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by slibhb 4y ago
I wasn't talking about charities specifically, I was referring to stuff like this: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xafpj3on76uRDoBja/... At least one of the people involved (MacAskill) is a big name
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by slibhb 4y ago
It's an indictment of EA because many prominent EA people were associated with FTX/Sam. That shows poor judgement and, on some level, EA is about smart people making judgements about long-term good. How can we trust them to make t
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by slibhb 4y ago
I find comments like this irritating. If someone wants to say "I dropped acid and it helped me," fine. People are allowed to share personal experiences, though it's a mistake to universalize them. But this "oh you didn&#
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by slibhb 4y ago
Your summary of the paper is unfair. From one of the author's blog: > Recap: BsaI/BsmBI are particularly useful restriction enzymes to use if you wanted to study a bunch of chimeric coronaviruses like the close relatives of SAR
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by slibhb 4y ago
While it's true that there's no consensus on this topic, that doesn't imply that people can't make claims one way or the other. In fact, the claims that the essay makes (Platonism) are very commonly made.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Seinfeld has 3 phases. The phase where they don't know what they're doing and Jason Alexander is doing a Woody Allen impression. The phase where they figure it out. And the phase where Larry David has left the show. The second two
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by slibhb 4y ago
It's somewhat ironic that Wade has received many honors for her activism -- but not for her science -- which involves promoting the science of other women.
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by slibhb 4y ago
> I would never give hallucinogens to a depressed person, that could be enough hell to break someone’s mind permanently. If the other option is killing them, hallucinogens start to look a lot more reasonable
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by slibhb 4y ago
Calling an argument "bad faith" means that argument's proponent doesn't believe it's true. I highly doubt that was the case with various people -- some of them doctors -- questioning the party line on the pandemic.
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by slibhb 4y ago
> I think politics and greed are a bigger cause of starvation and pollution than population size. Interesting model. What does it tell you that starvation has been trending downward for decades?
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by slibhb 4y ago
Sure but as immunity (natural and otherwise) becomes common, deaths from covid are way down. It seems likely that covid will end up looking something like the flu: a seasonal virus with significant costs but not warranting lockdowns or mand
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by slibhb 4y ago
Stiff and theatrical are better descriptors. Or mannered and a bit stilted. I've only seen Breathless and A Band Apart. My sense is that Godard played a big part in transforming cinema from mannered to free-form. But I'd caution a
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by slibhb 4y ago
> The acting/writing was pompous, actors talked like reciting Shakespear. The movies were about heros of impeccable character doing heroic things and there always was a happy ending. Movie shots followed strict guidelines and the cr
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Do we want to live in a world where you have less opportunity because of characteristics you were born with? Stop for a second and think about what this question implies. First, there are genetic characteristics which affect opportunit
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by slibhb 4y ago
Sounds like an argument to ban alcohol...
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by slibhb 4y ago
Psychedelics, especially in conjunction with SSRIs, can cause serotonin syndrome. They can cause visual disturbances that far outlast the trip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep... . They can
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by slibhb 4y ago
People always say this. But I have a hard time believing things weren't more divisive, say, during The Vietnam War. The internet makes conflicts more visible. It also attenuates them, so fewer people get killed. Physical conflict is tr
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by slibhb 4y ago
People don't agree about which decisions make the world worse.
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by slibhb 4y ago
If Jones had stuck with "Sandy Hook was a false flag operation to take your guns," he would have been in the clear. The issue was his claim that the families whose children were murdered were "crisis actors".
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by slibhb 4y ago
> E.g. people take hurricanes named after women less seriously and are less prepared. This turned out to be nonsense.
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by slibhb 4y ago
The evidence for antidepressants is not based on the serotonin theory of depression. It's based on blinded placebo studies. The serotonin theory was posited after MAOI antidepressants were discovered. It's been argued that antid
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by slibhb 4y ago
SSRIs have mild side effects after the first few weeks. Withdrawal varies but is generally manageable if you taper slowly. I'm open to alternatives but I'm convinced that antidepressants help people.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Well, placebos work fairly well for depression. And it's not like doctors can prescribe them...
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by slibhb 4y ago
For anyone who's curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...
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by slibhb 4y ago
This blurring of concepts is a glib debating technique. There's clearly a distinction to be made between taking a psychotropic drug and going for a run (I've done both). Yes, both affect the chemicals in your brain, but one of the
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by slibhb 4y ago
England abolished slavery after The Revolutionary War. The abolitionist movement started in the US. Black men could vote in Massachusetts in 1780. Jefferson and others were proven right when it took a war to end slavery in the US. That&#x27
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Or you could build a new world that isn't the one that just plunged everything into chaos. How are you going to get people to agree to "live sustainably" over thousands of years?
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Treating someone with mental illness effectively requires compassion. If being put on a psychiatric hold is a unnecessarily traumatic experience, you prevent some short term harm while causing long term damage. Not only do you add addi
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by slibhb 4y ago
You're making the exact argument that you apparently "don't see".
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by slibhb 4y ago
By demanding a mental health system that keeps people from harm while being perfectly compassionate, you're preferring the utopian social ideal to the possible. It's just too much to ask of doctors, nurses, and orderlies to be com

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