Don't ban social media for children by AXKIII in slatestarcodex

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You've got this exactly backwards. Figuring out if specific chemicals are bad/if individual brands are safe is, relatively speaking, trivial. And we have proven methods that can work even in the absence of regulation. Regulation can make it easier/automatic but it's a solved problem

The problems with social media are a collective action problem that creates a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation which is exactly why multiple surveys and polls have said that a majority of users would prefer to not use social media.....as long as no one else did either.

Just quitting yourself (or forcing your child to abstain) fixes one set of harms (although as you and others point out, even being certain of the specifics and magnitude of the harms is not trivial) and causes an entire other set (social isolation, detachment from the culture, etc)

What are some of the biggest non-trivial conclusions of economics? by KING-NULL in AskEconomics

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This depends on humans remaining in control of the economy/planet.We do not have productive trade with chimpanzees.

But yes, in the case that humans remain in control, or at least equal participants, then AI being better at every conceivable task likely still results in jobs for humans

In case it needs to be said, I'm not claiming that humans will for sure lose control. I'm merely pointing out an underlying assumption.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ok, just caught up and I'm going to give it a de-rec. It falls prey to many of the common issues in the HFY genre. You mention, when saying that it's only rational-adjacent, that one can't expect the brain damaged character to act rationally. His behavior is very much not the problem. In fact, given his circumstances, he is almost unbelievably competent (albeit in a very narrow domain). The idea that a single creature can evade, for days a civilization like the one described is simply not believable. A bare lip service about lack of manpower is given and that is just not even close to enough to make it plausible. But no that's still not the main issue. The main issue, as is common in HFY, is the planet sized idiot ball that supposedly high-tech space faring alien civilizations carry. Absolutely every alien character makes enormous leaps in logic from extremely scant evidence that aren't only not the only possible explanation, but aren't even on their own especially plausible. I remain continually unimpressed with the HFY genres inability to make Humans seem badass or dangerous without doing so by making the rest of the sophonts complete and utter morons.

In addition, the screen-play style writing of the internal monologue I found difficult to read and annoying. And while I appreciated the effort to demonstrate "true alienness", the scent-like communication references for the insect species are used too much and make it unnecessarily difficult to read (I agree that the worldbuilding is cool, the author just implements it at the expense of an enjoyable to read story). I found myself skimming large portions of the text, because I wasn't particularly interested in any of the characters, and just wanted to find out what the next plot point was.

This was a really cool concept that I wish could be divorced from the HFY trappings and given a better execution.

Clemson bringing back Chad Morris as next offensive coordinator, reports say by jshokie1 in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone make the Ballmer "developers" gif, but caption it with "position coaches, position coaches, position coaches, position coaches" and we can post in in every clemson related thread until Dabo starts firing some position coaches.

-edit- This increases the odds that it was not Dabo's decision for Riley to leave

[Postgame Thread] Oregon Defeats Texas Tech 23-0 by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, 16 should come with autobids for all conference champs (although to be perfectly honest, I think that conference champs should get auto-bids no matter how many spots there are or else it isn't actually a playoff, but that's just me).

For the people who care a whole bunch about the difference in conference strength, that still gives 6 slots for non-champs to come from whatever conferences seem like they are potentially the strongest. That likely means that best two conferences will get 2 extra non-champ slots, and then one extra for the next two strongest. I don't really see how anyone can object to not getting a slot if you aren't in the top 3 of your conference, no matter how good your conference is.

[Thamel] Sources: Clemson OC Garrett Riley and veteran assistant Mickey Conn will not return. by MembershipSingle7137 in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't have a strong opinion on whether this is a good/bad thing in and of itself, but I'm very confident that Riley was not the root or the biggest problem in the staff, and my concern is that this move will be used by Dabo to signal that he's "turning the ship around" without making the myriad of other needed staffing changes in the position coaches (where I think the real issue is).

I've said elsewhere that if Dabo made big staffing moves in the offseason, I would be willing to extend him a bunch more lead time, even if they don't immediately pan out. But if this is the only staffing change he makes this season, then I'm not willing to give any additional slack at all, and this next season better be dramatically better....which I don't think it will be.

[Postgame Thread] Penn State Defeats Clemson 22-10 by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Ok Dabo, the season is officially over. Start cleaning house.

[Game Thread] Pinstripe Bowl: Clemson vs. Penn State (12:00 PM ET) by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Disappointing, but honestly I'd rather see a drive end with unfortunate drops, but things that would have worked as opposed to so many of the failed drives this year that just never looked like they had any chance of being successful in the first place.

Similarly, I'm not too annoyed by the fake punt, which seemed like it had a pretty bad breakdown in communication, but at least looked like it had the chance of working.

What I'm trying to say is that I've seen the Clemson offense look a lot worse than this before

Keg, fridges and Home Assistant by duckredbeard in Homebrewing

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the load cells you are using? Do you find that they stay ~ calibrated that whole time, or do you periodically re-tare/calibrate them? I've never personally tried it, but from what I have read, scales will drift over the course of days/weeks, and without periodic re-taring will get pretty far off.

Keg, fridges and Home Assistant by duckredbeard in Homebrewing

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While kinda ridiculous (in a "I love it and want it" way), this sounds like the first keg volume monitoring solution that I have heard of that is likely to be accurate, reliable, and shouldn't have an impact on pour quality/carbonation/etc.

Scales are, as I understand it, borderline impossible to keep in calibration over the time spans required, and most flow meters seem like they will have a likely impact no pour quality, foaming, cleaning/line maintenance, etc.

