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dayvigo··on Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
Curly vs. straight quotes is mainly a mobile vs. desktop thing AFAIK. Not sure what Mac does by default, but Windows and Linux users almost exclusively use plain straight quotes everywhere.
dayvigo··on OpenAI is building a social network?
So you have to just trust them to permanently delete the data after verifying you?
dayvigo··on How to win an argument with a toddler
What definition of rational are you using? Being a rational actor typically means displaying consistent goal-oriented behavior. Being lobotomized seems pretty irrational. It reduces your power and makes you less able to achieve goals (if you can achieve them at all), including basic self-care.

>Except it turns out that once you take the emotional side out of the person, what's left is merely a hull that doesn't care about anything, because rationally, why would you.

That's not what rationality is. What terminal goals one should have, which in humans is informed by emotions, is not a concern of rationality. Rationality concerns how to achieve terminal goals.

dayvigo··on Why Fennel?
Fennel isn't a "real" Lisp. It's more of an aesthetic layer on top of Lua than anything else. Try learning Scheme.
dayvigo··on Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety
Serotonin can decrease IL-17 production, and IL-17 is highly elevated in depressed patients. Inflammation is elevated in depressed patients more generally, but baseline IL-17 levels specifically appear to be a good predictor for antidepressant response[1]. Anti-depressants are pretty much universally anti-neuroinflammatory.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28698115/

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