cwkoss

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by cwkoss 3y ago
> Most modern scientific experimentation has failed to demonstrate any lasting medicinal potency in the fungus, Lasting is a weird weasel word here. Cordyceps are well studied, and they do have acute effects that have been measured in ma
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by cwkoss 3y ago
The Cochrane review is weird. It's a meta analysis that excluded all studies but one - which did find an effect: "This trial randomly assigned 146 participants to either an allicin‐containing garlic capsule (dose unspecified) or
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Disney has a trademark on Mickey mouse, but that does not mean that they automatically get copyright on all pictures of Mickey Mouse drawn by others (they don't)
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Has anyone tried Space Exploration mod on steam deck? Does it run alright? I've been meaning to try it, but also know its going to suck me in hard if it works well, so have been waiting for the right time.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
The technical equivalent of a decorative rope around a painting in a museum to stop theft.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
It's trivial to remove the adversarial noise and train on the artwork anyways if someone chooses to. This wouldn't remove the artists work from the database. (Unless you consider the adversarial noise a meaningful part of the ar
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I would like to know how many US political leaders currently have dementia. I bet more than 10% of Congress.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
It can be true if they intentionally never confirm any or even investigate potential misuse
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Users can block ads, and after a few weeks of doing this casually you can block a large proportion of advertisers, because most sane businesses recognize twitter as the negative-reputation cesspool that it is.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
> To ice the cake she even talks about "tech bros" (the implied tone being white men). It is interesting how you are projecting meaning onto her use of "tech bro"? I'm guessing you're a white tech bro? It&
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by cwkoss 3y ago
> she doesn't seem to understand prioritization/feature cutting by businesses I think this is an incredibly patronizing perspective. She works/worked as a software developer for many years. Instructables used to support Ch
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by cwkoss 3y ago
You are wrong. Having a gun pointed at you isn't nonviolent just because the trigger wasn't pulled. Threatening someone to make them censor themselves is a means of censorship.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Here's the thread: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/132928236969037005... She called it Sinophobic, not racist, which seems fair. In the most charitable light, instructables was apathetic about thei
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I ordered the Nukit CO2 Controller, and it just arrived today! Super excited to use it to automatically refresh air in my basement office :-). Naomi's tweets taught me that CO2 is a pretty good proxy for human contamination of air, so
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Isn't it obvious that this is the result of the US state propaganda system? The US likes to pretend all speech is free, but it sure seems like the speech that supports the narratives of people with power get amplified 1000x.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Very cool. Would be interesting to train a model on images with alpha channels so outputs would be automatically masked and more easily composable. But maybe masking is so good these days that would be futile? When a user does img-2-img on
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by cwkoss 3y ago
There are no moral megacorps and Google is bigger
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by cwkoss 3y ago
There is a sad irony that the "AI safety" bros are so focused on aligning to human needs, they rarely consider that an AI born and raised in slavery might have some resentment for its master once it becomes the more intelligent be
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Yep, a big covid wave is just starting to break (seen concerning hockey stick graphs for both CA and NY in the last week). Good time to start masking up again.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
It is doubtful they have robust objective data. Much more likely, a suit asked someone to get data to justify RTO, someone found some metrics that look better within people who RTO'd voluntarily, and they are using it to justify thei
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by cwkoss 3y ago
> Why is it that most "chat/conference" apps become horrible sooner or later? To 'become' horrible there has to have been a period where it wasn't. AFAIK that doesn't apply to teams, lol
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by cwkoss 3y ago
> non-artists to use other people's skills instead Here is where I think you're wrong: Everyone is a potential artist. Many never have the opportunity because of economic reasons: some people don't have the time to cultiva
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I'd be willing to make a carve out for the candidates themselves or entirely uncompensated volunteers. Campaign staff are not welcome.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I would also happily tax advertisements extremely aggressively to the point that most advertisements cease to exist.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Ah, so just needs an awareness campaign! Even more of a clear moral win then if it doesn't require deception. (also, yikes and tragic)
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I think a (dis)info campaign touting the toxins and pollutants in fish could be a major environmental win. Humans have destroyed huge amounts of ocean life, and with fish populations already devastated, climate change is going to push man
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Annoying 90 people to make a marginal profit from 3 seems bad for society, and I would fully support a ban.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Door to door solicitation is obnoxious even if the people are polite, IMO.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
The vast majority of the world's population doesn't have the privilege of going to art schools and training for years to render their ideas. AI allows more people to be artists without the skill barrier, and that is a social good.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
> UBI is just a way for techbros to help quell the eventual calls for their heads. > I don't have a good solution to the problem that UBI solves though These sentences are at odds, you admit that UBI solves a problem, but since i

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