Saptarishi

Agree with this. Smartphones have enabled profligation of low effort posts and comments, emotional outbursts and mood based content.

This sort of direct or indirect attention grabbing content which is more often than not extremely unhealthy for society gets pushed up by people, because it satisfies our primal dopamine instincts.

As communities get larger and harder to moderate, more and more people assume it is the status quo to create such unhealthy content, and because of smartphones, it is extremely easy to push up such content, and those who werent originally into this also get dragged in.

On an aside, is it really ethical for a company to make insane amounts of profit for being a platform which enables people to bicker, fight and create echo chambers? Agreed that not all social media communities are like this, but even so, is it fair?

>"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur Clarke

I think this would be an interesting place to discuss. When Arthur Clarke made that statement, technology wasnt as ubiquitous as it is today. I've always wondered about the converse of that statement - "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology"

Antibody remembrance comes from memory cells isnt it? I may be wrong.

He's always had that super-aggressive, rude style in discussions. Linus is not a fairy, but he is super smart.

I think the point is, the memory cells do not retain this knowledge for extended periods of time in the case of the current Covid vaccines we have. So should we be looking for a 3rd dose, or try to fund a different vaccine?

In my country we often joke about how hard it is to find that one "perfect" doctor - knows what he's doing and knows about his strengths and weaknesses, isnt too arrogant or unwilling to accept his own doubts on the diagnosis, experienced enough yet doesn't charge too much and whatever is prescribed seems to work magically for you.

Once you find someone like that, you're set. Not that one has to blindly follow that person, but it lifts a lot of stress off your head.

Edit: I am not from USA

I think the commenters point was not about people reading articles on the internet and feeling that they've got a better understanding than doctors. It's about medical professionals thinking that they are infallible.

Back in my school days, we used to have lots of poems which would often go on to say that money is the biggest trouble of life, or that money is the biggest corrupter of people's minds, or that money is the root cause of all evil. Most of these poems were written before the 20th century. I would often disagree with these poems, naively thinking that one just had to have some sort of self-control when it comes to money. Now I know I was terribly wrong.

Its really saddening to see the the main objective of people is to own a Lamborghini ,a mansion and live with some hoes, just like that "YouTuber guy".

Maybe that is the downside of the general policy of abstraction that Devs use, that software should be made to look as simple as possible, and all the apparently "unnecessary intricacies"(which could have disastrous effects) should be dumped under the hood.

TikTok feeding us what we apparently value is its biggest danger.

When people out of mere curiosity watch something biased/misrepresented/discriminatory/extreme and interact with that content, irrespective of whether all their opinions at that moment of time are the same as that of the content they watched, the algorithm will aggressively push similar content onto you, and there will definitely be a few who fall into "the doom".

I think lots of physicists have a tendency to outrightly reject interpretations which seemingly put humans and other "conscious"(whatever that means) entities on a higher pedestal . It is most probably due to their general dislike of advocation of humans being a superior being than other "animals" by religious organisations, which does inculcate some unhealthy arrogance in people.

But i think physicists need to open up a little more. If QBism or other interpretations where reality is subjective were really true, it would probably lead to some "we got it right initially" by some religious organisations, but honestly, that shouldn't stop physicists from pursuing such theories. I think it can be a win-win scenario in the end.

I pin the blame on too many users joining due to the mass popularisation of Reddit by YouTubers. At one point, almost every "popular" YouTuber seemed to have these "subReddit review" videos going on, which inevitably created a large boom in Reddits user base (it grew exponentially in the last 2-3 years). Suddenly Reddit went from being focused on fun/discussion/discovery/curiosity to mass populism and extreme echo-chamberism . The curious folks who originally were the soul of reddit were lost in the noise of "common" people barging in.

The problem arises when people dont actually say "ignorant racist trash" but have a genuine point of discussion(albeit controversial), but are painted with the same brush as real racists and bigots. Resorting to subversive vulgarity is not a good idea.

>Setting up your community with specific standards is totally fine imo

In some sense I agree, but what happens when these communities begin to overflow with people, and chaos increases? It leads to opinion suppression( no I'm not talking about extreme opinions on any side of the political spectrum , I'm talking about opinions which differ from the status quo ), echo-chamber creation, and worst of all, unnecessary aggressive behaviour and mud slinging.

Very interesting idea. C can still come back and comment the next day/after a fixed time frame. I think it provides a much needed balance between lack of interaction and over interaction. I guess it can prevent bickering and unnecessary arguments.

Though if anyone wanted to set up an information farm, by creating a bunch of accounts, where they post and like each other, acting like different individuals, it could still create engagement with other innocent people who could eventually become biased, hateful and misinformed.

Very unfortunate. Mud slinging and blame game tactics to prevent neutral discussion are the bane of society.

You think nobody can tap phone records, when you called someone outside India?

Oppressive government?

Or a solar flare. Nature's wrath is unimaginable.

When AlphaGo went against Lee Sedol, it often made moves in the later stages of the game which were completely inexplicable to almost all game analysts and commentators, it seemed like a bad/stupid move, or at the very minimum, it seemed like a move which was hard to build upon. But it eventually won. I think we should let an AI model do its thing, even if it possibly seems absurd to traditional human understanding. The aim shouldnt be to make them like us(or better than us), it should rather be to make them the best form of themselves( which I hope will eventually be better than us )

This is an excellent point. An AI may be able to do a diagnosis to you, but a doc could do diagnosis+post diagnosis, with the foresight of medical history. Theoretically an AI could possibly do this as well, but we're nowhere close.

I think proof of ownership and non duplicability arguments apply strongly in the case of something like a Lamborghini( because obviously it has tremendous value) . But I dont really think a digital drawing warrants that sort of value because the non duplicity of something like that is far too subjective. An owner of that ape drawing may live under the impression that the painting is well and truly his, but its non duplicity can easily be questioned with a Ctrl+C Ctrl+V.

To be honest, considering currency exchange rates, 140k for a nurse is a GINORMOUS salary in atleast 80% of countries other than the USA. I have tremendous respect for medical professionals , but surely , a nursing degree is easier to obtain than one in IT ?

To be fair, I too have ended up thinking that free will probably does not exist. Yet everyone else and I will always continue to behave and live as if it existed, that is my consolation.

I think good-bad is not a fair comparision to classify hedonism into one of them. There are generic pleasures like money/sex , and subjective pleasures.Both can easily spiral into greed, malice and prejudice, none of which we really want too much of.

The Hindus as well I believe. Especially within the "Vedanta" school of thought.

Opinion shepherding has always existed , in the ancient past it used to be merely gossip between people, soon transforming into print media, radio, television. Social media is its latest avatar. I can only shudder imagining what awaits us in the future.

Often such accounts posting random bait-ish comments are accompanied by a profile picture of a semi or completely nude woman. Many unsuspecting souls will naturally click

In the words of Andy Greenberg, in Sandworm, he says In-Q-Tel is assigned the task of furthering the interests of 3 letter agencies.