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by xk_id 2y ago
I just want to point and shame this top-voted comment [0] that dismissed with the characteristic self-assurance of the armchair specialist the very possibility of it; and all the users who upvoted it, purely because it sounded like a “rati
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by xk_id 2y ago
I just figured it out. You bookmark a normal website. Then you go to your bookmarks and edit the new entry you created; you can then change the URL to the javascript code. Finally, to activate the bookmarklet you have to tap on the address
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by xk_id 2y ago
Please stop spamming computer generated text
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by xk_id 2y ago
You might find this perplexing, but trust me when I say that the kind of legacy that needs to endure centuries, and VC wet dreams like AI are totally disjunct domains.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Which other technologies in the past couldn’t be debugged?
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by xk_id 2y ago
Our entire history we’ve adapted technology to our requirements. Now some people believe that adapting our workflows to make use of “technology” is revolutionary.
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by xk_id 2y ago
It’s still more evidence than if we knew they don’t network AT ALL. Partial means inconclusive, but more than definitive proof to the contrary.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Parent wrote (emphasis mine): > the idea that they’re randomly networking and intentionally rebooting to thwart this specific law enforcement attack seems pretty unlikely . So there is partial evidence for it at least.
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by xk_id 2y ago
I believe it’s the opposite. His personality cult makes him singular, irreplaceable. When he’s gone, it’s over. The movement will just be left with its policies, which were an afterthought for most voters and might not even give favourable
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by xk_id 2y ago
It’s very well established by numerous studies that apple products continuously scan for other wireless devices in their proximity, especially Apple ones but including wifi routers, and then upload their hardware IDs and MAC addresses to ap
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by xk_id 2y ago
You are playing with the semantics of sober/intoxicated. Intoxicated (in this context) refers to exogenous modulators of neurochemistry, which activate distinct signalling pathways compared to endogenous ligands: https://en.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Psychedelics are textbook examples in support of the functional selectivity model, because while they bind to the same receptors to which endogenous neurotransmitters do, they trigger very different signalling cascades inside the cell. Mayb
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by xk_id 2y ago
Drugs change brain neurochemistry, which means they change the very apparatus of conscious experience. There are probably just as many differences as similarities, between sober and intoxicated mysticism. Also there is nothing perennial abo
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by xk_id 2y ago
Progress is exponential. So looking in the past and saying we should be content with a 90% improvement is misleading, because it is dwarfed by how much more potential there is.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Funding is the essence of scarcity. Funding one thing means those money will not be funding anything else. But you're free to be content with countless minor variations on existing treatments [0]. Curing cancers will require an actual
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by xk_id 2y ago
Except there is an overabundance of historical evidence of hedge funds giving almost exclusive preference to research which is highly predictable and has negligible impact, as long as it can result in a patent. See for example below. Aging
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by xk_id 2y ago
> Taking a cynical profit-only driven view of the world would optimize for better cancer care. There are many promising research directions, which are however grossly underexplored, either because there is a low chance it might lead to a
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by xk_id 2y ago
> whether we might see even more investment into research The field would benefit greatly from even a fraction of the investment in the AI and crypto bubbles
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by xk_id 2y ago
The ad industry is very proud of you
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by xk_id 2y ago
I don’t really care about broken clocks even if to someone they are useful twice a day.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Nearly a quarter of HN submissions lately are just spammy ads for the AI sector. I seldom open them anymore, but I’ve noticed most of them get hundreds of comments. I wish people spent their time on something useful.
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by xk_id 2y ago
I credit my past interest in cryptocurrencies for educating me about the essence of the stock market in its purest form. And in fact there are painful parallels with the AI bubble.
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by xk_id 2y ago
> If it was that simple, why didn't the human body just evolve to excrete GLP-1 agonists? Have you read the submission before writing your comment? An answer to this question is given in one of the few short paragraphs.
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by xk_id 2y ago
> I'm actually very curious why AI use is such a bi-modal experience. My conspiracy theory is that the positive experiences are exaggerated and come from investors in the Nvidia stock.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Those non-invasive headbands (which work very differently from implanted electrodes) are notoriously inaccurate at recording brain signals. Even scientific studies, which use advanced setups like the 10-20 system for scalp EEG, face unsolve
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by xk_id 2y ago
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by xk_id 2y ago
The typical argument was that all the various types of covid vaccines had been fast tracked and safety data was insufficient; hence the irony.
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by xk_id 2y ago
I’m more annoyed by the sheer amount of effort and time we’re spending now as a society to rationalise the AI bullshit and argue against it. For example everything you said is valid, but you were provoked into painstakingly writing this ela
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by xk_id 2y ago
I’m really curious to see if this VC wet dream will materialise or if reality will prevail. Currently I’m pretty sure that the only people who are still enthusiastic about the AI bullshit are the ones with some form of vested interest, so t
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by xk_id 2y ago
Ozempic and other research peptides are very popular in online biohacking communities. The same communities were against vaccines. This paradox has been pointed out quite often and it became a meme.

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