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Solstinox commented on Designers Should Look to Demis Hassabis. Not Jony Ive   suffsyed.com/futurememo/d... · Posted by u/alexcos
jonathanlb · 3 months ago
As a reader, the overuse of "not this, but that" in this article was particularly painful. Which is ironic in an article about a designer who deeply cared about aesthetics.
Solstinox · 3 months ago
It’s the biggest tell for AI writing, especially as people get more self-conscious about overusing em dashes.
Solstinox commented on Longevity Is Now a Factor When Picking an Embryo for IVF   wsj.com/health/embryo-ivf... · Posted by u/Bluestein
cjbgkagh · 7 months ago
It would be a matter of concentrating specific SNPs that are already identifiable in human populations. There is no need to create new SNPs of unknown outcomes. There would be no difference if the SNP was put there through intervention or if it was inherited by a parent. Since these SNPs already exist the outcomes can and are being studied.
Solstinox · 7 months ago
These are the types of assumptions and blindspots that lead to unintended negative effects.

Your approach assumes that the distribution of those SNPs at the population level is immaterial.

What makes an allele attractive at one frequency can expose new liabilities at a different frequency.

Solstinox commented on Longevity Is Now a Factor When Picking an Embryo for IVF   wsj.com/health/embryo-ivf... · Posted by u/Bluestein
cocoto · 7 months ago
The problem is that you can not ban eugenic tech long term, because the other countries will use this to get better IQ and dominate you.
Solstinox · 7 months ago
I’ll let them go first. I insist.

We can barely manipulate simple organisms without causing negative second order effects to cascade through our systems.

Solstinox commented on Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have brain tumors   nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/bratao
OutOfHere · 9 months ago
Even so, most of the times, when there is a clump, it's likely causal, not random.
Solstinox · 9 months ago
I suggest you go to random.org and play with the coin flipper or dice roller for a couple of hours.

[edit] I just rolled 60 dice and got a string of 7 2’s in a row. Can someone calculate the odds of that happening for me?

Solstinox commented on Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates   pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/luu
notamy · a year ago
> Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause PGH through unknown mechanism. About 55% of patients with pernicious anemia had graying before 50 years as compared to 30% in the control group.[32]

/soapbox

Get your B12 tested (before taking supplements!).

B12 deficiency is known to present in many ways, and also to be often overlooked in clinical settings[1]. It’s known that not everyone presents with the anaemia from it[2], which is often why it’s skipped as a diagnostic option. Additionally, long-term/severe deficiency can present with symptoms almost identical to multiple sclerosis[3]. Deficiency of other B vitamins, such as B2, can cause a functional B12 deficiency as well[4]. It’s also known that supplementation will falsely elevate levels even in the presence of a deficiency.

/unsoapbox

[1] https://www.mcpiqojournal.org/article/S2542-4548(19)30033-5/...

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2022-071725

[3] https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

[4] https://www.iomcworld.org/articles/paradoxical-vitamin-b12-d...

Solstinox · a year ago
Also, over half the world's population has H. Pylori, which interferes with B12 absorption.
Solstinox commented on Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features   theverge.com/24275178/app... · Posted by u/elsewhen
switch007 · a year ago
That's modern capitalism for you.
Solstinox · a year ago
Humans creating problems they then need to then solve transcends and predates any ideology.

Capitalism just lets you scale it out to new heights! :)

Solstinox commented on Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)   quoteinvestigator.com/201... · Posted by u/squircle
mncharity · a year ago
> to the British War Cabinet in 1945 [...] we have persuaded the outside world to lend us upwards of the prodigious total of £3,000 million. The very size of these sterling debts is itself a protection. The old saying holds. Owe your banker £1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him £1 million and the position is reversed.

Curious. That leverage lies in hope of some repayment, yes? But my very fuzzy recollection (surfed a tome on financing WW2 years ago), is the US "loans" were made without informed hope of repayment - it was just politically unacceptable in the US to say that up front. So while there were assorted small post-war repayments (often non-monetary - leases and such), the bulk was written off. Does the size of an unrepayable debt affect negotiations on the size of a token repayment?

Solstinox · a year ago
The transfer of wealth from the UK to the US as a result of WW1 and WW2 debts is one of the more substantial wealth transfers in history.
Solstinox commented on Wiener's Laws   aviationweek.com/wieners-... · Posted by u/Solstinox
Solstinox · a year ago
These resonated with me as the world's AI-automating all the things.

Particularly:

"Digital devices tune out small errors while creating opportunities for large errors."

u/Solstinox

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