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Are there any genuine benefits to AI?

I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something...

Paragone ,

They are the greatest gift to solo-brainstorming that I’ve ever encountered.

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What is known about Persistence of Vision in various animals?

I’m curious about building cat toys that are impractically over complicated with Arduino/Maker stuff. Thus the casual curiosity about persistence of vision. I wonder if other animals have something like a different internal clock frequency where the image only forms at higher (or lower) frequencies than most humans.

Paragone ,

I think I read somewheres that you need 240Hz monitor to reach flicker-fusion with parrots?

It was either 120Hz or 240Hz.

I lost flicker-fusion one time in a movie theatre when an onscreen character pulled a knife, & suddenly the screen was AVALANCHING my mind with discrete-frames, & they were jumping around ( my eyes were jumping-around, but my perspective, within my brain, had been jarred ). That even seemed to have lasted about 1 second.

There is some video, journalism or documentary or something, on dragonflies, and the person with the knowledge was saying…

~ we know how long it takes for each layer in a brain ( neural-network ) to process its layer’s stuff, and we know from the short reaction-time of dragonflies that they’re using 3-neurons-deep brain for navigating/hunting/reacting.

We don’t know how. ~

I seem to remember that neural-signal in our biology runs at about … 300km/h?

Something like that.

So, with all the circuitry being shorter in an always-smaller kind of animal, it may have a predictably-shorter flicker-fusion rate?

( within kind, so no extrapolating from humans to birds, e.g. )

Anyways, interesting question!

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Paragone ,

Women have much more words-orientation than we guys do.

Invest in:

  • Wonderworks
  • The Anatomy of Genres
  • The Anatomy of Story
  • a couple of Gottman’s books
  • Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright’s "Tribal Leadership"
  • Halvorson’s “The 8 Motivational Challenges”

& understand both how to woo women much more competently, as well as how to make your woman live a healthier life ( the “Tribal Leadership” book & Gottman’s stuff ), & know how to recognize different unconscious-mind styles from Halvorson’s book, so you aren’t investing in a lost-cause.

  • Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change” is required if you’re in it for the long-haul ( in your own life, or in a marriage/family, both paths need this leverage, in our world ), and want to competently dismantle your unconscious-mind’s obstruct-growing-up-to-protect-status-quo mechanism…

Life’s worth much!

A little study can go a long way, if one knows what one ought be studying, you know?

People judge others by appearance … when we have nothing-else to go-on.

When one has significant evidence of someone’s worth, and that evidence isn’t their appearance, their appearance becomes rather irrelevant…

Some people are entirely-visual, some are entirely non-visual ( like me ) in thinking.

Unless you’re clawing-your-way-out-from-reincarnation ( like me ), there likely are good-matches for you.

The significant-evidence item, though, identifies that you need to be hanging-around among women, for them to get to know you, like volunteering somewhere, or something…

Do well, eh?

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Paragone ,

This looks like a perfect example of disinformation/propaganda, and it is remarkably-effective, at producing churn/buzz/kerfuffle, isn’t it?

If everybody just instantly saw that it contradicts the statistics of homelessness, of people-residing-at-their-parents’-place, at the working-destitution-wages, at the 50% of renters can’t sustain the rent they’re paying, etc…

then it wouldn’t have the traction it obviously-does…

Remarkable example of machiavellianism, this…

I’d love to see what torqued “data” they use as their basis,

and maybe that is based on torque, too…

Too bad journalism’s “left the building”…

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Paragone ,

I see an alignment-problem:

IF it is paid by the job-seekers, who may be destitute, THEN the rich job-seekers distort the market in their favor.

ELSIF it is paid by the job-posters, who definitely intend to underpay all whom they hire, then it has motivation to help misrepresent things.

Enshittification is inevitable, either-way.

I hold that the Fediverse NEEDS a LinkedIn replacement, the problem is that a healthy such replacement is in the Public interest, & therefore the Public ought be paying for it.

Which will never happen, in the lobbied-puppets “electorate” world.

It isn’t even a political question, left or right, it is a market-integrity question.

The greater the integrity of the employment-market, the stronger the country, obviously.

Therefore removing the job-board/job-market from ALL special-interest-groups/torquers/machiavellians can significantly benefit the country(ies) who impliment correctly, in the long-term/strategic scope.

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A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning (edition.cnn.com)

A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning::Days before a pivotal election in Slovakia to determine who would lead the country, a damning audio recording spread online in which one of the top candidates seemingly boasted about how he’d rigged the...

Paragone ,

We’re going to have to put “circuit-breakers” on elections, if well-timed enemy-product like that can be significant.

Same as like we have 'em on the stock-market.

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Paragone ,

I read somewhere, years ago, that RAID6 takes about 2 cores, on a working server.

That may have been a decade ago, and hardware’s improved significantly since then.

Bet on 1 core being saturated, min, with heavy use of a RAID6 or Z2 array, I suspect…

I’d go with software raid, not hardware: with hardware RAID, a dead array, due to a dead controller-card, means you need EXACTLY the same card, possibly the same firmware-revision, to be able to recover the RAID.

With mdadm, that simply isn’t a problem: mdadm can always understand mdadm RAID’s.

