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Well, I'm only 38 so alzheimers is unlikely. It does run in the family though But no, my real worry is I'm going to wind up having to interview and talk about stuff I've done and I…

> > In some cases, they suffer from insomnia, memory loss, rumination and physical illness, > So, like most middle-aged desk jockeys then? Is this really so common? I'm 38 and had …

Aren't many of those countries basically being de-facto blocked by Cloudflare filtering out spam already anyways? Genuine question, I'm not up to date on how Cloudflare operates ri…

> I wanted the information and I have no way of getting at it without investing my own time and effort in going to your website Yes, that's the social contract. Bots are not a part…

Jail time for top investors would too Imagine that. Forget the corporate veil, if you are invested heavily in a company you are financially enabling the harm they do. Maybe you sho…

> The platform isn't actively harming. > It's actively driving them to content they engage with Regardless of whether or not that content is harmful or not

> The burnout is a separate topic I think it's pretty strongly related, honestly

Modern sales pipelines don't behave this way in my experience. A very common approach to sales nowadays is to invent a problem that someone does not have and then try to sell them …

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So it has to be one or the other then? Completely eschew technology and return to subsistence living, or aggressive hypercapitalism that is monetizing every single inch of our publ…

What a shame. This was a really valuable resource and now it's just gone. Not because the author doesn't want to compete, not because they don't want to do it anymore, but because …

Might as well not have any kind of society or rule of law at that point at all then. Zero trust societies, that's definitely the way towards a better life for all of us

If they came out with nutri-paste that gives you all of your nutrition in a grey slurry drink, and replaced everything in grocery stores with it, people would complain And presumab…

You're probably right, and it will be an incredibly sad day when we have completed replaced the human part of creation in our culture with AI creation Might just be final nail in t…

> There's an argument that this low level continuous corrosion does more long-term damage than obvious safety flaws that are serious enough to prompt corrective action. Unfortunate…

I think you are torturing this comparison by using different meanings of amateur and professional A professional does mean "someone who does something for money" but it also often …

Not really Some number of people might make these available to kids, but it's certainly nowhere near "freely"

> There are numerous examples of dispatchers being dismissive or ignoring people in emergency situations…this wouldn’t happen with an automated system Automated no longer means det…

I'm pretty sure that a self defense militia was the standard way that people would defend their farms and livelihoods against violent outsiders for the majority of human history

There are very few people that are schizoid enough to ignore someone saying "hey we're not friends anymore, don't contact me again" and then show up at their house

> That suggests ADHD people lose track of where they left off when performing several tasks Not quite. At least not for me. My problem is hyperfocus. If I switch tasks I might go d…

> The car industry doesn't prevent accidents The car industry is constantly innovating trying to prevent accidents and make them less damaging to occupants > the school industry do…

> Why did we even switch? If I had to guess, this is to try and distance child sexual assault from the concept of "pornography", and maybe make it more abundantly clear that "child…

I'm pretty skeptical of people who are ADHD and claim to be getting boosted by LLMs. It's hell for my ADHD, personally. It's an infinite rabbit hole generator and distraction machi…

I find that niche Discords are so much harder to find and join than niche IRC channels used to be