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AnEro··on Russia Leverages AI-enhanced "Meliorator" software for foreign malign influence
I'm saying it's an advantage since they publish their techniques, and you replicate it without having to do the research internally. It's better than this being dropped by a government agency or having most users notice that there are mostly only bots on the platform like they are now.

Regardless there is going to be bots and bad actors on your platform no one has enough money especially X to deal with them. A third party doing 80% of the work is an advantage, your reputation is already going to be tainted regardless

AnEro··on Russia Leverages AI-enhanced "Meliorator" software for foreign malign influence
Fair, this is coming from a place of trust my government to handle this stuff since X isn't going to. (Canadian) I agree with what you posted thats why:

1) I prefer open access and because of the reasons you posted, so others can hold the private company accountable

2) This is capitalism if they don't see profit they aren't going to do anything. So I think this is an interesting case for a pure profit/cost saving argument to have that open access to user posts.

3) social media as it is now is measurably bad for society even without propaganda

bonus) I like seeing how Elon, touted as a genius, has continuously fumbled X and somehow making it a more exaggerated place that he said it was before his purchase.

AnEro··on Russia Leverages AI-enhanced "Meliorator" software for foreign malign influence
I think this now is exposing a hidden advantage to having reasonable fees behind twitter/X API calls to read information. I haven't seen nearly as many research papers on user's posts in cybersecurity, so they just don't have the same avenue of people doing free work finding ways to combat AI generated profiles. Now that all has to be internal or enough of it to gain some trust back from government agencies and maybe the public.

Personally, finding ways to detect this is exactly the stuff that made me interested in the academic route of cybersecurity.

AnEro··on The ketogenic diet improves healthspan and memory in aging mice
As I understand it, it's a beta test at best. It's mostly for scientists to prove it's safe ethical and worth the money of moving forward to test on humans, more than evidence of the underlining hypothesis. It is to be taken with a grain of salt. If it's working for you now keep doing it, if you're not doing it don't feel pressured to do it, just keep an eye out.

Usually that's what I hear from the bio/fitness PHDs breaking down studies on nutrition/drug effects for fitness/nutrition.

AnEro··on Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket
Sourcing regular fresh food staples to be competitive with the big chains is hard. You have to use the big chains sub companies as a supplier more often than not unless you partner with local farmers. Even small grocers I go to have a 'foodland' section for products they can't get local, or for cheaper versions of the locally farmed items.

Then you are a nuance of a trip if you can't carry the fresh food staples, especially outside a metro area.

AnEro··on Cardiovascular health and cancer risk associated with plant based diets
>Can you explain to us what it feels like to "feel at 110%"?

Hyperbole to quickly explain that my skin is better, my hormone levels are more even, better sleep makes my mood better, less brain fog. So some objective facts like I've improved my skin texture, and better sleep (longer, less interruptions, easier to get to sleep). Then a few subjective things like mood, brain fog, body doesn't hurt as much working out.

Side note I also feel fuller longer and have a hard time over eating, mostly due to having a large amount of both protein and fiber. So its helped me stay much leaner as someone that has issues with bingeing

>10x some micro nutrients, and 0x others.

I think a lot of the reason why it works is that it forces you to be aware of that 0x, and build verity into your diet. I have eggs, quinoa, milk, varieties of beans and nuts to help me meet that 0x, but I also have meat every few weeks you know?

I just started to think about meat being like 15% of the meal not 40%, but protein still be to focus calories wise. So if I made a taco salad it is closer to a 2 to 1 ratio of beans to meat over a kale/spinach mixed with quinoa with a lot of salsa and a little cheese

Plant based as I understand it mostly just means fill your calories with plants first then others like diary, eggs, meats etc. I think its much healthier than restrictive diets like keto, vegan, etc where you flat out can't have some foods. Foods just started to feel like a gradient of more to less optimal

