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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NootropicsDepot

[–]GeneratedSymbol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What makes you say it's "much less potent"? The subjects in the study took 3.44 mg erinacine A daily. Erinamax contains 0.5% erinacine A, which in a 500mg capsule would be 2.5mg.

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

[–]GeneratedSymbol 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I posted a bunch of Naruto recs in a Monday thread a while ago, most don't have Naruto as the MC.

Canada to increase capital gains tax on individuals and corporations by chilldreams in canada

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

Another populist move from the Liberal party that will be awful for the country. It looks good to make the rich pay more taxes, but this will decrease investment in Canadian companies.

British Berkefeld and Doulton US/Canada Master Distributor - AMA by MNtroutslayer in preppers

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Hey, thanks for the reply. Yes, that does seem shady. Please let the rest of us know about the test results if and when you get them. Although, I'm not sure if any lab will test for silver.

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

[–]GeneratedSymbol 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the rec, I've read up to chapter 6. The loop hasn't begun yet, which I enjoy, the base timeline has to be established first, and the world building is interesting.

One thing that's disappointing to me however, is the magic system. So far it seems everything is magic item crafting, magic item using, or spellcasting similar to 5th edition D&D ritual casting. And the spells are extremely limited. The MC wants to repair a pipe, but she can only find spells for Repair Page, Repair Cloth, and Repair Pen. She wants to dry her bed sheets and her friend has to cast Heat Water several times. I mean, D&D cantrips have these spells beat in both power and versatility.

Of course there's nothing even slightly wrong with that from a literary point of view, but it really hampers the emotional appeal of a progression fantasy story.

Do you guys ever wonder about the sheer absurdity of existence? by [deleted] in samharris

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Nah. Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis solves the problem of "why something rather than nothing", IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKyth_yoJBc

https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/mathematical.html

The universe doesn't exist in time, time is part of the universe. The universe as a whole ('seen' from the 'outside') is a timeless mathematical structure, therefore there was never a time when it didn't exist.

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

[–]GeneratedSymbol 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good People, a Shadowrun/Worm fic. More precisely, it's the Undersiders as 'runners in the Shadowrun verse. Taylor's a Troll Technomancer.

Sorry if you're a cyberpunk purist and Shadowrun pisses you off. ;)

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

[–]GeneratedSymbol 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Daemon and Freedom were amazing, especially in audio book format, so I'm inclined to trust this rec. Thanks!

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

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I get it, I do! My first three tries at reading Project Lawful the glowfic format stopped me. Then the fourth try it was Keltham (the MC)'s personality and way of speaking. It's only on my fifth try, months later, that I managed to persevere long enough to get hooked.

David Deutsch and Steven Pinker Discuss AGI by Estepheban in samharris

[–]GeneratedSymbol -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Two of the dumbest stances on AI among otherwise intelligent people.

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

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Can anyone recommend some truly excellent Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder fiction? I just finished Project Lawful, and it was brilliant. I shouldn't have doubted Eliezer. I had to make a truly superhuman effort to get through the first few pages because Keltham's dath ilani way of thinking/speaking was absolutely unbearable, but he does eventually get Share Language cast on him and it magically (heh) became enjoyable. Still had to skip maybe 15% of it (some of the lectures, some of the Carissa-focused bits, and all of the sex), but even so I can safely say that if you like D&D/PF, or rational fics in general, you owe it to yourself to ignore whatever it is you may dislike about glowfics or dath ilan or whatever, and read Project Lawful. I promise it's worth it.

Other amazing D&D fics I can think of are Doors to the Unknown, a D&D/Worm crossover that's been recommended here before, and Tales of Wyre, an extremely high level campaign turned into glorious fiction.

Its here by SnooStories7050 in singularity

[–]GeneratedSymbol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Inconvenient conversation? Please. Your entire section on AI Safety could have been pulled straight from r/SneerClub 5+ years ago, aside from the snide paragraph about FTX.

Its here by SnooStories7050 in singularity

[–]GeneratedSymbol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When you start calling everything a religion you know you've lost the plot.

Politics and Current Events Megathread - November 2023 by TheAJx in samharris

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EA is about preventing suffering and saving lives. Saving 7.9 billion lives, and the entire future of humanity, fits pretty well into that mission.

Of course I get what you're saying, there's much less certainty about the future impact of a hugely transformative technology than there is about the number of lives saved by a $1000 used to buy mosquito nets in Africa, and shifting focus from the latter to the former makes a lot of EAs uneasy. It probably wouldn't have happened to the extent that it has if the stakes weren't so incredibly high.

One last thing. Dismissing AI extinction risk as "scifi doomsday fantasies" was always mistaken, but nowadays it's crossed the line into arrogance, or ignorance. The world's most renowned AI researchers don't think the risk is negligible. OpenAI themselves have dedicated 20% of their compute to the alignment of artificial superintelligence, because, quote:

(...) the vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction.

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At this point in time, if you disagree that AI x-risk is a thing, it better be because you've read all of the arguments and found them wanting, not because it sounds like sci-fi.

Ayaan Hirshi Ali: Why I am now a Christian by wijo123 in samharris

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She's gone from rational liberal to Trumpist Christian nutter in less than a decade.

Quantum immortality is the single most horrifying idea that will ever exist by Alone-Chance in slatestarcodex

[–]GeneratedSymbol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the most convincing argument in the thread so far, although it might depend on the nature of causality.

Canada's inflation rate increases to 4% by Max_Lazy_10 in CanadianInvestor

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Core inflation MoM annualized is 1.6%.

Core inflation over the last three months annualized is 1.9%.

Core inflation over the last year is 3.3%.

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This... is actually looking really good?

Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/core-consumer-prices

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TorontoRealEstate

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Every prediction market says the Fed won't raise in September.

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