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by alecst 22d ago
I’m can’t track what the point of this essay is. Suppose we replaced “AI” with “animal.” How would this essay be different? What am I supposed to take away? My concern with AI consciousness is about to what extent these machines can have an
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by alecst 1mo ago
String theory, being a high-energy theory, predicts that at high energies things will look “stringy.” It’s not untestable in principle. But it is out of reach of current experiments. I think that distinction is important.
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by alecst 2mo ago
Well, how would you walk along a curve like that?
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by alecst 3mo ago
Yea, and place to start reading is Hamilton’s equations or Lagrangian mechanics.
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Don't Be a Sucker [video](youtube.com)
2 points by alecst 1y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 1y ago
To help me take this argument seriously, could you give a specific examples of when the shoe was on the first foot? Like > a few years ago when people were being sentenced to prison for memes are you talking about the guy whose memes tri
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by alecst 1y ago
AP is reporting that It's $100k/yr. So it wouldn't amortize like that.
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by alecst 1y ago
I think you might have been a little harsh on Walter. Perhaps the answer is more of a "yes and no" depending on your point of view. It does seem like inflation/deflation kind of canceled each other out before moving off the g
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by alecst 1y ago
Hm, I'm skeptical. I think the data might be a little equivocal on that one. I'm also part of the barefoot running army and tend to think that the braking forces from shoes have a role to play in knee problems (I personally stoppe
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by alecst 1y ago
Well the point of wearing a mask is mostly to protect vulnerable people, and to slow the spread of a disease. These protests are also about protecting vulnerable people. And, I would argue, to slow the spread of a disease.
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by alecst 1y ago
I’m thin but I agree with you, I don’t have to think or try to be this way, I just am. I do probably have healthier habits than average. But still, it comes naturally to me. I would feel awful and exhausted if it took willpower all the time
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by alecst 1y ago
For those who are curious, there's some anecdata online that extended fasting (days or weeks) can reverse this disease. I can't find much published research on it to be fair, but I think the science in this field is lagging behind
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by alecst 1y ago
Look, in my neighborhood, in a single weekend, something like 5 people died due to car crashes. One of them was a kid who was killed by a driver who was texting. Some drivers were drinking. Last year, a driver drove into the lobby of a City
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by alecst 1y ago
Yea I switched my words around, thanks.
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by alecst 1y ago
Yea I partly agree I guess. I am a cyclist in NYC and there are definitely "e-bikes" that present more like motorcycles and people drive them over the Queensboro Bridge bike path which is like 3 feet wide. It's crazy. I'
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by alecst 1y ago
They are giving court dates to (regular) cyclists, they are harsher on bikes than cars, and they are stopping cyclists at a higher rate than they stop drivers of cars. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/18/ex
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by alecst 1y ago
Love this. Anyone know of something similar in NYC? Casual, unpretentious math club?
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by alecst 1y ago
It's around 900 pages. In NYC we have a study group to go over it -- we've covered just a handful of chapters. But most people can get a lot out of just reading the opening section. https://www.documentcloud.org/do
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Microdosing Sprints to Achieve Better Sprint Performance in Field Hockey Players(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by alecst 1y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 1y ago
Plausible, perhaps -- is there any evidence?
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by alecst 1y ago
Was told the same thing, but my tap water works fine. If it’s true that it’s harmful I’d like to see some science (even citizen science.) Pretty sure it’s a myth.
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by alecst 1y ago
Here's evidence to the contrary: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-04/calorie-cou...
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by alecst 1y ago
I'm not sure public trust really matters. A lot of times people distrust what they just don't like to hear.
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by alecst 1y ago
I recently read a book ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabloona ) about a "modern" (1930s) man who sought out the Eskimos to check out their way of life. They have nothing you describe -- no agriculture, no ant
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How to Sleep Sitting Up(theminimalists.com)
3 points by alecst 2y ago|0 comments
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Significant lesion reduction following ibogaine treatment for multiple sclerosis(frontiersin.org)
1 points by alecst 2y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 2y ago
Regarding lesions, a recent pair of articles about Ibogaine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39981248/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11303312/
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by alecst 2y ago
This sounds logical enough but I think I remember reading that larger embeddings were only better for certain classes of words, because increasing the dimension size (in those cases) introduced noise. Will try to find the paper — it’s escap
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by alecst 2y ago
When I lived in Kampong Speu, Cambodia, they’d burn plastic trash as a means of disposing of it. It was the only time in my life I ever experienced black snow.
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by alecst 2y ago
Thanks, I appreciate that. And by the way, I had the same thought as you. I’ve been doing monthly 5-day fasts just to see what would happen. So far not much to report, but I’ll wait until 6 months have passed to draw conclusions.

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