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by resoluteteeth 9mo ago
Suppose that we were able to develop a drug that would allow people to regrow lost limbs through gene editing. Do you think that such a drug should not be given to anyone who lost a limb due in an accident that was partly due to their own p
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by resoluteteeth 9mo ago
> This doesn't happen with any other animal That's really not true at all. For example, rabbits love sweet stuff like fruit and will readily kill themselves by eating too much, which causes their delicate hindgut fermenter dige
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by resoluteteeth 9mo ago
> Which are crafted by individuals with strong financial ties to the meat, dairy, or egg industries, thus should be disregarded by any reasonable person. The RFK jr version of the food pyramid now moves meat and dairy to the biggest sect
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by resoluteteeth 9mo ago
It's not really different than losing weight by any other method in that respect. There is always the risk of regaining weight unless you continue to do whatever caused you to lose weight (e.g. restricting calories) to some extent. I g
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by resoluteteeth 10mo ago
A better comparison would be saying that we shouldn't have seat belts because people should be driving more carefully in the first place.
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by resoluteteeth 10mo ago
They don't work by reducing appetite, causing people to eat less? What mechanism do you think they work by then?
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by resoluteteeth 10mo ago
IIRC plaque is mineralized by saliva in the same way as tooth enamel, so something that changes saliva in a way that prevents tartar from forming might be reducing the amount of calcium in your saliva in a way that could potentially ultimat
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by resoluteteeth 10mo ago
The thing is, even people who are obese and gaining weight over time are usually just eating a tiny calorie surplus each day. If people take GLP-1 meds and get down into the normal range, at that point even if they stay on the drugs, they&#
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by resoluteteeth 10mo ago
> If a machine can do this assignment perfectly, why are you giving it to this student? By that logic now that text to speech has gotten quite good we should stop teaching kids to read.
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by resoluteteeth 10mo ago
> My life experience also mimics this. In college I thought I had crippling social anxiety. Turns out I just needed to be around people more to develop my abilities. I don't understand why you think that the fact that exposure cured
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by resoluteteeth 10mo ago
Do you really mean OCD? Or do you mean OCPD? I wouldn't think that OCD would be similar to PDA.
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by resoluteteeth 10mo ago
Even if you don't think it has validity as a single disorder, autism is at least diagnosed in a way that's fairly consistent between clinicians using ADOS. I'm more dubious of clinicians who like to pick random dubious rare d
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by resoluteteeth 11mo ago
Look elsewhere in this thread. Apple airpods pro apparently have such a feature.
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by resoluteteeth 11mo ago
A lot of older small towns are good but newer stuff tends to be built along highways with no other connecting roads, and more spread out Also, a lot of the "rural" population in census data is actually living in outer suburbs and
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by resoluteteeth 11mo ago
How does that distinction matter here?
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
This. When he has to specifically tell people "it's not a bubble" that is not at all a good sign in my opinion.
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
Even if they know they would lose in court, lawsuits are expensive enough that threatening to sue or filing a lawsuit is often enough to get people without deep pockets to do whatever you want. I don't know if that was the reasoning i
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
One thing that's interesting to me is that a lot of the ai-generated images shown in the screenshot of the stock image site seem like they are emulating the style of national geographic photographer Steve McCurry who has had some contr
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
There are some books that you can't view in the web version but I'm not sure if that's always been the case or if those books are in a different format or publishers can disable it for extra security or something.
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
I don't think teenagers generally had smartphones until much later Facebook was also quite different back then and it was still something that people mainly used to find people who were in their classes If it was smartphones plus moder
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
I disagree. There is no way to interpret "GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdos problems" as saying something other than GPT-5 having solved them. If it just found existing solutions then they obviously we
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
The paper explains what it actually means, so it's not nonsense. See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558941 it's the area under the curve for the receiver-operating characteristic curve and
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
OK, I looked at the actual paper, and what 94% actually is is the 0.94 area under the curve for the receiver-operating characteristic curve (the plot of the true positive rate (TPR) against the false positive rate (FPR) at each threshold se
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
If you read the actual link I don't think they're saying that using it as a covid test with some specific threshold of microclots has a 94% accuracy but just that the raw microclot count has a 94% accuracy. The title on hn which i
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
I don't think there's any specific reason for people to want the reason to be tylenol specifically, but RFK had announced that he was going to solve autism by September and it seems like he really just wanted to come up with an ex
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
It feels like there is a lot of missing information in this article. However there is a bit more information in this previous one: https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/the-anti-autism-manifest... According to that artic
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
> That is a lot, or about as much intraindividual variance (when dividing the mean by the standard deviation) as something like IQ. Isn't iq an arbitrary scale? Does this make sense?
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
> The number crunching culminates in 75, which is not a multiple of 10. So this cannot be my real credit card number; I must have mistyped it.
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
It's not a non issue even if it doesn't end up actually happening: regardless of how or whether it ends up actually being implemented, simply announcing this in itself is going to discourage people in other countries from making p
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by resoluteteeth 1y ago
> It's exactly this central dogma that I question; an arbitrary number of people can be wrong about something without it magically becoming correct. Language is arbitrary and when enough people agree that a word means something, it

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