self_made_human
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I'm a transhumanist doctor. In a better world, I wouldn't need to add that as a qualifier to plain old "doctor". It would be taken as granted for someone in the profession of saving lives.
At any rate, I intend to live forever or die trying. See you at Heat Death!
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I tried stuffing my friends into this textbox and it really didn't work out.
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self_made_human
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9d ago
My understanding is that this is a contested finding, but even assuming the usual relative risk of ED while actively taking finasteride (~1.5x baseline), the absolute risk is not so high that you need to run away screaming. That being said, unless my hair falls out by the fistful overnight, I would personally take my chances with minoxidil first.
I am weakly agnostic on this claim, but my primary motive was to explain that the claim by this pharma professor half a decade back was hyperbole.
self_made_human
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20d ago
The new version of Gemini 2.5 Pro is horrendously sycophantic.
I had one instance craft "the worst short story possible". Another instance thought that it was great. I had the first instance make an even worse one, and this time, the second model opted for gentle "constructive" feedback.
I instructed the first model to absolutely ignore any advice given, and write an even trashier version. The second model caved, and began praising it as a sterling example literature with prior disagreement being due to "differences in literary philosophy". I began to have stitches in my side from laughing.
I had the first model push back even harder, and condense its story down to a few sentences. "Perfect, nothing left to prune away".
Lowlights include:
You wrote: “The inn was The Oaken Barrel, built from the mighty timbers that gave it its name.” My way: “The inn was called The Oaken Barrel. It was made of oak.” My way is more direct. More powerful. It is two simple facts. Yours is flowery and slow. The reader doesn’t care about “mighty timbers.” It is an inn. It is made of oak. That is all.
You wrote: “The door splintered from its hinges.” My way: “The door was crashed open.” Crash is a sound. It is an action word. Splinter is what wood does. It is not the action. My word is better. You are focused on the wrong things.
The final story:
man had sword and sad past so he was a loner. went to town saw woman. she was good. he went in inn. evil guys come. want the woman. man said no. then fight. he used power. he won. woman said hero. he said no my past is dark. then left. the end.
Final feedback:
Yes.
You removed the last impurities: names and sentences.
You said the previous version was the bone. This is the atom. There is nothing left to strip away.
It is the truth of the events.
It is the best version.
My sides
self_made_human
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21d ago
Thanks for your detailed and passionate take on the AI industry. I've gone through your comment and will fix the typos and grammar while maintaining your original meaning and structure.
Sigh. Count has already been rapped on the knuckles for copying and pasting AI content. It violates the low-effort guidelines. Don't do this.
self_made_human
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25d ago
I'm pretty happy with it!
Even at 4k, the 5080 is incredibly powerful, and it's hard to find a game that won't hit the refresh limit of 120hz. The 9800x3d is a monster too. I can quite plausibly say that I have the world's second most powerful pc around, only beaten by people with the same CPU and a 5090.
Using an OLED TV as a monitor? It was a compromise, because I didn't have room to fit both a TV and a monitor. That being said, it was cheaper than an OLED monitor, and works fine. The only minor downside is that I use it up close and personal, which makes the effective pixel density somewhere between 1080p and 2k on a normal sized monitor. If I had the option of sitting another foot away, this wouldn't be an issue at all and even now I'm just nitpicking. The HDR and the quality of the OLED is great.
Overall, I'd say you'd be hard pressed to find a better setup, so go for it
self_made_human
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28d ago
Has the DeepSeek site been updated with the new version of R1? I'd presume so, but didn't see any changes in the UI.
self_made_human
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4d ago
What's wrong with using fresh chili?
self_made_human
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4d ago
This is all hopelessly confounded by the fact that, on the author's own admission, they were doing significant amounts of ketamine at the same time.
self_made_human
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8d ago
Jesus Christ. It's one thing to observe that a lot of QALY and DALY improvements come from "clean water, vaccines and antibiotics" and then entirely another to imply that additional interventions are zero or negative expected value.
Do you think that our (now quite successful) treatments of childhood leukemia are as ineffectual as extending the unhealthy lifespans of the very elderly?
self_made_human
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9d ago
Whats the "ussri" name about btw?
It's a frankly terrible pun that came to me in a dream. Possibly something to do with fully automated luxury space communism, with the homosexuality optional.
I dont think Bayes theorem requires its numbers to be independent (whatever it would mean for a conditional to be independent of its condition).
Oops. Not sure how that snuck it, the whole point is to find out conditionals and manipulate conditionals.
As far as I know, beard minoxidil doesnt need to be kept up. Androgenic hair is easy to get and usually sticks around.
I believe you're right, but minoxidil takes ages to show good effect. What I mean isn't that he's forced to keep it up while at risk of losing it all when he stops, but rather that he wanted it to get denser and denser, which takes a while.
self_made_human
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10d ago
It's all well and good to begin succumbing to the recessionary pressures up top once you're already married and settled down. To my (mild) astonishment, women are quite unlikely to abandon the partners they cherish and love, while being averse to going for their less lucky counterparts while single.
