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phoschore··on Myers-Briggs: The personality test that conned the world
Yeah, the big five personality traits fall apart just as easily if you start factoring in evil, yet productive activities.

How does moral relativism play into being agreeable, organized, curious, confident and outgoing? An enterprising individual interested in hooking as many people as possible on heroin? A strong individual that leads Germany out of the economic peril of crushing war debt?

Being superficially agreeable, and conscientious, yet knowingly sabotaging the people you agree with, to their face? Or maybe agreeing with some people, but not with you? Outgoing, but only when met by individuals that meet certain criteria? Curious and inventive, when torturing animals? Organized, while incarcerating inmates in a private prison?

Sounds like a great recipe for being productive at work, just so long as you don't think to deeply about the work being done.

phoschore··on The Amazon Echo as a map of human labor, data and planetary resources
You're not the only one. The header image is so big, and links to a PDF, such that I thought the PDF was the content.

This is caused by:

  height: 93vh;
https://anatomyof.ai/css/main.css?line=178#line:178

...causes the header image to occupy 93% of the viewable area of the open window.

phoschore··on Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK
Oh, just the usual near-monthly (if not daily) death march of ever-increasing version numbers, just like Chrome and Firefox. And Windows Update. And OS X, And iOS. And Ubuntu. And so on, and so on, and so on...
phoschore··on Sperm Count Zero
Your sentiment echoes my own:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939166

phoschore··on Sperm Count Zero
Eh, it was posted yesterday too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17938276

And a few other times over the past week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gq.com

phoschore··on Sperm Count Zero
It's probably a combination of ibuprofen and birth control pills tainting the water supply enough to result in horomonal signaling.

It's weird, because you look back to 40 years ago, and the lack of gender dysphoria didn't seem nearly as prevalent, and I don't think that's because of pressure to enforce social conformity. I must admit, the plastic surgery didn't exist, and maybe we're worse for having it.

It's possible that perception has simply been altered by the internet's capacity to surface specialty subcultures, but even so, I feel like it's a really, really strange thing for so many men these days to push as hard as they do to live as women. And it really does seem like there's a lot more traffic heading in that direction and not the reverse.

So it would make sense to me, that part of this gradient of diffusion is also other reproductive system problems. There's probably a wide grey zone of infertility without gender dysphoria, and the higher rates of gender dysphoria are the extreme cases of the root cause of male infertility.

It would make sense to me if it works out this way, although, I am uncertain that these are really the facts.

I just don't remember people being like this, the way things are now. The 1970's had a lot going on, and then we saw promiscuity kill up to 50,000 annualy when AIDS hit. Now, higher rates of gender dysphoria and infertility, so what gives?