ekanes

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by ekanes 3y ago
And a small community of actual friends. Friendship matters re longevity. It's worth working towards.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Fantastic point - basically it'd be great to know how much it matters that the patient "fights". I do disagree that, "Willing someone to "fight" a cellular process within their body probably isn't going t
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by ekanes 3y ago
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Do you have any ideas on a better framework for society to approach this? As you allude, people intend the best for the patient, and this seems to be what we've come up with. "You are a
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by ekanes 3y ago
I'm not much of a programmer but also find this much better for my thinking process. I'm much more creative and likely to think bigger-picture.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Your kind of arguing against yourself. You start with "Human nature is to use technology to dominate others" (agreed) but then conclude "don't worry about this massive step up in ability to surveil and control population
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by ekanes 3y ago
Hmmm, what if you had a simple concept of pushing a button that's asking the other person, "hey, you still going?" (I'm kind of reminded of video games where there are some "canned lines" that you can click on
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by ekanes 3y ago
Your scenario makes me think of The Lean Startup. It's a book but you can find podcasts, talks, etc. It's worth thoroughly understanding it as it makes it much harder to ship something people don't want, but also pushes you
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by ekanes 3y ago
I've thought the same, and it'll make perfect sense. If the LLM knows you very very well, and it knows the world better than any human could, it can match those up well. The effects on broader society could be interesting. If ev
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by ekanes 3y ago
My hunch would be: 1. Premise: Organizations always try to stay alive. 2. To stay alive you have to be active and doing things which is rewarded by future money. 3. If your organizational role is "protect children" but who's
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by ekanes 3y ago
Absolutely agree. Everything is much easier now to build, but harder to market/compete.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Wow, thanks for such a well-researched reply.
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by ekanes 3y ago
> good execution for a moderate need in a contested space is not a thing at all That's kinda exactly what this means :) -- don't contest that kind of space if you don't have the funding and great design/etc package.
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by ekanes 3y ago
PANDAS is better described as a syndrome of symptoms all occurring at once. It's caused by strep (and in our case at least) can also be triggered by covid vaccines or other things as well) so a strep text only tells you if the child ha
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by ekanes 3y ago
Very interesting. We're on long-course Keflex (cephalexin) and 2 Aleve daily.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Very similar story over here. Similar treatment and recovery, BH. For people curious about this syndrome, the most salient symptom is a sudden onset of multiple things that people don't usually develop in later childhood, let alone all
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by ekanes 3y ago
> I dunno man. I sold a small company back in 2011 and it really was easier back then. Three out of four of our first leads tried to buy us because we were doing "real" machine learning. This was almost a pure API app. We didn&
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by ekanes 3y ago
This seems almost impossible to fix: When a person or company is caught violating their promises, it's a big hurdle to differentiate between: A: "Sorry we got caught / sorry you're upset" and B: "Oh snap. Our i
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by ekanes 3y ago
If it were able to change the course of history, of course it might be worthwhile. If it didn't, then of course it wouldn't. The question is really how effective it is. In the abstract, more levers of influence is probably bette
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by ekanes 3y ago
Settings > Control Center (scroll down to bottom) > Clock Options > Display the Time in Seconds
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by ekanes 3y ago
Sorta. The policy is "opt out" but you are "opted in" by default.
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by ekanes 3y ago
That's fantastic. Thank you. If anyone is interested in supporting them, here's the link (so many clicks later!) https://opencollective.com/tosdr/donate
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by ekanes 3y ago
I don't disagree. That said we still live in a world that has always known hunger and war, and those are even lower on maslow's hierarchy. So my point is simply that we are where we are and that anything that helps is worth doin
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by ekanes 3y ago
> an individual's project to provide an AI therapist and while people here and there did mention the cons of having a program provide medical treatment, the overall sentiment wasn't at all negative. Sorta. You're forgetti
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by ekanes 3y ago
Absolutely, but you're missing the most inflammatory part of all! The robot had to "eliminate the threat" -- when this was about a human who got in the way.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Interesting that the article focuses on the unintentional killing of people by robots. That is unfortunate and worth writing about, but society is good at proportional reaction to things like that. The more disasters there are, the more w
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by ekanes 3y ago
We don't choose it based on that only because it doesn't work very well. Some technologies have to be magical and great to really take off. For example, imagine if self-driving was everything that was ever promised. Sales of car
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by ekanes 3y ago
I think that's the right take. If you're are legitimately good, and you press on long enough, (and admittedly you have some luck), you'll often win eventually.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Software leaders who want to succeed long-term could learn a lot from Spolky's leadership style.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Thanks. Somehow this latest ickiness from Chrome was the push I needed to switch to Firefox.
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by ekanes 3y ago
I expect you're joking, but no need to be so callous. A society that feeds the mentally unwell to the fishes isn't one you actually want to be part of. Everyone is someone's child.

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