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Spousal death is a big cause of depression. Is that sufficient to convince you of a causal chain?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119479/

I wish I had as many advocates as the devil did.

I feel that mere causation is sufficient to promote action. Waiting for causation feels like rationalizing laziness.

People don't wait to determine whether school district performance is caused by the staff or the selection effect of eager parents, they just move to good school districts.

Chase those good effects AND attempt to understand them. Understanding the mechanism is not necessary to select for good results.

(All ethics is utilitarian in effect. Kantians stop pretending.)

The guys say that death by asthma (severe cases certainly) are gently falling, but it looks pretty flat to me.

https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/asthma_stats/asthma_underlying_de...

Do you have any intuition for how to identify an increased willingness to over-diagnose? It may be true, but how do we test this hypothesis?

Suicide rates are higher in rural America than in urban America.

https://www.cdc.gov/ruralhealth/Suicide.html

Why imagine what is true when you can take a second and find out what is true? The truth is external to you, look for it. I don't want to be a jerk, but you have generated a hypothesis(great), why not test it against the facts available to you? Maybe you owe it to yourself.

According to this, it is also true of Germany:

https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...

Let me know if you have better data. (I am aware that Indian Reservation tilt the scales big time toward rural areas, but do not think that removing them as outliers changes the balance)

I think this is a reasonable baseline for expectations:

>Its equilibrium exists for a reason, disrupting the equilibrium in order to "overclock" a part of it (cognition) must come with backlash of some sort.

But, maybe the reason was the limited caloric landscape of our ancestors. If I could turn a cup of olive oil into productive mental work my income and social group would approve.

Where does sexual selection still favor physical strength exclusively? Doesn't income dominate among developed countries?

No, from the article:

"In my view, the best methods to heighten creativity and increase your “out of the box” thinking are traditional, analog, and noninvasive. These methods can be found in John Dewey’s classic “How to Think” primer, first published in 1910 or even earlier from Rene’ Descartes’s Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and Seeking Truth in the Science."

The opening few paragraphs are just setting the stage. Showing you what crazy people get up to. A juicy dystopic vision to capture reader attention.

RESULTS: During sleep, casein protein was effectively digested and absorbed resulting in a rapid rise in circulating amino acid levels, which were sustained throughout the remainder of the night. Protein ingestion before sleep increased whole-body protein synthesis rates (311 ± 8 vs 246 ± 9 μmol·kg per 7.5 h) and improved net protein balance (61 ± 5 vs -11 ± 6 μmol·kg per 7.5 h) in the PRO vs the PLA experiment (P < 0.01). Mixed muscle protein synthesis rates were ∼22% higher in the PRO vs the PLA experiment, which reached borderline significance (0.059%·h ± 0.005%·h vs 0.048%·h ± 0.004%·h, P = 0.05).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22330017

>If your product was really both good and honest, you wouldn't need to try to force it down people's throats.

You do if bad products are spending more ad dollars than you. Being good isn't enough to capture the market.

Searching for Nuerosymbolic I can only find this paper from 2017 at Microsoft Reasearch. It is from 2017 and uses an RNN to incrementally grows some input source code.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/neuro-s...

>The first module, called the cross correlation I/O network, given a set of input-output examples, produces a continuous representation of the set of I/O examples. The second module, the RecursiveReverse-Recursive Neural Network (R3NN), given the continuous representation of the examples, synthesizes a program by incrementally expanding partial programs

I think stuff like this is very interesting and look forward to a future of old-hats complaining that new programmers let the intellisense write all their code for them.

If you are pro-interrupt-private-transactions then you are in no hurry to push https on everyone.

Everyone has to be somewhere. I would not be surprised to find someone, who feels like the modern internet as it exists is terrible, on hacker news. I believe the sentiment is more common here than say, the comments section on CNN.

I like the approach taken by the folks at the dat project and beaker browser. Let's make the web a DHT already. If we can force consumers to share what they consume then a DDOS becomes impractical for censoring speech (the speech spreads all over the network, making it counterproductive).

Idaho does this. Through disfunction they repealed the entire state regulatory code in May of this year.

https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/idaho-repeals-its...

As long as they agree to enforce whatever the copyright regime wants things can only get worse.

If the regime had to pay for false-positives then there could be balance. Who has the power to pressure youtube to be better?

In a world where distribution is free and frictionless the only thing to create and manage is scarcity.

I thought that they created Stadia so that they could get recurring-revenue-customers to buy their GPUs for them.

Mozilla has done some work on text-to-speech and the other way around too (I think).

[https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech]

Not so surprising that they want to stay on the cutting edge. The best way to shape the future is too invent it (misquoting Alan Kay)

I don't like the always-on surveillance either.

But if people choose these products because the convenience is worth it in their estimation, revealed preferences and all that.

Maybe this suggests a counter-product? An offline, all data is local, product opportunity. Who will build it?

But they are innovating. New products all the time.

They just aren't staying around to collect the (relative to Google) meager profits. I wish more companies knew when to call it quits.

They can't find someone to take their money in exchange for a useful service.

That isn't a Google problem. That's our opportunity. I can't think of a single company known for riding Google's coat tails. Why aren't people responding to the enormous wealth of Google by emulating them? We don't have to be beholden to a few huge tech companies there is space for so many more players.

I try to see things I can do when other people tell me a story about who is to blame for something. It's all a matter of framing.

I think psilocybin (or patentable tweaks) has a future in medicine. Finally, pharmaceutical ads I wouldn't mind. ;)

Psilocybin Lead to (permanent) Increases in the Personality Domain of Openness.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3537171/

I like that they have a "take the flag, but dont hold the ground if it isn't worth it" approach. Learn lots and fail fast. Smaller companies can find a niche for themselves in "we are basically X that google used to do". Let someone else make the market and create your marketing, right?

Maximizing profits (and innovation) over time may mean closing something profitable now, and focusing on new potential profits. Thats great.