strawcomb

'How are your Golden Insight Nuggets today?'

'I've been collecting all these great Golden Insight Nuggets.'

God it's horrible.

Why not just: "GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insights"

Some examples: they admit in interviews to lying to obtain votes. They propose entrapping their client's opponents by bringing girls to them, or by giving them an offer 'too good to be true'. They give the impression there isn't much they won't do.

What a great quantitative evaluation of bias you just carried out.

> work for cats and dogs That could still be conditioning.

> deep pressure touch improves subjective relaxation That could still be conditioning.

I'm not saying it definitely is conditioning, but I don't see enough evidence to rule it out.

For example, these animals could associate the pressure with the warmth and comfort of being the in the womb. So in a way they've been conditioned by being in the womb. Maybe animals grown in a 'test tube' wouldn't give the same results.

> a weighted blanket can trigger an uptick in the brain’s production of serotonin

Surely that could be a result of conditioning.

Going fully digital with info, verifying with blockchain is all well and good, until a malicious actor forbids/prevents people from using blockchain somehow. if you've gone fully digital at that stage, you're in trouble

I would suggest that we shouldn't ever rely on digital archiving of important information. There should always be a copy of the information in analog, that can be dated & verified with analog methods.

> if a person tries and fails and I never try; at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no?

What a bizarre statement. This is a generalisation that can easily be shown to be false. If I try and win Gold at the olympics, but fail (only winning silver), I am in a completely different place from you who never tried. There's a million other counter examples.

So far the generative models I've seen (VAEs, GANs) really just seem to morph between images.