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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self_made_human
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13d ago
This makes me appreciate, even more tangibly, how sane the countries I've lived in are. I mean sure, Indian politics involves a fair share of riots, gunfire and vote-rigging, but it's almost never this personal. UK politics just puts me to sleep.
I've never had the displeasure of cutting ties, or having them cut, because of politics. It's borderline unthinkable. There might be some bickering, then everyone goes out for tea and forgets it. I even had two uncles stand for (and win) elections for diametrically opposing parties, and they lived together.
Honestly, it's a testament to the stability of US institutions that there's this much rage and disdain circulating in the water, and yet the amount of political violence is, in objective terms, nigh non-existent.
self_made_human
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17d 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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17d ago
That would be the first time I'd have tried such a thing. I'll keep it in mind, but so far I don't think I've had any actual problems wearing them even indoors.
self_made_human
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18d ago
Can't say. I saw a screenshot of it, and now I can find people talking about the incident, but Twitter search sucks ass.
self_made_human
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18d ago
The dude retweeted the video himself. I think it's far more likely to be an extension of his questionable findom practices instead of Da Jews.
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18d ago
:(
self_made_human
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18d ago
You know, I'm something of a retard myself.
I've attached a picture, they're Adidas Speedportal 3s.
self_made_human
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18d ago
Random question?
How big of a social faux pas is it to wear football shoes off the turf? I haven't played football in a decade, but I was secondhand shopping and saw an Adidas pair I really liked, with modest cleats as they go.
My best friend insists it's not right to wear those as casual footwear. What about at the gym, as spare gym shoes? I just think they're neat :(
self_made_human
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19d ago
There's an additional sugar tax in the UK, so it can be impossible to get non-diet options here at times. Even when you do, you pay extra.
self_made_human
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19d ago
She's in India, and doesn't have any plans to move out of it right now. Which makes all of this a bit melancholy, since it's hard to see it working out.
Thank you, and hopefully you find someone too who is willing to share even more unusual interests.
self_made_human
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19d ago
My last ex was someone who was a nerd herself. I must say that listening to someone else info dumping on the many ways that people have molested Roman or Renaissance statues and the legal statutes that prompted was an interesting experience.
I've also dated people who I didn't feel like sharing my interests with, but mostly because they weren't likely to understand in the first place. To be fair, those weren't very serious relationships, and I think I've made it years without talking about the Kardashev scale with pretty women.
self_made_human
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19d ago
It's just one guy that fits that bill lol. But yes, even I did a double take and wondered if this was an alt.
self_made_human
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20d ago
What? Here I was thinking I'd found true platonic nirvana intalking about my hard scifi novel with a cute girl, and now it's tarnished? Couldn't be the case, I refuse to believe it.
I was up late last night on the phone with the girl I'm maybe sorta kinda seeing.
I think the conversation had somehow taken a turn into automation-induced unemployment, to which one of her comments were that if we did achieve that, wouldn't that bump humanity up on the "scale"?
What scale did she mean, I asked.
(Is she talking about the Kardashev scale? Could that possibly be the case, or are you deluding yourself, SMH?)
Well, you know, the one that goes from 1, 2 to 3. And measures energy right? I think humans are like a 1 or 2?
Yep. That's the one. You have accidentally activated my trap card, or at the very least my special interest.
I know that going on to deliver an impromptu lecture on the true meaning of the Kardashev scale, that energy use isn't the best proxy for technological advancement, that humanity is a paltry 0.73 blah blah isn't the definition of rizz, but I just couldn't help myself. Fortunately, she did tell me that she liked it when I went on infodumps.
(If you can't tell, I'm a nerd)
self_made_human
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20d ago
And an observable, significant differential in outcomes...
I'm sure membership in a nice country club is great for both networking and your mental health. I just don't think utterly ruining my epistemics and overriding all other evidence I can see is worth the cost of religion. Maybe if I actually thought it was true.
self_made_human
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20d ago
Ozempic would be "too good to be true", but thankfully the universe is apathetic and cold, and doesn't work that way. God knows that an enormous amount of effort has been put into finding some massive downside, to little avail.
I wouldn't call what I've experienced consciousness altering, at least if you don't think taking a Tylenol to reduce pain makes it a psychotropic drug haha. But it does make me less hungry. I'm like 50% sure it's also decreased my craving for liquor, not that I drank that much in the first place.
self_made_human
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20d ago
No. I read through the literature and reviews of it not that long ago, and was overwhelmingly convinced that it's safe, without any significant downsides to speak of. Of course, nobody studied coke zero in particular, but rather studies on artificial sweeteners like aspartame.
https://dynomight.net/aspartame/
That's a good review if you want to read it up yourself.
