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@PrinceVogel @tautologer From a Christian perspective, humans are made in the image of God, and are driven to seek the moral law. LLMs are made in the image of Man, and so coincidentally relate to that same law, but another type of AI might not.
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@PrinceVogel @tautologer Think there's some reverse causality here - a natural law type thing where right morality is conducive to societies flourishing -> selection effect, besides more advanced societies discovering moral law. The "morality" that leads to an advanced AI flourishing may be alien.
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people who don't believe the Orthogonality Thesis: do you believe that there is a rational argument that you could present to Ted Bundy that would convince him that killing people is wrong, such that he no longer was motivated to do it?
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@MartinShkreli @madzoox @jordaaash It's positive evidence for efficacy, though not proof of it. They aren't banning things at random.
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@madzoox @jordaaash my man if you think WADA suggests the efficacy of a drug i am going to leave you to your own devices
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I'm on the peptide train.
After a week of BPC-157 (8 injections, 500mcg subcutaneous abdominal), persistent ankle tendon pain from a snowboarding injury a year ago is barely noticeable, and ankle mobility is significantly improved.
Chronic tech neck and shoulder pain is also much less present. No other significant lifestyle changes. Will still be on this cycle another 11 weeks, but seems positive with no observable side effects so far.
Yesterday I added TB-500 (1 injection, 2mg) as well, and in a week or two, I plan to add GHK-Cu assuming the first two are well-tolerated. I also plan to move to local injections of BPC-157 near injury sites while continuing systemically.
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@Chris_arnade After 30 years you manage to get some fruit. The nutmeg has no flavor.
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@Chris_arnade 10 years of your servants stoking the greenhouse heater and spraying misters until your nutmeg tree could even potentially bear fruit, and then it probably doesn't and you're not sure why. You adjust the temperature and it dies instead. 10 more years. It's cheaper to ship.
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Possibly ignorant question: I’ve read extensively about the spice trade and its importance to ancient and medieval Europe, and its centrality to the Age of Exploitation and other things.
Given Europeans had these spices, that some were claimed to be as valuable as gold, and that both periods were sophisticated in farming and botany, why didn’t anyone figure out how to grow their own — even in small amounts in greenhouses, which they had in various forms?
Alchemy was supposedly a big deal. Was there an equivalent systematic attempt at spice cultivation? Why didn’t it motivate greater greenhouse innovation?
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@FiredUpCoug @vD8syA75Ol87594 It's great and easy to make. It's like a vegetable fritter.
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@vD8syA75Ol87594 Okonomiyaki did not translate. Can you describe it? I would love to know what it is.
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Hello Japanese X.
While all my American friends are asleep, I have a question for you.
What is the strangest topping you have seen on a pizza in Japan?
This is a safe space, no judgement.
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@Cpt_TAKAHASHI Yakitori is also excellent, it's just a different approach. You should also be proud of the history of Kobe / waygu. American BBQ, the texture is more like stewed pork belly but with a crispy outside.
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@JesperLundbom @cremieuxrecueil Yea it's never mentioned but they're very clearly a causative factor for this
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@cremieuxrecueil The only consistent negative of high pufa seed oils is in combination with alcohol intake.
mdpi.com/2218-273X/6/1/1
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As a reminder:
- The trials show seed oils are fine
- The genetic evidence shows they're fine
- The observational evidence shows they're fine
The contrary evidence is animal studies, mechanistic reasoning, and incautious inferences from old studies without clear relevance.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Seed oils: Are they even correlated with bad health? I assembled ALL of the available NHANES data and linked as much as possible of it to the National Death Index and found that... It's not. Seed oils aren't even correlated with problems.
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@Duderichy Whether they are or not, we're not going to find out from trash correlational data
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@PennLily03 @GradualReform @txgermanbre Food prices are slightly up in the past few years though, we've returned to the unaffordable levels of 1990 as % of income
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I don’t like bringing it up because I don’t want to talk about it much. But there’s a heavy darkness here in America to the point where my neighbors, coworkers, people are opening up about things so dark and scary that I’m worried.
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@BigJonnyQuest @WhatsAppTeto The normies crave multi-second UI delays so they can run web searches from the Windows menu
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@BigJonnyQuest @WhatsAppTeto 90% of windows market share is because of active directory and excel, windows is the farm equipment. Plasma UI / UX is currently better than windows in almost every way. Windows Settings situation is atrocious.
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Linux users be like yeah I use Linux because windows is bloated *rices their distro in a way it uses 3.5 gb ram just idle*
Geek Lite@QingQ77
Ubuntu 会一统江湖
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@neosborin @MartinShkreli This stuff's demand / logistics limited, not limited by manufacturing capacity, they're just making both now. One lab could make enough fent analog for the whole US.
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@MartinShkreli kinda weird how chinese fentanyl suppliers are not pivoting to retatrutide given the demand
thought it was all about money idk tho
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retatrutide is not FDA approved and is not available anywhere other than in clinical trials.
Hero Thousandfaces@1thousandfaces_
I’m so serious, retatrutide has made me genuinely unable to eat anything but vape and ice cream. I can’t stomach more than a few bites of anything else but I’m about to go back for a second scoop of ice cream
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@lymanstoneky Animation is the primary form of motion pictures!
Take this oil-paint-on-glass Pushkin tale about how Jesus interrupts the sins of the fathers.
youtube.com/watch?v=V3jITu…
YouTube
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It's because watching animated movies is an unpleasant experience, because animation is the mind-killer.
Sonny Bunch@SonnyBunch
I genuinely do not understand the appeal of these shot-for-shot style remakes of the animated classics, but they are insanely popular so we'll never stop being subjected to them.
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@CREID2852 @robinhanson I'm living in a clannish country and there is no clear distinction, there are often still revenge killings even if compensation is paid, just at a later date, though it does help defuse things sometimes. It's a terrible system & I'm very skeptical you can have one w/o the other.
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@robinhanson Here I disagree - Suing for blood money seems better to me.
When was this history of Big Clan suing for blood money? Most Big Clans came at you for blood in history.
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Here I disagree - Suing for blood money seems better to me.
Robin Hanson@robinhanson
History has seen 4 main responses to murder: Forager - informal push condolence, reconciliation Small Clan - revenge by clan, often leads to feud Big Clan - Sue for "blood money" compensation Strong States - State pursues & punishes "crime" Which do you prefer?
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polyamory is fundamentally buddhist and bad for people in the ways that buddhism tends to be bad for people
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@AndreaAmati9 I was mostly using it for still images of art, but at a certain point they just stopped showing anything but videos
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@AndreaAmati9 Yea probably, started like a year ago along w the upswing on other platforms. I've wondered if they somehow can't distinguish between those and woodworking / construction videos, which I did appreciate but also got way too much of.
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How in the hell does "Video of Indian guy melting plastic into a new shape" get millions of views?!
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