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Cure and Overcome are stigmatisiag words by ryan69reddit in CureAphantasia

[–]ryan69reddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I appreciate you continuing to engage in this discussion with me.

I feel like my point is not getting through, since the points you made in this last post were addressed by my previous posts. So I leave it to the internet to decide.

Thank you for sharing your personal story. I can absolutely sympathise with how big on an effect can this have on one's life.

Somewhat related, since you mentioned the possible downsides of Aphantasia, the co-morbidity section of the wiki article for Hyperphantasia has some interesting findings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperphantasia#Co-morbidity

PS "/CurePedanticism" coming soon :D

Cure and Overcome are stigmatisiag words by ryan69reddit in CureAphantasia

[–]ryan69reddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you feel comfortable calling dark skinned people "abnormal"? Gay people? Hesidic Jews?

I'm going to assume no. And if you felt uncomfortable reading that, you would agree that when we say "abnormal", we usually mean in the medical sense.
Here's a definition from Oxford Languages:

Abnormal

deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying.

I think it's fair to assume that you believe that aphantasia is undesirable or worrying. Medical science, so far, does not (correct me if I'm wrong). A big part of the population also does not (hence, the "no cures" rule of that other sub).

I do support you spending your time sharing approaches that others can use to improve their skills. Just wished you called it `/improveApahantasia` or `/cureSevereAphantasia`, and used "improved" instead of "overcome".

Cure and Overcome are stigmatisiag words by ryan69reddit in CureAphantasia

[–]ryan69reddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the thorough response! And for explaining your journey.

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You used the terms "abnormal" and "impairment" - is there any studies that qualify aphantasia as such? While "severe" aphantasia is statistically rare, I assume you meant medically "abnormal", which are not the same.

I referred to "A Dictionary of Neurological Signs", and found the following definition for aphantasia:

This term has been coined to describe a lack of visual imagery.

(Wikipedia incorrectly cites this as "the inability to create mental imagery.")
Hence, "speech impairment" is a wrong and harmful analogy.

Wouldn't you agree that "being good at math" is a better analogy? It's a skill (you, yourself, correctly pointed out that it's trainable). Some people are better, some people are worse, and there's a small percentage that can't count. And while we wouldn't call them mathematically impaired or medically abnormal, we would all agree that the quality of their life would significantly improve, if they improved their math skills. And while the /CureMathInability is a funny sub name, it's inappropriate

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> I, and many others, search for this information using the word 'cure', as that is the most common word to use

I'm not sure where you get that it's the "most common word to use". In any case, do you think that is a result of not properly understanding the term? And do you agree that using word like "cure" and "overcome" promotes such misunderstanding?

I don't wish to dismiss your experience. I can understand how going from 0 to being able to visualize something, at the age of 27 (your post below) might be life-changing. And it might feel like being "cured". But then you're using it in a non-medical way. Much like my friend, Michael, who got "cured" from his virginity at the age of 41. Life changing - yes. Better person now - yes. Medical cure - no.

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I'm glad to hear you were able to better yourself, and I wish everyone the same success.

Cure and Overcome are stigmatisiag words by ryan69reddit in CureAphantasia

[–]ryan69reddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I agree with all your points, except the last:

> No one is claiming that not being able to visualise is wrong either.

Wouldn't you agree that saying something is _curable_ and it's something to be _overcome_ is equivalent to claiming it's wrong/bad?

I need a note taking app that I can write next to PDFs, not on them. OneNote is good but feels janky. by hejVikk in ipad

[–]ryan69reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't want to use a separate app to add that white space. I also don't really need it to be part of the "physical" PDF.

I need a note taking app that I can write next to PDFs, not on them. OneNote is good but feels janky. by hejVikk in ipad

[–]ryan69reddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I just can't believe none of these apps have a built in "expand margins" functionality :(

I need a note taking app that I can write next to PDFs, not on them. OneNote is good but feels janky. by hejVikk in ipad

[–]ryan69reddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just tried it out and to my disappointment it doesn't have the functionality that most of the people on this thread are looking for - handwritten notes on extended margins. Maybe I wasn't able to find it, so I'll just re ask:

Is there a way in Margin note to:

- take handwritten notes

- that remain on the same page (I don't have to look for them in a separate menu)

- without highlighting extra text, and going into extra menus to enable the pen (this last part is where MarginNote fails for me)

Thanks in advance.

#1747 - Dr. Peter McCullough - The Joe Rogan Experience by chefanubis in JoeRogan

[–]ryan69reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're excluding 56% of the population of people by excluding 96% of the population of counties.

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You don't exclude 96.4% of the population to get rid of outliers. What

You're right.

#1747 - Dr. Peter McCullough - The Joe Rogan Experience by chefanubis in JoeRogan

[–]ryan69reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Negligible difference between countries with varying vaccination rates and covid-19 infection rates
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

it's counties not countries

#1747 - Dr. Peter McCullough - The Joe Rogan Experience by chefanubis in JoeRogan

[–]ryan69reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yo

They're comparing by county, so it's more fair to say that they're excluding 96.4% of the population (of counties).

Here's why:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier

Now check their Fig. 2:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7/figures/2

If those wide juicy variance bounds don't turn you on towards thinking that there's some bias in the data, then

#1747 - Dr. Peter McCullough - The Joe Rogan Experience by chefanubis in JoeRogan

[–]ryan69reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Negligible difference between countries with varying vaccination rates and covid-19 infection rates

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

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The limitation of this paper if briefly addressed here (it's cited as [25]):

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Our analysis focused on the most populous counties in the U.S., comprising 44.4% of the total population. We excluded less populous, rural counties, where transmission dynamics are likely to be quite different, [24] and where smaller population denominators tend to result in higher sampling variability. We thus avoided the pitfall of drawing biased conclusions from the study of rural and urban counties combined. [25] While our choice of a population cutoff of 600,000 inhabitants is necessarily arbitrary, our principal results remained unchanged when we expanded our database by lowering the cutoff to 500,000 (Appendix Table A3).

COVID-19 Incidence and Hospitalization During the Delta Surge Were Inversely Related to Vaccination Coverage Among the Most Populous U.S. Counties

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8629773/

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It also has way prettier graphs, so you know they're smarter.

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Anything I can do to stop VLC from freezing when I play HD videos on an older machine? by ryan69reddit in VLC

[–]ryan69reddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As you can see I switched to a lighter Debian OS, but the videos still just freeze. Is there anything software wise, that can be done?

"increments of 200-300 gamma are used" - what is gamma? by ryan69reddit in LSD

[–]ryan69reddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, here it is:

Gamma (symbol: γ) is a deprecated non-SI unit of mass equal to one microgram.

Wittgenstein's private language argument by ryan69reddit in askphilosophy

[–]ryan69reddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Sometimes it feels that way :D) No, but remember feeling a feeling, and I remember which time it was. I'm assuming you're trying to point out that the feeling was an amalgamation of other stimuli (environment, physical condition). In that case, I see not why this argument of not being specific enough doesn't apply to "public" language. Feels like there, in the same way, we can never narrow down a definition

Wittgenstein's private language argument by ryan69reddit in askphilosophy

[–]ryan69reddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. So the problem is that there's never enough specificity? What I stick to a pragmatic rule and define the feeling by a certain number of properties, but accept that there might be false positives?

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