OilDerek

The article is looking at genetic differences, not environmental ones. The small gender difference in neuroticism is actually overexplained by the difference in rates of childhood sexual assault alone, meaning that if anything females are genetically predisposed to be less neurotic.

Perfect. A little H, a little Molly, and a different designer drug every month -- plus a handwritten note!

And with a single quote, all of my worries about finding a job after graduation disappeared. That is amazing.

It seems like the answer to this and similar questions on here, which is Soylent's true "innovation" in my estimation, is that Soylent is the first meal replacement with young men as a target market. Meal replacements are pretty convenient, but if you're an 18-25 y.o. man I have a feeling there's a nonzero level of stigma (real or just feared) associated with drinking SlimFast ("women's drink") or Ensure ("old people drink") all the time. Before now all there was for young people were protein shakes + multivitamin, which is also possibly too associated with bodybuilding/gym rats for comfort for some people.

But if you're a young man drinking Soylent, this hip new VC-backed tech fuel drink, it occupies a similar mental association space to Red Bull. I can't help just seeing it as a marketing thing.

Yep. Going in, for some reason I thought this would be a kind of logic puzzle, e.g. given these pedestrians/road hazards, nagivate to safety. The first scenario I saw was "hit and kill three joggers, or hit and kill three fat people?" That's just...morally tone deaf and sick on about half a dozen levels.

"I then built a simple Python webserver to spin the wheels of the robot based on keyboard commands that made for a nifty remote control car."

So, not autonomous it would seem. With that and an arm, though, you could eventually get it to play fetch...

Hah, what an awful person.

I suppose if you were willing to sleep with any "attractive" person that approached you there'd be no fear of rape, and so no threat or resulting "creepiness." Less shallow people, then, would either find "attractive" people more creepy and/or "unattractive" people less creepy.

I've been at or near ketosis levels of low carb since around 2013; I used it to get over a fourteen-year eating disorder (anorexia->bulimia->BED->freedom). If I had infinite money/time, I'd love to run trials on its effects on impulse suppression completely separate from weight loss. There are some interesting parallels between it and the off-label uses of anti-epileptics.

It's been fun watching the sea change towards acceptance of it. When I first started, most people I encountered were weirdly confrontational about it, but now it's pretty pedestrian. Granted, I had a now-embarrassing proselytizing phase at the beginning and quickly learned to keep my mouth shut unless asked.

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