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And yet most will not even get close of being an ecosystem. "Green" and "parks" are mostly consisting of 2-10 species of plants, not more, and none of the species having a fully life cycle (seed to humus), also taking the space dozens of other species would otherwise fill (insects, funghi etc).

Im regents park london, they let some cut trees rot on purpose, years later there are still no funghi visible growing on them, while in a forest that happens. Ive also not met a single mosquito there in years.

Most city parks are mere deserts to me. It sure still is healing to be outiside, but calling that "nature" is a blunt lie in my ears.

Thanks a lot for supporting the current state of art research on the field.

Imagine the horrors of not being taken seriously, people saying we need to be cured - i cannot not compare it to conversion therapies for lgbtq+. There are actually institutions promoting this, called ABA therapies.

We need people like you to thrive as part of this society, thanks a lot! :D

The biggest issue people with adhd have (me included) is focus. Methylphenidate helps a lot with that as its mechanism is proven.

It does however not change the "neurodivergent" thinking and processing. There still is a clear distinction from non-adhd ers - in all aspects of being, including communication.

Many issues that make these things a "malfunction" are due to todays system of work and society. Not judging anything, but simply pointing out the huge diff between that and e.g. hunter-gatherer societies where we lived in at least 100x longer - the genotypes of adhd & asd established themselves over that periods in humans, compared to "disease" like trisomy 21 the rates are much higher too - its not a disease but a neurotype and most research agrees today.

Humanity Profits from diversity in all forms, like all biological systems - it makes them more resilient (thats also used in ML btw).

Trying to cure such things by making them dissapear is sick by design and often results in eugenics theories.

I use this opportunity to say that "help" organizations like autism speaks that promote finding "cures" do a lot of harm - similar to conversion therapies for lgbtq people.

Autistics should self advocate as much as possible, thats also the safest organisations to support.

I must say that thats solely my opinion - many autistics also suffer a lot and would love to be healed - even if it means losing their personality, sufferings are real. I just dont think its realistic to implement such things until we understand tvmhe brain fully and could also e.g. change psychopaths, color blind people etc (not easy "fixes")

Thanks a lot for asking and reading this!

There are alt-right theories that nutrition also impacts brain development such that global south people can not get as intelligent as white people. Where do you draw the line between your theory and that theory?

Thats how homophobia develops too Ive heard, and cancer too, people in hiroshima died because thw radiation destroyed their biome which killed them, not their dna!

Ok, lesbians have different microbiomes, nice to hear!

Not relevant to the to be proven point that change to biome implies change in sexuality, none at all.

There is, its the dsm-5 diagnostic criteria. Sure, giving that diagnosis is no mathematical proof, but the criteria are clear.

Curing autism is as ludacris as curing homosexuality. If you laugh now please remember this in 20 years and admit that you were wrong, thanks

So youre saying its not disproven that autism cannot be cured, hm interesting. Then you surely must also think that conversion therapy can work, many people there report it worked for them too, didnt they?

And I did not lie. There are people who claim that. That they die weeks later is another part of the story.

Point Im wanting to make: claims dont prove anything.

Thank you so much... It really feels like autistics are where lgbtq+ was 40 years ago - bad comparison some might, but the best one I know of!

No. Wiring in the sense of architecture. We process things from details to overview, bottom to top, while allistics do the opposite. Thats the wiring I meant. It is not wrong, you interpretet my analogy differently which can happen! Imagine the difference between intel and amd chips, both are x86 but they have a different architecture, even though the transistors work the same...

I agree that some parts might be fluid, especially what the term autism denotes and entails. The way I use it, it summarizes my neurological differences compared to allistics (non-autistics), not today and right now but throughout my _whole_ life.

Anyone who says that autism can be cured, would therefore have to change my being fundamentally, which I personally would oppose, as it is this exact difference, that allowed me to get to points intelectualy where others were not before.

If anyone wants to eradicate autism, sure, go for it, just dont expext any dirac, newton, einstein, and many others to ever get Born again.