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Paragone ,

those who are lobbied will buy whatever argument they are paid to buy.

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Is creating an online bibliography a waste of time?

I love research, and I feel like having all of the sources in one place would save someone writing a paper a lot of searching. Even if it never becomes a widely used website, I feel like it could just be a project I could work on to keep myself busy. Then again, you could always just use the reference section of Wikipedia....

Paragone ,

if YOU care, then someone-else is likely to care.

Would that person’s gratitude be worth it for you?

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Paragone ,

do you need an immune-system?

or is AIDS fine with you?

the answer to that question is the answer to whether your computer needs an immune-system.

get ESET.

Unless things have changed significantly, VirusBulletin, iirc always had them catching more of the in-the-wild viruses than any of the other ones.

Kaspersky is Russian, so you don’t want to be trusting it.

There are more computer-pathogens now than there were a few years ago, not less.

Pathogens multiply, just like humans do.

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Sphere in Las Vegas made $167.8M in revenue for first three full months | KSNV (news3lv.com)

Sphere in Las Vegas made $167.8M in revenue for first three full months | KSNV::KSNV NBC Las Vegas covers news, sports, weather and traffic for the Las Vegas, Nevada area including Paradise, Spring Valley, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Indian Springs, Sloan, Searchlight, Laughlin and Nellis AFB.

Paragone ,

and how many extra fatalities in traffic-collisions were there, around it, and were they worth the money?

Paragone ,

Photosynthesis & mitochondria ( there is a Royal Institution talk by Nick Lake on the Krebs Cycle, and he mentions mitochondria in that as being central to most higher-life on this planet ) both are magic.

Without quantum-mechanics, neither work.

This world’s life’s totally dependent on their basis.

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Paragone ,

I’m in BTRFS, and wish I wasn’t.

Booting into a failed mdadm RAID1 is normal,

whereas booting into a failed BTRFS RAID1 requires competent manual intervention, and special parameters given to the boot-kernel.

mdadm & lvm, with a fixed version of ZFS would be my preference.

ZFS recently had a bug discovered that was silently corrupting data, and I HOPE a fix has been got in.

Lemme see if I can find something on both of these points…

linuxnatives.net/…/using-raid-btrfs-recovering-br…

theregister.com/…/openzfs_2_2_0_data_corruption/

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Paragone ,

Insanity:

Accommodating a no-living-wage legislative-regime, … and then demolishing tax-funds band-aid-ing the problem, with support for those who can’t get a living-wage.

FIX THE RIGHT PROBLEM, DAMMIT!

Politics never will.

Political-motivation prevents that from ever having roots.

Systemic, not political, change, is required.

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Paragone ,

ONLY among the desensitized!!

I can’t even have a delicious decaf-coffee, because of how oversensitive I am to the damage that caffeine does.

( “decaf” coffee usually has about 4% of its caffeine left, ttbomk, it absolutely isn’t 0% )

As for why on earth it’d do any damage/harm, caffeine blocks-access to subtler meditations/inner-yogas.

It’s like not being able to breath: it blocks the whole category, and you never even know the category exists, until you earn access to it, through sattvic diet.

Forced to choose between delicious decaf coffee vs the meditations that are saving my health & life, … sorry coffee, bye!

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Paragone ,

That was a non-military target.

That also harmed science.

That kind of targetting is what I expect of Russia, but if Ukranians are doing it to, then it means they’re losing their ability to discern who the proper targets are, vs who the not proper targets are, and are assaulting more indiscriminately.

Not wise, Ukraina, sorry.

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Paragone ,

Give it 2 more months, and it should be shot.

You CANNOT have as-much missing-supply-chain as we now have, and remain viable, endlessly.

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Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study (www.livescience.com)

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn’t be taught to behave again in ‘legitimately scary’ study::AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and...

Paragone ,

I hold that this is true of all neural-nets, organic as well as silicon:

Once a person has sided with treachery, rooting it out from one’s unconscious-mind is … enduringly difficult, if not intractable.

I don’t know how many decades it takes to eradicate the roots of it, if it can be done, at all:

the unconscious-mind mechanism, that-is the Kahneman System-1 ( from “Thinking Fast & Slow” ) imprint is going to still be there, even if overlaid with another imprint ( since mind is holographic/pattern-imprints in function ).

Worse, it is the motivation that need change, and motivation is of ego, which is of identity, so many who “reform” only do-so superficially.

I’m not saying this as some goody-2-shoes, I’m saying this as a person who was raised by narcissists, and therefore embodied much narcissism, and class-prejudice ( dad was a doctor: you can’t get more upper-middle-class status-prejudiced than doctor-culture )…

…who finally cracked the root kernel of the class-prejudice in my unconscious-mind’s identity-crystal at the end of a 25d hard-line fast, out in the bush.

It took that to fracture the identity-crystal’s prejudice.

It’s been a decade since then, & I’m still fighting to eradicate its treachery from my nature.

Neural-nets are tough to purge, or clean-up & make upright.

MUCH easier to keep a neural-net pristine through all of its formation, than to try ( endlessly failing ) to clean it up, after it’s become enemy-intent in “family” clothing.

