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New comment by NotSuspicious in "How Dating Sites Automate Racism"

NotSuspicious — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:29:12 +0000

If the way someone is rejecting a trans person is considered a hate crime, maybe that someone is the problem? If someone were to beat you up or misgender you just because you're Southeast Asian that would kind of also be a problem.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "It's time to break free from Corporate Agile"

NotSuspicious — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 01:19:54 +0000

Exactly. It's so interesting seeing the unstated assumptions software engineers let slip out. It really reveals the bubble they live in.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Semiconductor Fabrication 101"

NotSuspicious — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 01:09:17 +0000

PurdueX has had some really interesting courses. I wouldn't recommend paying for them though since you can't deduct them like normal tuition expenses.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world"

NotSuspicious — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:17:02 +0000

Why can't these remotest jobs just be done anywhere in the world? Why restrict it to people who are citizens/residents of the US?

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:05:52 +0000

Except OP has noticed that when they go out of ketosis everything gets worse again. They've effectively run numerous trials on themselves.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Prediction markets have an elections problem"

NotSuspicious — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:33:23 +0000

> But instead, the majority of the bettors against Biden bet on the astonishing outcome of “Trump wins by 280+ electoral votes.” That, it should be clear, was impossible — it would require results to be overturned not just in states with tight races but also in Democratic bellwethers like California.

That was not impossible at all once you take into account Trump's VP certification plan, which many people understood very early on. A longshot, yes, but certainly not impossible.

If anything, the prediction markets priced in an insurrection better than any pundit I recall watching. To flip it around and call prediction markets "irrational" in this situation is misguided and ignorant of political history.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought"

NotSuspicious — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:01:42 +0000

> intellectually piracy is still not stealing

Piracy is a clear and self-evident moral good irrespective of how close or not it is to stealing. Justifying piracy based on wordplay opens you up to attack by people and organizations that like to destroy what is good through manipulative wordplay.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs"

NotSuspicious — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:10:41 +0000

This is a huge source of emotional pain for me to be completely honest.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "A week with a Ford F-150 Lightning"

NotSuspicious — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:10:54 +0000

Are you vegan?

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Meta-analysis: On average undergraduate students intelligence is merely average"

NotSuspicious — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:29:26 +0000

For most people I can understand why this would be true, especially if you have a family. For me, however, it was the exact opposite. When I first went to college I was abysmal at it and soon dropped out. After a few years of work experience, however, I went back and finished my degree while working full-time. Despite having much more to juggle I did vastly better at college my second go-around. I think having better time-management skills, being emotionally more mature and intuitively knowing that I needed that degree in order to get a better job all worked "against" it being more of a struggle, in my opinion.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?"

NotSuspicious — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 14:59:12 +0000

From what I've seen, hundreds of millions of deaths are priced in. But that's nowhere close to 8 billion. Humanity will survive. It's just going to be unpleasant.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)"

NotSuspicious — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:18:09 +0000

And in the Christmas spirit, he made his big discovery while cheating with his wife on a Christmas retreat in 1925-1926

>A few days before Christmas, 1925, Schrodinger, a Viennese-born professor of physics at the University of Zurich, took off for a two-and-a-half-week vacation at a villa in the Swiss Alpine town of Arosa. Leaving his wife in Zurich, he took along de Broglie's thesis, an old Viennese girlfriend (whose identity remains a mystery) and two pearls. Placing a pearl in each ear to screen out any distracting noise, and the woman in bed for inspiration, Schrodinger set to work on wave mechanics. When he and the mystery lady emerged from the rigors of their holiday on Jan. 9, 1926, the great discovery was firmly in hand.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/books/the-lone-ranger-of-...

He was also an admitted pedophile. It is possible that that "mystery girlfriend" he was with while coming up with his revolutionary perspective on quantum physics was an underage girl he was grooming

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-erwin-s...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccacoffey/2022/01/24/schrdi...

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Kids with cats have double the risk of developing schizophrenia"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 04:11:03 +0000

I wonder how this may have impacted world history. Something along the lines of humans have grain storage >> rats are attracted to grain >> cats are attracted to rats >> humans are attracted to cats >> human populations with cats become slightly more schizoaffective (which in most premodern societies is not really pathological) >> these societies commune with the divine more/tell the future/develop more complex religious institutions >> these religious institutions help stabilize society

Kinda seems like a win-win to be honest.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "What if psychedelics' hallucinations are just a side effect?"

NotSuspicious — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:40:10 +0000

That is an interesting hypothesis. I hope you are much happier as an adult.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "What if psychedelics' hallucinations are just a side effect?"

NotSuspicious — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:47:05 +0000

It's also similar on a qualia level though. That's what I was getting at. In the same way how something may taste spicy or something looks blue there is a certain distinct set of feelings/mode-of-consciousness I have only ever felt in childhood, during retreat, and when on LSD.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "What if psychedelics' hallucinations are just a side effect?"

NotSuspicious — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 15:28:27 +0000

I (and many people I have talked to) have come to a similar conclusion. What's really interesting is that going on a weeklong or so meditation retreat where you are meditating for 10 hours a day feels phenomenologically equivalent to microdosing LSD or (if you can remember) generally how you felt when you were happy as a child. This makes me think that the "trippiness" is a side effect of neurogenesis. Speaking with other people in the retreat-junkie/psychonaut/happy-childhood community agree only has helped me be more sure that this is the case.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese nonfiction book collection"

NotSuspicious — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:26:21 +0000

This seems to me a much more moral way of doing things. Actually making the stuff is what's important.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Large-scale violence in Late Neolithic Western Europe based on skeletal evidence"

NotSuspicious — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:50:09 +0000

Good writing, not wrong, also kinda makes me feel metal as hell for doing my taxes.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Large-scale violence in Late Neolithic Western Europe based on skeletal evidence"

NotSuspicious — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:46:19 +0000

Ignoring whether or not this specific situation is true, describing how different environments select for different traits is not pseudoscience; it's the foundation of evolution.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:48:40 +0000

While you only wrote that that website provides the "tools" it would have been very reasonable to infer from your comment that you were also implying that they agreed with Bible-alone teaching.