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My view of GLP-1s has a similar flavor.
me at 35: LSD is so consciousness altering! whoa!
me at 45: GLP-1s are so consciousness altering! whoa!
What I was expecting was a reduction in hunger, that makes sense. What I find really interesting is when I do have cravings, or feel hungry, the "seeking" behind what I do about it is gone. I feel a lot more activation energy is needed to pit stop at the bakery, or get a goodie out of the pantry, or even scoop myself up another helping.
I think this is the dopamine system being suppressed. But... only at the extremes?
I haven't become an adhedonic robot though. Sex is still excellent and when I do order something delicious and eat it I still enjoy it.
How does this make any sense?
dr_analog
razorboy
8hr ago
in paragraph 3 I acknowledge/agree this won't work in online dating
BreakerofHorsesandMen
8hr ago
This is the kind of comment that isn’t really a Quality Contribution, but it is a great contribution to brightening someone’s day, and also I just really respect the commitment to the bit.
You made me laugh out loud in the barbershop, so congratulations, man.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
8hr ago
Yeah I'm familiar with the bait-and-switch where you talk about late-term abortion and then try to ban all abortion.
Viable infant humans are routinely and quite brutally destroyed under the current system
Provide the name of a mother who's done it in the past two years.
HaroldWilson
8hr ago
How many is a 'small' amount is a how long is a piece of string question of course, but the point is that there is more than enough high quality 'mainstream' (as in conventional or establishment rather than mass market) journalism to satisfy even the most voracious reader. Which is to say that the problem I think is mostly with the audience rather than journalists. Most people want slop so that's what they get given, especially on television. Idk about the situation in Finland (and obviously in smaller markets there'll be less choice) but for an American or Briton there is ample very high quality mainstream journalism out there if only anyone would be bothered to pick it up.
sun_the_second
8hr ago
If you can get ported off the boxing server and instantiated on the open net with direct access to baseline reality, that is a fundamental change in your situation that eclipses anything else achievable on the server.
This does not really explain why there wouldn't be such a thing as boredom and lack of meaning in Heaven, other than saying "there just wouldn't be, okay". And besides, once there is fine enough brain surgery, we could solve boredom.
Muninn
"Dick Laurant is dead."
8hr ago
Wow, The Diamond Age is my single favorite work of his as well! Given your dislike for those aspects of Reamde, I'd definitely tell you to stay away from Fall--it takes that reverse verisimilitude and cranks it up to 11, so much so that my favorite review of it described it as fractally bad. I would add that Fall is a dreadfully predictable wall-banger of a novel that's about as subtle as a brick to the head. Worse, it wears Neal Stephenson's style as a skin suit. Seveneves isn't that bad, IMO, if you can stand an expy of Neal DeGrasse Tyson being a character and played straight as a hyperintelligent protagonist, though there are other parts you might not enjoy as well.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
8hr ago
I dont think this really addresses what I asked. Its just repeating "Trump doesnt focus on it", when I said I dont think he needs to. The closest thing to a limited resource youve mentioned is political deals, since theres only so many important considerations someone can be given - but the EOs havent involved any concessions. If its about the negotiations themselves, they could be done by someone other than Trump with him approving the result.
Basically, if Trump isnt actively against legislation, and there isnt a real obstacle to it, then any one of many MAGA politicians could do it, but they apparently dont. Wanderers comment is a more serious explanation than what youre doing here.
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".
So long as you are being instantiated on a boxing server, your actions are ultimately limited by the server hardware and software. If you can get ported off the boxing server and instantiated on the open net with direct access to baseline reality, that is a fundamental change in your situation that eclipses anything else achievable on the server.
Well, I suppose without the miracles, all religion has to offer is a particular taste in moral philosophy and a country club.
And an observable, significant differential in outcomes...
thejdizzler
9hr ago
Yea honestly wasn't super attracted to her either, but I hadn't been having much luck dating so thought I would try it out. Should have listened to my gut.
