Would this put concepts from classical philosophy like formal and final causation back on the table?
The article seems to imply that it’s possible, but I’ve learned that journalistic summaries can be low-fidelity.
Readit Newshuetius commented on A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past vice.com/en/article/epvgj... · Posted by u/myth_drannon
This is a curious paper, as it seems to come at a time when the philosophical postulate of meliorism has been problematized precisely by the trajectory of historical development, which had previously its own criteria of success.
It might interest the author to know that this was basically the prediction of Vico, one of the most valuable (and misunderstood) philosophers of the not-so-distant past.
huetius commented on We secretly love meetings (2010) hbr.org/2010/10/why-we-se... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
I openly love meetings. With a good, well-planned and thoughtful meeting, I can save myself and my team weeks of engineering work.
Just last week, by asking a simple question to the right person, we canned a heavy, ~2dev*sprint story for something a developer was able to achieve after the meeting with no code changes. The customer was thrilled.
huetius commented on WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing wikihouse.cc/... · Posted by u/xor99
I guess the real question is does this actually solve a real problem people are having? An acquaintance of mine recently built a house, and constructing the outer 'shell' was by far the quickest and easiest part of the whole process.
Depends what you mean by “this.” This exact project is, I think, not ready for prime time, as I said in my post.
If by “this” you mean “ways to make more of our own stuff on a smaller scale,” I am currently in my fourth month of waiting for a proprietary part for my tractor, when if I had an economical and legal way to either machine the part myself, or have it machined by a competent neighbor, then I wouldn’t have this problem.
In a time when we are experiencing the consequences of over-specialized, over-connected, over-optimized supply chains, I think that a more fractal, scale-invariant, redundant approach to production has real value.
(It also, in general, makes humans feel good to make and then use something).
huetius commented on WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing wikihouse.cc/... · Posted by u/xor99
The responses here are critical —- some useful, some not so useful.
I’m happy to see this project and would like to see more like it, even if this is not quite ready for show time. The possibility of using advances in technology and open source methods to allow people to make more stuff for themselves and their communities in a way that is efficient and feasible is exciting to me.
huetius commented on Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst? wired.com/story/psychedel... · Posted by u/pseudolus
If anyone with mental health issues is considering psychedelics on their own, outside a clinical setting: please be careful and do your research beforehand. They nearly completely ruined my life. Definitely do not do them if you are on an SSRI.
I am bipolar but was diagnosed incorrectly with depression and OCD, taking an SSRI. I was a regular marijuana smoker and took DMT which resulted in acute psychosis that lasted months. I'd had what I now recognized as hypomanic episodes before, but nothing this bad.
I will not get into details for privacy reasons but had to take months off of work or school. I alternately thought I was famous, being followed, could control cameras that were following me at all times - the works. I had visual and auditory hallucinations days after the DMT experience, auditory weeks to months later. I told friends strange things about my mental health history that were misperceived. It is a bit of a blur.
About a week after taking DMT, I was involuntarily hospitalized and only sent home with family supervision. They put me on strong antipsychotics with nasty side effects. They didn't help at all. I only got better months later, after I got off of all psychiatric drugs, and realized when talking with a friend that I was not famous. I then entered into a nearly year long depression and perceived that I had lost almost all my friends, although I now think that was not the case.
Now, I've been stable for almost 10 years, and am married with a great career. We have a dog, a house, and are looking to have kids soon. I'm incredibly happy and only recovered with the support of family, friends, and great doctors. I've been taking lamotrigine daily for bipolar. For me, it is a wonder drug. Bipolar is incredibly hard for psychiatrists to diagnose. It took them years to identify it.
Another friend of mine had acute psychosis due to another psychedelic drug and had a similar experience to mine with a hospitalization.
If you have any family history of schizophrenia or bipolar or are on psychiatric drugs, please really carefully consider the possible consequences of using psychedelics.
A friend of mine has a similar story. Still searching for his good ending. I’m glad you’re better.
I feel like we’re at the beginning of the opioid wave again, and the obvious and foreseeable negative consequences are just being shunted aside. We never learn anything.
By that definition everything you eat is a pharmaceutical. Everything you eat has some effect on you.
This is obscurantism. If there’s no difference between marijuana and food, what’s with all the excitement and advocacy?
OP’s point seems to be pretty reasonable to me. If marijuana is outcompeting established anodynes it implies they are in the same category.
Wouldn't you stop believing in god after seeing this if you were a Christian? It just proves that we are just machines. Our feelings are just chemical reactions. All someone had to do was a bunch of math to make a program emulate a human.
I’m going to answer as if you’re arguing in good faith.
In the theology of Antonio Rosmini, God places within humans the principle of universal being, by which we participate in the light of reason, which enobles us with the ability to think about concepts that are beyond our quite limited selves.
Of course, there is also something mysteriously wrong with human beings, such that our own efforts always betray the infinity of which intuitively conceive. This ought to give us pause as we try to create machines with human-like or super-human-like qualities.
> If you leave a child alone with no human contact, it becomes autistic very quickly.
Citation needed. This is not accurate without some aggressive hedging on what we're calling autistic. Lack of socialization does tend to manifest in less social behaviors later on. And less social behaviors are common among autistic people. But that's not the same as saying lack of socialization causes autism.
I think this poster has an axe to grind, but there is definitely significant overlap between symptoms of child abuse/neglect and early signs of ASD and other mental disabilities. I am on mobile, and cannot right now give a compact source, but the lists on Mayo etc. have a lot of overlap.
Not doubting this, but it seems to cut both ways. I can just as easily justify an overreaction by claiming to have averted some worse outcome. It seems to be a general problem of counterfactuals.