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Paragone ,

Objectivity: consistently measure by actions, not by mere-assertions, no matter whether those assertions are on paper, or not.

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What is the best medium for transmitting sound?

I know that sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum, you can hear it muddled in water, and different temperatures of air transmit better. But which is the “best”. Let’s say you had a speaker and a microphone in an enclosed case filled with whatever you wanted, which would be the best medium to ensure the best sound...

Paragone ,

This is right.

Water or metal, take your pick: both massively-outperform air.

Wikipedia often has speed-of-sound for elements, iirc…

…

glancing at this, now I think that hexagonal-diamond would be most-efficient & fastest…

…wikipedia.org/…/Speeds_of_sound_of_the_elements

Hexagonal-diamond is diamond, but with the carbon links in a different pattern.

Apparently you make it either 1 of 2 ways:

either alternate the orientation of layers of graphene, before compressing ( with explosives ) into diamond,

or you put carbon into a meteor, & crash it into a planet or something.

IOW, it forms about 60x as quick as normal-diamond, and takes insane pressure to do it.

Normal diamond would probably be next on the scale.

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Paragone ,

And…

if Israel won’t do it,

well, then, the US will wring its hands in social anguish

Effective, no?

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Paragone ,

I’ve used Linux since about 1996, when only Slackware worked for me ( Red Hat didn’t work right, & I never tried Yggdrasil ).

Ian began his Debian distro sometime around then ( Deb was his partner, hence the distro’s name )

About a year ago, I was using openSUSE, both Tumbeweed & their more-stable LEAP.

They removed the drivers for my wifi adapter, in an update.

They broke my desktop.

Again.

I’ve been told by Steam support ( in 2023, iirc ), directly through their system, that they ONLY support the Ubuntu family of Linuxen.

UbuntuStudio stuck with XFCE for YEARS, even though XFCE is rigged to prevent one from being able to grab the corner of a window, because almost-all of its different options ( themes? ) permit only a 1px thick window-grabber, and that isn’t usable.

Why??

Try installing Haskell Stack on Void Linux for ARM.

You can’t:

Haskell Stack requires GMP lib, for arbitrary precision arithmetic, and you can’t get that to work on it.

They won’t add it, to make Haskell Stack installable.

So, if the only machine you’ve got is ARM based, and you need to learn Haskell, go get a different distro.

( “Haskell Programming From First Principles” requires Stack )

I used Ubuntu Server on ARM, for awhile, and the Ruby it included was broken, with a hard-coded bit in one of its scripts that had the wrong-location for one of the basic things in Linux…

can’t remember what it was, perhaps it was /usr/bin/mv instead of /bin/mv or something … it was stupid, though, and it was in the Ubuntu version of Ruby, which was a deprecated version of Ruby … so…

the upstream Ruby maintainers wouldn’t fix it, because they only maintain the maintained versions of Ruby, AND…

Ubuntu wouldn’t fix it, because they insisted it was upstream’s problem, even-though they wouldn’t include a maintained version of Ruby.

Fuck idiocy.

On & on & on.

Fix 1 thing, & break 3 more , seems to be the “religion” of the various Linuxen.

I’m old, & tired of being beaten-on by “friends” and “allies”.

Abusers are abusers.

IF I ever succeed in fixing my health, breaking ( permanently ) my health-obstacles,

THEN I want to do a linux-distro that simply excludes all bullshit, & enforces correctness-of-function.

Funtoo seems to be part of The Right Answer ( it is the evolution of Gentoo ), in that people get the benefit of whatever hardware they’ve got, instead of a dumbed-down version which is more sluggish than need-be.

I’d want it to be based entirely on Haskell, & Julia, leaving-out pretty-much all other languages ( Haskell’s correctness & Julia’s ruthless-efficiency ).

Notice how there is a huge push to replace X.org with Wayland?

Wayland removes ability to run The Linux Terminal Server Project, so you can’t have little arm-terminals stuck on the backs of displays, and 1 single real-computer in the back, with an ocean of RAM, for all the students to use for their real apps…

This “improvement” forces all to either have a powerful-enough desktop or … not be allowed to run the modern distros/Linuxen at all.

War against inclusion of people in poorer places, where it is much more doable to afford a bunch of RasPi-terminals than it is to afford dozens & dozens of x86-64 machines, is warring for … fashion & class-status??

The X Window System works. Through it, TLSP works.

It enables people to have their Blender-renderer machine in the other room, where its fans-noise isn’t going to bother them.

Fashion-motivated or fad-motivated “strategy” consistently solves the wrong problem.

Same as breaking people’s wifi solves the wrong problem.

WTF “loyalty” for a distro can ANYone have,

… once one has been “punched-in-the-face” by them, enough times??

I’ve read OpenBSD’s statement that “lack of a manpage IS A BUG”.

That IS PROPER.

They GET it.

There are development/programming methods that hold-to the same kind of properness:

Behaviour-Driven Design, e.g.

Test-1st.

As somebody pointed-out, of all the “agile” methods, XP included engineering-processes, like test-1st whereas … the rest, like Scrum, don’t…

That difference-in-religion, XP’s objectivity MATTERS.

