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by throw18376 2y ago
there's two types of gambling addiction. sports betting, table games, etc: gambler motivated by excitement, somehow thinks they are going to win and make money. often racks up massive losses due to desire to "win it all back"
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by throw18376 2y ago
a lot of people have truly deficient social skills. technology didn't make them this way they're just bad at it, so bad that they can't even have enough social interactions to improve and practice. can't even hold a conv
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by throw18376 3y ago
the same social limitations that prevented you from partying as a younger person, probably also prevent you from enjoying your nice stable life to the fullest. a lot of old boring people have lives full of fun and rewarding friendships. i&#
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by throw18376 3y ago
you can't make it through an MIT physics degree while being a total moron. Same with the Jane Street interview process. he was at least a smart guy and probably a good trader. now in some sense you can still be very smart but "a t
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by throw18376 3y ago
adderall use is pretty widespread in the media industry, a lot of journalists seem to think it's great stuff and find the shortage annoying. i think there's likely some natural sympathy here too.
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by throw18376 3y ago
here’s an interesting account of someone’s advice that they devised after having and recovering from an eating disorder. i don’t know enough to endorse all their medical claims, but you can get a sense of their experience. you can see that
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by throw18376 3y ago
there are a lot of "bad science" problems and people tend to get them mixed up. Here's a list of all the things I can think of, roughly ordered by my opinion of seriousness: 1. Fraudulent data in real publications in real jou
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by throw18376 3y ago
i think that in the United States, this is simply not the case up until the true super-rich. the vast majority of rich people are not well-connected enough to drive any business your way. if you have a tech startup do you really care that y
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by throw18376 3y ago
antidepressants can help people fix root causes. take them for 6 months to 2 years or so, break out of a bad cycle, get some space without depression symptoms to build up healthy habits and restore a social life. there are some bad profit m
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by throw18376 3y ago
this is false, at least as a matter of what the law actually says. discrimination against men is definitely not legal. with most protected characteristics, discrimination is banned even against the dominant or historically favored group (e.
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by throw18376 3y ago
this is sound practical advice but reflects a bad system that can't be sustained. you kind of have to be Junior Patrick Bateman now. students scheming and fighting for UG research opportunities. this level of overachiever striving used
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by throw18376 3y ago
here's what i speculate (i'm not an insider or anything, pure speculation). the "true believers" at OpenAI mostly don't care if bad images get generated. they are worried about "safety" as in the sci-fi Te
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by throw18376 3y ago
i've heard people speculate that there are just not enough people capable of being good therapists. it may be that it is too hard of a job, there's skill/talent that can't be taught, and only so many people can do it. ma
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by throw18376 3y ago
i don't actually know much about employment law, but as I understand it this is different from most of the other protected classes (race gender etc.) after googling I found this statement from the EEOC: https://www.eeoc.gov&
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by throw18376 3y ago
"not having a disability" is not a protected class, nor is "neurotypical", so I think you can probably just do it.
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by throw18376 3y ago
this is unfortunately part of how they are used, especially in inpatient settings with way too high doses. but also, if you've had a conversation with someone in active psychosis, vs. on the right dose of medication, there is a really
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by throw18376 3y ago
I have heard that some anthropologists now have a more complicated view of the cargo cults. They argue that, even if there was some notion of making cargo appear, their main purpose was more political and social. It was an opportunity for t
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by throw18376 3y ago
if you're not male, or are an older man (like >35), or are a child, being a BJJ novice looks like it must be a fun and welcoming environment. I think back before the boom times it may have been fun and positive for everyone. if you&
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by throw18376 4y ago
There's a saint in the Catholic church named Andrew Wouters. He was a priest in the 16th century who was a major womanizer with lots of illegitimate children. He ended up getting hanged by Calvinist rebels because he refused to convert
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by throw18376 5y ago
unfortunately, there are some people who cannot function in the world without antipsychotics. a large number of people suffer from psychosis which in severe cases makes controlling their behavior, or even basic cause-and-effect thinking, im
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by throw18376 6y ago
psychiatrists, as in MDs, in the US used to study psychoanalysis until about the 80s/90s. i think one factor that discredited it is that psychoanalysis does not have an adequate theory or treatment for diseases like schizophrenia and b
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by throw18376 6y ago
some conspiracy theorists are actually mentally ill -- suffering from delusions or psychotic symptoms. it's really easy to see this if you just go to the conspiracy regions of social media -- people providing "evidence" consi
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by throw18376 6y ago
it is generally agreed that the modern environment can cause people to have depressive symptoms, and that in most cases these will never progress to full clinical depression. seems at least worth considering that the same is possible with p
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by throw18376 6y ago
it is widely believed that environmental factors in modern society are giving people depressive symptoms -- ranging from low-mood to dysthymia to full clinical depression. i am willing to speculate that the same may be true of psychosis. i&
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by throw18376 6y ago
i'm a little bit perturbed that the rationalist subculture might be seeing these mental states as desirable. the big problem, apart from the obvious issues with impulsive and reckless decision making, is delusional and bizarre thinking
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by throw18376 7y ago
i think you are completely right about this. for one thing, mania/hypomania can lead people to compulsively post, in the same way that it can make people hyper-talkative IRL. sometimes people taking stimulant drugs or having adverse re