AnEro··on Cardiovascular health and cancer risk associated with plant based diets
I've been dabbling in plant based for a while, personally, anything that is super nutrient dense works really at helping me feel at 110%. I have meat once in a while, what I noticed was if I ate the same amount of protein via plants, then I'd get 10x the micro nutrients. My theory is getting 100g protein and having a lot of micro nutrients actually absorbed by your body is the trick.
AnEro··on Cardiovascular health and cancer risk associated with plant based diets
I've been eating more plant based, vs my keto beforehand. It makes sense even if it isn't the plants themselves doing it, I just feel like the products I'm getting though pricier are a league above in quality. I say this because everything I'm eating is so much more nutrient dense and mostly fresher. So when I'm eating 30g protein minimum a meal even if I'm not trying, I'm getting way more nutrients than I would if I just had some chicken. e g having a chickpea pasta with a seed/mushroom based bolognese sauce, vs, the pasta and normal bolognese sauce can't compare (though easier to make it taste better lol)
AnEro··on Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins
I fear it will be both that crowd and the anti-covid vaccine blind trust of joe rogan guest crowd
AnEro··on Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins
yea example now there are guys in this comment section claiming keto has cured their adhd/autism. Helped reduce symptoms, sure, but cure? (I've got both of them been on keto, like crazy strict ensuring i was in ketosis every two days type, and it only reduced brain fog personally)
AnEro··on Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins
I feel like this is going to be used by pseudo-science influencers to push trendy diets to prevent autism when this study is observations stage at best.
AnEro··on Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts
Fair enough, my point is mostly that even though it is great we have evidence it's great, but without context of a professional insight it can be terrible. Alot of those studies are the same situation, it is great in their context, terrible outside of it only doctors and most of the time specialist will be able to tell.

Then that information is structured for a layman, like imagine brand-new devs walking into a bootcamp thinking Elixir is safe main language to learn based on YC hype. As good as it is, it doesn't have a big job market, has specialized use cases, and has the same dev environment/knowledge base of node/js in the late 2000's early 2010's.

AnEro··on Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts
Even though he cites his claims, and adds warnings of them being new or lacking other supporting evidence to live by, it is weird to then have still be elevated by him on a health podcast that people often apply to their lives.

I try to think of it like if there was a programming content creator saying Elxir is powerful and ready enough to use everywhere. Though it is true enough that it can be used anywhere, but anyone here could probably point out a bunch of situations you really should never ever use something like it. But imagine someone without that experience not knowing and taking their word for it and put it into prod blindly, it be a huge waste of time and money. Time and money is one thing but in health, knowing media and reading literacy is dropping, its just something if I where in his position I would see it as irresponsible to even mention some of the stuff he does.

AnEro··on US oil lobby launches ad campaign to promote oil as 'vital' to global security
How long before we diversify our technology to not be ham strung by oil anymore? If it's a security risk to not have it then it's a security risk relying on it so heavily.
AnEro··on How Elon Musk Went from Superhero to Supervillain
I understand the partisan reasoning why each side loves and hates him. I just always thought of him as a genius marketer and the guy the ideas man thinks he is. Where he knew what products and services would actually make it to that unicorn level and how to market them to investors and the public as such. Now it looks like he can't do that outside of his partisan circle.
AnEro··on Ask HN: My mother is slowly losing her eyesight, how to prepare?
I have a condition that makes it more likely to lose my vision when I get older much faster than my peers, I'm decades out from this but this is how I'm getting ready. Some of this I'd probably be offended if someone brought up that I ''should'' do so I'd handle it with some grace but; Getting used to using audio readers and navigating with accessibility technology. Getting used to using shortcuts to navigate, where I don't need to see what options if I know I'm triggering them. I'm learning braille for fun while its just for fun.

