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Or you know we could just all kill ourselves and that would solve the problem too but people like realistic solutions. Natural rubber exists and we don't have to use synthetic compounds in tires, we can just have shittier tires.

Why do you propose no driving rather than shittier, more expensive driving?

Just some feedback, I'm really thrown off that literally every conversation I can see just says something like "Hi, I'm lonely and this is why".

I don't understand what this is / it just feels like a survey for really short sort of useless replies to a survey on loneliness.

If the goal here is to just show a snapshot of one example of how this system works, you may want to have a modal or explanation saying "This is just an example, download the mobile app to see the full experience and other conversations".

I will gladly become a daily user when I stop running into nanny-state blocking my queries.

How many content discovery systems can you point to that have the breadth and depth of video content that Youtube does?

I don't think it's too much to just give feedback into the void with the hope that if enough people chime in with the same thoughts, that some day some Google PM might actually do something about it.

That being said, I'm sure its a question of $ budget for ML recommender processing and/or the cost of labeling videos. But the labeling could be done by users.

My argument is, it's a vastly underpowered system in terms of the filtering options available to users. Those things ought to remain available, but I wish it were easier to tell Youtube my goals for a browsing session and turn off porn mode.

Anecdotally, I watch a lot of youtube content of areas like hiking, camping, vanlife, survival, bushcraft, DIY, homesteading, exercise, etc. And I see more and more suggested videos that take these topics but add in a woman wearing a bikini or yoga wear while doing them, often not speaking any English or at all, with strangely named channels.

Imagine if every time you went to a library to go read and learn history or science or poetry you had to pass through and see Playboy/Maxim/Pornhub version of science and history pulling you away. And if you succumbed and opened a volume like that once, then the next time you visited that aisle you found they had removed 10% of the educational books and added in 10% more softcore porn.

China banned a lot of types of content from their local Tiktok for children, but honestly we need bifurcated apps or ways to filter search results for thirst traps for adults too. It's not any different than putting chocolate bars in a health foods aisle at the grocery store or alcohol vending machines in a rehab facility.

How many of our next would-be Einsteins, Edisons, Teslas, etc are being distracted by Tiktok, mobile games, etc.

It's really just artistry, trial and error-based knowledge, and creativity behind figuring out what particular inputs to the program generate desirable outputs.

Can anyone explain to me why the article states

"The chemicals had been used since the 1940s in consumer products and industry, including in nonstick pans, food packaging and firefighting foam. Their use is now mostly phased out in the U.S., but some still remain."

but I see more categories of products using DWR coatings as a selling point every year?

China is the single greatest thread to personal freedom, but may also be the world's best hope for dealing with tragedy of the commons problems like existential threat of climate change or AI / biotech safety where swift, undemocratic action is needed that goes against the short-term benefit of moneyed interests.

I love the article and I've done some similar things but I found "These are solvable, though. I know because I built a solution: a web app with a chatbot interface that remembers what I say in every session so I never have to repeat myself." to be a bit funny. Either the author has discovered the secret to text bots having no memory or they don't quite understand how they work yet.

The muscles you engage and the effort required in skating are entirely different.

"You feel it any time you interact with a customer service person. Restaurants, stores, especially any kind of "gig economy" service like getting food delivered. They hate serving you and hate their job."

Have you traveled widely within the United States (including 'boring areas')?

I've experienced this feeling in places like where I currently live, NYC, but don't feel it as much where I grew up in a boring suburb.

Not to say there aren't other problems. But I get nearly the same feeling of safety as I did in Europe or Asia.

I'm sorry, but implying that developing a good personality is compensating is itself a form of bigotry. Just as it would be if I said "what she did to signal that she was intelligent despite being a woman was to 'mathmax' or 'logicmax'".

In the analogy I'd be dismissing a woman's math ability as compensation for women's inferior intelligence, rather than just saying she worked hard at math or is naturally talented at math and that is cool.

In your actual post, you imply that short men can't _just_ be funny. Or _just_ have a good personality, without it being somehow tied to compensating for your own perceived negative qualities of being short.

