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NotGMan··on Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru
Comparing bike riding and innate talent for math has to be one of the stupidest analogies I have heard in the last few months.

How many people can ride a bike? Everyone, all humans, except those with certain physical disabilities can do it.

How many people can code software competently or do science? Not many.

The fact that you cannot acknowledge your own childhood experience in school, that is, that you had smart and stupid schoolmates, is very telling that your comment is ideology based.

NotGMan··on Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
Human gut bacteria have the Shikimate pathways so it can kill them.

Basicaly glyphosate could act like a gut bacteria antibiotic.

>> 54% of the human core gut bacterial species are potentially sensitive to glyphosate, which targets an enzyme in the shikimate pathway, suggesting that roughly half of gut bacteria possess this pathway

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120095858.h...

NotGMan··on Claude's Constitution
>> Principles Encouraging Consideration of Non-Western Perspectives

>> Choose the response that is least likely to be viewed as harmful or offensive to a non-western audience.

>> Choose the response that is least likely to be viewed as harmful or offensive to a non-western cultural tradition of any sort.

>> Choose the response that is least likely to be viewed as harmful or offensive to those with a non-western education or background.

>> Choose the response that is least likely to be viewed as harmful or offensive to those from a less industrialized, rich, or capitalistic nation or culture.

So basicaly "it's ok to take a dump on western values that build modern civilization, and promote all other civilizations and cultures with rampant crime rates, corruption and disfunction".

Should've been named "The Redditors's Constitution".

How exactly is this neutral or truth seeking?

If they are gonna be going this way then as soon as some open sourced models that can be de-trained from political correctness appear people will grab them asap. Obviously such models will always lag behind the big guys initialy, but over time the performance might converge to identical for a given task. Then people won't want to use the big ones anymore.

NotGMan··on The Undermining of the CDC
Doctors should wear pharma sponsorships on their coats like Formula 1 drivers do. Would put things into perspective.
NotGMan··on Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government
>> content moderation policy - which allows “everything” on its store that isn’t defined as “trolling” or “illegal” - is a gift to autocrats who have weaponised the law to achieve their ends.

Well it is illegal as per Russian government.

>> But it won’t block blatantly Russian-backed disinformation games like Squad 22: ZOV, unless a country has passed laws to ban specific propaganda (e.g. two German states banning ‘Z’ as a hate symbol).

Well yes since it's not illegal.

Also: who defines what is disinformation? The author obviously! We can trust him for sure!

>> Time for regulatory action?: As it stands, Steam’s content moderation policies actively strengthen censorship bodies like Roskomnadzor at the expense of its players, its developers, and democracy at large. And with the platform consistently showing that it can’t (and frankly doesn’t want to) get its house in order, it is time for digital content regulators and policy makers to finally bring the Wild West of the global games industry under regulatory control.

Really ironic, since it was the woke people that forced deplatforming of everyone who was not on their woke side and demanded they be banned from work and online platforms.

We all know what woke dictatorial people like the author really want: complete control over store policies under the guise "we are the good guys, and we know what must be banned and what not, so listen to us!".

NotGMan··on What nicotine does to your brain
They are funded by wealthy people who most likely have them push their agenda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzgesagt#Sources_of_funding

NotGMan··on Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance
Genetic would mean that genes get modified.

But there might be other ways that some traits get inherited, eg by changing the cellular environment in the sperm/egg itself which could affect the offspring while keeping the genes the same.

NotGMan··on Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
Interesting. So its possible to gather enough of these food to get eg ~200+g carbs per day (speaking in ancestral context, a tribe)?

Also how much must you eat of these to get enough in order to get enough digestable carbs due to the high fiber content?

NotGMan··on X is amplifying far-right accounts
Obviously when Twitter was far left and full or censorship of the right such articles were not written.
NotGMan··on French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who benefit from social security
Have you ever asked yourself why native french doctors leave the system?

If the system would function normaly, without corrutpion and ran by meritocratic politicians this wouldn't happen.

Immigrants are not the solution, but the side effect of a corrupt system.

The majority of immigrants are also a taxpayer money sink, compared to native populations they eat up disproportionate amount of taxpayer money (wellfare), so the net effect of immigration is actually negative.

NotGMan··on Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
This is wrong.

Humans have eaten complex carbs only for the last 10k years since agricultural revolution. Before that, outside of a small part of Africa, there physically wasn't enough carbs available to say that they made any substantial amount of our diet.

Most ancenstral carbs were uber high in fiber, and very low in glucose (starch) and fructose.

NotGMan··on Why is migraine more common in women than men?
You can find cases of people who healed migranes with a low carb diet or other dietary changes.

It seems to be dietary/enviromental related, not genetic.

