Hacker News: efkiel

New comment by efkiel in "The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf]"

efkiel — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:01:12 +0000

Middle East, northern africa, pakistan

New comment by efkiel in "How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science"

efkiel — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:04:59 +0000

Could you share the methods you used to learn as fast as you could ?

New comment by efkiel in "It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness"

efkiel — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:17:15 +0000

Obviously always was, and always will be a mass sociogenic illness.

New comment by efkiel in "It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness"

efkiel — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:05:56 +0000

heteronormativity include sexual behavior, but mostly contains other behavior. Like the way you dress, talk or present yourself, the activities or kind of play you do or like. Parent comment is mostly talking about non-sexual heteronormativity, which is often presented as the norm. An obvious example would be an adult insisting that pink is for girl and blue for boys, and shaming a kid for liking what's not the (hetero-)norm.

New comment by efkiel in "Mammals can breathe through their intestines (2021)"

efkiel — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:01:06 +0000

If I recall correctly, similar experiment have been tried lately, where the subject survive. (maybe because they were shorter than the navy's one)

However, the subjects stated afterward that they felt adequately oxygenated, but also were on the verge of panic due to the constant feeling of drowning induce by having your lungs filled with liquid.

None of them felt like they would be able to do any kind of productive task in this state.

New comment by efkiel in "Ask HN: Can you imagine a world where anybody could do any job?"

efkiel — Mon, 30 May 2022 13:14:30 +0000

Help her question and understand the underlying reason(s) why she wants to go into medicine. (status, money, wanting to help other, being intellectually challenge, curiosity for anatomy/biology, ...)

Find other fields where those wants can be better met by a deafblind person.

Help her reframe her initial idea into one of these field.

New comment by efkiel in "Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete"

efkiel — Fri, 20 May 2022 07:17:16 +0000

In this context it means ''to suck in', 'to absorb'

New comment by efkiel in "Ask HN: What can I do today to prepare for anti-aging tech of the future?"

efkiel — Wed, 18 May 2022 21:16:57 +0000

IIRC metformin may also cause fertility problem in men, after prolonged use (which is required to get slow-aging effect).

New comment by efkiel in "DeepMind: A Generalist Agent"

efkiel — Fri, 13 May 2022 09:36:14 +0000

If an AGI start putting utility value on human life, wouldn't it try to influence human reproduction and select for what it value. ie. Explicit eugenism.

Yes, all humans will not be put to waste, but what tells you they will be well-treated, or value what you currently value.

New comment by efkiel in "Lectures on Faster-Than-Light Travel and Time Travel"

efkiel — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 08:34:24 +0000

>why anything exists rather than nothing?

Physics answer "How" things are, if you want to know "Why" the answer is to be found in philosophy or religion.

New comment by efkiel in "Ask HN: YouTube Unusable on Firefox?"

efkiel — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:13:52 +0000

1. This is not restricted to newer build, I am on v65.0.2 and remember the last version also had this issue

2. Not too sure where this button is, i don't remember anything about it so i guess it went flawlessly

3. Refreshing usually fixes this for me.