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Cake day: November 7th, 2023
  • scrion@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Well that's terrifying
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    10 hours ago

    A 4yo has no business having unrestricted access to media, let alone YouTube. Current recommendations are 20 to 45 minutes a day at that age, depending on country / organization.

    YouTube has so much questionable content, kids shouldn’t be in a position to be able to click next and consume that crap.

    YouTube kids exists since 2015, but Elsagate happened around 2017/18, so I don’t exactly trust their content moderation.

  • scrion@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Single psilocybin trip delivers two years of depression relief for cancer patientsEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    It is “up to two years”, naturally, as mentioned in the article. I do agree two years is a span that is most likely rarely achieved, but I also remember that a single dose can basically cure* people of PTSD, so I do believe some people might be free of depression for 24 months if they processed their trauma / issues in a significant manner.

    Please remember, studies that use psychedelics don’t simply hand psychoactive substances to people and send them away, they do receive assistance (e. g. therapy) to process whatever issue they might have.

    • again, along with therapy
  • scrion@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Single psilocybin trip delivers two years of depression relief for cancer patientsEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    You can easily grow mushrooms that contain psilocybin at home. It’s an easy process, the internet has plenty of communities.

    If you are not very experienced with psychedelics, please inform yourself about best practices / harm reduction. Look into set and setting. Have people around who you trust.

    For most people, psychedelics are not a substitute for therapy. The healing happens in between trips, but you have to put in the work - don’t skip integration. The average Joe will need professional help for that.

    If you have serious issues or if you are repressing a lot of stuff, it will most likely come up during a trip and you will have to process it - psychedelics show you what you need, not what you want. That being said, most people that have a lot of experience with psychedelics will tell you even difficult trips will lead to positive gains.

    Overall, it’s mostly a marvelous and wonderful experience that can be life changing, but please treat it with the respect it deserves.

  • scrion@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Scientists Discover That Feeding AI Models 10% 4Chan Trash Actually Makes Them Better BehavedEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Who says you can’t check their outputs? It’s much faster to e. g. read a generated text than to write everything yourself. Same applies to translations, they’ve been excellent for quite a while now.

    Business communication can be handled effortlessly by AI. Of course you read the result before you send it out, but that takes an order of a magnitude less time than formulating and typing all those meaningless sentences.

    And honestly, that’s a perfect use case for AI. I wouldn’t compose a love letter to my family using AI, but a pamphlet, feature description, sales pitch, any bullshit presentation deck? You bet AI excels at those.

    Same applies to content summaries that help augment search indices. Finding a large number of content candidates (e. g. videos) and have AI summarize the contents of said videos to narrow down the search is helpful and works today.

    I’m not looking for AGI. I’m looking for tools to make my life easier, but in an ethical manner that doesn’t advance the destruction of the planet at an exponential rate, just for some tech bro to jerk it and buy another yacht.