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New comment by aradox66 in "Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity'"

aradox66 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:29:05 +0000

Research suggests that aerobic fitness largely compensates for the negative health effects of being overweight. https://www.physiologicallyspeaking.com/p/physiology-friday-...

e.g. being aerobically trained and overweight may be more or less equivalent to being at a healthy weight but not training. obviously the best case scenario is to be at a healthy weight and trained. additionally, aerobic training is much more achievable and sustainable for most people long term than weight loss.

New comment by aradox66 in "What is intelligence? (2024)"

aradox66 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:14:01 +0000

How could that make sense? The emergent capabilities of the models are obviously critical to the evolution of that whole system.

New comment by aradox66 in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

aradox66 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:09:59 +0000

I thought private equity was all about liquidating nearly bankrupt businesses

New comment by aradox66 in "What is intelligence? (2024)"

aradox66 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:35:39 +0000

Don't "real" consequences apply for setting weights? There's an actual monetary cost to train these models, and they have to actually perform to keep getting trained. Sure it's VC spend right now and not like, biological reproduction driving the incentives ultimately, but it's not outside the same structure.

New comment by aradox66 in "You are the scariest monster in the woods"

aradox66 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:39:49 +0000

It's not an assumption, it's an extremely developed international field of tactical and strategic study that leads to these conclusions

New comment by aradox66 in "The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing"

aradox66 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:05:19 +0000

I love location sharing with friends. "Find my Jerry", "Find my Anna" we call it in our friend group. It simplifies logistics, gives us a narrow but fun little window into each others' worlds.

"Is __ on the top of the mountain or waiting in the lift line?" I want my friends to find me, and my friends want to be found by me. It's nice!

New comment by aradox66 in "Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)"

aradox66 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:12:19 +0000

You want to always use mineral zinc and to learn for your own body and the sun conditions of your environment whether and how often you need to reapply. You're not going to be doing that math based on SPF anyways.

New comment by aradox66 in "Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy"

aradox66 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:21:44 +0000

It's a common failure mode and most other OTCs won't kill you if you occasionally accidentally take an extra dose or two. Agreed that it's safe at the correct dose but the hazards are severe and dosing incorrectly is inevitable at population scale.

New comment by aradox66 in "New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely"

aradox66 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:11:31 +0000

Arguably there are some evolutionary advantages to the presence of elders in social species with cultural transmission but your point stands

New comment by aradox66 in "Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music"

aradox66 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:24:04 +0000

Seidenberg's work is really interesting but he's definitely not arguing that sweat lodges are a part of historical Jewish practice. He's doing a compare/contrast.

New comment by aradox66 in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

aradox66 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:40:21 +0000

caught in the wild, the moving goalposts of the Turing test

New comment by aradox66 in "Claude finds contradictions in my thinking"

aradox66 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:33:22 +0000

Hahaha I love that idea. An LLM enters the Obsidian vault and responds to a prompt by following an arcane and elaborate sequence of calculations. Does it really understand?

New comment by aradox66 in "Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions"

aradox66 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:38:12 +0000

I'm also not an expert here, but looking through the figures [1], that one HR result for Asperger's in a figure 4 is...surprising to see, given the headlines.

This is far from strong evidence of an effect, but you're absolutely right that this at least deserves discussion in the paper and coverage.

1. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/suppl/10.7326/ANNALS-25-0099...

New comment by aradox66 in "Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface"

aradox66 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:46:56 +0000

Nope! Rabbi Akiva, who, as the story goes, was an illiterate shepherd until he started studying in his 40s, and went on to become one of the most renowned scholars of his era. This is why some Jewish tradition teaches that for mystical study, one should wait until the age of 40

New comment by aradox66 in "Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker"

aradox66 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:19:11 +0000

I think this mostly has been debunked in the last 15 years, except in the unscientific health influencer space

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39017376/

New comment by aradox66 in "LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction"

aradox66 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:01:09 +0000

Also, at temperature 0 LLMs can behave deterministically! Indeterminism isn't necessarily quite the right word for the kind of abstraction LLMs provide

New comment by aradox66 in "LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction"

aradox66 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:55:56 +0000

Determinism isn't always ideal. Determinism may trade off with things like accuracy, performance, etc. There are situations where the tradeoff is well worth it.

New comment by aradox66 in "Seedance 1.0"

aradox66 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:34:38 +0000

I imagine there are some boundary constraints - mobile video can only be so compelling. I would guess we're already pretty close to that threshold.

New comment by aradox66 in "Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on"

aradox66 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:57:38 +0000

It's a different chemical cocktail, but more importantly consenting to it makes a bit of a difference in terms of how it registers morally.

New comment by aradox66 in "The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe"

aradox66 — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:49:52 +0000

There is no shortage of cranks generating novel cosmological theories, but this writer doesn't seem to be one of them. He's interested in predictive power!

I think it's fascinating and enjoy this theory a lot, but the epistemics strike me a little funny. The mechanism itself can't be tested. If this mechanism exists, these observations would tend to be expected from a random sample of possible universes. There's absolutely no way to evaluate how "representative" our n=1 observation is.

I'm not yet convinced this kind of approach is valid, although I'm almost certain there's nothing better at a certain scale. empiricism is useless if you need a galaxy-scale particle accelerator.