ago
Actually, there is a wrist device called "Aktiia" that's approved for use for continuous BP monitoring with clinical accuracy by the UK and German health authorities (I believe). It's a bit of a pain to get over the pond
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by corry 2y ago
I think that was true during the age of the blog, but far less so now. Comments and discussion of a post are to be found on third-party communities like Reddit, HN, or even Facebook. How many of us scan the list of comments under, say, a Su

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