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I think you should look into NCCAM funding[1], how much that was, and how many useful treatments came out of it, before speculating that 'funding for the research to be undertaken'…

An affable personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein?

Homeopathic medicine is a discredited theoretical explanation for a phenomenon that empirical testing shows does not exist. For 'homeopathy' to be right, it would need the to becom…

You ought to read my comment carefully. Singal (not Signal) and Soh are "major figures in transphobia", and Molyneux is a pro-fascism campaigner. The former two (Singal, Soh) are a…

One of them I refer to is "race essentialism" [1] which led to the long-discredited pseudoscience known as scientific racism[2], and its political associated program of eugenics, a…

What are the major historical examples where protecting employees from a "hostile workplace" is important? Racism? Misogyny? Homophobia? Do protection from these things look expend…

100% agree. The James Damore flag was immediately taken up by major figures in transphobia (like Singal, Soh, etc) and pro-fascism campaigners (like Molyneux), both of which are po…

would you allow that it was bad enough to be fairly labeled garbage in 2011, yet could you still concede it has degraded significantly further since then? Or are you arguing that n…

I feel like we are going to relive the hyperloop-decline with the specs of proposed orbital datacentres. But the hyperloop was in one regard a success, in that it built temporary h…

> Because technology caught up with them..... a good CPU is good enough for a very long time This is an excellent point but surely it lampshades that the exact opposite case is tru…

This should be a 5 alarm fire. It reminds me of nothing more than organized crime rackets that targeted control of union retirement funds

you're right about psychoanalysis being a stretch, but the article seems to be about the odd popularity among Gen Z, not the younger Gen Alpha. Youngest GenZ is 14yrs old; with a l…

I understand some startup deciding to take a punt on "this will all work out financially if our new product demonstrably boosts productivity of large sectors of the economy by a br…

> i'm quite amazed they got any VC money at all. probably VC bit at the 'agentic' part. Using that word makes some folk lose their minds, and they may then find themselves investin…

I have a strong suspicion the rationale for how they select providers on will turn out to be kickbacks and self-dealing.

If my definition of 'value' was something that was totally contingent on both post-industrial society and an ultracapitalist approach to production, and it made me deduce that huma…

This makes it sound as though doing business with Palantir is akin to doing business with Lockheed Martin, RTX Corp (Raytheon), Northrop Grumman etc. This ignores important, qualit…

Thank you, I remember reading this background as well. There is no 'unedited' version of Anne's diary, as Anne herself intentionally edited and re-edited her work during her time i…

> whether the singularity actually happens or not is irrelevant so much as whether enough people believe it will happen and act accordingly. We've already been here in the 1980s. T…

> Surely everyone would want such a key piece of technology to be air tight and easy to debug The incentives of different parties / actors are different. 'Everyone' necessarily com…

> Besides that, who is going to read this long-ass document? Plenty of people will encounter snippets of this document and/or summaries of it in the process of interacting with Cla…

If instead of looking at it as an attempt to enshrine a viable, internally consistent ethical framework, we choose to look at it as a marketing document, seeming inconsistencies su…

From the wiki: currently supported devices does not appear to support the recent Kobo eReaders

A wall street journal opinion columnist - Shrier- with zero medical training wrote a book to create a moral panic in the public about trans teens, based on the discredited ideas fr…

Increasing social acceptibility and awareness is not mysterious to people who understand that many perceptions about gender are constructions that occur in social contexts. Why do …