Saptarishi

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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Agree with this. Smartphones have enabled profligation of low effort posts and comments, emotional outbursts and mood based content. This sort of direct or indirect attention grabbing content which is more often than not extremely unhealthy
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
>"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur Clarke I think this would be an interesting place to discuss. When Arthur Clarke made that statement, technology wasnt as ubiquitous as it is toda
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Antibody remembrance comes from memory cells isnt it? I may be wrong.
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
He's always had that super-aggressive, rude style in discussions. Linus is not a fairy, but he is super smart.
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
I think the point is, the memory cells do not retain this knowledge for extended periods of time in the case of the current Covid vaccines we have. So should we be looking for a 3rd dose, or try to fund a different vaccine?
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
In my country we often joke about how hard it is to find that one "perfect" doctor - knows what he's doing and knows about his strengths and weaknesses, isnt too arrogant or unwilling to accept his own doubts on the diagnosis
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
I think the commenters point was not about people reading articles on the internet and feeling that they've got a better understanding than doctors. It's about medical professionals thinking that they are infallible.
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Back in my school days, we used to have lots of poems which would often go on to say that money is the biggest trouble of life, or that money is the biggest corrupter of people's minds, or that money is the root cause of all evil. Most
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Maybe that is the downside of the general policy of abstraction that Devs use, that software should be made to look as simple as possible, and all the apparently "unnecessary intricacies"(which could have disastrous effects) shoul
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
TikTok feeding us what we apparently value is its biggest danger. When people out of mere curiosity watch something biased/misrepresented/discriminatory/extreme and interact with that content, irrespective of whether all thei
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
I think lots of physicists have a tendency to outrightly reject interpretations which seemingly put humans and other "conscious"(whatever that means) entities on a higher pedestal . It is most probably due to their general dislike
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
I pin the blame on too many users joining due to the mass popularisation of Reddit by YouTubers. At one point, almost every "popular" YouTuber seemed to have these "subReddit review" videos going on, which inevitably cre
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
The problem arises when people dont actually say "ignorant racist trash" but have a genuine point of discussion(albeit controversial), but are painted with the same brush as real racists and bigots. Resorting to subversive vulgari
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
>Setting up your community with specific standards is totally fine imo In some sense I agree, but what happens when these communities begin to overflow with people, and chaos increases? It leads to opinion suppression( no I'm not ta
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Very interesting idea. C can still come back and comment the next day/after a fixed time frame. I think it provides a much needed balance between lack of interaction and over interaction. I guess it can prevent bickering and unnecessar
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Very unfortunate. Mud slinging and blame game tactics to prevent neutral discussion are the bane of society.
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
You think nobody can tap phone records, when you called someone outside India? Oppressive government?
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Or a solar flare. Nature's wrath is unimaginable.
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
When AlphaGo went against Lee Sedol, it often made moves in the later stages of the game which were completely inexplicable to almost all game analysts and commentators, it seemed like a bad/stupid move, or at the very minimum, it seem
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
This is an excellent point. An AI may be able to do a diagnosis to you, but a doc could do diagnosis+post diagnosis, with the foresight of medical history. Theoretically an AI could possibly do this as well, but we're nowhere close.
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
I think proof of ownership and non duplicability arguments apply strongly in the case of something like a Lamborghini( because obviously it has tremendous value) . But I dont really think a digital drawing warrants that sort of value becaus
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
To be honest, considering currency exchange rates, 140k for a nurse is a GINORMOUS salary in atleast 80% of countries other than the USA. I have tremendous respect for medical professionals , but surely , a nursing degree is easier to obtai
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
To be fair, I too have ended up thinking that free will probably does not exist. Yet everyone else and I will always continue to behave and live as if it existed, that is my consolation.
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
I think good-bad is not a fair comparision to classify hedonism into one of them. There are generic pleasures like money/sex , and subjective pleasures.Both can easily spiral into greed, malice and prejudice, none of which we really wa
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
The Hindus as well I believe. Especially within the "Vedanta" school of thought.
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Opinion shepherding has always existed , in the ancient past it used to be merely gossip between people, soon transforming into print media, radio, television. Social media is its latest avatar. I can only shudder imagining what awaits us i
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
Often such accounts posting random bait-ish comments are accompanied by a profile picture of a semi or completely nude woman. Many unsuspecting souls will naturally click
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by Saptarishi 5y ago
In the words of Andy Greenberg, in Sandworm, he says In-Q-Tel is assigned the task of furthering the interests of 3 letter agencies.