gramontblanc

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by gramontblanc 5y ago
Games are a pretty interesting category of software in that they're possibly the only interactive software a user would voluntarily use for its own sake. Anti-games policies and agreements seem pretty suspiciously like "you can wr
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
I think many (most?) "Digital natives" already found a superior answer to these problems; pull people you're actually friends with (defined by whether they'll join your small group chat) into small group chats, and blog
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
Didn't mean to assert a dichotomy, more wondering whether the size of the effect of importance of emotional safety for expressive freedom varies with some kind of external measure of confidence
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
If it has an effect it could be worth pursuing just to measure the size of the effect. If perfection isn't needed, "good enough" might be better.
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
I wonder if the same effect holds true if a team is made up of mostly confident/brash people, or if safety-to-project-yourself can be trained and elevated independent of any other aspect of social environment. Maybe improv classes or s
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
Substitutions are omnipresent in my experience, but I view that as a symptom of almost all stores having really profoundly bad inventory tracking (do the developers for the web platform even know whether they have any items on the shelf at
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
Seems like a bold prediction that most (maybe any?) grocery stores have the level of corporate organization or even level of education to even consider a "secret order substitution to prole cart-pushers who will then have to answer cus
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
It could be appropriate to consider them cross-genre games containing elements of both soothing-slice-of-life gameplay cycles and conflict-oriented-'normal'-game gameplay cycles. Games mixing placid, relaxing gameplay loops seem
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
The use of psychiatric techniques as torture is the history of psychiatry. This is not some petty joke or argumentative stance. Do you think that Henry Cotton was a problem of political ethics? Supposedly his reputation and political stat
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
Yes? Do you approve of the idea of using any combination of therapies found effective to cure people of believing in their religion, or to 'solve' political dissidents? Intellectual freedom,literally in this case, is important.(1
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
The phenomenological impact of poor diet and harsh glycemic index ASDR cannot be overstated. 'refined sugars negatively impact mood and emotional well-being' might be one of the most rock solid universals of human nature. All med
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
As the saying goes: have you tried self-conducted sleep deprivation, exercise, improved diet, vitamin d, sun lamps, having sex, talk therapy, or any of the clinically evaluated pharmchems yet? Why not?
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
(if the study replicates), the targeted precision and long term persistence of therapeutic effects. If someone prescribes you a pill for being gay and you don't want to be cured of being gay, you could always just stop taking it later
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
I agree, and think both pose serious social problems (already realized with ECT) just by their availability as treatments.
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
Moral problems arise not from curing suffering being morally wrong, but the leakage of moral responsibility in medical/psychiatric practice outside of research. Any tool to 'correct associative pathways' will be used for the
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
Is there an outside definition of medical ethics that can really be impartially compared from generation to generation? I'm certain all previous generations thought they were acting in good faith as well. Progress towards 'changin
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by gramontblanc 6y ago
This reads as extremely ethically dangerous. I'm not sure it's possible to justify any course of treatment leading towards individual neurocircuitry 'tweaks', even for an unambiguously good cause. Harkens too closely t