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I hope that regular exercise of my body and mind can minimize this.

I've taken a medication that occasionally makes me feel stupid. For a day I might be unable to continue reading a book without re-reading each sentence a few times. I might not be able to talk to people about a complicated or technical subject without stumbling over my words. I will find it difficult to think in the abstract terms, and when I listen to others who talk about abstract values and concepts I have to continually relate it back to a concrete example otherwise I'm lost. My IQ is normally between 140-155. When I go through these brain-fog days I estimate it's at around 90.

It feels terrible. When I first experienced it, I was terrified that it would be permanent because that would keep me from doing my job and keeping up with my interests and hobbies. Now I only get this brain-fog every so often. I think it helps me communicate with people better and has helped me learn patience. I finally understand how some people might be genuinely, earnestly trying to understand what I'm trying to say or teach, but can't understand it because I'm communicating it at the right level of analysis.

If you're intellectually gifted (many programmers are), you shouldn't take that for granted. You got lucky, and if you weren't lucky enough to be intelligent, it might have been impossible to do the same kind of work you do today. Please appreciate that.

What do you make of dowries, where the bride's family transfers wealth to the groom's family? Are they buying the sex of the groom? This would be consistent with what you are saying. Dowries (wealth from bride's family to groom's family) are much more common today and throughout history than a dower (the reverse wealth transfer).

Before you criticize me for calling a dangerously flawed currency a shitcoin, you should criticize those who use "bitcoin" and "cryptocurrency" interchangeably. Bitcoin was fine back in the day but is terribly flawed in 2019. Are the fanboys never going to move beyond this?

That's really interesting.

In America we are seeing the acceleration of sex commodification to it's zenith.

Pornography is a symptom of the commodification of sex, much like legal prostitution, sugar-daddies, and even the transactional swiping hookup apps that dominate dating among lower age groups. It is the tendency of a capital-dominated culture to turn everything into a commodity that is bought and sold; sex is merely one element that this system has consumed. After the wide acceptance of the birth control pill, the trend has been for women to take the same career and life path as men. Women no longer need long term relationships for sex or material needs; sex in the age of the birth control pill is done on women's terms and negotiated for a price they accept, as long as that relationship does not interfere with maximum capitalist production.

It's possible that if sex were not a commodity, we would be happier and more mentally healthy.

You legally can, but you shouldn't.

That's why you don't use a shitcoin, you use Monero.

Thanks for the link, I was looking for something to read about this topic.

Guess I'm not moving to Germany then!

Engineers at Instagram, Facebook dot com, Youtube, and Twitter DO NOT want to think about how they are affecting the mental health of their users. All they want to do is spout some platitudes and wash their hands of all responsibility.

Would the doctors take fewer appointments per day and make less money? Or do doctors get paid by the hour?

This question might be out of place, but why should I trust ML algorithms for my health? To be a doctor you need at least a decade of education and training, as well as licensing and adherence to a code of ethics. To be a tech bro you just need to get hired. You don't even need a degree. You could come to work stoned and as long as your boss doesn't notice, you're fine and can continue to write the code that my health could rely on.

Jordan Peterson got it right months ago. "It’s hard to imagine a technology with more power to disrupt. I’m already in the position (as many of you soon will be as well) where anyone can produce a believable audio and perhaps video of me saying absolutely anything they want me to say. How can that possibly be fought? More to the point: how are we going to trust anything electronically mediated in the very near future (say, during the next presidential election)?"

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-deep-fake

>Only ones that care about the appearance of propriety though

Such as the United States?

Facebook users buy into doctored photos all the time. It's part of this little known phenomenon called "fake news". Video deepfakes are still time consuming and difficult to develop.

Did Damore condemn people or did he just disagree with ideas?

>Meanwhile, on a pro-Trump subreddit, a collage appeared that showed the full names, profile pictures, and Twitter bios of eight Google employees, most of them queer, transgender, or people of color.

Perhaps Googlers will finally become sapient and learn the value of privacy...

Yes. Google told people that they have a free thinking culture. That does not mean they have a free thinking culture.

Googlers are debating "entertainment politics", not economic politics. Instead of unionizing, they're criticizing contracts with oil and gas companies, criticizing search engine censorship in China (but just in China; search engine censorship in the United States is apparently fine and dandy), and protesting that every executive doesn't get fired on the spot upon receiving a sexual harassment complaint.

They are not discussing the power imbalance between workers and the owners of capital. They are not discussing Google's abuse of private information at large. Just as many Americans watch Fox News or CNN every night and yell at the TV, Googlers are getting upset at tips of the iceberg.

Who cares if the waste leaks out of the metal barrels? It's still going to be in Nevada, hundreds of miles from any human settlement for thousands of years.

The problem with an "adversity score", as stated in another comment, is that it doesn't actually measure the adversity that an individual faces. It's not chocolate milk, it's diarrhea milk. It doesn't accurately measure the unique stresses or difficulties that a student faces in life. Plenty of students do fine being raised by a single father or mother, and some have a terrible time being raised by two terrible parents. Some students have mental health issues or are victims of bullying. Some students have disabilities that affect their academic performance.

For most decentralized technologies, we should make legal ramifications impossible. It's impossible to break PGP encryption, monitor Monero transactions, or de-anonymize Tor traffic if the user acts prudently. This is good. We're seeing a return to the "good old days" where people protect their natural rights to privacy and property.

IRC, XMPP, Monero, PGP, and Tor all facilitate decentralization. I don't mention other cryptocurrencies because as far as I know, only Monero protects against surveillance. I don't want the government (or corporations) knowing everything I buy.

Only because of political opposition. It's been consistently shown to be a very safe long term storage plan. Ironically, efforts to stop the Yucca proposal because of "safety" issues make it so that we must store much of our nuclear waste in metal barrels at the same nuclear power plants they were produced in.

Anti-nuclear activists are right when they say that nuclear energy is politically impossible but only because they're the ones making it politically impossible.

Has human electricity consumption scaled down?

>Renewables are very attractive in that light

Yes, and only in the light. Once the sun goes down and the wind dies down, you'll have to turn off your heaters and turn off your televisions.

Just put it all in Nevada

He is offering medical advice. He's telling people to use drugs. You can't get more medical than that. Again, it's fine to tell people to use a drug as long as you tell them the risks. It would be irresponsible for me to tell people to try fentanyl because "it's a lot of fun" without mentioning the serious risks.

I don't think you should recommend that people just try amphetamine or cannabis, much less in tandem. There are serious side effects especially if you have an existing or latent mental illness. Cannabis can induce a psychotic episode in a nontrivial proportion of the population. Amphetamine can, among other things, induce mania in someone who has bipolar disorder. It's fine if you know the risks and want to do it anyways, but Jesus Christ, I don't think you should tell people to use speed because "it helps them concentrate".