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by pcrh 3mo ago
At worst, the zines are evidence of Rueda's political opinions. They are not evidence of conspiracy to set off fireworks near the compound, nor shoot an officer.
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by pcrh 3mo ago
I noticed the prominence of celery, which might surprise a modern diner. I had reason some years ago to look into this and the history is interesting. Celery was at one time difficult to cultivate, growing only in select marshlands. In the
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by pcrh 4mo ago
This is referred to as shifting the Overton window. If voices from the extreme are not heard, the Overton window moves away from their position, so protests help their cause even if only a minority completely agree with them. https:/&
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Very well-written! I wonder if the inaccurate representation of colors by screens, etc, in any way underlies the distinctive color palette of many AI image generators?
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Twitter can make a "Kid's Twitter" (Kitter? Kidder?) if it wants. It's far less oppressive than forcing people to reveal their identity to Twitter.
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by pcrh 4mo ago
A system as above would matter only to sites that want children among their audience. Those that don't, or don't care, would not seek a rating, and would not be accessible to devices that parents control. Otherwise they would be
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by pcrh 4mo ago
A right to privacy is one of the fundamental human rights.
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Kids don't need Twitter. There would obviously arise a market for a moderated, or more regulated, version of this type of social media. Social media doesn't deserve an exemption from the efforts society makes to protect children i
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Mixed content would have to be tagged as such. Mixed content isn't a problem for broadcast TV or newspapers. They simply avoid publishing material not appropriate for children, e.g. broadcast news programs don't show gore, even wh
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by pcrh 4mo ago
How many 10 yr olds are going to read a academic article on transgender studies? And if they are curious about the question, it would be better if they found sources that frame the issue appropriately for their age.
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by pcrh 4mo ago
It would be a ban only to children. "Addictive" sites without certification could still be accessed by those who are no longer their parent's responsibility.
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by pcrh 4mo ago
The same problem exists for almost any product that might be a risk to children, from cleaning products to "adult" literature. Parents would be much more able to restrict the devices a child has access to (or its controls) than th
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Surveillance of who by whom? Requiring identity disclosure guarantees surveillance.
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Even when cigarettes were smoked by ~50% of the adult population, there were restrictions on sales to children. Why can we not accept the same for websites?
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Would someone be able to comment on this: Why is it not possible to require websites that wish to market to children to be certified as "child safe". Such sites would be audited by an independent entity that would grant them some
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Thanks for the article. I actually read your article some time ago, having found it via SSC. One comment I would make is that the pathology and genetics of AD implicate APP without much doubt. In the field, there isn't much argument ag
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by pcrh 4mo ago
P.S. As you have demonstrated an interest in this topic, but are not an active researcher, I suggest that you become familiar with Alzforum [www.alzforum.org]. It provides reputable summaries and comments from leading researchers on topical
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by pcrh 4mo ago
No APP-alone mouse gets neurodegeneration resembling that seen in the human AD brain, i.e. with so-called "neuritic" plaques, tauopathy, spongiopathy and widespread neuronal death. This is why researchers now most often use the 5X
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by pcrh 4mo ago
These points still don't explain how mutations in APP cause AD. Note that not all AD-causing mutations in APP also cause amyloid accumulation, for example APP-Osaka (loss of APP residue E693) results in familial AD without any accumu
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Yes, there is a clear sequence of how AD pathology develops, starting with amyloidopathy and progressing to tauopathy, but 1) there is as yet no established molecular connection between the two, and 2) one should not conflate pathology wi
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by pcrh 4mo ago
I appreciate your comment. However, a straight-forward test of the hypothesis that amyloid is the toxic (etiological) agent in AD fails when tested in mice. One may then ask, what is being remedied in the many, many, studies that claim to s
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by pcrh 4mo ago
I have direct experience of research into Alzheimer's disease, including specifically surrounding the amyloid cascade hypothesis. The strength of the amyloid hypothesis is that it is currently the only way to unify early onset AD that
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by pcrh 4mo ago
For those that pg has sponsored it has happened a few times out of ~5,000. Better odds than the lottery, for sure.
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Accessing Our Digital Past in the Manuscript Division Reading Room, 2022(blogs.loc.gov)
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by pcrh 4mo ago
I enjoyed the article. I'm not a mathematician, but I did notice one aspect: even with his enthusiasm for AI, Tao effectively showed that for the uses he describes, AI can currently only handle small chunks of a mathematical problem at
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by pcrh 4mo ago
This might be what that article referred to [0]? tl;dr, the higher cognitive abilities of birds are centered in a different region of the brain compared to mammals, the pallium vs the cortex. Neuron density in the bird pallium is also highe
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by pcrh 4mo ago
Las Malvinas son Uruguayo.
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by pcrh 4mo ago
The Vatican is surrounded on all sides by Rome. It is on the boundary of Municipio I (historical center) and Municipio XIII (Aurelia), however. So is Municipio I considered the "actual" capital of Italy? Also, the Vatican is the H
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by pcrh 5mo ago
>this pointless nitpicking is dominating the thread. What is dominating the thread are claims that the LLM operation in question is analogous to the function of sleep in humans. It obviously is not. The anthropomorphization of LLMs ha
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by pcrh 5mo ago
That's probably the closest analogy posted here. It's still weak, though. An LLM without constant human input is likely more similar to a bicycle that starts to lose its gyroscopic balance as it moves more slowly, a human can howe

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