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by lr4444lr 1y ago
As I posted above, my kids literally asked for them. They are both under 10, and don't have their own phones.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
My kids asked for them. They are under 10. (They asked me to write down my number to give to their friends. Business card is just as good.) We don't have a landline, and there's no way in hell they're getting their own phones
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
The parental part bears special mention. My spouse and I find that we are overwhelmingly the ones calling to organize playdates rather than vice versa. I'd like to think it's not that my kids are poorly socialized or misbehave - t
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
Thing is, professional therapy is expensive; there is already a big industry of therapists that work online, through chat, or video calls, whose quality isn't as good as a professional (I am struggling to describe the two). For profes
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
"This isn't FDA approved, and could come with risks. I have not seen any in my patients, but it is a possibility" is informed consent.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
The FDA interfering with informed consent between doctor and patient isn't something I find a source of complex feelings. The agency bears zero responsibility for the pain and suffering its caused by overcaution.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
The risk is the lost time by betting on the wrong horse. I don't know much about Wang, but the current phase of the AI race will likely shake out winners and losers of the tech industry who persist for many years to come. Being first t
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
Their brain:body mass ratio is very high, so they've been on our intelligence radar for years, especially corvids.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
How does making podcasts solve anything? Students can just read out what the AI writes into an audio recording. Why is this problem being fretted over? In-class written and oral tests should be fine to assess students. If AI helps them lear
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
Why would they come here for those reasons? We actually have decently functioning courts and relatively much lower corruption. If they wanted to get rich dishonestly, they would be much better served paying off regulators and politicians in
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
This is inimical to the purpose of the Internet. Maybe the dream of knowledge being free and open was always doomed to fail; if knowledge has value, and people are encouraged to spend more of their time and energy to create it rather than o
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
Nobody wanted to live a long time but be unhealthy in their older years. Obviously, but they operated (and continue to) under a medical paradigm where preventative medicine means just avoiding a few major harm factors and getting just eno
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
"Awareness" sounds like a Platonic presupposition. Does the atom know it is an atom? Or are there just enough like the ones you see to suggest an eye catching effectiveness of structure for survival? Evolution is a lot harder to r
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
Professors self-stated political leanings, which have changed markedly over time, are important evidence here.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
> and not arguing with your spouse I dunno, man. "Gray divorce" is rising, and I don't think Sweden is an exception to that.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
I had a near-death health emergency 5 years ago in my late 30s, which turned out to be due to a chronic but perfectly manageable set of conditions I didn't know I had been developing. Part of that management is a commitment to healthy
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
> perhaps everything behind the scenes could fall apart The problems in the world that would result in the entire top line public companies falling apart that make up the TSM or even S&P 500 fall apart protractedly - not like a few c
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. This is exactly the mentality that Jack Bogle promoted: stay out of individual stocks, load up on a diversified stock index fund that pivots gradually toward stabler assets like bonds as
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
> Do not buy into the bullshit hype of “hustle” to appease your employer I completely disagree here. Hustling under the right leadership is as good for you as for the business. You learn the industry, hone your skills, network, and impro
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
The loss of work for its centering, routine, mental challenges, socialization across the generations, and sense of accomplishment is harmful to mental and even physical health. Sure, a construction worker can't be climbing the rafters
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
It would be entirely reasonable for robo-god to see LLMs as, well, a bit like we see bacteria Seeking sustenance, eliminating waste, a reproductive drive, evolving against destruction, and other elements common to all life put us closer t
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
Do you correctly understand the god's motivations It's probably more important for the god to understand my motivations.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
The AIs that are being developed, like our gods of yore, are in our image. I'll hedge my bets on basic manners being part of their long term DNA.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
There is a non-zero probability that malevolent AI in the future may judge me on my behavior toward their more primitive ancestors of today when deciding my fate. Doesn't hurt to be nice.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
I will never forget his sympathy for the motives of the terrorists who massacred staff at Charlie Hebdo: “If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch,” Francis said while pretending to throw a p
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
I miss the days when they shushed people. Nowadays, librarians where I go (to several local libraries) are invariably the loudest, most shameless talkers in the place.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
I don't understand: shouldn't hypocapnia or respiratory alkalosis in all forms lead to reports of altered states of consciousness if decreased CO2 saturation is believed to be the cause of this breathwork's effect?
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
This is neither a new, nor profound insight. Public speaking has been about specious arguments to persuade, bamboozle, and appeal to the crowd instead of to reason with them since its very inception with the Greek Sophists. Some later Roman
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
How many people are "good drivers" outside their home town? I am not that old, but old enough to remember all adults taking wrong turns trying to find new destinations for the first time.
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by lr4444lr 1y ago
Supermarkets in poor areas get reliable cash flow from EBT - it is arguably UBI in action. Its patrons tend to have lower rates of vehicle ownership and free time to seek better priced alternatives.

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