Any “improvement” which breaks the functionality-tests or behaviour-tests, and you don’t get the “improvement” in.

Nobody has the integrity to do that, at the distro-level?

I wouldn’t permit any desktop-environment which is hard-coded to have 1px window-grabbers to be included in a distro, hence XFCE would have to get fixed, or it would be locked-out, explicitly for that usability-defect.

I wouldn’t permit breaking of people’s network-access to be an official update’s component.

MAKE IT WORK RIGHT.

That needs to be SOME distro’s spine, that is usable-by-most, and efficient, and including the capability that people actually need to get stuff done…

I want low-vision people being able to use it.

I want blind-readers working in it.

I want deaf people having full function through it.

I want quadraplegics being able to work through it.

I want TLSP working, so a single x86-64 machine, plus a batch of displays & RasPi’s stuck on their backs, give a classroom the ability to teach calculus with Julia which is the proper way to be learning algebra or calculus ( seriously, try Julia: it’s wonderful ).

Anyways, you’re seeing a tiny sliver of the decades-of-abuse that operating-system makers have put in us, that is in me.

I won’t willingly run any MS software ever again, due to their religion of molestation-of-priivacy & abuses ( I was one of the ones stung by their stolen from STAC disk-compression tech, in DOS 6.20, and their Vista era sending all searched-terms from the desktop to Microsoft violated privacy-law for both health-care sytems & for police systems, but … they’re “too big” to make accountable?? etc. )

But the Linux world seems to have one hell of a religious-problem against stable usability.

Distro-runners need to read a book by Al Ries: “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding”, and understand that that stability/identifiability is a REQUIREMENT for a userbase to be not-sabotaged by one’s distro.

DON’T KEEP CHANGING THE WAY EVERYTHING WORKS, and expect your userbase to love you for it.

KDE 3.5 had much right-idea, but nowadays … wtf??

Too complicated to be allowed to see where one is, within the menu-system??

That isn’t a “feature”, that is “fashionable” mental-illness.

And I despise the Apple-style contextless GNOME way.

/grouch

just an opinion, of an old, useless bastard, who’s tired of being obstructed/abused by distro-decisions.

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Paragone ,

Do you own a Yubikey?

Have you ever succeeded in getting it to work with anything??

It didn’t work with gmail, or any other online account I had.

An absolute waste of $$.

Paragone ,

I think the OP was asking how to put a video clip online, so that it could then be linked-to in Lemmy.

Not how to link to something that already is online.

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Violent video games decrease stress hormones, study finds (www.psypost.org)

In a surprising twist to the long-debated topic of video game violence, a recent study suggests that playing violent video games might actually decrease stress hormones in some players. Contrary to popular belief, the study found no increase in aggressive tendencies, indicating a more complex relationship between video game...

Paragone ,

I don’t doubt that it does that, for some.

Boxing does it for some, whereas for most, it’d destroy our equilibrium.

Why would it be different for that particular kind of immersion?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gDvaBpfsl1A

and then

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJUPfKtg_Q

( notice that some people want lots of social-process, but not to help, rather to butcher other’s stuff, or process: social-addiciton combined with destructiveness, not helpfulness.

When one sees the dimensions of psychology themselves … one sees without rose-glasses )

www.amazon.com/…/0316265934/

is for those who perhaps want to understand game-induced desensitization, and its place in our world.

You will notice that mass-shootings topped 600 in the US, in 2023, and … during WW1, it was damn-near-impossible to get normal troops to shoot the enemy.

The change produced in us was produced by a cause.

Desensitization is much of that cause.

Sociopathy ( psychologically-induced-psychopathy ) is a result … and it is a result we’re demonstrably embodying, planetwide.

( the sociopathy of the Victorian Empire’s people, against non-“whites” was absolutely real, and socially-produced, too.

We just keep changing the details/appearances of it, while keeping the ideology-addiction/prejudice-addiction undercurrent the same:

ideoogical or cultural narcissism.

Notice that sociopathy is “alpha” so the male-culture addiction to “alpha” also, again & again & again, chooses sociopathy as its “validity”.

The hazing-producing-suicides in concentrated male-culture is one such crystalization of it.

Now ask yourself: is butchering other’s worth & lives calming, to people whose identity is based on their sociopathy??

I bet EEG & psychological-testing would show it is… )

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Paragone ,

Even looking only at the healthcare costs of the exhaust-induced unhealth, you see massive economic benefit.

It’s the old star-topology vs decentralized-mesh-topology question…

It is much more efficient to have 1 giant windmill, rather-than a zillion little ones.

It is much more efficient to have electric-trams than the number of cars required to move the same number of people.

As for electric-cars vs internal-combustion-engine-cars, the relocation-of-cost from always buying gasoline, to just plugging-in at night, is something that many people have openly adored.

The Engineering Explained yt channel bluntly stated that if you’re in the city, it’s a no-brainer.

Rurally, or in the arctic, you can be screwed, however.

I’ve no idea what the equation is for how much exhaust per mile-driven is produced, between

  • star-topology fuel-burning electric-grid powered cars
  • mesh/distributed-topology of the same number of I.C.E. cars

but it wouldn’t surprise me if it is significantly more efficient, just due to getting the maintenance up to industrial standards.

