Readit Newsthisismyswamp commented on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/Bluestein
A patient doesn’t metabolize a lobotomy.
they don't have to as there's no ingestion of the therapeutic agent
Psilocybin is about the 180-degree opposite of a lobotomy, just from a purely mechanical perspective. And it certainly feels that way qualitatively as well.
organic systems seek points of equilibrium, with veering too much off in any axis being detrimental
To be fair, so did a lobotomy. I believe close attention should be paid to any unintended outcomes of a therapy that the patient themselves would no longer be able to identify due to the nature of the treatment itself.
thisismyswamp commented on Ask HN: Should HN use a different time algorithm for post ranking? · Posted by u/thisismyswamp
this is another interesting comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977430
but crucially, it assumes that variations in submissions and voting activity are strongly correlated, which I imagine is not necessarily the case
thisismyswamp commented on Why are coffee stains darker at the edges? why.is/svar.php?id=5513... · Posted by u/michalpleban
fluid pressure pushes particles outwards
thisismyswamp commented on Biases in Apple's Image Playground giete.ma/blog/biases-in-a... · Posted by u/orf
AI safety people worrying that basketball players don't have a perfectly balanced ethnical representation while mega corporations are trying to establish a monopoly on intelligence
thisismyswamp commented on Quit Social Media (2016) calnewport.com/quit-socia... · Posted by u/skadamat
I would rephrase it to “quit ad-based social media”. The incentives are perverse, there is an inherent conflict of interest in the business model and there is an intermediary between the user and information/community they want to participate in. This leads to most problems we see in legacy, ad-based, social media.
Most successful social circles are ones where there is a barrier to entry. In life we do not let everyone into the friend circle. Having a barrier to entry model may work well for an online community, although this remains to be seen. Were there any successful experiments with paid social media?