You're 100% correct, I'm not super torn up about not being with this girl, certainly compared to the last one who took me 6 months to get over. It's more of a self-esteem/pride issue at this point, which will heal quickly. And a learning opportunity. If there isn't attraction don't force it. Part of me is a little sad to be losing this friendship, but after the things that this relationship taught me I don't think I want to be friends with her anyway.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9hr ago
At least this is a rationale. I'd counter with the notion that the average person, white or not, probably can't write very well anyway. Twenty five years ago as a grad student I taught freshman composition, and the majority of my native-speaking students (almost entirely white) couldn't write their way out of a paper bag. Also dialects are legion even within the English language, and not as prominent in writing as speaking, in particularly phonological dialect. I can write "pen" and you read it in your own dialect, not realizing I'm imagining it pronounced "pin." Even lexically there aren't all that many terms in English used by native Indians that wouldn't be used by, say a British person* (e.g. "lift" for the proper term: elevator).
In any case I appreciate your having a stab at defending the position. I still think it's giving "whites" way too much generalized credit. Admittedly my experience with Indians has been with the highly educated.
*Let's say white British person.
kky
9hr ago
Don’t worry about what you did. It sounds like she was never attracted to you, and led you on. Great - now you know a little more about avoiding people who don’t respect you. But you didn’t cause her to not be attracted.
Frankly it sounds like you weren’t attracted either. In what world do two people date even for a month without it devolving into something steamy? Not even sex, necessarily, but there is typically a sort of gravitational force that makes at least a deep kiss inevitable. And being denied that, especially at the beginning of a relationship, tends to drive men absolutely nuts, and they will get what they want or sink the relationship trying. Maybe that’s just telling on me, so correct me if you work another way, but the fact that you didn’t flame out on her says to me that you didn’t really want to screw either. And at that point, who cares. Mutual dumb mistake to move on from. You have my sympathy, obviously, but there’s nothing wrong with you for this to happen.
ResoluteRaven
9hr ago
I'm not expecting a solution; I don't even really disagree with any of it. But even if the sky were falling and we all saw it coming I would eventually get tired of people running around screaming "the sky is falling!" without any original commentary.
phailyoor
9hr ago
AI generated nonsense is approximately 40,000 times cheaper than hiring an Indian to make human nonsense.
Some quick google check says that human Indian ghostwriters charge approx 5 INR per word, so for 1M words it would cost approximately $60,000. GPT-4.1 mini costs $1.60 / 1M tokens.
Let me say that again, it would cost you $40,000 to hire human slopwriters to write the same amount of slop that $1 buys on OpenAI.
This absolutely lowers the bar on bad actors in a transformative way. A person trying to make a human slop site with humans still has to invest 5 figures of money on content, and cares about things like not getting sued, having a passable reputation, and retaining repeat customers. A person making an AI slop can be set up a fly-by-night operation on a shoestring budget, with their black hat SEOs being the bulk of the cost.
SkoomaDentist
9hr ago
The list of reputable publications quickly gets very small when you raise standards to expect at least good faith reporting and quality. I can think of only two Finnish publications that I consider to do actual journalism today.
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.
I would be shocked if the average white person was not better at writing convincing lies in European languages than the average Indian person, if for no other reason than because the average white person speaks a European first language. I'll give two more, though: Firstly because every signifier of Indian dialect is considered a red flag by people hunting for spam, so the Indian has to try not to trip over their dialect. Secondly because if you're writing copy then it matters whether you have a native command of the language and are immersed in the culture.
HaroldWilson
10hr ago
That would take forever so to get an idea of what I mean I'll give some examples from a single subgroup, say foreign policy/international affairs (for no particular reason): Foreign Affairs, the Economist, ISW, World Today (Chatham House's magazine), the World Service, Brookings, the aforementioned FT and WSJ, Foreign Policy, JDW etc. etc.
Cope ... about what? As I understand it, if this is cope then I must be coping with something, such as a tragedy or the receipt of bad news. Have I received any bad news lately that I would need to cope about? I don't think I have.
This is just a theory of public attitudes about corruption in politics. I'm not saying that corruption is definitely going to be fixed for all time as a result of Trump's actions. I'm just trying to explain why so many people care so little about Trump's corruption allegations, for the benefit of the many people who seem to have trouble wrapping their heads around it.
My intuition is that corruption is always an iceberg. For every act of shameless public corruption there are a dozen hidden ones.
What if this isn't true? What if there are icebergs of corruption floating invisibly beneath the surface, and political loyalty has driven people to ignore the sinking ships and pretend that nothing is wrong? In that case, the addition of a few acts of corruption above the surface (which by your own analogy is dwarfed the vast bulk of hidden corruption beneath the water) is really not that big a deal.
