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Solumbran

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  • [Article] Not just smoke and feathers! - framing the effectiveness of shamanic medicine in terms of placebo effects alone does not do justice to the sophistication of shamanic practice

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  • I'm talking scientific protocol.

    Furthermore, people saying they feel better isn't enough.

    Most sect members will say that being a member is amazing, should we all join sects then? What is this absurdity to think that the subjective interpretation of people is what makes a medicine work?

  • I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand

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  • And if the burgers are made by people who just grab random items to try to make it look like a burger, whether or not it is edible, no one would.

    AI code is unreliable, unsafe, and worst of all, has no basis of even basic intelligence. I'd trust more code produced by a monkey than by an AI. Trusting AI code is like trusting a very realistic drawing of a tunnel and running into it while knowing that it's a drawing, because "it looks like a real tunnel so it must work like one". AI code is not code, it's keywords scrambled together to look like code.

  • Stop generating, start thinking

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  • *most of the internet

  • I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand

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  • Code is not something that you consume, it is something that you build.

    You want a house made of cardboard because it's affordable? Sure, just don't start pretending like it's an actual house, and don't try to rent, sell, or lend it to anyone.

  • I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand

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  • More like a search engine on LSD.

    AI results are always shit when trying to find anything not completely obvious. You end up more often than not with an hallucinated reality that has absolutely no value.

  • [Article] Not just smoke and feathers! - framing the effectiveness of shamanic medicine in terms of placebo effects alone does not do justice to the sophistication of shamanic practice

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  • I know enough about various bullshit medicines to recognise the pattern. If they want to break out of it, they'll have to manage to prove themselves quite strongly before I go trust blindly some magic belief.

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

  • how to fix things

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  • I like how everyone has been assuming that I'm from the US

    De Gaulle was basically a half-assed dictator by the way, who kept on taking advantage of the situation to try to get fame/power. The only, one good thing he did was fight against the parasites that the US and UK were, who wanted to just invade France and share it between themselves as spoils of war.

    The two main causes for the failure of democracy in France in history are Napoleon and De Gaulle, and the fact that they are seen as heroes by french people (unsurprisingly, especially the right/far-right) definitely participated in the downfall of any democratic process in France.

    The failure of the US system is in no way lessening the failure of the French democracy, but for some reason people can't seem to accept that and try to either defend one or the other. Yeah, France isn't actively mass torturing minorities. Yet. Give it, I don't know, 5-10 years? Right now is when people should be in the street burning everything down and putting Macaron and his government of Nazis under a guillotine, but instead they are busy worrying about Palestine supporters and minor immigrants (a big source of terrorism as everyone knows /s).

  • how to fix things

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  • They protested endlessly, and got... Nothing. Peanuts.

    Macron has the government that used the most by very, very far the 49.3 article which is basically a pass to ignore the democratic process. He said quite clearly that democracy has no power against him and it is proven true.

    The fascism in France is just less... frontal, than in the US, but it is there and those little protests, as long as they last, won't change anything.

  • [Article] Not just smoke and feathers! - framing the effectiveness of shamanic medicine in terms of placebo effects alone does not do justice to the sophistication of shamanic practice

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  • A lot of scams "work", and a lot of fake medicine too.

    Being into it just means that you're going to be biased , and for those things often too biased to have a proper opinion on the matter

  • how to fix things

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  • Yes, it's one step away from it. And that's when reaction is needed, not after the nazis start executing people, but yet no one cares

  • how to fix things

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  • Errr... Macaron is making sure that the nazis win and no one gives a shit

  • [Article] Not just smoke and feathers! - framing the effectiveness of shamanic medicine in terms of placebo effects alone does not do justice to the sophistication of shamanic practice

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  • Ah, is this the " as long as you didn't enter the sect you cannot comment on it"?

  • how to fix things

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  • Yeah because France is fine

  • billionaireman

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  • I mean you're basically describing star trek. It's not like you can't write stories like that.

  • [Article] Not just smoke and feathers! - framing the effectiveness of shamanic medicine in terms of placebo effects alone does not do justice to the sophistication of shamanic practice

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  • Like what? Religious scams? Yes, obviously.

  • Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites

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  • Who uses bing?

  • [Article] Not just smoke and feathers! - framing the effectiveness of shamanic medicine in terms of placebo effects alone does not do justice to the sophistication of shamanic practice

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  • "shamanic practice. The latter, she maintains, is based on a complex, multi-tiered metaphysics whereby cause and effect relations beyond the visible material world are deliberately exploited by the shaman."

    Yeah ok

    I didn't bother reading this in details, but from what I've seen it seems like a same argument as "an homeopath makes people feel better because they talk to people nicely and makes them feel heard so it's not just placebo".

    There's not really any point in trying to support religious magic healing at this point. People already believe in a gigantic amount of scam and have no critical thinking, and you start debating about the exact definition of what is a placebo effect even though it's one of the only few bits of "critical thinking" knowledge that people have?

    Nah, that's absurd bullshit.

  • Slow down for kitty!

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  • Or you know, don't let cats outside

  • The Cult of Clean Code

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  • "The cult of understandable things"

    Yeah ok bro, sure.

    Who doesn't like a gigantic shitty code that "just works" after all?