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What is the evidence for human thought?

You are doubtless correct that there is bias. (Literally your stated purpose of the movement is to counter this bias.) But with that said, these voices may be outliers, but they are by far the loudest. I’ve seen people claim that “obese” is a slur. I’ve heard more people claim that health is unrelated to weight more than I’ve heard people say that fat people deserve good healthcare.

From my vantage point the movement has largely been co-opted by extremists who want to pretend that obesity is not a health problem.

Is there any debate? Phenylephrine doesn’t work. This is pretty widely documented at this point. Manufacturers shoved it into formulas because the thing that did work could no longer be left on the shelf for consumers to grab.

It’s unfortunate that this stuff remains on shelves and people are taking ineffective (but not side effect free) medications.

I would imagine the sex itself isn’t super relevant in terms of exercise. But people who seek out medical treatment (or enhancement) likely take better care of themselves in general.

But I would be surprised if there were not a measurable increase in health markers for men who take Cialis. Pretty much any drug that reduces blood pressure is going to have a positive effect on longevity for the average male population (but not the sub-population who have low blood pressure).

That’s a helpful reference. If accurate, the method of action here is simply nasal congestion (a common side effect).

Doctors are probably also less likely to look for other causes of chronic cough in smokers.

In general doctors are looking for the most obvious potential causes of a health problem. If someone on high dose anabolic steroids went to the doctor with him blood pressure, the doctor would probably tell them to cut out the steroids as the obvious answer rather than exploring other reasons the patient’s blood pressure might be high.

It’s both. There is a very vocal contingent who insist that obesity is not unhealthy.

> If I wanted an LLM's interpretation I'd have just asked a search-enabled LLM in the first place.

When you search on Google now that’s exactly what you’ve done.

Security incompetence doesn’t turn basic meeting recording and transcribing into snake oil.

No it’s not. Blaming customers is Volkswagen saying it’s your fault for buying a TDI.

> And these customers absolute lack of technical due diligence, on this nth example, of move fast and break things...makes them deserve what they are getting.

That’s a garbage take. These customers didn’t move fast or break things. They trusted a company that made a promise and that company let them down.

That’s a great question for someone else. I didn’t say anything about phones.

Exactly this. “I want to win the market. I would prefer that it be a regulated market, but if not, so be it. I’m still playing to win.”

The number of children per family has been plunging since 1800.

https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a...

We’re reaching further into the past than great great grandparents to get to the large families for farming but sure. Calling it a “fine” to have kids is really bizarre framing though.

25 minutes on the toilet means you’re either sitting there doomscrolling or you need to do something about your digestion.

We address the vulnerability by retreating to a private space. The phones come out just to address boredom. Sitting on the toilet is boring.

> I will say that playing my Nintendo DS on the toilet many years ago gave me hemorrhoids that still persist decades later. Don't camp on the toilet.

Right. People spending 30 minutes sitting on the toilet are clearly not feeling all that vulnerable. But, yeah. Don’t do that.

> Your great great grandparents didn't effectively get fined for having each child. It was quite the opposite.

What are you talking about?

I could imagine how a potential interviewee might say something like “I’d tattoo myself with your logo for a chance at a job” and a CEO might respond “Hell, yeah! That’s the kind of energy I’m looking for.”

What I can’t understand is how in a whole executive team, no one thought bringing a tattoo artist to tattoo potential interviewees with was a stupid idea. This wasn’t an accident, or surprise, like a tattoo artist just happened to be there and things got wild. They specifically brought a tattoo artist to do this. What the fuck.

“You disagree with me about the meaning of this word so clearly you have a poor grasp of the language” is absolutely an insult.

I hope this weird redefinition of bike shedding doesn’t take off. It’s a useful and meaningful term and repurposing it to mean AI slop is negative value.

Thankfully until this thread I’d never seen anyone use the term this way.

> Can only assume english might not be your first language.

This not-subtle insult does not add anything here.

I don’t understand how LLMs make more stuff “bike sheddable”. What LLMs do is allow people to contribute low value garbage to all areas, but we have a word for that and it’s not “bike shedding”. It’s “slop”.

> But I'm prepared to accept it was just variance. The problem is, that variance undermined the competition for many people

Honestly I found it really frustrating that Balogun got that red card (and gross when political meddling suspended it) while Messi got nothing for a similar infraction. But variance is part of the game. I don’t actually think most of it is in any way malicious and I am not sure refs can do much more. So much is subjective. I’ve watched games where they hand out yellows for every minor infraction and it’s a shitty experience for everyone (fans, players, and coaches).

I do think Messi gets favoritism. He gets awarded free kicks right outside the box for softball fouls that no one else gets. But they are trying to protect their star. They don’t want the WNBA thing where every other game Clark gets egregiously fouled.

> in the same way hydration breaks did. It made it a worse World Cup for many fans.

I don’t really understand the hate for the hydration breaks. Giving athletes some water seems reasonable even if the underlying reason is ads. I think they should be 1-2 minute breaks, though.

The halftime show in the final was more egregious than the hydration.

It’s a good term. :)

I originally heard it in the context of picking paint color for the bike shed, which is probably more on point for software engineers, most of whom would not be involved in any discussion around building a nuclear reactor.

Bad management will certainly tank a team, but he’s right. The draft structure also helps to even out the teams.

In the NFL, winning is more about quality management and coaching (and some luck) than anything else. Which is a good thing. Leagues where winners are decided mostly on who is able to spend the most on players are lopsided and kind of lame.

Dude, this is gross. Stop calling people racist for disagreeing with you about Argentina. It’s not racism to call out concerns about Argentina’s play or reffing bias.

You should be embarrassed to repeatedly resort to ad hominem attacks like this.

Thanks. I know what bikeshedding is. I’m asking what cyandees specifically means. The normal definition of bikeshedding doesn’t seem to make any sense in his sentence.

I’m assuming he’s using it to mean “cruft” or “low value features” but maybe there’s some meaning I’m missing.

What is bikeshedding supposed to mean here?

Fernandez deserved each of his yellow cards. Especially the second for that reckless and dangerous tackle.

Cucurella did not violate the rule. He touched his mouth for an instant. The rule is not “if you ever touch your mouth you get ejected”, which is why VAR didn’t do anything and neither did the ref on the field.

I generally have nothing against Argentina but they were wildly outplayed in the last game, they were disrespectful, and Messi’s appeal to the ref to try to get Cucurella ejected was shameful.

> Now, you seen more countries qualify, and you see countries who used to not qualify, dropping ASAP (in the deathmatch 16th matches, right after poule).

> So what did we get out of that? A few matches during the tournament, and they were quite frankly meaningless.

The answer for FIFA is of course money. More countries, more games, more money.

But the non-cynical answer is that all of those countries got to see their teams play 3 World Cup games. Some got to see more than that. I would bet that many of those countries’ citizens are very happy with the expanded tournament, and good for them. We also got Cape Verde this year, who many people around the world were excited for.