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For those who aren’t aware, AOE2 is thriving today with a huge player base, fan base, ongoing development and large international tournaments (recent Red Bull Wololo tournament in …

Bowline, truckee’s hitch (the better alternative to a truckers hitch), prussick come to mind

How private is this?

Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them, generally.

Sure, it is vital, but he claims that lack of vitamin D underlies nearly all diseases of modernity, which isn’t well-established. Meanwhile he was making money selling vitamin D an…

The author of this paper, Michael Holick, was a professor of mine and is highly controversial due to his industry conflicts of interest that he didn't disclose ( https://www.nytime…

Has there been any sort of validation that it helps? A comparison to human-based psychotherapy?

Cool result! But does it replicate?

They didn’t address the possibility that some of those views on X come from bots. It depends on your goals, but I’d much rather have a post read closely by fewer humans who are rea…

I just learned about undermind.ai which could be useful for this task!

Click bait-y title, for a study about mice. I’m fundamentally skeptical about both click bait-y titles and studies about mice (and the inferences made about humans).

Huh! I went to Boston University school of Medicine, and somehow didn’t realize that Isaac Asimov used to teach there – cool!

Worked for me.

I don’t understand what’s going on here.

Two paths to the relaxed lifestyle: 1) only work about as much as needed and keep a low-key, relaxed lifestyle; 2) work crazy hard for 15-20 years and then if everything works out …

I agree with the above comment, you seem to be idealizing these mysterious others on the internet and assuming all are paragons of productivity. Meanwhile, this site is largely a l…

You might be interested in this well-written paper on this subject: https://academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/24/8/615/6275567?login...

The hard problem of consciousness wonders why we seem to have consciousness when we could instead be input/output automata. You could imagine such a ‘zombie’ with our same social, …

I think it’s worth putting the scary-sounding 300% into context: the CDC says prevalence is 9/100,000. Even tripled, it is a very unlikely outcome for a given man. Which means I’m …

I’ve felt similarly for many years, but remain trapped using Spotify due to a lack of decent alternatives. Tried Tidal, but it wasn’t really any better. Would love to hear what lea…

I would even add “Based on studies in mice, D1 receptors might make for better targets than D2 receptors”

Well given how complex the brain is, and how young neuroscience is, it’s no surprise that we haven’t unlocked deep knowledge about why psychopharmacological agents work. But grante…