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SSRI's are known to have side effects on your sex drive, libido and anorgasmia in some cases.

The bar for informing patients on potential side effects is so low. The silver bullet attitude many doctors carry with ssri prescriptions is quite misleading.

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I would have avoided the hype train and intellectual amazement for computers.

Treating startup ideas as an over-achieving school project, wasted a lot of time.

Getting a clear handle on what kinds of problems I can make computers solve and what is unrealistic theory, would have saved a lot of time and angst.

Because my ideas for programs, are orthogonal to the direction of the computing industry.

Therefore it would have been better if I went into finance.

Most videos are radio shows... with accurate transcriptions.

Reading maps gave you a view of the surrounding area and the bird's eye view of optional roads nearby. You can load up on the gaps in your knowledge and skip the rest of navigating.

GPS interuptions puts me on edge while I'm talking to passengers and changing lanes by muscle memory.

I can empathize with the younger generation struggling to point north, the UIs for GPS maps are surprisingly myopic.

The edge cases aren't fully captured.

That accountant driving to Lowes twice a year to pick up mulch, finds out he's missing a shovel or a reticulation fitting or something unexpected. The pickup truck is a solid work horse in new edge cases.

There's nothing worse than finding out that your hatchback can't fit a ladder you needed to buy because you broke off a section of the gutter when you tried to pull a broken branch off your roof.

A guest bedroom is often extra storage, kids sleep-over room and a communal signal that there's a spare bed for friends and family if they ever need it. The social signalling is worth the price of admission for the home owner.

Just saying the edge cases cover more outcomes than direct use.

It has to be the right religion. The world's population centres do not have a 1:1 match of religious services to families living there.

Putting humans in the wrong religious grouping leads to more persecution.

On a basic level, kids give off joy and kids enjoy the world in ways that are long dead to us.

It is enjoyable to watch them grow and putting energy into kids when they are young feels rewarding.

Pretty much everything a kid does is important and/or rewarding biologically to the parents.

I've noticed parents don't talk about it in public, they've forgotten what it is like to be single and wrapped up in work.

Parents often only say that 'you should have kids' and 'it's great' with no further description of what it is like.

Parents are a strange phenomena, they become tribal and grounded, once a man becomes a father.

Trust isn't enough. Humans constantly error checking AI output, get worn down and then the stupidity leaks in.

Can't use AI as a crutch, it eventually does the thinking for you.

Agent Smith - I say your civilization, because when we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization.

What works for me:

- Write out bad ideas on spare paper to get them out of your head.

- Write out good/private ideas into a diary, like a conversation or journal you have with yourself.

Any non-practical information you want to keep in your head should be organized. Opinions, theories, and whatever should be threads that are tied down to some mental storage device, (a mental map) or a software solution (excel doc).

After a while you start to see patterns in the media you're receiving and it becomes less mentally taxing to watch.

The desire to self improve is not a goal. It is a desire. Overheating with desire, cannot help you to move forward.

I'd focus on conserving one meaning or something you can see, and dodge the idea that you're going to mentally generate a good direction out of the infinite slew of media inputs to your life.

I don't think you (or anyone) can outsmart the problem of self improvement.

Move into a sharehouse with people you trust and stream yourself on twitch.

Move into a basement where you can't be surveilled (though your quality of life and sanity will likely drop even more).

Let the gang know you're broke or poorer than you let on. Take the target off your back.

Divest the funds and get a normal job where you're in a workplace 9-5 so that it's unlikey you will be bothered by random people.

The probative value of silence is very complex. I wouldn't be sure their silence suggests anything good.

As soon as that staff member comes up with, or finds a better way to freedom.. they'll take it.

C level pay for A level work, loses out.

False pretenses have become very common in the past 15yrs. We often roll it up into the idea of constant change and private individuals being free to change their mind on a moments notice, or withhold majorly important caveats.

The idea of a true pretense and the trust that used to go with it, has been pretty firmly buried.

Odd and surprising, I've never done that kind of imagining and now that you describe it in a relatable way, I found myself doing it.

There is a natural instinct to return back to my normal way.

Thank you for the insight!

I can pull specific, full and quality images and "scenes" with related emotions from memory.

When prompted to answer the question, it's constructing the image on the fly. A moving image that is partially created and then only remembered if I put energy into remembering it.

The fidelty is one step lower than full cinematic lush glory, and above all the other answers.

I love gathering the concepts listed in these kinds of articles.

The structure or grand narrative to organize these concepts into a coherent whole is always missing though.

Not sure about it.

We build more sophisticated programming architectures than pop psychology presents to us in these articles.