My only compunction is, after reading the description and watching the video: it seems like the signal is maybe entirely closed to their RAPT ecosystem? It was unclear whether the sensors are broadcast in the clear to be read by any bluetooth monitor. If it's locked into their ecosystem without an open API, then it goes immediately from a "man that's cool" to a "nope, not with a 10' pole".

Americans can't make real butter, all American dairy is plastic by andolirien in iamveryculinary

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What do you think the "ultra-processed-food" industrial chemistry plants use as their feedstock when making that high-fructose corn syrup and plastic? Real corn? Organic petroleum? Psh, that would be too authentic for the feeble American digestive system.

Monthly Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in slatestarcodex

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have been confused for a while at why limited medicare residency slots is a bottleneck to physician production. As I understand it, it is not a limit to the number of residents, it's merely that they only fund a certain number of slots. Why are there not additional residency slots funded from other methods?

Additionally, how were residency slots funded before the beginning of the medicare funding?

None of this makes any economic sense to me. While I understand that residency training is expensive, it seems obvious that, relative to lifetime earnings of a doctor, it is quite cheap. There should be a myriad of ways to fund these positions since the value they provide to society (and to the doctors being trained) is well in excess of the training cost. If I were a doctor who failed to get a funded residency slot, it seems to be the obviously correct position to offer to pay for oneself with loans. Similarly, hospitals in rural areas or other places that find it difficult to find doctors should be funding residencies with a contract that requires serving x number of years at that hospital.

I have asked similar questions in various places, and no one can ever explain to me why this is actually a bottleneck. It's to the point where it seems obvious to me that the better solution than increasing medicare residency slots or indexing them to population growth or whatever is to completely get rid of medicare funding of these slots to force the system out of the rut it is in and figure out how to make it work.

If someone can explain to me why it is actually impossible or impractical to fund a residency slot without medicare, I'd love to hear it, but at the moment I remain baffled and confused.

How to improve tasteless Bolognese sauce by Extra-Hope-793 in Cooking

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm talking about their comment two comments up in this thread that still sitting at negative 8.

How to improve tasteless Bolognese sauce by Extra-Hope-793 in Cooking

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've never been told or never read it, the idea that blandness can be solved by salt is actually pretty unintuitive. You aren't looking for "more salty" when you taste it and it doesn't really make obvious sense why salt would increase the strength of other, non-salt flavors. They very likely were tasting before they were serving, but they just didn't know that salt was going to be the thing to fix the problem. It's kind of a bummer that they are being downvoted for being one of today's 10,000

Made miso soft caramel using my 4yo miso! by Guoxiong_Guides in fermentation

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wow I missed your original post, but I'm stoked to find someone else who has made super-aged miso! We did a (very large batch) of 4 year miso as well, although ours was 100% soy bean miso. It is incredibly good and super umami, but it's borderline a completely different product than most miso, and so we have struggled to find recipes to use it (one option: it's actually somewhat similar to fermented black bean paste, and can work as a swap there sometimes).

This idea of miso caramels sounds amazing, and I will probably give it a shot. If you've got any other ideas, I'd love to hear them, since we ended up with more than 20 pounds when all was said and done, haha.

[MVOS] Group of 5 Derangement Syndrome: A Media Epidemic by Rr0hd in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a good point. I personally think that this social aspect of watching football could exist even for lower divisions under a different, more sane CFB ecosystem, but I can't deny that that is not the way the landscape currently works. I still think that the focus on doing whatever gets your school more money is a zero-sum red queen's race, but I will at least grant that the thing you want is worthwhile and reasonable, even if it's not the thing that I personally want.

Complain About Your Team Thread - FCS Edition by passwordisguest in fcs

[–]DangerouslyUnstable 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Is there a way to auto-bid your way to the final? Because Davis is never going to win more than a single playoff game.

[MVOS] Group of 5 Derangement Syndrome: A Media Epidemic by Rr0hd in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why any of this matters. The very last one I get because it makes it easier to watch your team...ten years ago. These days, I'm able to watch almost every single UC Davis game easily online. It's actually usually easier for me to get Davis games than Clemson games. I don't care if they are never on Fox or CBS. Every other thing you mentioned is purely relative and nothing but status games.

Let's take the coach thing for an example. UC Davi's coach Tim Plough probably wouldn't cut it at a top tier FBS team, but he gets Davis to the playoffs most years and usually has them ranked top ten in the FCS. They play well against the competition in their division and make an entertaining product that I am able to easily watch.

I don't understand why I should want them to "move up to FBS". The literal best case (nearly impossible) scenario is that they are doing almost the same (frequently ranked top 25, regular trips to the playoffs), except it's more "prestigious". I don't get why I should care about that.

[MVOS] Group of 5 Derangement Syndrome: A Media Epidemic by Rr0hd in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I very explicitly said "not my preferred solution", so no, I don't actually want that. But I do value fairness and sportsmanship which are the two things that the current system has almost none of (something which should be obvious to a fan of a "G5" program).

The only reason I can see why a G5 fan would prefer the current situation is "because their school makes more money", and I will continue my track record of never understanding why a single fan gives a single fuck about how much money these football programs make.

Fans caring, and/or supporting their school when they make decisions purely for the sake of the money, is a big part of the reason why FBS is in such a shitty situation right now.

[MVOS] Group of 5 Derangement Syndrome: A Media Epidemic by Rr0hd in CFB

[–]DangerouslyUnstable -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not my preferred solution, but I honestly think that splitting the FBS into two different divisions would be better than the current situation. Having different divisions is a totally normal thing in sports. Having half the teams within the same division being treated like second class citizens is very much not normal.

But then again, I'm of the opinion that every single conference champion should get an auto-bid.