egeres

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[–] egeres 6 points 1 year ago

Easy, pick the youtube and binge-memorize all of MIT's curriculum

[–] egeres 10 points 1 year ago

Woops, looks like I'm wrong in my comment!

Thank you so much for sharing the NY article, I still need to read it more times and take notes! For other people interested, it can be read at https://archive.is/Uuyx3. I definitely wasn't aware of this impulsive behavior when it came to suicide and the low rate of re-attempt that follows. I was surprised when I read the following:

In a 2001 University of Houston study of 153 survivors of nearly lethal attempts between the ages of 13 and 34, only 13 percent reported having contemplated their act for eight hours or longer. To the contrary, 70 percent set the interval between deciding to kill themselves and acting at less than an hour, including an astonishing 24 percent who pegged the interval at less than five minutes

I had a vision of suicide where it happened in a more nihilistic and complex way, or at least, something veery different from deciding you would kill yourself in 5~ minutes. I also wasn't aware that 2000 people had died at the golden gate, it does indeed sound like many of these cases are rushed or not premeditated. More importantly, the "Ellington barrier" example is a solid argument to install such barriers

I encourage others interested on the topic to read the article!

[–] egeres 1 points 1 year ago

When the article says "Barriers and safety nets at suicide hotspots can reduce rates by 90%", does it mean at the hotspots or globally? Because if it happens somewhere else it feels like kicking the can down the road...

[–] egeres 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

But golden gate doesn't have anything inherent that pushes people to commit suicide. I feel like it's wasted money if the only thing this means is that this will happen somewhere else, what's the point then? Wouldn't it be spent better on mental healthcare for those who need it the most?

Edit 0: (I'm not super angry that they did install the nets, sure why not, it's not that expensive anyways, but I don't really feel like it solves the real issue. I'm mostly talking from my opinions and I don't have that many facts on this topic, maybe tackling suicide hot-spots does indeed reduce the statistic, I sincerely hope so but I doubt it)

Edit 1: After reading the article https://archive.is/Uuyx3 suggested by @[email protected] I feel like I was wrong in my initial assessment. Indeed it looks like there is a category of impulsive suicide that might be avoided with these barriers. I thank everyone who is contributing solid arguments to this difficult conversation. Despite the disagreements I see on the comments I believe we are all united in the feeling that this is a painful tragedy that we don't want to be part of this world

[–] egeres 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • "Show the movie LG"
  • "I'm sorry dave, I cannot play 'Harry.Potter.and.the.Deathly.Hallows.Part.2.2011.2160p.MAX.WEB-D.mkv'"
  • "Dammit LG, show the movie!"
  • "I think this conversation has no other purpose, good bye dave"
[–] egeres 5 points 1 year ago
[–] egeres 1 points 1 year ago

Well, the AI models shown in the media are inherently probabilistic, is it that bad if it makes bullshit for a small percentage of most use cases?

[–] egeres 7 points 1 year ago

What is this, a cross over episode?

[–] egeres 19 points 1 year ago

I know lemmy is fundamentally critic of reddit, but let's not forget if lemmy ever achieves a significant weight in humanity's attention, it's not immune to such disease. The problem is systemic, not inherent of a specific platform. Any place with a lot of eyes will be susceptible to manipulation, even more so now that we have tamed artificial intelligence to write texts just about anything. We as a community need to think about countermeasures to fend this off

[–] egeres 3 points 1 year ago

Actually, they are still ahead of the competition in industrial printing, their indigo and pagewide web presses are very good and reliable, but of course those products belongs to a whole different market segment

[–] egeres 13 points 1 year ago

This situation is so ridiculous

[–] egeres 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dumb question, evernote has a feature to embed audio recordings within the notes, and, synced across devices

How could this be replicated with something like obsidian/rome/typora/notepad++/notion/something/joplin? any suggestions?

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