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Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity
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Re: Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity
#152I’ll probably be downvoted for pointing this out but I feel like it’s important. 90% of the comments at the time of my posting this are great examples of the logical fallacy a lot of intelligent people fall into where they think their intelligence in one area means they’re qualified to make assessments or reach conclusions in fields outside of their own. This would be the same error in judgment that’s turned the noot…
HN comments are absolute garbage on anything medical, endless uneducated "theories" and emotional anecdotes you don't need to share your personal backstory, everyone knows someone with mental health or cancer or alzheimer's, your idea that DNA is like compiled code makes me think you should go read a book, and your self-medication is probably not scientifically founded
Physician here, and I cannot emphasize this enough. To the point where I actively avoid most medical/healthcare threads - it’s oppressive to contribute.
Re: Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity
#153I’ll probably be downvoted for pointing this out but I feel like it’s important. 90% of the comments at the time of my posting this are great examples of the logical fallacy a lot of intelligent people fall into where they think their intelligence in one area means they’re qualified to make assessments or reach conclusions in fields outside of their own. This would be the same error in judgment that’s turned the noot…
HN comments about ML and AI are so obviously un- or under-informed to the point of pure fancy and speculation that I've simply stopped trying to engage with people who don't want to confront how ill-equipped they are to be involved in discussions on the topic. Sometimes they acquire some narrow bit of useful information but without wider context they end up quickly re-introducing bullshit to the discussion.
It's a very real chilling effect that's happened a couple times in different communities I've been part of. Typically the dilution of quality discussion comes after a sharp influx of what could be crudely labeled 'normies' (those entering a hype cycle anew from the outside with no prior experience) who have their own under-developed ideas and can't discern between experts and bullshitters in flattened discussion spaces.
What complicates the discussions so much is those normies' insistence on engaging in high school debate club tactics which are really just rhetorical devices designed (consciously or otherwise) to disguise logical fallacies as 140-character truth bombs.
Re: Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
So's Lexapro for some people. (Me. I'm some people.)
That's funny, the main side effect for me was inability to urinate.
I've had both feelings from MDMA. Urgent need for #2 on come up. Complete inability to perform #1 even though busting at peak. Maybe it's a serotonin thing
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are exempt from what they attribute to their lower-order siblings. When someone makes such a statement in a coversation, that should be the implicit charitable interpretation, so much so, that your kind of statement is uncharitable/disingenuous.
"You lower order sibblings are all garbage and I won't engage with you because I'm higher order and refuse to stoop to your level" is the most garbage comment on here.
You simply don't understand how logic works, but you're too proud to admit it. At least you've demonstrated it adequately.
Re: Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity
#156I’ll probably be downvoted for pointing this out but I feel like it’s important. 90% of the comments at the time of my posting this are great examples of the logical fallacy a lot of intelligent people fall into where they think their intelligence in one area means they’re qualified to make assessments or reach conclusions in fields outside of their own. This would be the same error in judgment that’s turned the noot…
I wish I could upvote your comment twice. Based on my observation how a childhood friend of mine was treated for a psychiatric condition I think all of the "science" of using drugs to treat mental issues is at the level of advancement comparable to medieval blacksmiths doing dentistry. It essentially comes down to "hey, try this, are you better or worse, worse? Try something else. Better, have more of it". All the theories about lacks of certain neurotransmitters causing certain problems, all of it is like a bunch of cavemen trying to fix a transistor radio with their stone axes and coming up with ideas to explain various noises they hear when they whack it. Of course many conditions are so debilitating even such random experimentation is better than nothing. I don't blame individual doctors and practicioners, but I think this whole field should be much more humble about what is it they can treat, what kind of long term outcomes one can expect etc. Certainly they shouldn't be giving random drugs that really can f** with a developing human mind to treat imaginary mental illnesses that cause ones grades to be insufficiently good etc.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you heard (intelligent!) non-tech people talking about tech? Why would (intelligent!) tech people fare better talking about non-tech? Domain knowledge is more important than intelligence almost everywhere.
The amazing thing about tech-people and especially developer and related is that they are expected to and required to grasp an understanding of other people’s professions in order provide products/services. So I would actually expect tech-people to be able to talk reasonably about non -tech areas and to be quite happy to be corrected when they are way off the track..
Nah, they think they understand, and run with an under-informed opinion on something they have no to little real-world experience with until they've replaced the client's original concerns with something that's oversimplified for the sake of shoving into this or that software architecture pattern.
There are of course trans-disciplinary efforts done right but those take orders of magnitude more time than your typical VCs or zealous ladder-climbers allow in development timelines.
Software developers have been bailed out from having to confront this situation up to now because those who ask for software tend to ask for extremely simple workflow-helper type stuff rather than domain-expert-amplifier type stuff (see: pretty much every SaaS webapp ever). But the low-hanging fruit are getting pretty sparse by this point in the bubble.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
> HN comments are absolute garbage on anything medical They are of the same quality on other topics. You just know less about those other topics.
Hah, so true! But, to be fair to HN users, I do find good information on here a lot. Whenever a tool or product comes up I don’t know, I tend to look it up in the HN search to see if there was ever any discussion of it. Tends to be a good way to find experience reports or possible alternative solutions.
I find HN to actually be really nice for the things HN knows well. People tend to correct comments from others with at least some respect, and normally the most accurate information floats to the top of the thread.
The thing I generally find the least valuable is the “I’ll be downvoted for this” comments. Don’t prime people to be defensive!
Re: Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity
#159I’ll probably be downvoted for pointing this out but I feel like it’s important. 90% of the comments at the time of my posting this are great examples of the logical fallacy a lot of intelligent people fall into where they think their intelligence in one area means they’re qualified to make assessments or reach conclusions in fields outside of their own. This would be the same error in judgment that’s turned the noot…
HN comments about ML and AI are so obviously un- or under-informed to the point of pure fancy and speculation that I've simply stopped trying to engage with people who don't want to confront how ill-equipped they are to be involved in discussions on the topic. Sometimes they acquire some narrow bit of useful information but without wider context they end up quickly re-introducing bullshit to the discussion. It's a ve…
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
> their intelligence in one area means they’re qualified to make assessments or reach conclusions in fields outside of their own That's exactly what it means. Or rather, not that they're "qualified (period)" to "make assessments or reach conclusions in fields outside of their own", but "more qualified than someone not as intelligent". And that's exactly what's the case in a general discussion, when expertise is not a…
Have you heard (intelligent!) non-tech people talking about tech? Why would (intelligent!) tech people fare better talking about non-tech? Domain knowledge is more important than intelligence almost everywhere.
> Have you heard (intelligent!) non-tech people talking about tech? Why would (intelligent!) tech people fare better talking about non-tech?
Becoming an effective programmer trains one's strict logical and causal reasoning skills, since we're always building or debugging large and complex systems from simpler components. We see all kinds of crazy emergent behaviours all of the time, and learn to understand how such things can happen. There are few other disciplines that exercise such skills so intensely (probably math and physics).
I would love to see a study on how effective various experts are at making predictions about something outside of their domain knowledge. I suspect computer scientists and physicists would fare better than most.