( sloppy maintenance costs, and some companies push sloppy maintenance, not changing oil frequently enough, e.g. in order to produce engine-wear, forcing required-replacement.

Some yt mechanics call-out this practice. )

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Paragone ,

Isn’t Yandex Russian?

I agree with the person who identified that ChatGPT is better than a search-engine, but you have to check it, because, unlike a normal search-engine, the ai-engine, itself sometimes produces disinformaiton, instead of only linking-to disinformation.

Checking is now required in both cases.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Me…

for some alternatives, btw.

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Is anyone else caught in a weird Venn diagram of Imposter Syndrome and furious indignation and disdain for actual imposters in your field?

Context: I’m a second year medical student and currently residing in the deepest pit in the valley of the Dunning-Kruger graph, but am still constantly frustrated and infuriated with the push for introducing AI for quasi-self-diagnosis and loosening restrictions on inadequately educated providers like NP’s from the...

Paragone ,

I am a person whose parents were medical-professionals, whose dad was a medical-researcher & doctor.

I have been gaslit by doctors all my life.

IF diagnosis IS evidence-based decision-tree,

THEN an expert-system can do it, without the bias of human-doctors.

However…

IF diagnosis ISN’T evidence-based decision-tree,

THEN authority-based-medicine is the only valid medicine, as doctors hold to be true, while claiming that their authority-based medicine is “evidence based” medicine.

I’m not the only person to have noted that doctors don’t allow evidence-based medicine to threaten authority-based medicine:

www.edge.org/response-detail/25433

That article got turned into a chapter in the book, edited by John Brockman, “This Idea Must Die”.

( I do not agree with all the articles in that book, but that particular one is both right & too-soft )

EITHER Davidson’s & Harrison’s Medicine textbooks are valid basis for diagnosis, in which case an expert-system MUST be capable of doing objectively-valid diagnosis,

www.amazon.com/…/070208347X/

www.amazon.com/…/1264268505/

XOR doctor-authority has some “special non-deterministic magic/sorcery” that an expert-system cannot replicate.

There IS no escape from logic & fact.

PS: you can read the Residency subreddit to see an ocean of evidence for medical-residency being a year-long identity-forming hazing-ritual, as it objectively damages doctor-learning, doctor-performance, doctor-health, doctor-empathy ( iirc there are several PubMed items on that one ), etc, yet it is still being enforced, in spite of how it measurably produces opposite-to-claimed changes.

You can also read how the researchers Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright discovered that doctor-culture is the exemplar of narcissitic-culture, and gave the simple test that there was only 1 hospital ( when they wrote their simplified-language-for-business-people book “Tribal Leadership”, to cause change ) in the US which didn’t have narcissistic-culture ruling it:

www.amazon.com/…/0061251321/

Walk into any hospital, & see if human-validity/human-dignity has been sooo eradicated from the lower staff, that they consistently won’t meet your gaze, as a professional entering the hospital.

I forget the name of the hospital which had demonstrated that human-validity CAN live below doctors, but their research earned much from that particular one.

Of course, for anyone to accept the points I raise, would require that they hold-to evidence-based knowing, instead of authority-based-“knowing”, wouldn’t it?

Feel free to downvote me to oblivion, for my testable-facts.

PPS: I’m not attacking you, I am attacking an ideology-addiction/prejudice-addicion in the culture you are being indoctrinated into embodying.

There is a book “Doctored” on the disillusionment of an American physician, and there are many, many, many, books out now, on different aspects of the ideology/prejudice that Western Medicine has become, including perhaps “Money-Driven Medicine”, “In Shock”, and others whose names I don’t happen to remember this moment.

I wish I somehow had the leverage to make Western Medicine become evidence-based medicine, but that would require supernatural-powers, at this point.

It would certainly be healthier for the people in Western Medicine.

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Paragone ,

A process, instead of a thing:

political-election based rule, selecting for narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy’s rule.

IF humankind survives this-century’s The Great Filter, in-which Kahneman System-1 ( “Thinking Fast & Slow”, the most-important psychology book in the world, now ) fights to break System-2/considered-reasoning from having any authority,

and is winning.

ALL the ideology/prejudice highjackings-of-countries happening everywhere throughout our world, these days, are just “makeup” on the underlying animal-reaction-mechanism fighting-off considered-reasoning from this world.

So, in order to survive, humankind requires to break System-1 from authority, globally.

ALL ideology/prejudice addiction-styles, left, right, religious, anti-theist, ALL of them, have to be broken from rule, XOR humankind force-extinguishes itself, this-century.

It’s incredibly elegant, actually:

I believe that all worlds who cross the threshold heading toward their own Industrial Revolution sequence ( so I’m talking about the Roman Empire’s crossing of the threshold ), can have the same ScientificallyTestablePredictions/“prophecies” dropped into them,

about how there will be and & … and all-3 of these predictions are in the Christian Bible’s Revelations-book, you can drop these same predictions into ALL worlds going into their remaining-toddler-unconscious-mind while having planet-crushing-industry & planet-destroying-military … and the result will consistently be the same: toddlers aren’t responsible, and TANTRUM/POGROM instead of growing-up.

