graboy

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by graboy 16d ago
You have a misunderstanding. Watermarking does not bias the responses in any way. How is this possible? Before: "He leaped at the chance" - 33%. "Jumped at the opportunity" - 66%. After: "He leaped at the chance&q
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by graboy 1mo ago
These come from my own musings not someone else's - but bearing sycophancy in mind, I asked Claude and it told me this is basically the "strict church thesis" from sociology of religion, and linked me this paper, I think it l
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by graboy 1mo ago
I've thought about this. Aristotle doesn't draw as hard of a line between right and wrong behavior or advocate for specific actions, with the right action depending on circumstance, and to finding the middle path. Traditional reli
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by graboy 1mo ago
It's more social, the translation of political is coming from polis; man is by nature meant to be part of a city or community.
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by graboy 2mo ago
I've advocated for this exactly. For alcohol it's called the three-tier system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-tier_system_%28alcohol_d...
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by graboy 3mo ago
Yeah I mean, if you and I were to play the word-guessing game where you needed to guess what next word I'm thinking of, there's always uncertainty in your guess because it's a game of partial information - you can't full
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by graboy 6mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5837225/
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by graboy 7mo ago
Eric Hoffer would agree with this take.
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by graboy 7mo ago
I kinda agree with you and I understand your point but I also think there is a social-ethical reality that if a doctor finds something they must treat it. The two options are 1. doing nothing, or 2. reducing cancer risk and you get unnecess
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by graboy 7mo ago
IIRC, a lot of design went into making it so that you can disable parts of this chip selectively.
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by graboy 7mo ago
If Anthropic's claim to never run ads is true, then won't users just switch over there?
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by graboy 7mo ago
N=1, I've been on GLP-1s for a long time and continue to be an obsessive.
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by graboy 9mo ago
> This is why the paper presented does not support the claim that LDL is the sole source of heart disease Is that what we were arguing about? I guess it was. At some point in thinking about this my frame must have shifted into agreement
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by graboy 9mo ago
What do you think of Dr. Schooling's response that the Mendellian effects might be inflated? I think they had a good defense but was not entirely convinced they hadn't sidestepped the issue that Schooling was getting at, wasn&#x27
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by graboy 9mo ago
I think maybe you are saying that there may be some way that the genes affect heart disease not through LDL, and therefore MR does not apply because the "exclusion restriction" [1] fails here? Or are you talking about a different
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by graboy 9mo ago
https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2012.09.017 Across different genetic variants, lower lifetime LDL -> lower risk of death. Check out figure 3. The causality of LDL -> plaque buildup -> 55-60% [1] o
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by graboy 9mo ago
Here is the chief editor of JAMA internal medicine arguing there is not enough evidence to prescribe statins for primary prevention in those 40+: https://www.natap.org/2016/HIV/ied160021.pdf
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by graboy 10mo ago
what?
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by graboy 11mo ago
Gelesis100, another oral hydrogel, I understand is not very effective, I wonder what makes this one different? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelesis100
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by graboy 11mo ago
To the extent empathy is "do onto others as others would do onto you", empathy has a moral justification derived from Kant's categorical imperative.
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by graboy 1y ago
Yes. You can define a regex matching what you want, and every regex can be compiled into a state machine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_finite_automa... ). Then at each character you make a step in your
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by graboy 1y ago
I wonder how this works? Are they just RAG-ing the chat history or something more clever?
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by graboy 2y ago
She is a psychopath, she has not changed, the "loving, caring mother" thing is a false persona she has created.
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by graboy 2y ago
Bad article. Straw-manning and borderline lying about the book.
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OpenERV(openerv.ca)
849 points by graboy 2y ago|262 comments
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by graboy 2y ago
Seems timely for Half-life 2's 20th birthday. https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/City_Scanner
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by graboy 2y ago
No.
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by graboy 2y ago
625 micro-newtons [1]. Total weight of craft is 16kg [2]. That works out to 3.4 m/s gained per day. [1] The "Solar Sail" wikipedia page says 800m x 800m is about 5N. This is 80m^2. [2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/ap
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by graboy 2y ago
I wanted to understand what you wrote better so I rewrote it: You can't be sure that a lancet won't attack you just by the economics alone. Just because the price of a drone exceeds the price of its target doesn't mean there
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by graboy 2y ago
After recently watching the absolutely fantastic and in-depth series by Asianometry on ASML's EUV machines, it seems to me that the EUV megaproject has been a fundamentally international endeavor that could have never been achieved wit

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