All the best, not sure if it is helpful at all but its all I could think up <3

AnEro··on Skin health can be used to predict a number of seemingly unconnected factors
For aestetics little to none, for overal health and bloating probably better than with think but not as much as we'd like
AnEro··on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
Any escape from reality or avoidance of it is addictive. And weed is way to normalized for self-medicating, if you said "im anxious im going to smoke" people are way more okay with hearing that than if you said you where getting a beer.
AnEro··on How too much daydreaming affected me
Yea I've been diagnosed with dissociation and its one of my methods so worth not writing off as a check-in. That said it can be either and both, isn't mental health fun :D
AnEro··on Ask HN: When denormalize is preferred instead normalization?
I've found for the accounting system I made it brough far too many problems the CEO demanded wider tables and less joins to simplify things so he could use them. It resulted in stuff simple complex rather than complicated simple.
AnEro··on Have you noticed how much shit the internet has become now? (2007)
/pol/ ????????

oh honey no

AnEro··on Have you noticed how much shit the internet has become now? (2007)
It is interesting to see that every time there has been another layer of commercialization on the internet everyone thinks it was better before.

Linking a 4chan archive on here is a uuhh bold move, I think its a fun snapshot of the time but still

AnEro··on Coding Jobs and GPT-4
Are there fewer engineers since AutoCAD was invented and they didn't need to draw everything out by hand? Yes, but not by much and they just have much higher expectations.

I feel like this is more programmers realizing they have to become the 10x they were told was a myth to survive. Which is kinda true! BUT what also is true using AI tools will make them that if they learn to use them, now they need to know security inside and out, systems design etc. Higher level concepts way above a code monkey's pay grade, now will be expectations, all the theory side is going to be much more important.

AnEro··on Gays with Guns
That BoJack Horseman episode on gun control is becoming more relevant every day
AnEro··on OpenAI cofounder: “open-sourcing Al is just not wise”
"The only competition that should be allowed is big players, small businesses should always be dependent on at most one or three of the largest tech companies. Also unrelated we could be doing copyright infringement and let's not enable people to check."
AnEro··on Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
That's why I also lift and do jogs! That's why I'm interested in the lifestyle peace because I have a pretty healthy lifestyle outside of smoking weed. I think I could be doing better micro nutrient wise and get a better omega and mushroom stack rather than w/e veggies are on sale lol
AnEro··on Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
I also wonder what their lifestyles are in general, and if it would have an effect. I feel like weed puts my brain into autopilot to a degree and makes me 'okay' with w/e I am doing. So recreational usage I could see making you 'dumber' cause weed lets you feel okay doing nothing and doing nothing is a good way to be dumber

My anecdotal opinion for someone that smokes a lot compared to their long-term cannabis users, maybe once or twice a night vs 1 to 4 times weekly. I'm late twenties have been smoking since my early twenties, obsessed with brain optimization and min maxing performance etc. I feel like I've gotten smarter in some areas and dumber in others, which lines up with how weed affects the reward circuits of the brain imho. So I've been using it as a reward for doing stuff I otherwise would be uncomfortable with trying, like a new project or new hobbies; anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. So I think it has helped me get smarter programming and developing intuition on some areas, but since I have avoided writing like the plague it's gotten terrible to be honest. Personally it feels like it just tunnels you in further to what ever you are doing, and possibly makes it harder to stop doing it even not high

AnEro··on Dwarf Fortress Wins “Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year” at Dice Awards
Well deserved I don't get to play games much anymore, but I went out of my way to get it. Haven't played other games really in the genre, so it took a second to learn but it is so much more fun for it, I find at least. It makes fun stories too from a loses as well, where I made a society that after a child death became so depressed they continuously just made enough food and wine to survive, to only worship their god all day. If I took away the church they just sat around and were too depressed to do anything else.(I still don't understand how this happened and won't be able to reproduce my society of drunk and depressed monks)
AnEro··on Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone
yea all this is romanized as if the curse isn't a huge part of my life aswell. Like neet I know how to do all this stuff now time to watch everyone be able to complete and do it all as I just collect information and half finished projects
AnEro··on Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone
Yea but how useful is that if I can't control USING that information. The only way to control what I can focus on unless I loop in some way to get ALOT of dopamine out of it.

It's an executive function DISABILITY, it takes so much work to get it close to useful where it just makes it so your basically on par with everyone after it.

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