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by doright 5d ago
> I really wish we could leave these types of decisions up to parents and parents only. And if your parents suck? (Mine did.) I think the power for parents to have free reign over everything in a child's life should be reduced if th
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by doright 22d ago
Some people have always had qualities like Aaron's, and giving them tools like AI causes them to reveal themselves by virtue of becoming that much louder. Those problems are often unfixable regardless, as they are at the level of perso
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by doright 1mo ago
Some parents will berate their kids or discipline them inappropriately and instill stress and anxiety in them that causes them to seek out things that should be off limits. It's easier to see a solution for the second issue when the
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by doright 1mo ago
I don't believe the old web was filled with people pining about how the current web is awful and them participating in recreating the web they inhabit is better. People on the old web just posted things, because before that there was n
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by doright 2mo ago
School was an escape from my home life, but it could never fix my home life. As a child who had no ability to determine what constituted "normal" in order to escape my situation, the only real solution for my home life was for me
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by doright 2mo ago
I regained my focus after many years and it had nothing to do with distractions for me, distractions were only a way of fighting stress that constantly appeared. The stress was the underlying issue. I worked on that in therapy (breaking awa
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by doright 2mo ago
> GOES-17 had the loop heat pipe anomaly(Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom...) Was this reported anywhere in the news? Sounds like one of those "not even once" kind of mistakes.
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by doright 2mo ago
I would be careful going straight in this direction without considering alternatives. I thought for my entire life that my issues were explained by ADHD, but it turned out all the symptoms you described (procrastination, depression, lack of
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by doright 2mo ago
I have too much emotional attachment to progress. A lot of people made the mistake of putting too much energy into e.g. career instead of what you really want outside of a paycheck. Well, now I really am doing the thing I've always wan
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by doright 3mo ago
I prefer 3-button navigation, but it seems most of the web has decided that gesture-based navigation has won, and it's an awful experience sometimes. They assume you will always swipe down to close popup modals like full-size images, s
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Christopher Alexander and the Inadequacy of Genius (2020)(mdpi.com)
2 points by doright 3mo ago|0 comments
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by doright 3mo ago
Realistically, what should we have done instead? Not invent LLMs? What happens when a couple thousand people invent the next disruptive technology and even more of the population loses their jobs? It seems like new tech is something most of
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by doright 3mo ago
The author says he has two kids, which would likely constrain what he is able to accomplish in his free time. Children are financially dependent on the parents to provide for them. There's not really much way around that. It makes sens
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by doright 4mo ago
It's like the Lisp Curse but for everything now.
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by doright 4mo ago
I can prod at a model as much as I want to produce something I find more original than average, but there are plenty of people out there that will say it doesn't count because of the fact an AI made it. "Slop" doesn't ju
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by doright 4mo ago
We will rue the day that image generation evolves beyond diffusion and AI is able to use digital brushes and blending directly on a canvas.
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by doright 4mo ago
One has to be in a secure enough position in life to be able to manifest such curiosity to begin with. On the contrary many people feel threatened.
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by doright 4mo ago
Reminds me of all the Waymo vehicles stalled during that San Francisco blackout a while ago. I have always believed that when people cite statistics on Waymos beating human drivers on safety statistics, that is only in the case of the happy
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by doright 4mo ago
> In 2000, the famous American toy company Fisher-Price released a simple drawing-oriented handheld gaming console for kids called Pixter. It featured no brain-rotting social media and focused, instead, on drawing, sketching, and educati
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by doright 4mo ago
That's the thing, it's unclear if it's a problem that can be solved. It has to do with fundamental benefits of staying with biological family, and avoiding the extremely negative consequences of lack of attachment. https:&
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by doright 4mo ago
At the point a parent is beating up their own kid I wonder what options are available. If they're removed from the family then placing them in foster care almost always leads to worse outcomes than leaving them with the abusive family.
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by doright 5mo ago
That "something else entirely" for me was trauma. which has no search hits in this comment thread so far. I was given an ADHD diagnosis as a child before it was in vogue. From my (admittedly) biased perspective I was given this as
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by doright 5mo ago
I wish I could upvote this more. What's never discussed is what would motivate a kid to doomscroll the unsupervised internet, often it's unaddressed stress or trauma. From experience, a turbulent childhood can cause lifelong issue
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by doright 5mo ago
Having lived through intractable family conflict before, I believe it is a good analogy as to why the continual reinvention of social media will be a fruitless endeavour. Your options when dealing with truly obstinate family memebers in rea
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by doright 5mo ago
I don't know what to say then, except I'm going to keep working with clinicians who say otherwise. All of this is integral to me working with my current therapist, so I don't see what it has to do with depression not fixing i
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by doright 5mo ago
That approach doesn't work for everyone. Everything you say could be correct, but if the person thinks their feelings are not being listened to, there is a chance they still won't take your advice. One of my therapists said it was
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by doright 5mo ago
Sadly the human need for being heard and understood is innate, and it has been my experience that books can't substitute for that need. On the other hand, there are swathes of incompetent therapists that can only aggravate one's m
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by doright 5mo ago
It really is. Exercise and eating well was an activity I became capable of participating in as a result of the correct therapy and dramatically boosted its effects, not something I could persist at when already depressed. When people claim
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by doright 6mo ago
Has been a thing for a while and I almost exclusively follow Japanese accounts. Sometimes it's the only place that certain Japanese artists post their work.
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by doright 6mo ago
I dunno, with the constant firehose of debate and disdain for AI this is a joke I'm too burned out about to feel like laughing at.

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