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Thank you - also came to comment on Elmer and Elise being the precursor long ago.

Walter himself mentioned the perceived complexity of a simple system to the observer, stating it "might be accepted as evidence of some degree of self-awareness."

As opposed to say, that career politicians will be overly confident in scientific decisions they make in new domains completely foreign to them, primarily due to their expertise in their own domains and that this will lead to disastrous policy decisions.

Lately it seems like we need "hacks.ycombinator.com" as a new sub-list.

I take it for RA, and am kind of amazed I've not had any real side effects per se. Daily Folic Acid (which I take) is supposed to help. I take it once a week (20 mg). And was also kind of surprised when I started reading up on it what it also was used for.

There will probably be a time when it's impossible to determine if content came from an LLM or a human. We're currently in the, "It's been 'shopped, I can tell by the pixels" stage.

It's not about heat loss, it's about possible impact on the ocean floor and thus the unique ecosystems of hydrothermal vents. It may have a low-impact profile when managed correctly, but the process carries potential risks to delicate benthic ecosystems if not done well.

I'm not saying this work is a bad thing, just that one needs to be pretty careful about it. It's probably a soap box I'm more willing to jump up on being a former marine technician on research ships for many years.

Next up, Stardew Valley with an HOA

TL;DR

Dental advice is contradictory, confident, and often self-serving, so the patient can’t tell who to believe.

A few comments based on having gone through prostate cancer as well as observing how others deal with it (or don't).

As much as you need the health care system to make decisions and act, you need to do the same. And there are some kinds of cancer where talking about it is embarrassing, or fear of treatment keeps the patient from proceeding - not the doctor.

Prostate cancer detection for example has it's basic roots in the PSA test (easy enough), but also DRE (Digital Rectal Exam). As things go for exams, it's not many people's favorites and some will put it off.

Next up, say you have higher PSA. You probably will get sent off for a biopsy. Guess where they have to go to get core samples? There are a few routes, but none of them are what one might call fun at all.

So just to get diagnosed, you're going to find people who will put it off or not do it simply because they have anxiety or otherwise are uncomfortable about it.

Then there's the outcomes of the treatments - of which there are many types of treatments. The two big negatives of treatment can be incontinence and erectile dysfunction. That and your penis might be shorter post surgery if you go that route.

What that does is get people who need treatment going from doctor to doctor to find the one that tells them what they want to hear (no side effects). It's paralysis by analysis combined with fear of the not necessarily guaranteed side effects.

But there is one side effect if you do nothing for long enough - you'll die.

So do something - don't let the blocker to treatment be you.

Totally off topic, but I'm replying to an old comment from 3 months ago about me getting a ticket to KGATLW due to a gmail name typo. ("Are you in the weights?")

Yes I went!

The other me had bought new tickets already by the time I tracked him down, and he said "Just keep them!" I took the Amtrak down from Oregon to the Bay Area, and my daughter and I met up with the other me for drinks before the concert at the Frost Amphitheater. GREAT time, tons of fun. Wouldn't have been on my list per se but as an impulsive fun thing to do it was fantastic!

Ages ago I was working on a Mars-based game idea and at the time the terrain res data wasn't great. This kind of concept really would have been a game changer (as it were).

Really neat idea - would have loved to have this 15-20 years ago!

I'm curious how it does for non-Earth data. Mars terrain for example.