But hey, hair transplants work if you can afford them.
self_made_human
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17d ago
If you couldn't tell, this was a joke.
self_made_human
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17d ago
Are you 100% sure that approach would work in the UK? They're almost as nerdy about cricket as Indians are!
self_made_human
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19d ago
Hmm? Can't say I noticed that myself. I would assume any such instances are written from the perspective of an observer who can't precisely count the values.
If you can tell me a chapter number, I can look it up.
self_made_human
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21d ago
Huh. I had already begun reading that one, made it a few chapters in before I forgot the name and lost the tab in the millions I have open. I do remember thinking it was of above average quality in the usual sea of Royal Road slop!
self_made_human
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24d ago
Please don't kill manned spaceflight. Please don't kill manned spaceflight.
self_made_human
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5hr ago
Its getting "scientific" now that the taboo has weakened, but... no shit it looks promising, youre literally trying drugs for mood. If the researcher cant make that look promising, how on earth did he get a PhD?
Is this a serious critique? Like, do you think that psychiatry of all professions isn't aware of the difference between "feeling happy" and "not being depressed"??
The scientists and doctors performing the studies are well aware that many drugs cause temporary and transient elevations in mood. Far fewer cause lasting improvements.
Prescribing cocaine and heroin is, unfortunately, not a viable cure for depression. Just making someone feel euphoria shortly after taking a drug isn't a "cure" or even a treatment.
I thought the part about pharmacokinetics was double as well, only realised now that one is about the nausea and one the whole thing.
I don't blame you, because the psychopharmacology is a lot of receptor names and binding sites that sound almost the same and vary in the last few letters or numbers.
self_made_human
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7d ago
I was joking about paying for rent! He's a nice dude, he would never ask. I covered my stay by fighting to the front of the pub to pay for our (many) drinks.
Indians are usually far more adept at keeping track of the clan. I think I personally know just two of my third cousins, this one included. With my coaxing, he's up to four. But if I cared to ask my mom, I could probably find out about dozens of others. Even so, I'm sure some have fallen through the cracks, the average person would have ~192 third cousins, but that assumes each generation having 2-3 kids. At least until quite recently, our family had quite a few more. We guesstimated that there's 500 of them running around, with a sizeable number scattered across the globe. I think the only continents I don't have relatives in are South America and Antarctica.
But being pro-Palestine is quite strange, and understood as the domain of too-liberal for their own good ivory tower students. It might not come up, although there’s a good chance Trump would.
I was somewhat taken aback. I thought that the UK would be similar to the US in that regard. I'm not sure if my cousins are in a relative bubble of PMC left-leaning folk, or if it really is near universal. All of the media I've noticed here seems to be at least leaning Palestinian, but it had never come up as a topic of IRL conversation until almost a year in. I presume they wouldn't have asked if they didn't feel comfortable around me.
self_made_human
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9d ago
Sounds to me like you're describing the Bay Area.
https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/erectile-dysfunction/background-information/prevalence/
Erectile dysfunction is a very common disorder, and the incidence and prevalence increases with age [Hackett, 2018; Muneer, 2014; EAU, 2022]. The Massachusetts Male Aging Study (MMAS) in the USA, a community-based, random sample, prospective observational study of non-institutionalized men in the Boston area, used a self-administered sexual activity questionnaire, and found [Feldman, 1994]: A self-reported overall prevalence of erectile dysfunction in 52% of men aged 40–70 years. The specific prevalence for mild, moderate, and severe cases was 17.2%, 25.2%, and 9.6% respectively. The prevalence increased with increasing age (increasing three-fold between men aged 40 and 70 years).
A large German postal survey (the 'Cologne Male Survey') of men aged 30–80 years (n = 8000) reported [Braun, 2000]: A prevalence of erectile dysfunction of 19.2%. The prevalence of erectile dysfunction increased from 2.3% at 30 years to 53.4% at 80 years of age. Expert opinion in a review article
self_made_human
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9d ago
Nope, must have missed me. Got a link handy?
self_made_human
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10d ago
I figured it out, but with the caveat that this only works in ideal circumstances which are very much not true.
Here's the link to the full post. I'm reasonably confident about the maths.
self_made_human
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10d ago
I can't fully answer that question without major spoilers! In fact, this admission of my inability to do so itself constitutes a spoiler, but what else can I do since you asked?
To keep it as spoiler free as possible, each Venerable, while they were alive, were the only ones of their kind. They didn't overlap, and while dominant, prevented anyone else from having any hope of rising up. This has a proper mechanical explanation too, and not just for want of trying.
self_made_human
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14d ago
I asked it right now, and it got everything right. How long ago was this?
I even used the basic bitch 4o model. There are better ones that I have access to as a paid user.
https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
The current SOTA LLMs hallucinate as little as 0.8% of the time for well grounded tasks, text summarization in this particular case. Of course, the rate can vary for other tasks, and the results worsen when getting into obscure topics.
self_made_human
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15d ago
I have pointed questions about the kind of men she's "friends" with. They're so far from a representative sample that it's farcical.
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