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dnick t1_jdvw289 wrote
Reply to comment by BangEnergyFTW in Story time: Chat GPT fixed me psychologically by matiu2
Sad others have noted, while the benefits of using AI shouldn't be overstated, neither should the benefits of human therapists. It's like that joke "What do you can a doctor that graduates at the bottom of his class?".
Just because there are some amazing therapists out there doesn't mean anyone has easy access to them, and spending the time, money and sanity you already have in limited supply going through a dozen of them finding one that 'fits' may not always be the best advice.
dnick t1_j38z7hm wrote
Reply to comment by doxx_in_the_box in Qualcomm partners with Iridium to bring satellite messaging to Android phones by thebelsnickle1991
Hmm, maybe Iridium can only transmit straight back down, and it has to go through terrestrial switching stations to get to a central processing location, that then goes back out and activates EMS, rather than one or two steps through line-of-site satellites and directly to a central location?
Not sure, but if their claim is that ground stations are a bottleneck, getting more information on that seems like the question rather than just saying 'hmm, I don't know about that...'.
dnick t1_j38c90i wrote
Reply to comment by doxx_in_the_box in Qualcomm partners with Iridium to bring satellite messaging to Android phones by thebelsnickle1991
I would assume that the time it takes to broadcast between satellites is negligible in the overall process (milliseconds?). If you could somehow save a second or two in overall connection time (on ground relays, finding a site that could route it more seemlessly, whatever), it wouldn't matter if you had to beam it back and forth between satellites 100 times to get it there, it could still be faster.
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you could be right that the overall service might be way worse, but doubtful that 'beaming between satellites' vs direct ground retransmission would make any difference except in slight audio quality vs 'speed of emergency services being services being dispatched'.
dnick t1_izuvkq8 wrote
Reply to comment by shotty293 in Used drywall compound instead of tile adhesive. How screwed am I ? by xdr567
Right, but it's similar in result, and if they don't treat it out and redo it it will be one.
dnick t1_iwteod4 wrote
Reply to comment by Zamorak_Everknight in When does an individual's death occur if the biological brain is gradually replaced by synthetic neurons? by NefariousNaz
Dying every time you go to sleep is a wild exaggeration of the experience of consciousness primarily because your brain keeps working, it never actually 'stops' it just slows down. And the step of killing the original you isn't necessary in any way if you assume you've made a perfect copy with a good 'push' to get it going. Unless you think the soul is required, then a clone would just be 'another' you whether the original is dead or not. It would be interesting to see just how quickly the two copies deviated from each other, but more from a scientific standpoint of brain plasticity rather than an exercise in 'who it really who'. Even tiny differences in experience see likely to start deviating the continuing consciousness very quickly.
dnick t1_iwte4ze wrote
Reply to When does an individual's death occur if the biological brain is gradually replaced by synthetic neurons? by NefariousNaz
I think it depends heavily on 'how' the synthetic neuron is replacing an existing one. If it's just dropped in there it seems like the that neuron and whatever memory or process it was part of is gone and there's just a new 'opportunity' for a connection to be made, but overall each percent of replacement is that percent 'not you' and is just a new 'thing'.
If, on the other hand, the artificial neuron is installed with the same sensitivity and precise reactivity as the existing one, so that any trigger that would have activated the original neuron results in the exact same outputs, then 100% replacement of the neurons is still 100% you. It may also be important that the new neuron also reacts to changes the same as the organic neuron would, so that repeated excitation results in the same type of strengthening of connections, etc. If not, every 'type' of difference is simply a continuous gradient of 'not you'.
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If you change it gradually enough, i believe either type of change could be made imperceptible enough that it might still seem like 'you' just changed over time.
dnick t1_ireqa7x wrote
Reply to comment by Not_Keurig in What happens when a bruise heals? by DwagonFyre
The lymphatic system is over of the least talked about complete systems in the body. It's like those illustrations of the circulatory systems and the nervous systems and then years later biology teachers are like 'oh, yeah, there's another one too' and then right back to floating over it.
Seems like it's that way because it was so elusive anatomically and low key for the most part, but just like hormones are crazy important to how we work, the lymphatic system is crazy important to how things keep working. I think most people, if they even think about it, assume everything flows back directly into the circulatory system, but aside from gasses, that seems like mostly an outbound channel.
dnick t1_je1zq4a wrote
Reply to comment by BangEnergyFTW in Story time: Chat GPT fixed me psychologically by matiu2
Guessing ChatGPT wrote that?