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1yr ago
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1yr ago
Some clinical trials on it are about to end soonish, so hopefully we'll know if it werks.
There's this one with end date specified as December 1st this year:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04210986?cond=fisetin&draw=2&rank=10
And the Mayo Clinic one, that's supposed to finish half a year from now:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03675724?cond=fisetin&draw=2&rank=4
I wonder how long it will take from the scheduled study completion time to actual publication of results.
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1yr ago
Did you mean "white people and black people more likely"?
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2d ago
Not really. I wasn't aware that Title IX was that old and thought it was something created shortly before the whole college sexual assault drama started.
It's possible that it still illustrates the principle, though not as sharply as it would if Title IX was a more newfangled thing, but I don't know how the American political discourse in the 70s looked like.
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1mo ago
Is all of mathematics shallow and trivial?
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5mo ago
vorelated
Kinky.
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9mo ago
I'm pretty sure he knows that's not how Christian marriage is supposed to work, but also that formal rules are often ignored in practice for various reasons. Is his father's failure in that he didn't raise him to be a turbo-autist who can't distinguish between rules-as-written and rules-as-practiced?
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9mo ago
Should we?
As a form of enforcement of a culture's values is a target approach relative to the person's individual failure to meet it not efficient. I know experiencing the opposite where everyone in a group is punished for the actions of one person is brutal.
I think "don't shit on the weak for fun and self-aggrandizement" is a cultural value of the Western civilization, so people violating it should be counter-bullied by Society.
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1yr ago
This assumes that intelligent agents have goals that are more fundamental than value, which is the opposite of how every other intelligent or quasi intelligent system behaves.
Intelligent agent's ultimate goals are what it considers "value". I'm not sure what you mean, but at first glance it kind of looks like the just world fallacy -- there is such a thing as value, existing independently of anybody's beliefs (that part is just moral realism, many such cases) AND it's impossible to succeed at your goals if you don't follow the objectively existing system of value.
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
More negatively, on the internet I've noticed an increasing tendency, here as well, to hate when anyone else is having fun or enjoying themselves.
No, it's when people are "having fun" or "enjoying themselves" by being dicks to other people. Civilized people don't like that and never did. It's not a new tendency.
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1yr ago
Do you want to study the underlying theory, or are you primarily interested in learning how to actually use Coq to prove stuff? If it's the latter, maybe have a look at https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/.
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1yr ago
Example 1: self_made_human, as extreme as his views are, doesn't want to "plug himself into the experience machine".
Example 2: ok, the guy said that he's fine with being a lotus eater, so I guess you found one person.
Example 3: not finding the idea of using your imagination repugnant and by extension not finding it repugnant to experience a simulation under your control doesn't mean that you want to "plug yourself into the experience machine."
The phrase "plugging yourself into the experience machine" sounds ominous and evokes the image of the dreadful wirehead, drooling in his pod, stuck in the loop of perpetual simulated cooming until the heat death of the universe. Applying it to everybody who's not utterly repelled by the idea of virtual reality or mind uploading is dishonest equivocation and it looks like a failure of understanding the people you're condemning.
Noice. I took your stuff and added some extra rules to squeeze things vertically (maybe I went too far... eh), debiggen the voting arrows, and make the bar of buttons under a post flush with the left margin of the comment.
Edit: it looks kind of crap when there are multiple collapsed comments with non-default profile pics as those slightly overlap. You can remove them by adding:
.profile-pic-25 {
display: none;
}
Looks better in the 4chan theme which doesn't have those bars on the left:
zPvQINBQvfFR
1mo ago
What's dumb? Wanting to enjoy a game's mechanics without being forced to compete in big sweaty boy league?
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1mo ago
On Ozempic I am rather bearish. There are very few buttons in the body which can be pushed for gain without many side effects. It sort of violates a no-free-lunch theorem (which I do believe in) regarding pharmacology.
That seems too strong. A no-free-lunch theorem for pharmacology might make sense for things that we expect to have been already optimized by evolution. Maintaining a good weight in an environment of caloric abundance and whatever else is causing the obesity crisis (corn syrup? microplastics? the chemicals they put in the water to turn the frogs gay?) is probably not one of those things.
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11mo ago
You accidentally.
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
"Lol no," said the man after criticizing people who approach the subject with the sophistication of 12 year olds.
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1yr ago
No biggie. You just need to materialism more and adopt a pattern-based theory of identity.
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1yr ago
In my experience, there's great value to be gained from going completely offline (preferably by disabling your router and physically moving it to another room). But good luck doing that while having a coding job.
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1mo ago
Apparently when some Russians made a local chan-style imageboard, they went a bit too far with being inspired by the original name (at least change the number).
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1mo ago
I flatly don't buy that whether I hit a guy or not is just stochastically determined by parameters plus randomness, I believe that it's actually a product of me electing to do so or not.
There's no contradiction here. You are (some of) the parameters.
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9mo ago
Just because people call something "creative", doesn't mean it actually is.
If we restrict ourselves to the domain of cognitive tasks (ignoring the complexities introduced by physical labor), then I think the speed at which different tasks get automated by AI is a decent empirical index of how much creativity a task requires.
That's the AI effect transformed from a sociological observation into an axiom of some, as of yet unformulated, theory of true intelligence.
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9mo ago
I wonder if Canada fares better. I kind of doubt it. It seems like the Chinese and maybe the French are the only ones left who can handle these types of projects.
Aren't Koreans pretty good too?
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10mo ago
If this is still supposed to be about the unlikeliness of abiogenesis, then this analogy would only make sense if you believed that the conditions necessary for the arising of life happened only once in the entire history of the universe. Then it really would be a miracle.
But it's more like there are a bajillion people about to be executed, each with their own thousand-strong firing squad and we know that at least one of them survived. With so many tries, one of them could have gotten super lucky. (And of course, we don't really know how many marksmen you need to postulate to match the probability of abiogenesis happening in some small volume of the primordial soup at a particular point).
(If it's about the wonder of the fact that our universe can support life at all, then I'm fine with answering "I dunno" while insisting that there's no justification for jumping from "I dunno" to "therefore, God.")
A bit of a difference between "mind that has been paused and will resume in X hours" and "no mind at all".
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