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Yes, although the evidence for those having meaningful or large health effects is far weaker, more suggestive / possible rather than clearly established. For sure though, "berries …

I'm assuming a Western context, and that fruit and vegetable have their common language and culinary meanings, so that e.g. tomato and cucumber are vegetables, and that "fruits" ge…

GP posting "Everyone I personally know working in software stopped writing code" on HN is such an obvious tell of blinkered delusion. Literally all HN talks about is AI these days,…

Let me put it this way: I don't think it is an uncommon belief that "adding fruit" to an existing diet will have benefits. But, in fact, if you are meeting your caloric and nutrien…

Interesting. Pink Lady is a favorite for me, and Sweetango is great too, but I'd consider Cosmic Crisp very, very close to Pink Lady in overall balance (I do agree Pink Lady is bet…

Saying fruit isn't "healthy" doesn't mean it is unhealthy, there are plenty of neutral things here. But if you are treating fruits and veggies as the same (e.g. X servings of fruit…

It is reasonable to presume that balance has been undermined. In general "eat your fruit and veggies" should probably be modified to "eat your veggies", which generally have fiber …

Wait what? Cosmic Crisp is like the clearest example of a balance between sweet and tart. What would you consider a balanced variety?

Set and setting can help make a positive experience likely, yes, I think what proponents often miss is that for the vast majority of people, the experience will mostly just be "int…

Oh, I don't doubt that sometimes something fundamental can be altered. The best sort of broad explanation I've seen that jives with the experience is maybe the one I've found here:…

Right, when you take it, it becomes clear it just injects salience / profundity / meaning into whatever you happen to be focused on or have on your mind (EDIT: mostly this is the m…

While I am quite skeptical of the claims linked above, that link does indeed cover the FNR at the FPR of 0.005, and finds it broadly to be on the same order of magnitude, i.e. also…

We just perceive it as such, and this should be fairly hard to argue against with all the scientific advances we have made up to this point, at least as long as you assume consciou…

If you are interested in some serious discussion, see https://lossfunk.com/papers/ai-consciousness.pdf , especially the early section "Consciousness as Family Resemblance". I suppo…

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The major error made by most people in this thread is thinking it is possible to give a single definition of consciousness that is coherent and matches common usage. The folk conce…

I've seen papers claim that there are anywhere from 12 to 40 competing definitions ( https://philpapers.org/rec/VIMMAT ), or, more accurately, there are something like 12 to 40 dif…

Embarrassingly incompetent article. Given that one can observe up to 40 definitions of consciousness ( https://philpapers.org/rec/VIMMAT - also many definitions are unrelated at al…

All these policies actually sound good, SSRIs should not be first-line, as there is extremely limited evidence of meaningful effectiveness for anti-depressants generally. Mmeta-ana…

Ironic because it is the people who push for just passing everyone that are actually doing it to just "make the problem go away", in reality.

There's no hypothetical here IMO, this is a real-world problem, and also you aren't limited to pass/fail decisions as a teacher, except in exceptional cases of borderline grades. O…

I'd prefer more proof / context than GP gave, but I personally find it very useful to see people making judgements about AI-assistance of articles. Almost no such articles are wort…

> Could you prove the disparate impact is random and your pass criteria isn’t racist? Can those in favor of grade inflation and meaningless credentials prove their decisions also d…

Requiring years of schooling that is essentially worthless / provides credentials with no information also has disparate impacts, possibly worse than just properly failing people a…

Yes you are citing my link... which is pure speculation. Do you have anything to actually add?