namaria

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by namaria 2y ago
I'm of the opinion that psychedelics can fulfill a similar role to religious catharsis for the maintenance of mental health.
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by namaria 2y ago
This isn't some erowid report. This is actually about studies being made by professional researchers who are publishing their results. Evidence based medicine is always better than layman opinions like 'psychedelics are a mental s
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by namaria 2y ago
Not the same thing. Reporting speech by saying 'subject said (...) [past tense verb] (...)' is not specific to English and doesn't carry the same nuance as the tweet implies this Turkish 'gossip' tense carries.
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by namaria 2y ago
I have zero intention to comment on vegetarianism or veganism with this observation, I am solely talking about seeking variation in whatever dietary spectrum you may choose to follow...
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by namaria 2y ago
Apart from ethical or environmental concerns, one of the best decisions you can make nutrition wise is to vary your intake a lot and one of the worst is to try and subsist on a limited range of foodstuffs.
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by namaria 2y ago
Management roles certainly filter for people who find workplace dynamics rewarding. As much as technical roles filter for people who like to solve problems and dislike social games.
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by namaria 2y ago
I usually direct people to watch the movies Elite Squad 1 and 2. They're entertaining and pretty much explain why Rio is so violent and so corrupt and how both things feed off each other.
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by namaria 2y ago
> They truly don't understand why people may want to leave work Exactly. Leadership typically sees the workplace as a rewarding experience where they exercise control and get lots of dopamine. They truly can't understand that i
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by namaria 2y ago
It's not a lie. It just means that their culture is based on micromanagement, power trips and control.
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by namaria 2y ago
The amount of software that could have been some spreadsheets and an email chain and companies pay enormous amounts of money for and create glaring vulnerabilities in their systems is a big reason why I'll never understand or thrive in
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by namaria 2y ago
So it's ok to price gauge as long as it's profitable?
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by namaria 2y ago
It matters when you are pointing to the 'hominem' as political thought leaders. I think it's fair as a counter to an appeal to authority.
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by namaria 2y ago
Which US state has an economy of a size comparable to that of Portugal? Does that change when the relative value of Euro to Dollar fluctuates?
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by namaria 2y ago
PPP is used solely to compare Portugal to a US federation unit. The economy of Portugal happens in Euro and Tennessee in Dollars, and that is immaterial to this argument.
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by namaria 2y ago
Portugal's GDP PPP is about 485 billion dollars. About the same as Tennessee. Portugal received about 3 billion dollars from EU funds in 2021. About the same Tennessee received from the US federal government in that same year. I fail t
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by namaria 2y ago
Yes, I am saying that AGI is impossible. AGI is either human intelligence behind the curtains or a pie in the sky.
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by namaria 2y ago
Like I said, our brain proves that the way to solve the problem of 'how to get autonomous systems capable of non trivially complex behavior' is 'planetary ecosystems sustained by starlight based on self reproducing cellular n
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by namaria 2y ago
> Thermodynamics applies to closed systems, which the earth in isolation isn't. Wrong. You're probably conflating the second law of thermodynamics with the whole thing. Obviously, thermodynamics applies to Earth, it was invente
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by namaria 2y ago
Look, any sufficiently complex autonomous system necessitates a bigger, more complex one to maintain it's functionality. The more complex, the harder it is to deal with the entropy that this system is removing form it's target act
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by namaria 2y ago
> the founders, along with Aristotle and other Greeks Slavers who designed and oversaw slaver states.
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by namaria 2y ago
Working as a developer in NL, Spain, Germany, Poland, are all vastly different propositions and involve very different salary ranges.
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by namaria 2y ago
Where do you think Italy is?
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by namaria 2y ago
Their goal was never to occupy Ukraine. They got what they wanted, the land corridor to Crimea and a nearly permanent quagmire blocking Ukraine from EU and NATO membership. The US has always had to contend with the risk of coming up too har
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by namaria 2y ago
> Your brain is evidence that it's "even possible". All your brain proves is that a universe can produce planetary ecosystems capable of supporting human civilizations made of very efficient brain carrying mammals. It defi
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by namaria 2y ago
I never said human intelligence is impossible. All I am saying is that Sam Altman's promises (remember the original topic) hinge on breaking thermodynamics. Humans evolved on a planet that was just so. The elements on Earth that make l
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by namaria 2y ago
Whatever you mean, it took 13 billion years and the whole universe as far as we can tell to create the 20 watt human intelligence brain. And it doesn't take 20 watt of energy to maintain humans, it takes a whole ecosystem capable of su
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by namaria 2y ago
You can also just publish html very easily with a cheap VPS.
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by namaria 2y ago
"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud (...) by any private or commercial interstate carrier" https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341
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by namaria 2y ago
What you mean no? That's exactly what GP said.
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by namaria 2y ago
> a human brain definitely counts as "general intelligence", that implemented in silicon is enough to get basically all the things promised by AGI: if that's done at the 20 watts per brain that biology manages, then all o

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