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by md224 8y ago
If you understand why people use potent opioids, why don't you believe that the same reasoning -- economics and a desire for stronger effects -- holds for potent stimulants?
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by md224 8y ago
This got me thinking about the difference between "direct" and "indirect" observation. What is the difference? For example: in these experiments, what would "direct" observation be? We have instruments that det
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by md224 8y ago
Paradigm: Death Based Development (DBD). If the tests fail, the software engineer who wrote the code is executed. Step 1: I can't do DBD because I don't want to die. Step 2: I can do DBD if I'm willing to die. Step 3: When
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by md224 8y ago
> What part of this process makes the s3 webpage rank up in search algorithms though? No idea. The article basically ends with "I'm not sure exactly how this happened so I'm going to talk to some experts". A bit of a
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by md224 8y ago
That sounds awesome. I wish I could pay to lie in a hospital bed and have a medical professional administer intravenous DMT just for a short period (at least initially). Hopefully this work will bring us closer to a world where supervised D
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by md224 8y ago
I wasn’t aware of this benefit... have you or people you know seen these effects from keto? Might be worth a try, if that’s the case...
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by md224 8y ago
People will abuse anything that helps to numb painful emotions. Demonizing the drug isn't helpful; if you get rid of one, people will lean on something else. The solution to drug addiction is very simple: give people better ways of dea
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by md224 8y ago
Do you value anything? Does anything matter to you? If something does matter to you, why? If it matters because it achieves a specific end, why does that end matter? Is it a trick of the brain? Are you simply forced to behave as if things m
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by md224 8y ago
I’ve become increasingly skeptical of appeals to “rationality”... the idea works when you’re approaching reasoning as a formal system with clear inputs that everyone agrees on, but that doesn’t apply to most of the decisions we make on a da
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by md224 8y ago
I’m sorry you’re going through so much suffering. I personally don’t think anyone experiencing mental anguish should commit suicide before giving “drugs of abuse” a try. These drugs are so popular and addictive precisely because they’re so
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by md224 8y ago
Here's how I would explain the Monty Hall problem: First, get the person to realize that switching doors will always flip your initial outcome. If you picked a losing door, switching gives you the winning one. If you picked the winning
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by md224 8y ago
Right, but Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine) is also a Schedule II ADHD medication, hence my surprise that this person has to jump through more hoops than I do. You have a point about certification, though... perhaps less populous areas don’t have
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by md224 8y ago
That’s weird... I live in NYC and get my Vyvanse prescription delivered by Capsule. Haven’t had to drop off a paper prescription in years. Different local laws? Or maybe it’s because she’s a minor? That sounds frustrating, sorry you have to
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by md224 8y ago
Sure, but the problem is that many people don’t demonstrate this humility when they act like it’s ridiculous to wonder if consciousness exists prior to conception or after death. Ruling these out requires an unwarranted assumption about the
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by md224 8y ago
The article mentions meditation as a sleep aid. I have no idea if it could help someone with a sleep disorder, but I’m just curious if you’ve explored that option.
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by md224 8y ago
It says a lot that you felt the need to hedge against the assumption that you were talking about religious beliefs. These days it seems like there’s a materialist mindset that assumes anyone who questions certain assumptions about conscious
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by md224 8y ago
Considering FuckItJS has 2.9k stars, I would hope that stars !== usage. :)
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by md224 8y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'd like to suggest that "People shouldn't do X" should not automatically be interpreted as "People shouldn't be allowed to do X". We could save ourse
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by md224 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that this all comes down to one basic question: Does a Facebook-approved "mobile experience" count as an official FB app or a third-party app? It seems to me that the FB post is t
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by md224 8y ago
Not siding with FB here, but their response appears to address this: > Contrary to claims by the New York Times, friends’ information, like photos, was only accessible on devices when people made a decision to share their information wit
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Gender is not a spectrum (2016)(aeon.co)
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by md224 8y ago
Awesome! It's the math enthusiast's dream to come up with something new and exciting outside of academia. Recently I discovered what I thought was an interesting chaotic map, but after posting a question about it to Math StackExch
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by md224 8y ago
> Particularly when other topic-focused communities already exist i.e. what problem are subreddits solving? Subreddits don’t necessarily solve a problem... they’re just a well-made framework for content sharing and conversation, combinin
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by md224 8y ago
The key is subscribing to subreddits that match your interests. /r/all is like the sun: it can brighten your day, but if you stare at it you might just go blind. Also, if you find The Next Reddit, let me know so I can build a new
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by md224 8y ago
It recently occurred to me that epistemology is essentially a hermeneutics of experience, which is to say: all of our non-trivial beliefs about ourselves and the world (including this very statement) are simply interpretations of what we pe
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by md224 8y ago
Might just be a weird coincidence, but at 2:14 PM today I got an e-mail from Twitter with the subject "Security alert: new or unusual Twitter login". I hadn't heard anything about the Twitter bug at that point (was it even pu
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by md224 8y ago
There are more replies to the first thread that you’re not seeing. Note the “Continue Thread” links in the web view: https://ibb.co/nPtibn
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If you have the mobile app, you can see for yourself. Here's an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskOuija/comments/89rukm/hey_vsauce... If you're not by a desktop, you can verify the missing c
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by md224 8y ago
I still can't get over the fact that their official mobile app stops rendering comments past a certain level of nesting. There's no indication that anything is missing, no "continue this thread" link, nothing... the comm
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Axis of evil (cosmology)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by md224 8y ago|0 comments

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