wisty

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by wisty 15d ago
> Sometimes outsiders notice what's happening but over time academia has built up a complex web of lore that protects them psychologically The word you're looking for is "triangulation" - https://en.wikiped
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by wisty 21d ago
They're more like the winners of a pyramid scheme / MLM. You want everyone to see there's a winner so they all keep up the grind.
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by wisty 22d ago
I can break it with zero skills. Tripod, camera, clear monitor in a dark room ... just take a real photo of a fake photo.
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by wisty 23d ago
> I will suggest that trying to change someone's mind by presenting them with rational arguments is never going to work to persuade them they're wrong. Were you persuaded of this by rational arguments?
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by wisty 1mo ago
Going from your size to 27 means putting on 10kg of muscle. That's a beef brisket. Half the guys in the gym don't have that much more musle than you. Yeah really well muscled guy being BMI 27 is probably ok but by 30 it's not
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by wisty 1mo ago
> Many active gym people have pretty high BMIs but fairly low fat I think this is greatly exhaggerated. Yeah you can put on as much muscle as Arnold and have a FFMI of about 27 then maybe have a BMI of 34 if you have 20% body fat. But a
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by wisty 1mo ago
I guess they use their chatlogs to fine tune. Maybe users engage more with the flowery text? An accidental (or intentional) dark pattern would be that more tokens get used if you have to summarise. Or maybe it's just that many AI users
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by wisty 1mo ago
You can google "CPI price change graph by type good" to find which things have undergone real inflation vs real deflation. TVs, phones, toys, clothes, furniture, cars. Everyone likes to say Homer Simpson lived like a king. He had
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by wisty 1mo ago
A better low effort contrarian comment - isn't it that early symptoms appear less often with people with a "reserve"? Being mentally active (or physically active?) IIRC makes actual plaques both less likely, but also less det
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by wisty 1mo ago
Freedom of association is kind of a mistake, as it encourages these bubbles to form.
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by wisty 1mo ago
The social model of diability is great in some ways (encouraging activism), but the idea that everything needs to be changed to be "designed for" people with disabilities has its downsides. Not all disabilities can be overcome, bu
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by wisty 1mo ago
The cure for high prices is high prices. Selling out creates scalpers and sometimes even a speculative bubble. High prices means producers invest in new fabs (though it may take time).
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by wisty 1mo ago
Also AI seem pretty good at constructive proofs. Most of the breakthroughs so far have been finding counter examples. They can just search tirelessly to find one. Finding a good algorithm (maybe even one faster than people assume is possibl
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by wisty 2mo ago
PCB contamination passed on from their fish meal in 2004, not sure if it's still an issue.
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by wisty 2mo ago
Until you ask it to juatify your poor decisions, I bet.
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by wisty 2mo ago
Hot take, copyright law should be reformed to be more like patents. Want the government / courts to stop your employees leaking source code? Escrow the code, and release it in 20 years. The residuals on 20 year code is so close to zero
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by wisty 2mo ago
Which religion? Christianity is arguanbly the irritating grit that created the pearl of modern science. A strict text that had to be taken literally ... this led to great intellectual progress in order reconcile it all. Bacon, Darwin ... lo
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by wisty 2mo ago
> If you feel genuine responsibility for the people, then figure out a way to NOT fire them. That kind of sounds like saying "if you're poor, make more money". It's not bad advice but odds are, they tried. If a compan
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by wisty 2mo ago
AI pessimist view. Even if AI gets smarter it will still be agreeable, and people will use it to more confidently reinforce thier stupider ideas, especially in areas where they lack the knowledge to know if they are right. Even if this can
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by wisty 2mo ago
So Trump was right to call for tariffs?
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by wisty 2mo ago
> Right. So what you're saying If you start a sentence with "so what you are saying", and then say something obviously silly ... The argument would be that it's a large burden to have to write a report if you forage 1
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by wisty 2mo ago
There's a great academic book called "Stupid Rules". Excessive rules (or KPIs - often rules in disguise) exist because we don't like authority. Get the doctor to assess the nurse. Or the head nurses if you don't tru
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by wisty 2mo ago
Both sides are wrong. Resusitation is more likely for a donar (if there is any bias). OK, maybe a panel of neurologists looking at an ECG are going to be biased if you are stable but not reviving. But it's a panel of neurologists looki
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by wisty 2mo ago
I saw a slghtly odd youtube video by a small creator who thinks it was at least partly because the gods stopped talking to people. No, hear me out. Obviously they weren't real, but the Youtuber said (based on sources) people used to ta
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by wisty 2mo ago
Now do maternal death rate. Like I said, a good place to have cancer but they aren't good at stuff that matters. The US leans aggressive on tests and heroic end of life care. I doubt you really disagree (except maybe on whether you thi
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by wisty 2mo ago
The US healthcare system just upsells on unnessessary crap. It's junk volume or at best it's heroic high tech solutions mostly making up for the fact that people stay away from hospitals until it's too late. Life expectancy s
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by wisty 2mo ago
Everyone is gonna say nurses are underpaid. It's a caring, female dominated profession, it's a motherlove sentiment. And they are not paid as well as doctors. Yeah, most pink / blue collar workers in the US are badly underpai
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by wisty 2mo ago
And the US also pays a TON of tax dollars to a broken, overregulated system. IIRC if you look at the cost of Medicaide, Medicare, VA, and other federal and state spending it's the same as most other countries per capita or as a percent
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by wisty 2mo ago
I'm just waiting for Bezos to order all work with human agents to use the same API and guardrails as an LLM.
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by wisty 2mo ago
Individual gains from llm seem much larger than net productivity increases. I think a major source of this discrepency is people creating more work for their coworkers at the speed of slop. Especially the people with no idea. "I did a

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