Stupulous

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by Stupulous 4y ago
Absolutely, I should have brought up risks as well. Triggering early schizophrenia is a big one, personality changes also seem like a significant concern. I'm not aware of any IQ changes- if you have a study, send it my way if you plea
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by Stupulous 4y ago
It's not as though this is some thousand-year-old fence; psychadelics were illegalized under Nixon. If there was a reason other than 'they are drugs', it has not been made public, and all research at the time suggested that t
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by Stupulous 4y ago
As a depression treatment, it far exceeds the state-of-the-art SSRIs, which perform only slightly better than placebo. It's cheaper, more effective, and lasts longer. ~10% of Americans suffer from depression, and more than a third of t
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Tangential: This argument comes up a lot, and I get that it's a specific example to make a general point, but are we that confident that removing Hitler from the equation means no Holocaust? It can't be denied that he had signific
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I would think consciousness, rather than intelligence, is the important component that should persist irrespective of humanity. Intelligence, curiousity, and creativity are important too, but on their own they don't hold moral signific
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by Stupulous 4y ago
What does the risk profile look like for launching nuclear fuel through our atmosphere? It seems intuitively concerning, but I don't know much about nuclear.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
While I think this is a solid point in general, if someone has installed weights to trick autopilot into thinking they're awake and holding the wheel, they probably know that they're supposed to be awake and holding the wheel.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
This is an extreme exaggeration. If you've used Twitter since the Musk takeover and come away with the impression that you can't criticize him there, you've had a completely alien experience to mine- it seems to be the main u
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by Stupulous 4y ago
In that sense you could argue that all of astrophysics is built off of a biased sample from which we can draw no conclusions. And you may well be right, I'd think, though it is unfalsifiable.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
>Reality shows that countering crazy ideas with rational argument is not working very well. Have you had a very different experience of reality than me? Apart from some very niche places, the response to crazy ideas has been insult, igno
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by Stupulous 4y ago
It's only enforceable if accompanied by speech. If I commit a crime with no evidence, my confession is the only thing that can convict me. I don't think it would be fair to say I'd be forbidden from confessing. I think there&
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by Stupulous 4y ago
The critical question is whether they'll have to leap forward or fall backward. We simply cannot abide stealing an hour of sleep from our cyborg/transhuman descendants. We'd never live it down.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
The Julian Calendar was good enough for centuries after the empire that invented it had fallen, which I think counts as good enough in general. That said, I'd love to read a story about tracking down some time bug a million layers of a
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Why not ask the people who were there?
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by Stupulous 4y ago
What about a 'twitch plays stable diffusion' kind of thing where each visitor can enter a prompt for the next iteration?
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I think it's worth mentioning that 75% was what was pitched to investors and wasn't intentionally publicized.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
A traffic network's purpose is to move people from point A to point B. If you double the lanes and they fill up, you've doubled the throughput. If traffic doesn't move any faster, it's because the old traffic jams were a
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Is math an illusion? Math is a property of systems, as is our and our calculators ability to do it. I would argue that makes it more real. When you see an object in reality, you're really making a series of assumptions. What you see is
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Are you so easily convinced you believe whatever political opinion Fox News is selling? The dictionary says that to manipulate is to 'control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously.' If you want
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by Stupulous 4y ago
This feels like an arbitrary line to me. The host expects the ads to be rendered, and that's my problem. The advertiser expects their ads to be viewed, but that's their problem. What's the distinction? Is it that I'm onl
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by Stupulous 4y ago
How far do you take this point? Because the social expectation is not just that you allow the ads to be served, but that you read/watch them and that they increase the likelihood of you buying the products/services being advertise
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I guess it's one of those things where I'm seeing a different reality from everyone else, but the notion that uncensored speech is the source of our present strife is one that I don't accept. I witnessed this series of events
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Anonymous speech is an essential facet of free speech- maybe the most important. Getting rid of anonymity means removing the voice of the trans woman stuck in a conservative town or in the year 2000- or the Satanist, the Muslim, the ex-con,
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by Stupulous 4y ago
My point is that all of those things would be deplatforming even though they could replace the platform themselves for more independence, which means the argument doesn't hold. Regardless of whether Amazon deplatformed, the distinction
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by Stupulous 4y ago
And if their office building evicted them, they still wouldn't have been deplatformed because they could still buy some land and build their own office; it was their own fault for leasing office space as a service and getting burned. A
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by Stupulous 4y ago
If you took perfectly rational people and ran the same test, you'd get the same result. Evidence that supports a position that you already have evidence for is more likely to be true. If someone showed me very compelling evidence that
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I would love to see a project to raise optimized mice using the tremendous amount of research on them. Is anyone doing that already?
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Even if one sex was 10x as likely as the other to produce good research, it is still sexist bias to judge research on the basis of the author's sex. Fairness and meritocracy mean everyone gets a chance; no one should be stopped from su
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by Stupulous 4y ago
It's still there, just much quieter
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by Stupulous 4y ago
The average age of a corporate board member is ~60. If they joined the workforce at 22, it would have been in 1984. That makes it a very poor measure of present-day discrimination, because it has up to a 40 year lag on top of whatever delay

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