purpleflame1257 (u/purpleflame1257)

purpleflame1257 commented on Sex Workers Are Built Different (Graph Dump) aella.substack.com/p/sex-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

xvxvx · 3 days ago

A few years ago I saw a Twitter post highlighting 2 studies asking sex workers if they had been the victim of childhood sexual assault. One study reported 70% responded ‘yes’. The 2nd study reported 90%.

If 70-90% of people working in AI had been the victim of childhood sexual assault, we would question WTF was going on. Yet ‘sex work’ gets a pass.

purpleflame1257 · 3 days ago

1) Sex work is largely criminalized around the world today.

2) Yes, childhood sexual abuse (again, also a crime) is associated with both hypo and hyper sexuality. Hypersexual individuals are more likely to engage in sex work.

purpleflame1257 commented on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn theocharis.dev/blog/kidna... · Posted by u/JeremyTheo

BloondAndDoom · 2 months ago

I feel like we lost humanity somewhere in modern world. I grew up in 3rd world country and if this were to happen, train would literally stop somewhere, anywhere. (With the assumption it’s safe from crewing into another train).

But the idea that you go 55 minutes just because of policy; and skip 15 stations is crazy to me. Again with the assumptions that it can safely stop somewhere for 5m and I’m pretty sure the answer is yes.

I have fond memories of train stopping close to my house for various random reasons and I’d just get out so I don’t have to walk back from the station. The modern world where everything is “safety issue” and “someone else’s problem” is where we lost our ways, and it’s never coming back.

purpleflame1257 · 2 months ago

Venkatesh Rao offers the following definition of the "Fourth World"

Fourth world: Parts of the developed world that have collapsed past third-world conditions because industrial safety nets have simultaneously withered from neglect/underfunding, and are being overwhelmed by demand, but where pre-modern societal structures don’t exist as backstops anymore.

This is what this story reminds me of.

purpleflame1257 commented on Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/tosh

purpleflame1257 · 2 months ago

Every time a read a story like this, I feel an atavistic desire to self-host eveything. But I've had my Google account for 20 years now; the die is cast.

purpleflame1257 commented on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bpierre

hannob · 2 months ago

I found the intro very confusing, tbh.

Particularly the "no increased risk of all-cause mortality". I mean, if we assume the vaccines worked, we'd certainly expect a decreased risk of all-case mortality (because "all-case mortality" certainly includes "covid mortality"). Reading "no increase" seems to imply "it doesn't change anything". Yeah, technically, the sentence does not say that ("no increase" can mean "no decrease" or "no change").

You have to read further below to get what should be the real message on all-cause-mortality: "Vaccinated individuals had [...] a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality". I think that should've been in the first 1-2 sentences.

purpleflame1257 · 2 months ago

It's interesting that they leave things at 18-59. Do they later stratify into 18-28, 29-38, 39-48, 48-58?

purpleflame1257 commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

mihaic · 2 months ago

> How many competitors do you need? Apple, Disney, Netflix, Comcast, and Paramount are five major competitors.

I actually already agree that the number is not the problem. I can't articulate better, but somehow these don't actually feel like "competitors" in the classical market sense, but rather as stars orbiting the same center, as they're all moving in the same direction, and from time to time merging with one another.

purpleflame1257 · 2 months ago

That was more or less the case from the advent of TV onwards, though.

purpleflame1257 commented on Google Antigravity antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi

purpleflame1257 · 3 months ago

Can't wait for my IDE to get sunset on me with no recourse. Thanks google, but I'll pass.

purpleflame1257 commented on Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue quasa.io/media/the-strang... · Posted by u/jerlam

goopypoop · 4 months ago

I can't be the only one who imagined mattresses folding up with people inside

purpleflame1257 · 4 months ago

A few got stuck in inclined positions,but these don't actually tilt enough to crush even under normal conditions.

purpleflame1257 commented on Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012) boardgames.stackexchange.... · Posted by u/susam

purpleflame1257 · 4 months ago

I had a rook under promotion happen in a real game on Lichess under time control. Queen would have stalemated, but rook was mate in 2.

purpleflame1257 commented on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners ir.ea.com/press-releases/... · Posted by u/rf15

dvh · 5 months ago

That is cost of 300x GTA IV or 100x cyberpunk 2077 games. Wouldn't it be more cost effective to just fund 300 new studios?

purpleflame1257 · 5 months ago

That's the difference between the VC and PE models. VC, at least in theory, allocated capital to new ideas. PE squeezes "efficiency" out of what exists.

purpleflame1257 commented on An opinionated critique of Duolingo isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025... · Posted by u/agnishom

purpleflame1257 · 5 months ago

One thing that I have found Duolingo helpful for is kana and kanji practice in Japanese. It's better than flashcards in that it also gives you stroke order.