The internet has fractionated out our cultural references and commonly used language. This has caused the communication of belief to separate out from lanaguage.

The Facebook Spying idea is the common place to agree and complain about phone spying in general. It is the poster boy for communicating an implicit belief about a larger topic.

We have begun to use language to communicate implicit and shared beliefs without any evidence, facts, agreement or qualification.

We come to our own beliefs privately and then choose a poster boy to carry the conversation. There's not much surprising about the continuation of conspiracy theories, or topics that look like conspiracy theories. We shredded the common cultural references apart...

I miss when new tech was tested on military grunts and scientific r&d departments.

Leave the test pilot work, to test pilots.

Don't misrepresent the product to my family members so they can be your beta testers, at the cost of their lives when it goes wrong.

The religious status of the people running the state is often enough evidence that the state and the church are unavoidably, mutually overlapping concepts.

LearnOpenGl.com

Possibly a smidge outdated.

Goes from blank window to rendering 3d meshes with advanced lighting techniques (HDR, SSAO and more).

Heped me understand shader pipeline, so I recommend it.

https://learnopengl.com

When reading and writing was new, there was a real problem of authors becoming reactive and narrowing their writing to a reaction of what they read.

The same concept can happen with coders. They don't have an understanding and purpose for code outside of the computer, and they code reactively. Therefore it is easy for them to forget.

It is also worth noting that the culture and electronic lesuire has become very mentally consuming (if you allow it to be). It is possible to use electronic media so much that you forget code.

The newness of the field has nothing to do with it. The internet and tech in general has benefitted from being outside the law and doing all the old illegal sales and marketing techniques, online.

We can get into the weeds on the detail of the law, and we'll find in the end it looks something like where we started with 'common' law.

Law doesn't need to satisfy the majority of people, most don't want or care about what the law says or does. The law needs to secure some core concepts of liberty, freedom and move on.

There's nothing new under the sun, it's a lot of work. Making small changes works better than thinking about an entirely new system.

I don't know why he rails against English.

Computer programming uses a small subset of English in code and the industry nearly always uses the American socio-cultural kind of English.

English is the fullest language we have, with all the infamy of pilfered concepts from the European continent.

The language/natural language distinction is reductionist, halving all language, when in reality it is a structure that cannot be halved.

He recommends reducing languages down to their most basic elements. This is a mistake that doesn't go anywhere. You end up with a pile of sticks.

All his crictisms of English (one voice, limited understanding, ect) can be leveled at any living, breathing human.

I wonder where the experiment goes. His criticisms of English should be better.

We could have kept social rules outside of the CPU and made sure the machines were unintelligible.

We should have kept the machines blind and retained social control between people and families.

Once we allowed machine code to be intelligible, we poured control of services, governments and speech into machines.

Truly free speech in a CPU became synonymous with the concept of a virus. And real free speech has followed, programmed rules on an electronic device are socially silencing people.

The concept of a virus, outlawed one of the best uses computers could have provided, maintaining speech globally.

Now we are racing to the bottom, to put the rules of society into a machine. Then lock society out of the machine, with a few holding all the keys to the computing kingdom.

Slavery to machines, as enjoyable as it is, will eventually become nonsensical.

As power becomes centralized, all the new moves will be made by those outside the system.

So I think that CPUs should be running unintelligible code, and LLMs are a baby step towards that.

A computer owned society doesn't really need jails. You can deny 90% of services to a criminal and track and limit their movement digitally.

We are already in the jail.

Have found people are more tribal for the last six months, taking less referrals and sticking to community tips and accepting known quantities from friendship networks.

Publications can be silenced by a superinjunction in the UK.

Not allowed to publicize specific information and not allowed to say they are gagged.

Honestly the UK is one of the few places that treats speech like it matters enough to be kept private. A refreshing change in some ways.

Yes genetic testing is suspectible to psuedo science, something like phrenology.

It is much healthier to offer genetic improvements for flaws than arbitrarily incriminate by way of dna makeup.

Then it's war. What did you think I was going to do in my bedroom? Play blackjack?

Assign all the mates and expect all the children you want, again you have agricultural control. Taking away food is totalitarian as needed.

Don't look at my exam paper, don't look at my christmas present, don't look in my bedroom. They're for me, not the NSA.

Yes but there is no requirement to surveil someone's bedroom, when their life totally depends on your agricultural handouts.

A hard reset on surveillance is required. We have to build housing that cannot be surveilled, blacklist by default. Only whitelist approved sensors.

Security through obscurity is fine if everyone can do it.

Security for me, clarity into you, is a big problem. We should build unsurveillable homes.