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by slibhb 7mo ago
I wonder if this stems from Sam getting beat up by a black guy. From the article: > When Altman was sixteen or seventeen, he said, he was out late in a predominantly gay neighborhood in St. Louis and was subjected to a brutal physical at
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by slibhb 7mo ago
It is disconcerting how Altman has used "AI safety" as a marketing tool. The more people imagine the universe turned into paperclips, the more they invest. Obviously Altman doesn't care about safety (I don't either; I&#x
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Living paycheck to paycheck is usually a choice: people earn a lot of money and spend it immediately. The fact that this leaves them vulnerable to misfortune doesn't mean they're poor.
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by slibhb 7mo ago
The NYT had a rough patch a while back but it's incredibly good nowadays. They absolutely didn't have to include the details here (like $60/month) but did because they care about the truth.
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by slibhb 7mo ago
One of the people in the article was supposed to pay $60/month for 20 years. That seems manageable for pretty much anyone but the article cites "psychological issues" or whatever
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by slibhb 7mo ago
The attempt to restrict screentime is based on today's parents wanting their children to have the same experiences they did, i.e. screens were the exception not the rule in the 90s through the early 2000s. This impulse is understandabl
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by slibhb 7mo ago
> Someone with androgen insensitivity can have XY chromosomes, yet be capable of giving birth People with androgen insensitivity syndrom (AIS) have XY chromosomes but no uterus. So, no, they cannot give birth.
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by slibhb 7mo ago
That's only true if you leave your money in...which you don't have to do. You can play prediction markets by betting on a swing. E.g. I made a few hundred dollars betting on Harris in 2024 when Trump was at ~65% odds and then sell
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by slibhb 7mo ago
I use Facebook marketplace and I'm part of a running group that's organized on Facebook.
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by slibhb 7mo ago
The fact that you're comparing nicotine to Facebook really throws into sharp relief just how far from reality this whole "social media made me depressed" stuff has strayed.
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by slibhb 7mo ago
This is one area where the government needs to step in. Video-hosting websites should be made to flag videos as AI-generated. AI companies should be made to watermark generated content in a hard-to-remove way (i.e. not just adding a visible
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Unlike a lot of the posters here, I find Thiel interesting. I agree with his idea that humanity was stuck in a rut technology/progress-wise until the past few years, and I'm glad we're out of it. I wish we were building more
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by slibhb 7mo ago
While the protein was tested in mice, it seems that it was identified by looking at human spinal fluid.
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by slibhb 7mo ago
The idea that LLMs don't significantly increase productivity has become ridiculous. You have to start questioning the psychology that's leading people to write stuff like this.
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Degrowthism is one of the dominant ideologies of our time. I think it's wrong: economic growth is good, it has made our lives much better, and we should continue to prioritize it. One important detail about % growth is that it compound
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by slibhb 7mo ago
His commentary is dead-on; Badlands is a movie for children. It has no characters and zero subtlety. The plot is utterly predictable. There's like...one non-CGI character in the whole movie which made it feel like a video game. It&#x27
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by slibhb 7mo ago
I've had the thought that I could possibly enjoy movies like this high but I've never tested it.
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by slibhb 7mo ago
> That feels like childish nonsense to me but then it is wrapped in this "radical chic" that is supposed to force me to take it seriously. We aren't supposed to take it seriously; it's meant to be "childish nonse
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by slibhb 7mo ago
In my opinion, gut microbiome stuff is massively overhyped. Here's a study that tried fecal transplants to treat mental illness (and found no effect): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41785480/ The pattern with thi
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by slibhb 7mo ago
> One sign that marathons (let alone ultramarathons) may not be particularly healthy is that the first guy to do one famously died, and then subsequently people die doing them every single year I don't find this line of thinking ter
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Visceral fat is fat around organs. It doesn't exist in muscles. I highly doubt that distance running increases visceral fat, that sounds made up. It may be that weight lifting is better for losing visceral fat, but that doesn't me
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Can you link the data? I don't buy it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11720530/ says there's a higher rate of AF in older, male althetes but a lower risk of stroke compared to similar aged, non
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Claiming that distance running is unhealthy is wild. It can lead to injury, and there's such thing as overtraining. But to claim that it's broadly unhealthy is just wrong
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Can you provide a link? I looked and all I found was one study that looked for pre-cancerous adenomas.
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by slibhb 8mo ago
Again, people said the same thing about computers, about writing, and so on. Maybe it's true this time, but I think the presumption should be that it's not. If people who use AI become an "underclass" then people will ad
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by slibhb 8mo ago
People are figuring it out in real time. The next generation is going to be way less fat than the current one, because everyone exercises. It took time for people to adjust to a world where physical exertion is optional and delicious food i
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by slibhb 8mo ago
There are lots of anti-AI commenters on HN. Also, I didn't say there are no downsides. There are downsides to writing! And some people were against writing, like Socrates. You should ask yourself why you're okay with innovations t
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by slibhb 8mo ago
> Re 1: You experience the world in real time (or close enough) via your senses, which combine to form a spatiotemporal sense: A sense of being a bounded entity in space and time. The LLM has none of that. They experience the world via s
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by slibhb 8mo ago
People will have to be more intentional about using their increased leisure time in a healthy way. There was no point in exercising if you were a peasant who worked the field all day. Today, if you sit down in an office all day, you need to
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by slibhb 8mo ago
The written word isn't a very specific tool. Before writing, people had to memorize things. In some sense, writing has made us dumber as memorization has been deemphasized. But was it worth the trade? Yes. If you want a more recent exa

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