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by yosame 3y ago
Scott absolutely analyses topics in bad faith, particularly when it comes to politics or movements/people he personally supports. Here's one where he essentially says 'no study is ever fully representative, therefore my frien
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by yosame 3y ago
As far as I can tell, Sam did something? to get fired by the board, who are meant to be driven by non-profit ideals instead of corporate profits (probably from Sam pushing profit over safety, but there's no real way to know). From that
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by yosame 3y ago
Well no, SSRIs (essentially) work by becoming tolerant to their effects, which takes 3 weeks to 3 months. It's not a conspiracy, it's just how they work. They're a preferred treatment because they're usually effective an
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by yosame 3y ago
Run it in Australia, it's schedule was lowered so you can actually run studies on it. Here's one happening right now: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/scs/clinical-psychedelic-lab...
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by yosame 3y ago
That would be because Stratteta is a second-line treatment that's less effective and has more negative side effects than Adderall, and Bupropion and Modafinil have a very weak body of evidence supporting their use for ADHD. Bupropion a
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by yosame 3y ago
Surely they'll find a use case before the sun burns out!
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by yosame 3y ago
Same with Instagram Reels, and they're also fairly popular.
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by yosame 3y ago
The PBS won't cover the drug portion of the treatment at least until there's good quality stage 3 clinical trials that support it's use. Even then, given the need for a long therapy session next to the drug, they'll like
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by yosame 4y ago
Why would you bother staking if you didn't expect a profit?
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by yosame 4y ago
Spontaneous mutations mean that a virus can become more infectious by bad luck alone. We were unlucky.
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by yosame 4y ago
Next you'll be telling me warfarin can be used for something other than killing rats!
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by yosame 4y ago
100% agree with the Enid Blyton take. I loved Blyton's books as a kid, to the point I actually developed a British-esque accent from reading them so much (I'm Australian). But if I had children, I would not read those books to the
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by yosame 4y ago
Well a point of evidence that disputes this: homosexual men have larger penis sizes on average than heterosexual men [1].This is the opposite of what you'd expect if EDC's are decreasing testosterone and increasing homosexuality.
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by yosame 4y ago
They've put in safety features to make sure it won't be transphobic / break the Twitch TOS, and it'll be back after the two week ban.
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by yosame 4y ago
Calling vaccines a genetic therapy is in bad faith as well.
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by yosame 4y ago
There's definitely a decent body of evidence to suggest ADHD is associated with emotional dysregulation, but I'd be surprised if that explanation turned out to correct. ADHD isn't simply a lack of dopamine, but a dysfunction
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by yosame 4y ago
Some researchers actually believe ADHD is a circadian rhythm disorder [1], so there might be some merit in this. [1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12402-018-0271-z
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by yosame 4y ago
Just because stable diffusion can be used to violate copyright doesn't mean it only does.
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by yosame 4y ago
Or they can do a different job?
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by yosame 4y ago
Look to be fair, a majority of a drug's time under patent will be during development, when they can't make any revenue. It's even been argued that the high cost of new medication is (partially) because they only have a short
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by yosame 4y ago
Well ChatGPT at least does all the time, it's just that those concepts are factually incorrect
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by yosame 4y ago
That's genuinely the best solution I've heard for this issue so far. It'd stop buisnesses from replacing artists with models wholesale, but it would allow people to keep using them, and allow the companies making the models t
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by yosame 4y ago
You can use a spoon to kill someone if you're motivated enough, but that doesn't make a spoon a killing weapon. Just because AI art models can reproduce copyright (if you try hard enough), doesn't mean that it's a copyri
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by yosame 4y ago
But that's because the movie is still recognisable. Using an algorithm doesn't automatically remove copyright, but if the algorithm transforms the data to a point where it can't be recognised as the original work, then it isn
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by yosame 4y ago
I guess the question is, what exactly is "true learning" and why is that impossible for a machine to achieve? Keep in mind, we don't know how humans learn either (on a neurological level). It might end up being that we stumbl
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by yosame 4y ago
That article is about UV light, not bleach?
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by yosame 4y ago
The reason why Wikipedia is such a great first stop for knowledge is because it has citations you can follow. With ChatGTP you have to take the information on pure trust, and the information it gives is not at a level you can trust yet.
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by yosame 4y ago
Covid was mutating, that's why the advice kept changing. Vaccines were 80% effective, than immune escape happened and the vaccines got less effective. At the same time, covid was getting better at spreading, which is why 2 weeks to fla
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by yosame 4y ago
You literally just made the wild leap of logic the parent comment was talking about. The mRNA vaccines have a modified spike protein, that is non functional compared to natural infection. On top of that, cells naturally infected with covid
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by yosame 4y ago
I like a lot of Scott 's writings, but this is a bad habit of his. If there's a point that contradicts his own, he'll pretend to address it while actually just skipping over it/downplay it's relevance.

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