Which is exactly what humankind’s going to be doing for about 6 decades, once things blow-up, in about 1 decade.

I don’t expect much in the way of survival of humankind, at the end of this century.

If any.

However, Universe/consequences/karma, whatever one wants to label the force-of-nature, isn’t going to cater-to our toddler-mind’s god-complex, and Universe is going to corner us into force-enduring consequences until either we’re extinguished, xor our remnant is grown-up in nature, no-longer toddler-nature.

All the 600+ mass-shootings in the US last-year, were narcissism’s lashing-out & tantruming/pogroming others, to “get even” with not being catered-to.

Our entire-species is in the process of setting-up that, at planet-scale.

Russia & Israel are committing “mass shooting” against other nations, for their genocidal narcissism…

US Civil War Part2’s going to be an internal demonstration of it, within 1 decade.

Everywhere.

All at once.

Our species’s epitaph.

Tantrum/pogrom was the best we could do: growing-up was “too hard” and unendurable.

That’s what we’re carving in Universe’s eye, now.

Its basis is wrong-sorting, preferring narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy for authority, suppressing responsibility & hard-lessons-learned from authority.

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Paragone ,

Please read “21 Days to Resilience” by Montminy.

And once you understand it, then consider getting your co-worker to read it: you can’t convince 'em if you haven’t its meanings in you, to begin with.

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Paragone ,

Rather-than developing a thick-skin,

which requires enduring progressive hazing, as male-culture realized, oh, millions of years ago…

instead develop equanimity:

take-up whichever subset of yoga it is, that heals your metabolism right, see?

Frawley’s “Ayurvedic Healing” helps you identify which metabolism/dosha you are in, and once you’ve found that ( & you can do the foods-pacifying that metabolism vs foods-aggravating that metabolism experiment, too, using that book’s ingredients-list ),

then you use Frawley & Kozak’s “Yoga for Your TYPE” book, to find the subset of yoga asanas suited to your metabolism,

and you practice those, as a means of getting-past the inner/unconscious obstacles, until yoga becomes a natural habit, then you concentrate on piercing the unconscious-obstacles, while your habit of yoga takes care of which asanas you need, and are doing…

I’ve replicated both the undermethylated-DNA treatment & the pyrrol-disorder treatment in William J. Walsh’s “Nutrient Power”, and verify that they objectively work, but he left-out a couple key informations…

( there are 3 epigenetic disorders which underly about 90% of psychiatric-conditions, but the hatred in psychiatry when an Australian researcher gutted “ulcers are a psychiatric-condition” is NOTHING compared with what’d happen if the evidence that Walsh’s research is replicable were to pierce authority-based-medicine. The 3rd is overmethylated-DNA.

He also identified that some people’s biology accumulates lead or cadmium, as-in you can have several boys in the same family, in the same house, and 1 of 'em’ll be accumulating high blood-lead or high blood-cadmium, and they tend to end up in prison.

He also identified that there is an opposite-to-pyrrol-disorder with too-high-zinc, instead of too-high-copper, which also creates specific “psychiatric” disorder. )

I discovered that treating undermethylated-DNA disorder requires enteric-coated SAMe, taken with clear-water ( ZERO carbs or sweeteners of any kind ), 40-ish mins before breakfast.

Once the nausea hits, then you can eat, but it must get past the stomach, still sealed, for it to work.

It took 3 months to treat my undermethylated-DNA disorder, & then I discovered what ZERO-stress felt-like, for the 1st time in my life.

Never imagined anything like that, before…

It also removed my academic-drive, though, so I didn’t continue ( I could have lowered the dosage, instead )

I’ve also used Methionine to treat undermethylated-DNA disorder.

It works, I never had the dosage high-enough, and it took 4 months.

Each of those I’d done 2x, and all 4 of the experiments produced the same effect.

Pyrrol-disorder requires arachidonic-acid-precursor, which is why he mentions Evening Primrose Oil, but he doesn’t explain that that’s why he mentions it.

( assuming that people already know that is … stupid )

So, the components of pyrrol-disorder treatment are evening-primrose oil, P5P, I think it’s called, one of the B-vitamins, & zinc.

I found that a 50%/50% mix of zinc gluconate & zinc picolinate was best.

Do NOT use zinc citrate, which hits so fast, that it produces a savage emotional-roller-coaster & can lock one ( who has pyrrol-disorder ) in RAGE intermittently during the 1/2h to 4h after taking the zinc citrate…

( that is, itself, a perfect diagnostic for pyrrol-disorder, btw:

get a person with PTSD-style RAGEs on the P5P & evg primrose oil for a couple of days, then put 'em in a padded room, & give 'em either a zinc citrate or a placebo, & watch & wait…

IF the placebo doesn’t, but the zinc-citrate does, make 'em deranged, then that IS pyrrol-disorder.

No debate: that is as evidence-based as medicine can be, for anybody who accepts objectivity & scientific-method. )

Anyways, now I know to use methionine to “take the edge off”, whenever life’s crushing me, & I supplement zinc, to help my body keep … saner.