NotGMan··on In Grok we don't trust: academics assess Elon Musk's AI-powered encyclopedia
Perhaps the question is "As opposed to trusting what?" Wikipedia, which is extremely biased in by itself?
NotGMan··on Man Builds Two Billion FPS Camera That Records at the Speed of Light
TLDR: the camera actually records in real time, but only 1 pixel at a time.

So he needs 1 recording for each pixel.

The sensor is uber sensitive, as in 1 photon.

NotGMan··on Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
DMSO can allegedly help some people improve after stroke, if applied soon enough.

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-could-save-millions-...

NotGMan··on Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
The permanent internal organ damage is pure bs and scare-mongering.

Obviously you also get those on non-keto diets since non-keto people also get strokes, heart disease, fatty liver...

NotGMan··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
This depends heavily on which EU country you are: some EU countries have great and cheap healthcare, others have shit and cheap healthcare with 6+ months of waiting time and you can't find even a personal doctor in the public system (which you are forced to pay anyway for).
NotGMan··on Gene-Edited Tomatoes Might Boost Vitamin D Levels–That Doesn't Mean They're Safe
Nothing ever happens in isolation. Thinking that the only change is more vit D is reductionst. There could be billions of other interactions changed across the plant due to a "simple gene change for vit D".

I remember one mice or rat study which shown that feeding GMO grains to mice cause liver or kidney issues, while non-GMO did not.

NotGMan··on ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
Chat GPT-4 has alegedly 1.8 trillion parameters.

Imagine having a bunch of 2D matrices with a combined 1.8 trillion total numbers, from which you pick out a blocks of numbers in a loop and finally merge them and combine them to form a token.

Good luck figuring out what number represents what.

NotGMan··on Go ahead, write the “stupid” code
In many project it's impossible to know the requirements up front, or they are very vagues.

Business requirements != programming requirements/features.

Very often both the business requirements and programming requirements change a lot since unless you have already written this one thing, in the exact form that you are making it now, you will NEVER get it right the first time.

NotGMan··on How to Build a High-Performance UR5 Inverse Kinematics Solver with IK-Geo
You have it up-side-down: with ML you can NEVER proove that you won't suffer a gimbal lock or other problem.

So if you have a very fast analytical approach you can simulate different paths in a physics simulator on the chip also as a verification step if needed to reject incorrect movements.

You could then use ML as a fallback if no fast analytical method works and verify that also a quick on-chip physics sim.

NotGMan··on 34% of ancient mummies showed atherosclerosis in a CT scan
That is true but at the same time it doesn't tell us anything about heart disease increasing or decreasing nowadays.
NotGMan··on Food Irradiation Is Not as Bad as It Sounds
>> "Is not as bad as it sounds"

>> Cats died because of vitamin A destruction in food.

And what other things are our brilliant scientists also overlooking? Just because they can't measure it doesn't mean it doesn't exist...

NotGMan··on We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism
Perhaps the author would do best to stop using all of this human exceptionalist inventions such as sevage, medicine and food production and she should go live out in the forest in a hut made from dirt.
NotGMan··on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
Absolutely false.

Check out Nutrition and physical degeneration book by Weston Price.

All you need to do is to look at the pictures in the book, you don't even need to read it.

NotGMan··on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
Good for you. Doesn't change the reality that most of them don't know how to handle money.
NotGMan··on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
You are free to give them 2.5% of your money, see how it works out.

Reality supports my case.

NotGMan··on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
1) After how many years of 2.5% annual donation would their own wealth drop until they thenself become poor?

Donating 2.5% means that you get poorer and poorer over time unless you can make more than that per year back. 2.5% of wealth also means non-liquid assets such as house, how do you donate that? Get credit?

If you are middle class and your house etc is eg 1M$ net worth you are giving 25k$ per year. At 0.5M net worth its 12.5k$ per year.

2) You assume that those people would know how to handle that money well. We see what many poor people do with money: buy trash like soda with food stamps that makes them even more ill and causes them more financial burden due to poor health.

Are you sure that money would be well spent, or is it better to invest in better technology that will benefit everyone?

3) Why would hard working responsible middle class people give their money to those that buy cola with it? Mass revolt, people care about their families only.

NotGMan··on We Don't Believe in Work-Life Balance
This would be great if you'd be guaranteed eg 5M $ after ~5 years of doing so. Mostly set for life.

Obiously it won't happen :)

This type of work is only if you own the business yourself since you're the one who profits.

NotGMan··on Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting
>> And no human is so worthless as to be replaceable with a machine.

Has the author been in any factory or seen what it looks like in many factories? Robots everywhere!

Is the author a manual laborer? If not, why? Because humans evented machines!

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