Drink the nectar of the gods, and consider yourselves safe from sugary sin or calorific clap.
self_made_human
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20d ago
If you haven't read it already, Scott's "Semaglutide: More than you wanted to know" series does a deep dive on alternative sources. If I had been priced out of branded tablets, that's what I'd have gone for. Even then, I'm a little unsure of the legal particulars in both India and the UK, his post was for American audiences.
I am convinced, however, that that route is safe enough. It's really not that hard to reconstitute the powder in bacteriostatic water and manage a s/c injection.
I already had to do plenty to assuage parental concerns, I know about grey market sources but didn't consider them. Maybe if the oral form was way more expensive.
Unfortunately, if you want to wait for expiry of patents, that's a good while away. The best hope in the short term is a patent buyout and award
But my metapoint here is kind of a a Russell's conjugation of sorts; Your better than nothing is my worse than default. Your fix is my treating the wrong problem; etc. Show me a transhumanist doctor, and I'll show you someone overmedicated.
My contention is that medicine is inherently transhumanist, because the core goal is managing the failures of the human flesh, with the intent of extending healthy lifespan as the ideal. If you think that it's "worse than the default", then my query would obviously be whether or not you see a doctor. It's probably possible to spend your young and healthy years avoiding them assiduously, but good luck once you're middle aged or getting old. I would consider even taking an ibuprofen for a headache or fever a tally on my side of the marksheet.
The fact that most doctors don't consider themselves transhumanist doesn't change this simple fact. Our profession seeks to remedy "natural" failures. Even priests working against senseless suffering like worms that turn children blind don't rely on just prayer these days, they pack anti-helminthics.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but no? This is pretty orthogonal to any Christian concept of heaven.
The Christian concept of heaven is a queer thing indeed. You guys tend to claim that achieving effective immortality on Earth is missing the point, or that it's not meaningful, or that death gives life meaning.
And yet you believe in literally infinite lives up there in the clouds, with said problems being handwaved away as no longer being a concern. I believe that mathematicians call this part of the proof "and a miracle happens". Well, I suppose without the miracles, all religion has to offer is a particular taste in moral philosophy and a country club.
If I'm happy, healthy, unafraid of death being an inevitability in a mere century or so, surrounded by friends and family and doing the things I like? That's heaven enough for me, I don't need to die in the vain hope that something follows the one life I can take for granted. If I die, I die, but I'll fight the dying of the light every step of the way.
self_made_human
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21d ago
Thank you. Glad to hear from someone in the same boat.
Oral over injection? No particular reason. I wouldn't say that I'm so averse to needles that I couldn't dose myself up. But all else being equal, I'd prefer the pill.
This question prompted me to actually check the difference in price. And it's a large one. 7mg oral sets me back $100/m, even the lowest (0.5mg) dose of the injectable pen, Ozempic, would be closer to $500/m.
I see no real advantage in the injections when they're priced that steeply. You need a higher dose orally, but that's not reflected in the pricing.
self_made_human
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21d ago
Was it 3.7 Sonnet? That model was far too gung-ho for its own good. I've heard better things about the 4 series.
self_made_human
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21d ago
That's why, while I've been accused of many other things during my little time under the sun, but never hypocrisy. I live by my values, and I'm sure you do yours. To the extent that neither of us have any interest in meddling in the personal affairs of others, that's an acceptable state of affairs on my end.
I am sure from your perspective, this is exactly what the transhumanist plan looks like - medtech improvements and fine tune control over your inner chemistry and outer appearance.
Ah, I wish it were actually "fine tuned". Most of our instruments are blunt, our approaches to most diseases barbaric, the only saving grace being that they're the best we have and are better than nothing. Turns out that if you swallow enough spiders to catch flies, and birds to catch spiders, eventually your microfauna become a happy, stable macrobiome.
The fact that modern medicine is applied transhumanism is half the reason I chose my profession. It's easy to shun the notion of an extended, healthy and happy lifespan until it's you or a loved one dying in front of your eyes. Since I'd prefer nobody had to die unless by choice, I try my best to make it so.
Is that not a form of heaven as you believe in? Unfortunately, I think that we're going to have to build one for ourselves here on earth, with advanced material science that has learned from the tensile strength of broken bones and immense pain. It would be great if God clocked into cancer wards, but sadly I've got to do most of his job for him. At least it pays okay.
Anyway, best of luck on the weight loss and fitness goals, and again, apologies if this is too spicy.
Thank you, and no worries on that front. If I couldn't tolerate criticism of my beliefs and relish an opportunity to explain and defend them, I'd be talking to ChatGPT. It's a feature and not a bug that people here don't think exactly the same as me.
self_made_human
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21d ago
Looking back, I think it's important to note that he was in med school, and I expect that teenage or slightly older girls are probably more likely to openly gush about men and dish out compliments. He's also really handsome so that can't hurt.
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
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