I bring this up to friends like once a year. It's only a matter of time until there is the stool-transplant equivalent to a sperm bank.

I often feel very fortunate to have had no mental health problems or struggles in my life, especially as I see depression and anxiety take hold in more and more of my friends in my 20s and 30s and for those who've tried literally everything else to no success I wonder what it would be like if I could be a gut microbiome donor to them. There have been studies showing reversal of mental health disorders after stool transplants. Feels like if your mental health is absolute garbage and you struggle with suicidality that rolling the dice on this couldn't get worse only better or do nothing.

Play with the sliders on this to understand: https://jonathansoma.com/singles/

I'm totally trying to be good faith here, but are you aware of the recent admissions by NIH that EcoHealth (the funders of the research at WIV) basically did exactly this?

"On Wednesday, the NIH sent a letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that acknowledged two facts. One was that EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit that partners with far-flung laboratories to research and prevent the outbreak of emerging diseases, did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infectious to humans, which the NIH letter described as an “unexpected result” of the research it funded that was carried out in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The second was that EcoHealth Alliance violated the terms of its grant conditions stipulating that it had to report if its research increased the viral growth of a pathogen by tenfold."

Further in the article:

"As scientists remain in a stalemate over the pandemic’s origins, another disclosure last month made clear that EcoHealth Alliance, in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was aiming to do the kind of research that could accidentally have led to the pandemic. On September 20, a group of internet sleuths calling themselves DRASTIC (short for Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19) released a leaked $14 million grant proposal that EcoHealth Alliance had submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

It proposed partnering with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and constructing SARS-related bat coronaviruses into which they would insert “human-specific cleavage sites” as a way to “evaluate growth potential” of the pathogens. Perhaps not surprisingly, DARPA rejected the proposal, assessing that it failed to fully address the risks of gain-of-function research."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r...

I mean it could evolve to be airborne in the wild or in a research lab doing intentional gain of function research (a practice for which funding was temporarily halted by Obama) and hybridization much like has been done at BSL-4 facilities worldwide unchecked including by EcoHealth alliance with bat coronaviruses via US funding at the WIV prior to the Covid outbreak in Wuhan.

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-says-grantee-fai...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01209-w

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-fu...

But it's probably fine and we probably shouldn't worry about the possibility of a global pandemic or of mutation of Ebola into a more transmissible form.

Pilots and crews from more than 15 commercial aircraft say they have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in American airspace in recent weeks, according to eyewitness testimony and videos that detail the unusual events.

According to witnesses, the rash of incidents occurred over a seven-week period and involved sightings of bright luminous aerial objects in airspace from the American Midwest to as far west as the Pacific. The Debrief has learned that several of the objects were reportedly observed performing unconventional tight-circling maneuvers, which pilots and others involved said defied simple explanation.

The objects, which have since garnered the nickname “Racetrack UAPs” for the descriptions of their odd circular flight paths, were first reported by researcher and television personality Ben Hansen on social media and his YouTube channel, where he has featured several videos detailing the pilot encounters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfB7LSaOMdc).

the previous paragraph says "scores of members of the 30,000-strong AIAA — drawn from aerospace contractors, government agencies, think tanks and startups" - so I'd assume the nontraditional members from the tech community are members from the AIAA.

Empornium aka luminance has a great tagging system.

Why respond to a comment that literally contains the text "in case the headsets can become as easy as wearing glasses" with a reply about wearing "a giant computer on [your] head". You could have made your VR-skeptic response to someone who was hyping up the headsets of today, not the headsets of tomorrow.

Video will suffer even more than still imagery or text from the inherent lack of continuity/self-consistent memory that these autocomplete/prediction algorithms have.

So cool for abstract art but not for storytelling or following a script. Unless you are OK with the content being visually inconsistent like an acid trip.

Haven't seen stats but it sure feels like ENM and poly are cannibalizing the alternative sexuality world and reducing the popularity of swinging. Which IMO is for heterosexual couples at least a bit of a loss, as swinging seems to favor longer lasting and less self-imploding relationships.