Mostly I’m using meditations to counter it all, though.

These work, I cannot test the overmethylated-DNA disorder treatment ( niacinimide & folate ), because I simply don’t have that condition.

May something in this hand you the leverage to keep a more-even keel when life’s smashing-you-up…

This stuff does work for me.

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Paragone ,

The key to fighting pseudoscience in people who have it in them to choose considered-reasoning instead of ideology-addiction/prejudice is empathy.

The systemic-dishonesty/narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy/nihilism/sadism Dark Hexad

( notice that the professionals don’t accept this set, but only the Dark Triad & the Dark Tetrad:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad#Dark_tetrad )

… Dark Hexad people, who’re committed to breaking life in order to prove their “power”, I contempt.

Accelerationists I contempt.

Etc.

I’m NOT appeasing the strategically disingenuous, now.

Perhaps some people can remember how well appeasing Hitler went?

This planet’s current stabilization/equilibrium temperature, for the 421-ish CO2 & the 1.3 to 1.4ppm added methane, is between +8C & +9C, and that is on historical record, of the last 2 million years.

The simulations producing 1.5C & 2C increases from baseline are … delusional.

Sooner or later, whether the enemy is cancer, rabies, or ideology/prejudice, if it’s killing enough lives, you have to get OBJECTIVELY COMPETENT in fighting its “supremacism”/dominion, XOR you accommodate everyone’s extinguishment.

The Christian bible has a saying; “separating the sheep from the goats”, and it is pertinent to the current situation.

Empathy for the misled, ruthlessly-effective countermeasures for the prejudice-addicts.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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Paragone ,

Define “zombie”.

IF “zombie” means a hominid with reactions, but no considered-reasoning,

THEN all sorts of factions are manufacturing such right now, globally, in order that THEIR ideology/prejudice addiction gain supremacism, exterminating considered-reasoning AND all other factions.

The Great Filter.

All the different political/religious/cultural/ideological factions are just “makeup” on top of that fundamental difference.

Will Kahneman System-1 ( animal-reaction, programmed-reaction, conditioned-reaction, etc ) displace Kahneman System-2 from authority/power enough that the entire planet can be butchered & laid-waste?

Toss a coin.

It isn’t looking good for this world.

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Paragone ,

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GoDaddy was a bunch of sleazebags, back in the day…

Go search slashdot.org for them, and see…

not only hosting lots of sleazebags, but also having tons of compromised mail machines, so their machines were, according to what I’d read there, the source of much of the world’s spam, and they wouldn’t fix things.

EasyDNS was recommended by one of the SysAdmin reporters on The Register, a few years ago.

He also recommended Linode & Vultr, back then, too.

This stuff in this comment is just my opinion, and my memory of what trustworthy people were reporting a few years ago.

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Paragone ,

It reflects on the increasing-polarization of ALL HUMANKIND.

Read Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast & Slow”, & recognize that Kahneman System-2, considered-reasoning, is being blotted-out by Kahneman System-1, animal reaction, and that this is exactly how , which is still accelerating, combines with regional-crop-failures, megadroughts, megaflooding, region-scouring wildfire, political-tantrum, religious-tantrum, corruption, etc, to blot out survival-viability, when a world-species crosses the threshold of the multiple-industrial-revolutions.

This is The Great Filter, setting-up.

Rampagins reaction, enforcing its lashing-out with all weapons available, is exactly what is becoming normaller & normaller, in all regions, in all political-stripes, in all religions.

There will be no considered-reasoning ruling this world before the end of this century, unless a significant portion of this planet’s population grow TF up, with all we got, quick.

Moneyarchy is pushing to eradictate Kahneman System-2, because considered-reasoning competes against moneyarchy’s preference for humankind to be managed steers, being consumed by the money-machine, without interference.

Legalism’s been pushing against considered-reasoning since before the Christian New Testament.

Etc.

See it for what it is: our unconsciousmind is trying to beat, and BREAK considered-reasoning from interfering with it, and “politics” is just makup hiding the underlying-appearance.

So is “religion”.

So is “culture”.

Notice that Kahneman tells us, outright, System-1 operates in the addiction/prejudice mode of WYSIATI, or What You See Is All There Is.

NO considering context is TOLERATED by System-1.

And that is how The Great Filter silences worlds which reach the cascades-of-technology-development that we’re in.

Ignorance uses the weapons to beat/break whole-world-life, in order to PROVE that unconscious-ignorance was the exclusive “lord”, and it NEVER had to learn,

and the people weren’t up to breaking that unconscious-ignorance.

Same as an addict/junkie whose unconsciousmind, their System-1, would rather break their entire life, than tolerate growing-up/breaking-addiction… and they die.

Worlds do it.

We’re in the century that will see … nearly-nobody survive, if any do.

IF you see it in Hindus, THEN I guarantee you it can also be seen in every other religous-group in this planet, this century, this decade.

There is nothing unique about it happening “here” or “there”.

Unconscious-ignorance-addiction, and its prejudice against considered-reasoning/System-1, is taking-over.

And our world is going along with it.

And that is species-fatal.

