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by snaking0776 5mo ago
I’d also recommend reading Modernity and the Holocaust as a good intro to studies of the Holocaust through a similar lens. None of this is new
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by snaking0776 5mo ago
People is a broad term. Outside of major cities (where I live) libraries serve a very essential service for parents and their children and as a free communal space for the broader community. Our libraries are always full and a large part of
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by snaking0776 5mo ago
I recently moved over to codex after I couldn’t reup my membership and maintain access to clause code. I will say thus far I’ve found codex to work better and with less limits.
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by snaking0776 5mo ago
I think their point is that discounting the time estimates is more a constant shifting of the window of what we expect more than them being de-facto incorrect. They’re more off by degree (e.g. an XX% reduction vs complete extinction) than b
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by snaking0776 6mo ago
As someone actively researching in the neuroscience field these ideas are increasingly questionable. They do do a decent job of job of predicting neural data depending on your definition and if you compare them to hand built sets of feature
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by snaking0776 6mo ago
I think you’re treating the people at these companies as more dumb/powerless than they really are. I used to work in big tech and quit after a few years due to similar concerns that are being raised here. I will tell you anecdotally th
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by snaking0776 6mo ago
Agreed. I’m sure some house members will vote for it because they only had a random staffer read the bill and heard that it gives them a good talking point in the next election. I just wanted to point out what’s maybe obvious to everyone th
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by snaking0776 6mo ago
I agree. Just was trying to point out that this has nothing to do with helping kids
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by snaking0776 6mo ago
Politicians will do any draconian measure to help kids except try and improve the lives of their parents so that they can actually dedicate time to parenting. Making it slightly harder to access the internet fixes nothing. What if instead o
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by snaking0776 7mo ago
There’s a lot of research out there about the general flexibility of the brain to adapt to whatever stimulus you pump into it. For example taxi cab drivers have larger areas in their hippocampus dedicated to place cells relative to the gene
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by snaking0776 7mo ago
Agreed. I find that people who argue that religion is necessary for ethics tend to ignore the history of their religion and the fact that the original text largely serves as a jumping off point for religious philosophers to connect older “s
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by snaking0776 9mo ago
Faux environmentalism is the new climate denialism. https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/ai-slop-websites-are-publi...
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by snaking0776 9mo ago
This is an interesting insight I hadn’t thought much about before. Reminds me a bit of some of the mechanistic interpretability work that looked at branch specialization in CNNs and found that architectures which had built in branches tende
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by snaking0776 9mo ago
Can you provide evidence for what you’re saying? How are people “brain-damaged” at greater rates than before?
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by snaking0776 9mo ago
This is a large claim to make without any evidence that is eerily reminiscent of historical arguments in favor of eugenics programs. Society thrives off of diversity and variations in thinking patterns. Dividing all people into either neuro
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by snaking0776 11mo ago
The book Modernity and the Holocaust is a very approachable book summarizing how the action of the holocaust was organized under similar assumptions and makes the argument that we’ve since organized most of our society around this principle
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by snaking0776 1y ago
This article about the AT protocol (which Bluesky uses) provides a good argument for why alternative social media sites like will help prevent this feeling of lock-in in the future and is worth a read: https://overreacted.io&#x2F