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ve55 commented on Personality Basins   near.blog/personality-bas... · Posted by u/qouteall
wavemode · a year ago
This article approaches human psychology from the perspective that, we are all neural networks and our output (actions) are all a learned function of our inputs (experiences).

This is a common (and convenient) perspective, especially among engineers, but doesn't reflect reality particularly well. We know large swathes of a person's personality is directly linked to their genetics.

The article extrapolates this neural network perspective onto other topics like, mental disorders and depression. The solution is made clear then - just learn how to not be mentally ill! Again, convenient. But not really reflective of reality.

ve55 · a year ago
This is noted and considered out of scope: >Obviously some traits are more genetic, and thus inherent, than others, but that is not the scope of this post as even highly-heritable traits will result in a large distribution of outcomes.
ve55 commented on Personality Basins   near.blog/personality-bas... · Posted by u/qouteall
foxbarrington · a year ago
Personality is ~70% determined by genetics, not life experience.[0]

I’m surprised that someone interested enough in the topic to write such a long post wouldn’t put the time in to do a cursory dive into personality psychology. I’m going to assume that the author has a similar definition of personality to mainstream psychology, but if so, they are ignoring accepted studies and evidence that make it pretty clear that personality is not learned through conditioning like AI.

0: https://www.themantic-education.com/ibpsych/2019/02/11/key-s...

ve55 · a year ago
This is noted and considered out of scope: >Obviously some traits are more genetic, and thus inherent, than others, but that is not the scope of this post as even highly-heritable traits will result in a large distribution of outcomes.

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ve55 commented on Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla   fakespot.com/post/fakespo... · Posted by u/mattweinberg
ve55 · 3 years ago
How do they expect to lead in identifying fake content when the problem is intractable if adversaries are even somewhat competent?

You can collect heuristics which may work here and there to stay ahead in this cat and mouse game, but when adversaries use AI models properly, there is no way to differentiate.

ve55 commented on Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy   age.mpg.de/communications... · Posted by u/cwwc
jesuscript · 3 years ago
What area are these rare doctors lol. Anti aging ain’t no joke, hook us up bro.
ve55 · 3 years ago
don't know anyone personally taking new patients atm
ve55 commented on Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy   age.mpg.de/communications... · Posted by u/cwwc
jesuscript · 3 years ago
How do you get it?
ve55 · 3 years ago
most people either find a rare doctor that will prescribe it to you or purchase it without a subscription online
ve55 commented on Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy   age.mpg.de/communications... · Posted by u/cwwc
ve55 · 3 years ago
I have been taking rapamycin for many years now. It's obviously not ready for anywhere near the general public and is never something I'd suggest to someone at this point, but my own results have been wonderful and my blood panels and energy levels are great. If I had to guess, when properly used, this would probably add a full 5-10 years onto the lifespan of a lot of people. When combined with many other promising treatments, I think we could easily add 10-15 years onto most peoples' health+lifespans.

u/ve55

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