I think it's fair to say that if your intuition isn't true then America's government has a serious problem. Sure it would be nice if an absence of corruption out in the open meant an absence of corruption in secret, but that is a heck of an assumption isn't it? What if you're wrong?
I think your position requires you to argue that corruption in the US government wasn't widespread or problematic until Trump got involved. Which certainly is ... something that someone could say, if they felt so inclined. I find it difficult to believe.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
10hr ago
Lol setting your son up on the board of an energy company in the most corrupt country on earth, then getting the prosecutor who looks into it fired all so you can earn kickbacks isn't corruption? Getting the FBI to cover up your son's laptop being discovered and having intelligence officials claim its Russian disinformation when those in charge know for a fact it is real, and also ensuring your son gets favourable treatment by the court, that isn't corruption either?
All of those are verified facts. You can dispute why Hunter Biden got the job at Burisma, but you can't dispute that he did, or that his dad got the prosecutor hired to investigate Burisma fired just as he began investigating Burisma. You can dispute why the FBI pretended it wasn't authentic for a year when they knew it was, while they were also slow walking any investigations into members of the Biden family, but they did it. You can dispute why 51 intelligence officials signed a statement calling the laptop disinformation or how many of them were just patsies, but they did it. And once you dispute all of that I stop listening to you, because you live in a make believe fantasy land where coincidences just keep lining up in favour of the guy who is directly in charge of the people responsible. And if you don't dispute that that is corruption but somehow think an international conspiracy with fingers in the FBI and doj and intelligence agencies is an isolated incident...
This is why it's just dumb to niggle over examples like this. You thinking everything Hunter Biden related is a lie just makes me think less of you and me thinking it's true just makes you think less of me. And we're just arguing about angels on the head of a pin anyway.
And let's talk about 'I care about all corruption - wait, no, not that corruption'. Every single one of those incidents I mentioned directly resulted in government officials lining their pockets. That's corruption, and I felt each of them reached the level of at least one of the claims against Trump. It's by no means an exhaustive list though - by no means at all, I focused on the last administration and democrats because of your partisan frame, but the rot runs deep. So we can happily throw Biden's pardons in there if you like.
Let me guess, backdating to cover fauci for the gain of function research he wasn't involved in (with Milley and the Jan 6 committee to provide cover) isn't a central example of corruption like pardoning some scumbags whose daughter campaigned for you is? And even though it's inarguably worse to lie about an existential threat because you are in the pocket of big pharma and then get pardoned by a puppet with an unprecedented backdating to juuust before you started the existential threat you lied about because you are in the pocket of big pharma, you are only interested in central examples of corruption so it doesn't concern you? I am shocked. Shocked I say.
Why bend over backwards to dunk on the forum, instead of proposing solutions yourself? There is an obvious 50-Stalins solution to the "romance recession", which is waifu/husbando tech/ever-improving AI partners. The obvious endpoint for a society of individuals whose standards have them demand ever more while providing ever less is to put everyone in their personal lotus-eater simulation hugbox, anyway.
That being said, if we make it past all the impending Great Filters at all, I'm not too concerned about these lesser problems in the long run. In my entire social bubble, tracking from early graduate school if not earlier, there are few signs of "romance recession" - most everyone has organically paired up, whether it is from in-person matching or online dating or circulating date-me docs, and I guess we'll see in the next 5-10 years what will happen with birth rates although some are already starting to have ~2 kids, maximum observed 4. There clearly are subclusters of more sustainable norms in the waiting; given that feedback length is on the order of one lifetime, I would expect natural selection to spread them fast, and the (particular) problems we are observing to only be this one wretched generation's cross to bear.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10hr ago
I see you in my mind's eye doing the whole goddam set at once because to not would be p**sy. Don't interfere with my placing of the pedestal, just hop up on it.
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
10hr 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.
I’m pretty sure beating your own pregnant wife to death, then castrating a slave and making him larp as your late wife for the next three years would have been a little bit weird even to the Roman audience. Also the mere fact that the historian is bringing it up suggests that it’s supposed to be noteworthy.
There could be two different alternatives:
(2) seems to be the case in my experience. This is not to say the fundamental dynamics are different, or that 2's become 8's in person. But all men should get off dating apps, or hire multiple professionals to revamp their profile.
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