Yes, this topic releases a lot of emotions Im aware of that. Whats important to me is that being autistic means being different - not worse. "a relatively fixed mindset" sounds soo pathological.

Autistics hold onto their constructs and routines, because their minds are too flexible and boundry less. I could frame that NT "rigidness" as a pathology just as well.

Thanks for being that open and non black/white thinking to let that sink in and accept it because it comes from an autistic person who does know better about them than someone who is not.

And Im aware of not targeting the main subject of gut bacteria here, and apologize for that. Im sure with your mental fitness youll be able to separate the two aspects and still value the insights shared, thanks!

I know people that claim to live from sunlight alone. Your point is meaningless

I wanted to make it easy for you to disprove iff it does not holding - lack of such disprovals only strenghten my point.

The point is autism is a neurological condition - like a hardware wiring. Changing that because of bacteria can be compared to changing sexualities imo - and Im highly sceptical of it.

Saying autism depends on your microbiome is like saying your sexuality depends on it. Sure, might make sense, yet there is no single Person that changed its preferences after a change in diet or microbiome death through antibiotics. That sounds like a pile of crap to me - Im autistic myself btw

In the end - an AI should have these competing subsystems in one system - just as our brains are one system. What I find extremely interesting is how perception and thinking differs from person to person too - it was a "taboo" topic to call this neurodiversity - just as other genetic traits, but AI makes this relevant more than ever imo. Sure, its complicated and much comes from nurture (Nurture vs nature.. as exposure/epigeneticd vs genetics) but there sure are markable differences - the ones starting to stand out are e.g. adhd / autistic people, but Im sure it wont stay just there over time!

The people I know working as quants are jelous of me getting free food & working from my bed.

True, iff the error persists correction cycles which are present, how exactly they work / if theyre comparable with eccs I dont know.

Im aware of that, but was rather thinking about ECCs like hamming-code, that are able to correct single sequences of info based on surplus info in that same string.

Might error-correction play a role? Having a lightly inefficient base 4 system might provide capacity for the surplus error correcting code information capacity?

It makes absolute sense. Our perception system is a giant Filter. Providing more information to it by emtion-provoking images rather than abstract, low info graphs seems logical to achieve higher retainaince and presence in people

Getting more publicity and public support and get the science much further in the mid to long term. Its a legitimate consideration to make imo. Were not bound by rocket capacity as much as we are by public support & funding.

Have cows been fed corn for thousands of years too? Most nitrogen that is bio available today stems from human fertilizer production [0]. Its the only thing allowing orders of magnitude more human, cows and farmland in the first place to exist. No natural fixation process can hold up with human output of carbon gases.

[0] veritassium video about german haber-bosch process, which is the basis for 2/3 of humans existing today. Fuck jesus, these guys are your literal daddies!!

Im autistic and have the same Problem. I use chrome extensions which work fine

Your text is overly emotional instead of being what I asked for. Its about numbers. The positive things have a value X, the negatives (that so long no one has to pay för) also, lets call it Y. If X > Y so be it, but limit the Profit at |X-Y|. Its not anyones decision what X and Y are, but facts that can be empiricaly derived. I dont care how many uses substance Z has, I only care about Y not being dispersed without liability, which happens today. If Y is too high, the Market shall regulate itself and will provide alternatives.

Interesting aspect I wasnt aware of. What could a positive externality of e.g. co2 emission be? What of "fun" hobby noise? Do you have other examples?

It wouldnt work to make a net calculation with its costs?

A general shift in mentality and therefore law has started and needs to be pushed through in the next years:

Price externalized costs.

The world was treates like an infinite resource that it isnt. Emit carbon? It has its price to emit that that someone needs to pay. Same should go with noise etc. Reving that Car at midnight waking up hundrets of people? That does an economic health damage of thousands of dollars too.

Not Germany, but the FDP Party is to blame, representing sub 5% subset of voters.

Not a physicist, but I'd say it depends on what you define as parameter optimized against. For space, Id be interested in heat energy dissipated per unit time per kimogram per cargospace for exanple, where radiators suck compared to convection coolers