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unparagoned··on If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
I’m not sure which way they are going. I like the ones on the left is that now or old?
unparagoned··on A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose
> Unadultated unextracted kratom is far safer than tylenol or ibuprofen in small doses and is widely used by recovering addicts for harm reduction

This is like when they introduced heroin as the safe morphine and that heroin was used to ween people off morphine. Sounds stupid now but it’s the same logic here with Kratom.

unparagoned··on A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose
Llm will never be able to protect against jailbreaks. The safeguards will never hold against people trying to get over them
unparagoned··on A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose
>Sam did not follow ChatGPT’s advice: His toxicology report showed that he had a 0.125 blood alcohol content. It’s also possible he was using 7-OH

Interesting. Still people need to realise how bad some the advice llm can give expecially with memory and lots of chats to jailbreak it and stuff

unparagoned··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
Like most people in this thread people who root their phones are clueless about how much of a security risk it is. So they are protecting people from making dangerous choices.
unparagoned··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
There must might be infinite ways but only one simple, reliable and practical way
unparagoned··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
Yes the solution is to have locked down phones

And that swat example wasn’t Apple.

unparagoned··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
You can still use them. It’s just mobile apps are better in almost every way. Maybe you should uninstall your mobile app and go back to using a device.
unparagoned··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
You are free to use your pc. But it’s up to you if you want the more advanced features on a phone app.
unparagoned··on Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
Depression is an umbrella term that covers lots of underlying biological conditions.

Exercise forms the foundation of a biologically healthy brain which is required for all conditions. For some conditions it’s all you need for others it’s not enough

unparagoned··on Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
Other metas show exercise is more effective than both therapy and drugs.

ssri don’t fix any underlying condition and barely work long term, that if they really work at all.

unparagoned··on Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
This is complete bullshit. Exercise has been show to be more effective than therapy and drugs.

Exercise improves the biological health of the brain which can be fixing the underlying condition.

If you are depressed because your brain is biologically unhealthy, therapy isn’t going to do anything

unparagoned··on CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy
You don’t really want perverse incentives, like that example where American judges were given kickbacks to imprison kids, so they found innocent kids guilty.

I think when money is involved that sort of stuff is much more likely.

unparagoned··on CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy
Think of it this way if the sentence for speeding was life in prison, do you really think that wouldn’t have any effect on people speeding.

I think this just highlights how stupid the idea is that punishment doesn’t act as a deterrent

unparagoned··on CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift
Because when a worker gets hurt it’s just some random bad story. But here it’s the CEO’s responsibly, so it’s justice.
unparagoned··on Backing up Spotify
He admitted that he exaggerated for comic effect
unparagoned··on More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”
Basically qc are so far from ever doing a useful computation we need other benchmarks to measure progress. We need to be thinking in timelines of our lifetime not 5 years
unparagoned··on I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
That’s why many orgs ban you from using smart TV as monitors
unparagoned··on Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
Apples integration of products leaves framework in the first
unparagoned··on Why I don’t root for the Many Worlds team
The Copenhagen interpretation isn’t coherent and has untestable postulates around wavefunction collapse.

Everett’s interpretation has postulates that have been well established and tested and its much more likely to be true.

Plus it’s not like is a popularity test. Some surveys of different populations of physicists do have it taking higher.

unparagoned··on X.com is gonna snitch you out to the public if you use a VPN
Most people are terrible at determining how authentic or truthful a post is. So not data to help them do that is helpful.
unparagoned··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
There are plenty of mechanisms. Eg artificial emulsifiers damage the lining in the gut
unparagoned··on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies
Paul Erdős Proves you wrong.
unparagoned··on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies
That’s just a myth. Studies show that the drugs increase focus in everyone regardless of disease state. Surveys show that people with adhd take higher doses to get high as well.
unparagoned··on No credible tie between Tylenol use and autism/ADHD study finds
I prefer that study. The only difference is how they treated the Swedish study. The Harvard study gave it low quality since they didn’t ask the mothers if they took the drug. And their values of 7.5% were significant of the 50% every other study said.
unparagoned··on No credible tie between Tylenol use and autism/ADHD study finds
No, there is strong evidence of a correlation. There isn’t sufficient evidence either way around causality
unparagoned··on No credible tie between Tylenol use and autism/ADHD study finds
Even this study shows there is correlation.
unparagoned··on Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
So say a school has funding to find 10 candidates for a job using the biased algorithms. Are you saying it’s best to force the school to use an algorithm such that they only find 5 with it still unlikely that any of those 5 are of a different sex. In effect forcing schools to hire a worse member of staff(due to reduced candidate pool.)
unparagoned··on Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
Saves the employer money advertising. So schools save money. Also more realistically due to fixed budgets a school would get better quality staff. A fixed budget might mean previously the ad would be shown to 10 people interested. But if you are forced to show the ads to a bunch of people not interested you might only have it seen by one person interested.
unparagoned··on Developers are choosing older AI models
Grok fast is fast but doing a lot of stupid stuff fast actually ends up being slower
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