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by hhjinks 3y ago
I had to tell a lung specialist that my shortness of breath, which was being alleviated by antihistamines, might be allergy-related. She literally told me my symptoms were "a mystery" after I had told her that antihistamines wer
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by hhjinks 3y ago
I'm a flesh automaton created to house a polymer that is capable of propagating itself through time. For what end? Maybe it's emergent behavior from a structured universe, maybe life is meant to converge towards some higher end. W
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by hhjinks 3y ago
>but without cheap enough labor to work the capital for a profit, capitalism will by definition give way to something else Demonstrate why this is true. What _exactly_ about the definition "private ownership of capital" necessi
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Looking at things from the perspective of the species is not equivalent to looking at things objectively. Hell, there is no such thing as an objective measure of life. How can I objectively measure that a life is worth living? What if my ch
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by hhjinks 3y ago
That makes sense. I thought they were referring to the enhanced immune response itself.
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by hhjinks 3y ago
If that were true, you would think it would be true for any immune response, even ones from actual infections.
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Grug Brained Materials Scientist.
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Hands are generally a non-issue at this point. You can just inpaint them and use a negative prompt LoRA to get good hands in just a few attempts. That is, if you don't just get good enough hands right away. That happens surprisingly of
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by hhjinks 3y ago
The point of attestation is to verify the integrity of your execution environment. With a "compromised" execution environment, access to websites could be blocked. Presumably, the attestation process would send a fingerprint of yo
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by hhjinks 3y ago
This is the problem with voting based social media. A demographic can be entirely supplanted by another really quickly. All you need is for the new demographic to upvote themselves, and the pre-existing demographic to not downvote the other
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by hhjinks 3y ago
You do own the power you purchase. You just decide to give it away to our collective pool of entropy right away. You could store it in a battery instead if you wanted.
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Do we know that these aspects of masculinity actually hurt men, or are we trying to put a woman-shaped hat on men? Who's to say that men are incapable of dealing with their emotions through sombre silence? Stoicism has to confer some f
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by hhjinks 3y ago
If these aspects are inappropriate, why does society continue to reinforce them? If these are just individual acts of toxicity, it would be wrong to call it toxic masculinity .
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Everyone who eats meat, but who don't consider it part of their identity. People care about taste and price. If lab meat is just as tasty and cheaper than farm meat, regular people are going to pick the cheaper alternative, save some m
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by hhjinks 3y ago
A bit of a tangent, but the fact that some people just never feel full is so strange to me. My feeling of fullness feels like being literally full; like my stomach would distend uncomfortably if I ate more. How can one not have this s
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by hhjinks 3y ago
What makes those solutions better?
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by hhjinks 3y ago
I am perfectly able to waste away entire days seeking out entertainment on my phone without the assistance of algorithms. Put in another way; algorithmic content delivery isn't the only factor.
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Haven't our digestive system co-evolved with a ton of bacteria? Wouldn't we be pretty boned if we just kicked them to the crub?
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by hhjinks 3y ago
I don't see it. The 50 states comprise the United States. The United States is comprised of the 50 states. You can change the word, and the exact same "issues" persist. The 50 states make up the whole of the United States. Th
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Simplifying the language, so that non-native speakers can understand it, doesn't automatically make the text better. That's a wild assertion. Worse yet, Simple English Wikipedia exists for that exact purpose.
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by hhjinks 3y ago
That's just a more specific version of the second failure mode.
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by hhjinks 3y ago
I think it's perfectly fine to assume that pornography might warp a child's view of sex and intimacy. The solution shouldn't be to force people to identify themselves, though. Parents have all the tools they need to shield th
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Perception/imagination does a lot of heavy lifting in that defintion. Without further specifying what you mean, some game AIs would fit that defintion.
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by hhjinks 3y ago
Learned English from age 6. I use English more than my mother tongue these days, but mostly in written form. I use both languages in my internal monologue. Sometimes, when deliberating something for example, I may also have a wordless and l
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by hhjinks 4y ago
Alex Jones has been made to sing anime songs for over a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZE5peUfWQ
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by hhjinks 4y ago
I've never had a concussion, but I wanted to recount my similar experience in school, too. Like you, 5 minutes of math lectures had me dozing off. Really, a lecture in any subject would bore me to sleep. Only when we got practical ta
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by hhjinks 4y ago
It would be interesting to see the dsitribution of dice rolls when asking GPT-3 and 4 to roll a dice repeatedly.
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by hhjinks 4y ago
Yeah, like roaches on Mars.
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by hhjinks 4y ago
I don't think that follows, necessarily. Chess has an unfathomable amount of states. While the LLM might be able to play chess competently, I would not say it has learned chess unless it is able to judge the relative strength of va
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by hhjinks 4y ago
> To broadly be able to predict human speech you need to broadly be able to predict the human mind This is a non sequitur. The human mind does a whole lot more than string words together. Being able to predict which word would logically

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