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by somenameforme 3d ago
I don't think you're being gloomy so much as realistic. It's clear a lot of people either don't realize what's already happened, or are in some sort of denial about it. What you're saying is entirely true and w
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by somenameforme 3d ago
A bit of a tangent here, but I'd look into lower cost of living areas if you have the ability to move/remote, even moreso if you'll be drawing social security or have a pension. Money just goes so much further, and with an ov
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by somenameforme 3d ago
You're not just in a race to the bottom with everybody else who is doing this. I don't think his anecdote is particularly surprising at all. You can do the same with basically any typical CRUD app, which is already going to be som
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by somenameforme 4d ago
Meduza gonna Meduza. Go do the search yourself. I get nothing like what Meduza claims.
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by somenameforme 4d ago
Yeah that will definitely be a growing problem, especially in the era of LLMs. Services where reviews can only be provided after purchase and it specifies if the product was returned (as Steam does) can help, but LLMs do seem set to make a
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by somenameforme 4d ago
Word of mouth. Make things that work well, people want, and stand out - and they will spread by themselves. I block 100% of advertising on all platforms I use, yet somehow never have difficulty finding things when I want to find them. And
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by somenameforme 4d ago
Ah but it's enjoyable for billionaire and pauper alike. And the former tends to enjoy sponsoring it for the sake of seeing and promoting the bounds of human capability.
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by somenameforme 5d ago
When there's a billion people playing something, money will never be an issue for those at the top. Even things like chess.com was able to sponsor a tournament with a million dollar prize pool. Also I'd argue that chess's uti
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by somenameforme 5d ago
It's not about bridge building, but rather not bridge burning. When people are antagonistic to 'the other side', it means the last thing in the world they'd ever think of doing is aligning with you. 2028, after Iran, sho
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by somenameforme 5d ago
It's universal. Politics in the US has become so completely broken. Last presidency was Weekend at Bernie's, now we have one where El Presidente is trying to LARP as General Jack D. Ripper. The reason people accept, and even defen
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by somenameforme 5d ago
I am saying that adding your tribal bit to your post is just completely self defeating. And yes, the goal is indeed to avoid hurting people's feelings. I don't know why you'd mock that. People are not machines, and when you m
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by somenameforme 5d ago
Do you even realize that one of the only reason anybody still supports this war is precisely because of comments like yours? By dividing people into teams, and antagonizing them, you result in people never willing to stomach giving an inch
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by somenameforme 5d ago
Western social sciences are completely dysfunctional. Various fields within it, like social psychology, have a replication rate in the 20% range. [1] And mind you that that's for leading and formerly reputable journals like the Journal
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by somenameforme 5d ago
Not almost everybody alive, but certainly a very large percent. And you also have to keep in mind what this means in different eras. In the not so distant past the overwhelming majority of work was agrarian, any formal education was relativ
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by somenameforme 5d ago
You cannot what? Everything I said is completely accurate. As is your conclusion - with the speed of particles being infinite, from their perspective. This is also why it's 100% possible for a human to travel to Alpha Centauri, or even
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by somenameforme 6d ago
Why is everything black when I turn around at high velocity?
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by somenameforme 6d ago
I wish the guy who created this included a ' your perceived velocity relative to [some fixed point]'. The speedometer shows what an at rest observer would perceive your velocity as, not what you would perceive it is. The 'ma
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by somenameforme 6d ago
I think the unspoken point of these simulations (Carl Sagan also famously did one for the good Cosmos) is not what if the speed of light was lower, but what would traveling at near the speed of light look like in a more recognizable/&#
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by somenameforme 6d ago
The West is still mostly in the denial phase, so nothing is really being done, yet. As such, the effect is ongoing. The Flynn Effect (and its reversal) are measured in impact per decade . And numbers that seem small at first aren't ne
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by somenameforme 7d ago
Data are meaningful, but interpretations without a mathematical or scientific foundation are worthless. And her own explanations are particularly useless as they demonstrate clear ex post facto reasoning. The study was preregistered and c
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by somenameforme 7d ago
You're describing the end of the digital world as we know it, and I feel fine.
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by somenameforme 7d ago
That's quite a meaningless statement. Molecular genetics is in its infancy and so you're appealing to absence lack of evidence, which exists for most of everything, as evidence of absence - quite nihilistic! A quick search similar
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by somenameforme 7d ago
Should probably mention this as a root comment, but various local image gen models like fooocus [1] run on basically any remotely modern hardware, have phenomenal output quality, and cost basically nothing. I think companies trying to sell
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by somenameforme 7d ago
You're not seeing the big picture. The US is losing in Iran. How can that change? It would require a ground invasion. The losses there would easily be in the tens of thousands, and very likely order(s) of magnitude higher. And at the
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by somenameforme 8d ago
You're reading into things as you want to read into them. I am saying that the rejection of reality, which includes but is certainly not limited to 'woke', is the problem. IQ is full of examples in this domain because it tend
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by somenameforme 8d ago
People beat around the bush but the heritability of IQ is extremely high, modern studies put it around 80%. So if one group has an IQ of 140 and another of 100, it'd imply about 32 of those 40 points are generally able to be explained
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by somenameforme 8d ago
IQ scores in most of the Western world began reversing sometime from the 90s to early 00s. [1] That link is for the US but similar stuff has also been observed in most of every Western/OECD nation. By contrast they're still rapidl
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by somenameforme 8d ago
Social media and other such things were gaining explosively popularity (and addiction) long before 'the algorithm' was even a thought. Even in the pre-social media age, newsgroups and other such social venues had a similar effect,
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by somenameforme 8d ago
It does not, because it imposes extrinsic constraints on what is possible. Iran is imposing a severe cost on the US. It doesn't matter what the US wants to do. When such a relatively minor power is able to extract such a high price
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by somenameforme 9d ago
The point is you're arguing that it was diluted rather than concentrated cocaine. Sure, but it was indeed cocaine all the same. Cocaine tolerance is also, oddly enough, based on quantity rather than consistency. And so people taking sm

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