tehramz

Healthcare costs for what? There’s a lot of evidence that a high fat low carb, moderate protein diet is very healthy.

$new_year the year of the Linux desktop

FTFY

He gave you the solution:

“Every social safety net will have freeloaders on the system. This is preferred over people in desperate need not getting the support they require.”

Let the cheaters cheat; cheaters gun cheat. It’s not going to be perfect, but we should certainly be be obligated to help those that truly need it. We’re the wealthiest society in the history of the world. We can afford it, esepcially if we can do a better job weeding out some of the people taking advantage.

An even weirder thought:

What if we had a national system that you pay into your entire life that will privide a living wage to retire on, even if you didn’t save additional money?

Either that or maybe we can start blending up the uber rich in this country to make a cheap food source (like soylent green) to feed to the weakest amoung us (like the elderly).

It seems like our greed-stricken society has no desire to help those even when they worked their whole life to benefit society.

When I read anything about “AI” that’s not just hype or some “futurist” predicting that we’re on the cusp of something huge and it’s just around the corner, it makes me think we still have a long way to go before it’s actually “intelligent” and nothing more than PR/marketing.

Because most devs aren’t the ones that will need to worry about how it’s going to be monitored once deployed. Not to mention troubleshooting a billion micro services when something breaks.

Yeah, that’s gonna work. If I was poor and starving, sex might be one of the only escapes I had.

I'm not sure about studies, but many cancer patients go on a very strict keto (very low carb (sugar), moderate protein and high fat) diet in hopes of shrinking the cancer tumors. Being on a keto diet will cause your body to switch from using glucose as a fuel source to using ketones. It's also a diet used for epilepsy treatment and by diabetics who have claimed to reverse their diabetes by staying on the diet.

This research seems to suggest their experience isn't just anecdotal.

I think it's silly to think that modeling AI after how a brain works is silly. We happened to develop the brain we have over many random iterations over billions of years. I don't understand why we think the human brain is the optimal model or method for intelligence. I guess it gives us something we kinda sorta understand to use as an example, but it seems silly to think our brain and how it works is a good model.

What makes you think that our brains or intelligence is the most efficient or most effective? We happened to evolved a brain that allowed us to think on what we consider sophisticated. This doesn't mean that it's a great system. We also evolved to have a spine, which is a terrible design. There's a ton of other examples of evolution designing things that are terrible and ineffective, but get the job done. Is that what we're striving for?

I've never understood this about "AI". Why do we think that our brains or animal brains are the most effective models for intelligence? Just because we evolved to have a brain that works a certain way doesn't mean it's the most efficient or even efficient at all. Of course, I don't have much experience with AI other than what I've read.

I don't think it's silly at all. Why help find another branch of a competitor's business? Do you not think that Amazon doesn't use money generated by AWS to help expand their retail business? I'm actually shocked at the number of companies that use AWS even though Amazon is a direct competitor. Netflix comes to mind.

That's pretty much the opposite of mindfulness. That mindlessness. It's clear to me you don't understand the goal of mindfulness. It's about being more intune, not less. Perhaps the person you know doesn't know what he's taking about, or perhaps you're not listening. Either way, it's clear to me you don't really understand the goal and potential benefits.

Trying to improve yourself isn't productive? This is one of the silliest comments I've read on HN.

Do you do nothing other than work? Your comment implies that it's only a way to deal with work in a toxic environment. It's rather shallow to act like that's the only benefit and also a straw man.

Maybe it's not for you, but it's definitely helped me in everyday life, not just with work stress. Also, I didn't start done this path due to my employer suggesting it.

It amazes me how many negative comments there are about it here. There's scientific evidence that it's beneficial. Maybe it's not for you, but it's certainly helped me in my everyday life and it's wasn't something pushed onto me by my employer, but something recommended to me by a friend when I was going through a rough (somewhat irrational) time in my life. It helped me get through that but it's been even more helpful as time has gone on. So for me, it's not BS at all.

And to the comment above about "doing something more productive with your time". Would you say the same thing about exercise? For me, it's like exercise for my brain. I also feel similar after meditation as I do after a good workout. Working on myself in my opinion, is probably the most productive thing I can do.