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by sooheon 5y ago
> to consciousness they suddenly appear, but it was still my brain that formed them, so me. Interesting philosophical position! I've rarely seen that position be held in earnest, because the obvious consequence is that you should be
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> Our free will is demonstrated by our ability to consciously choose whether and how to act when presented with thoughts and emotions. This is nonsensical, because choice is a thought before it is an action, and we accept that we do not
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There is no distinction between "lizard" and non-lizard thoughts. Every that that arises in your brain originates with processes far below the level of consciousness, you don't have control over the upstream causes that are i
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> with practice, I can choose whether to inhabit them, or simply note them with quiet amusement and let them pass by. I can also pick something to concentrate on, and stay mostly focused on that, while those extra little thoughts just fl
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You may be interested in the following video, where a quadruple board certified doc reviews relevant literature regarding sun exposure (and the critical wavelengths involved) and various facets of health: https://youtu.be/5Y
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Hospitals seem to routinely deny mothers the right to take their placenta with them: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd57m3/heres-why-women-are-s... > Dr. Kristal pointed out, with slight hesitancy, that r
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I found at least one article: NHS hospital sells placentas for cosmetic use https://web.archive.org/web/20210217162113/https://www.teleg... Not 50k a pop, but shows that it does happen.
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> bi-directional links, sound great in theory but break down in practice. if you rely on them as your primary means of finding notes There's some sleight of hand here, suggesting that bi-directional links were proposed as one's
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> You can't seriously believe that an introduction into mathematical thinking from an early age and close advision from math-fluent parents is only 10% of the reason I can't seriously believe the alternative.
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You can't (your germ line mutations are fixed, and even if you could change your genes in place your brain has already developed according to the previous genetic code and environment). You can only choose where to direct the output of
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In a similar vein is Commonplace by Cedric Chin. Think a Stratechery that analyzes individuals, not corporations. Has great summaries and read/don't read recommendations on book. One of the few blogs I didn't end up unsubscri
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That was great, thanks.
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You should only note things you find noteworthy.
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According to this ( https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/nutraceutical/about/soylution/en... ) Japan consumes 8.19 kg/year/person of soy, while the US consumes 0.04 kg/year/person. That's 2
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I'd read a story with that premise. Reminds me of Eternal Sunshine.
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In case any readers are (like I was) torn on the question of whether such a patent based legal monopoly (or duopoly or oligopoly...) is justifiable compensation for the resources these companies undoubtedly invested, check out this short in
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Yeah, it's too bad multiple functioning neurons wired together seems to be a necessary condition for cognition.
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> I'm skeptical about doom and gloom predictions of runaway climate change The doom and gloom isn't for the Earth on a planetary scale. It will be just fine as a celestial body, but the biofilm stuck to the surface may be signi
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Better in what dimension? It's not a repeatable intervention, it's not controlled, it's observational. It's not a study on the same null hypothesis.
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Not that science benefits from censorship, but that game theory sometimes necessitates it. Imagine a scientist with significant political cachet. This allows them to receive more funding, do more science. They cannot optimize their behavior
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> Null hypothesis: early humans slept much like today's humans [...] That's a terrible null hypothesis, as there is no reproducible, controllable test for it, other than a time machine. A better one might be "people expose
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Seems like a novel finding, so the paper in OP's link (and references) would be the best place to start.
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Read this to understand the distinction: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr... George goes to great lengths to distinguish these factors of production. They are fundamentally different.
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Does it OCR periodic screencaps? I.e. the subtitle text of something you're watching on netflix? There's no saved file to index.
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Other "personal search engines" https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/ written in personal language, takes multiple doc sources https://apse.io interesting because it takes periodic screenshot
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Yeah you were mistaken, it's a full stack design. They recommend https://github.com/wilkerlucio/pathom for the connection. It's GraphQL done right, you write data "resolvers" on the backend, you dec
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Yeah Fulcro has been building up their implementation of these ideas for ages, and used in anger, I think most famously by nubank. From https://book.fulcrologic.com : "The core ideas are as follows: Graphs and Graph Queries
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From submission: "Sounds really slow and chatty right? Actually, NO! This is not RPC or ORM. The key is to make the language, compiler and runtime in charge of the network, like the JVM owns the heap. Idealized client/server netwo
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The problem is not ineptitude. He rejected their self evident wishes for a death they chose, revived them and subjected them to torture and experimentation that Mengele might approve of. I wouldn't wish the experience of having your he
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"In 1941 [...] Jews were killing themselves at the rate of about 10 a day, and Frankl was determined to save them. Frankl tried to bring the suicidal patients back by injecting them with amphetamines, but it didn’t work. And so, Frankl

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