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Per the very paper we are discussing, LLMs when asked to act as therapists reinforce stigmas about mental health, and "respond inappropriately" (e.g. encourage delusional thinking)…

> the idea is to give you an AI generalist that might ne able to alert you to things outside of your field that may be related to your work That might be a good goal. It doesn't se…

The main concerns expressed in Robyn's note, as I read them, seem to be 1) generative AI has polluted the web with text that was not written by humans, and so it is no longer feasi…

ActBlue and WinRed are now used by Democrats and Republicans respectively for fundraising at just about every level, even pretty local races, and they're clearly selling access to …

Prescribed burns are much more common in the southeastern US than in other areas: https://www.wabe.org/why-the-southeast-is-ahead-of-the-west-...

Word salad is "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases." Which part of the article seemed confusing/unintelligible/random to you?

I mean that the full article is paywalled for me at that link.

> Relevant comic: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 Yes, but in the ~15 years since this came out, University PR have closed the gap between their work and that…

Most of this team looks like they're more interested in policy than pharmaceuticals. Baldwin Way's research focus may put him in more contact with pharma: https://psychology.osu.ed…

"Study 3" was September 2021 - May 2022: > Our data came from a larger project investigating college students’ lifestyle and well-being. In this project, one hundred and seventy-on…

I slightly misinterpreted the following from the article: > We decided to assess social media use across four platforms for three reasons. First, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and …

Here's what they say in the abstract: > Providing stronger evidence of the directionality of this effect, Study 3 (N = 171) showed that in college students CRP predicted increased …

Most people won't be able to access the paper via that link. I was able to get to it by going to Google Scholar and searching "Brain, Behavior and Immunity" david lee . The first r…

They had students use screen tracking software to log what apps they were using. The researchers ignored TikTok because it wasn't included in some pre-existing methodology they wer…

This guy on TikTok plays guitar / sings songs backwards: https://www.tiktok.com/@joeljameslive/video/7226593976848026...

> I find press releases like this both not useful and overall bad for the scientific community. University media offices seem to think it's their job to misinterpret and exaggerate…

I'm in a much smaller city than NYC and /r/ is a very reliable place to find out what is going on around town, chat about the best place to go for , etc.

I'm boycotting reddit this week, and I will never use their app, but I just don't know where else to go for communities related to niche non-tech interests, and state & local stuff…

Very cool project. Do you run your clone device in any kind of enclosure?

> This is not the way an emotionally intelligent person approaches a conversation. Good thing you and the other apparently high EQ commenters in this thread are here to set the rec…

> you do need places that are large enough, mainstream enough, and trusted enough, for the masses I think you don't necessarily even need that if you have a better way to support d…

This looks pretty close: https://www.thelightphone.com/

The ability to learn skills that one does not already know, sometimes through years or decades of training, is a key part of general intelligence as normally exhibited in humans.

> Activism on the part of individuals turning into collective action is the kind of thing that would produce actual change Great, I'm sure that's true. Concretely, what do you reco…

You might be interested in reading some mathematical philosophy. Here's an excerpt from Bertrand Russell summarizing Gottlob Frege's answer to "What is a number" [1]: > A trio of m…