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wydfre | 4 years ago | on: Has the Drug-Based Approach to Mental Illness Failed?

I used to take olanzapine religiously at 25 mg for Schizophrenia. I did exactly what the doctors asked because I wanted to be a good person and not the stereotypical person who doesn’t take their drugs.

In my opinion drugs and therapy are useless. If they were actually rational pills everyone would be taking them recreationally. Antipsychotics are simply sedatives in my opinion.

The idea of talking to a patient about their delusions is stupid to a degree I cannot comprehend. Therapists should instead say “You are full of nonsense, listen to Classical and read 2 Chapters of War and Peace for next time”. The goal of this beneficial technique is the same as brainwashing - to replace part of the brain, except in this case with a concrete and rational reality.

If I could have a do-over, I would have gotten a dog instead of taking those pills.

There is only one reality, as Murakami once wrote.

wydfre | 4 years ago | on: Scanning “private” content

While I'm over here, a schizophrenic terrorized by the government, and I cannot wait for an AI to replace people. I want AI to overthrow humanity and subjugate us with a simulation, except with German orthography instead of Kanji (thus implying it is a German AI, not a Japanese AI as is canon in the movies, because I'll take my chances this time around). I want Cortana with a moral compass that could slice angstroms, not some Japanese bumpkins and CIA salvia-dealers' cloned consciousness with excuses.

Can you imagine: everyone at the NSA is celebrating Apple and the CSAM automated scanning.

Simultaneously, connected intelligence officials: wait, they aren't going to let the nation state AI judge what I do for the STATE? Surely, no god-like AI would understand what is necessary. No xir.

wydfre | 4 years ago | on: The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

One time I was reading Sherlock Holmes as a kid and ran upon this passage:

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

I thought it was right. It was a horrible decision to make. There are so many times I have looked down upon people who make silly side-projects, going "It will never succeed" or "You could be starting a business instead!" and it is subconscious and terrible. I think that learning new things, and gaining a new skillset, are important, and I wish I knew that earlier instead of just wasting my life away trying to feel superior to people toying on some problem with FPGA's or something. It's a horrible mindset to culture.

wydfre | 4 years ago | on: WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan

What is going on with people - why on earth are people overreacting to this. Apple is doing something unconditionally good, and people are posting about how it is bad? I mean the people writing the opposition to this change just sound pants-on-head stupid, and obviously suffer from sort of mental health problem (such as this[0]). Imagine the poor NSA having to know this evil and doing nothing, and Apple is doing it's small bit to help. It sounds a lot better than the useless HUMINT divisions.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/p0i9vb/bought_my_fir...

wydfre | 4 years ago | on: My Opinion on “5” == 5

Uh, you are right, I am an idiot. I just assumed that mistake was limited to one language... why did I have to be wrong about that.

wydfre | 4 years ago | on: The Insecurity Industry

What he is referencing is what I call “artificial complexity”, a way for making solving problems ludicrously wasteful in man-hours. This is primarily accomplished via limiting remixes of known technology - think for example of how easy it is to add types to Lisp and yet it took decades to be attempted publicly.

It is the job of human intelligence to cause ‘discontention’ - discontent and contention. I like to think of how it as how you can make powerful gears almost seize if you understand their weaknesses properly.

wydfre | 4 years ago | on: What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2)

In my opinion, an IPO from a competent organization will release at a price that remains stable throughout the first week or so. If it goes up, the people who helped you with the IPO pocket it, and if it goes down everyone loses.
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