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I stopped using seek and just started using gemini…

The vision for the future elon gives us (exploring the stars, human augmentation, advanced AI likely leading to elimination of suffering) is a heaven-like vision in a western world where most people don’t believe in anything much, and many of our leaders and intellectuals are misanthropes who think having kids is selfish.

I don’t care what tesla’s quarterly sales are, I’m supporting elon’s vision.


That vision is a lie, and it's a distraction. It is taking advantage of the emptiness that they themselves created, and now they are making you angry to distract you while they rob you. I sincerely wish you well in life, don't pick the wrong heroes.


Who is your hero, and why?


I wish someone would do a large RCT of water fluoridation in pregnant women looking at long term cognitive outcomes if fetuses. It would be an easy study to do (just randomize each group to receive free deliveries of either fluoridated or not fluoridated water) and then look at their offspring’s scores on cognitive tests every few years. I think reputable scientists don’t touch this because they’re afraid of being labelled kooky.


Does the word Tuskegee mean anything to you? Because that's basically what you are asking for.

Nor is there any need for such a study as we have a natural one: some areas have more fluorine in the water than others. We started putting fluorine in the water because we noticed that the places with higher natural levels had better teeth. There comes a point where it's too much and downsides appear, but, again, we already knew that. Note that this is a completely normal thing--there is nothing which is not toxic in sufficient quantity. Including *everything* that is necessary for human life. What would be strange is if there wasn't some maximum safe level. Some things the body easily eliminates and the range between minimum and maximum is quite wide. Things which are not so easily eliminated have narrower ranges. Thus we have the situation where overdose of water-soluble vitamins is basically unheard-of, but overdose of fat-soluble vitamins very definitely happens.


I just do everything i can around the house immediately (as long as I dont have to go to work or whatever).. if its a long job it gives me the opportunity to listen to a podcast. “industry is its own reward”.


+1 to using it as opportunity to listen to a podcast.

I consider it some of my best podcast listening time. Somehow I’m more tuned in when doing house chores vs. trying to just sit and listen, or while walking outside where I have to pay attention to traffic when crossing the street and such.


Anyone got any tips on ways to buy ipos/equity on Shanghai STAR exchange? I want unitree and cxmt


You cannot buy these. You can only buy companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen that are enrolled in Stock Connect, which has certain requirements that means these small IPOd companies cannot be enrolled. It is possible that there mutual funds or ETFs in HK that are available, and hold these types of companies.


Me too - these are incredibly interesting companies and the valuations are modest.

Unfortunately as far as I can see it is not possible from where I am (Denmark).

Some Hong Kong shares and linked Shanghai shares are available in interactive brokers but not these ipoes.


"actually, did we say we had 8,000 tons of gold in reserve? we meant 9,000. Yeah we just counted, no you can't look at it, we have 9,000, here take the yuan and go build vaccines"

You cant do that with bitcoin


Sure you can. "No you can't look" is the key. All those blocks which hasn't moved in many years? They're all ours. Pinky promise.


Imagine if there was a gold which could be transferred across borders easily and completely securely within seconds, proof of holdings and ownership could be easily proven, and there was no future risk of gold supply shocks (eg gold asteroid hitting earth or alchemy becomes viable).


This sounds amazing! Is it also protected from being lost forever by trivial mistakes that are very common?


Yes, when managed by someone competent, just like Gold.


Has anyone had experienced with the giant magnet tiles? This article seems like suspicious affiliate marketing which places are beloved product that everybody has beside one that looks kind of similar.


Author here, I don't think I did affiliate market links.


First I’m seeing them, but that means very little. Every preschool we used had the normal magnet tiles though so I’m familiar with the concept.

Fair to question this. Most things are fake and… lame.


just encountered these in a local public library a week ago. toddlers loved them.


An excellent use case for this is ethereum smart contract verification. People store millions of dollars in smart contracts that are probably a one or two iterations of claude or gemini away from being pwned.


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