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Paragone ,

As AwakeSoul/Buddha tried explaining…

and as Hindu Ramana Maharshi also tried explaining…

WHEN one reaches such fundamental-awareness that there is NO self in it…

it is AWARENESS,

THEN, one only has to dissolve into that OceanOfAllAwakeSouls/OceanOfAWARENESS/OceanOfBuddhas/God.

No self, indestructible bliss, Eternal awareness, watching all unfolding endless-stream-of-Universes, as magical display…

No, not every Souls/CellsOfGod/Continuums get to experience amazingness incarnate.

Elisabeth Haich commented on that, in her book “Initiation”.

Some Souls/Continuums, or their natures/characters, chose aversion-therapy reincarnation-cycle, for whatever reason.

It’s a Bell curve, probably:

the normal is to have an average “pinnacle”, and an average “bottom-of-the-barrel”, and an average set-of-between-range incarnations/someones/lives.

Only the more-extreme would inhabit the more-extreme ends of the bell curve.

Same as all Nature…

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Paragone ,

Censorship is intrinsic to natural-life.

Your body disallows pathogens from ripping your life to shreds, for their temporary-meal, right?

That immune-system action … IS CENSORSHIP.

Anybody who is a “free speech absolutist” ought be forced to have AIDS & denied medication, so that within their body “absolute free speech” expresses, for the few weeks they’d still be alive.

Being FORCED into choosing a side with integrity, and holding to either

  • both within one’s body & within one’s country, sane & responsible censorship is required, and I have the right to NOT have pathogens highjacking my biology, within my body, the same as my country has the right to not have malicious-actors highjacking my country.

XOR

  • both within one’s body & within one’s country, NO censorship is permitted, and I have NO right to NOT have pathogens highjacking my biology, within my body, the same as my country has NO right to not have malicious-actors highjacking my country.

MAKE THE GASLIGHTERS ACT COHERENTLY,

WITHIN & WITHOUT.

Separate Issue

what that link identifies, is NOT sane & responsible censorship, but rather is Thought Police phrasing…

I don’t know to what degree she’s mis-representing their declaration, but that isn’t what sane & responsible suppression-of-pathogens looks like, in the national frame of reference.

Cheers.

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Paragone ,

And … why would any “journalist” put falsifying-quotes on the word identifying the assault in-question?

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Paragone ,

IF Putin is somewhat wanting a pause,

THEN enforce a clusterfuck of CombinedArms hellchaos on him.

'The Art Of WAR", by master Sun.

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Paragone ,

I wonder if enforcing the destruction of human-viable-planet could be considered either

  • Crime Against Humanity

or, an

  • Act of Terrorism

They escalate to kill more of the next-generation,

then ENFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR ACTUAL CRIME, if integrity is still any part of the “law” that is held to “rule”.

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Paragone ,

The TARDIS, outside AND inside, even though its bigger on the inside…

: P

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Paragone ,

Seriously, though, Betty Edwards’ “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition”, would be a major augmentation of your exploring, and faces are what most people are wired-for best.

( I’m face-blind: I didn’t know ANYONE could identify another person by their face, until I was in my 30’s or 40’s, & read about that.

I’ve always used context+way-of-moving+how-the-sound+clothing+etc to figure it out )

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Paragone ,

Have you considered www.OpenClipArt.org ?

XOR, you can simply learn actual-drawing, which isn’t difficult, it does require a kind of honesty/patience & the actually right instruction…

The book you’d need is “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition”, by Betty Edwards.

These drawing-pairs are from her 5-DAYS killer-class.

www.drawright.com/before-after

Unless you’re autistic, like me, 5 days is possible.

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Paragone ,

EXPECT legislative-shenanigans, people…

EITHER they’ll extend copyright again,

XOR they’ll just “conveniently” have copyright apply in court, even-though it doesn’t apply on-paper.

Never believe a career-criminal, or Dark Triad entity, has changed, unless you see robust, consistent, years-long, actual, objective proof of that change having-happened.

Extraordinary-claims require extraordinary backing/evidence.

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Paragone ,

Upholstery-soot ( the fire-retardent version of polyester, etc ), is evil smog/fumes.

If your food was sealed-away from the smog/fumes, then it should be fine.

I’m saying that after learning 1st-hand how evil upholstery-smoke is.

( guy down the hall fell asleep with a cigarette )

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Paragone ,

The right to NONassociation should always outrank the right to association.

Molesters may claim the right to closely-associate, but the right-to-be-not-molested should outrank their association-right.

Nonassociation needs to be a fundamental right.

In multiple contexts.

Abusees who want no-contact to have teeth,

molester-survivors,

etc.

Including identity-molestation/theft, and other abuses of one’s personal information.

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Paragone ,

Duh.

how could that be surprising??

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Paragone ,

Once Trump’s coronation happens, and he guts NATO, backing Russia instead,

China is going to be rampaging Asia, creating its “Chinese Century” or “Chinese Dominion” empire.

He’s a fool if he believes that Vietnam is going to be exempt from that.

Modi’s India is relying on Russia, China’s economic-vassal-state to help it against China.

That too is idiocy.

I wish I’d known, decades ago, that no matter how idiot-proof a governance is, Nature can evolve better idiocy.

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