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These come from my own musings not someone else's - but bearing sycophancy in mind, I asked Claude and it told me this is basically the "strict church thesis" from sociology of rel…

I've thought about this. Aristotle doesn't draw as hard of a line between right and wrong behavior or advocate for specific actions, with the right action depending on circumstance…

It's more social, the translation of political is coming from polis; man is by nature meant to be part of a city or community.

I've advocated for this exactly. For alcohol it's called the three-tier system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-tier_system_%28alcohol_d...

Yeah I mean, if you and I were to play the word-guessing game where you needed to guess what next word I'm thinking of, there's always uncertainty in your guess because it's a game…

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5837225/

Eric Hoffer would agree with this take.

I kinda agree with you and I understand your point but I also think there is a social-ethical reality that if a doctor finds something they must treat it. The two options are 1. do…

IIRC, a lot of design went into making it so that you can disable parts of this chip selectively.

If Anthropic's claim to never run ads is true, then won't users just switch over there?

N=1, I've been on GLP-1s for a long time and continue to be an obsessive.

> This is why the paper presented does not support the claim that LDL is the sole source of heart disease Is that what we were arguing about? I guess it was. At some point in think…

What do you think of Dr. Schooling's response that the Mendellian effects might be inflated? I think they had a good defense but was not entirely convinced they hadn't sidestepped …

I think maybe you are saying that there may be some way that the genes affect heart disease not through LDL, and therefore MR does not apply because the "exclusion restriction" [1]…

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2012.09.017 Across different genetic variants, lower lifetime LDL -> lower risk of death. Check out figure 3. The causality of LDL -> plaque…

Here is the chief editor of JAMA internal medicine arguing there is not enough evidence to prescribe statins for primary prevention in those 40+: https://www.natap.org/2016/HIV/ied…

what?

Gelesis100, another oral hydrogel, I understand is not very effective, I wonder what makes this one different? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelesis100

To the extent empathy is "do onto others as others would do onto you", empathy has a moral justification derived from Kant's categorical imperative.

Yes. You can define a regex matching what you want, and every regex can be compiled into a state machine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_finite_automa... ). Then a…

I wonder how this works? Are they just RAG-ing the chat history or something more clever?

She is a psychopath, she has not changed, the "loving, caring mother" thing is a false persona she has created.

Bad article. Straw-manning and borderline lying about the book.