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swampshark19 t1_j8eeyni wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Investigators assessed the risk of dementia using changes in alcohol consumption in nearly four million people in Korea and found that after about 7 years, dementia was 21% less likely in mild drinkers and 17% less likely in moderate drinkers. by Wagamaga
Maybe people prone to dementia are affected differently by alcohol and don't like its effects as much?
swampshark19 t1_j8ees2t wrote
Reply to Investigators assessed the risk of dementia using changes in alcohol consumption in nearly four million people in Korea and found that after about 7 years, dementia was 21% less likely in mild drinkers and 17% less likely in moderate drinkers. by Wagamaga
It could be that those prone to dementia drink at a lower rate for whatever reason.
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Reply to comment by Skarr87 in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription
If there was a person who does not experience any form of pain, meaning they do not suffer, by your conditions it would be justifiable to kill them.
swampshark19 t1_j2brjyx wrote
Reply to comment by Aseyhe in How fast does the Milky Way spin? How far does Earth move through space in a year? by Sabre-Tooth-Monkey
Is this related to gravitational potential being understood as negative energy?
swampshark19 t1_j26t33z wrote
Reply to comment by Aseyhe in How fast does the Milky Way spin? How far does Earth move through space in a year? by Sabre-Tooth-Monkey
Thank you for educating me.
swampshark19 t1_j26jh4h wrote
Reply to comment by Aseyhe in How fast does the Milky Way spin? How far does Earth move through space in a year? by Sabre-Tooth-Monkey
How about the effects of dark matter? I heard from somewhere that most stars revolve around GC with the same or similar orbital period due to the influence of dark matter leveling the angular momentum drop off and causing further stars to have a greater velocity. Is this at all true? If so how do I integrate this with what you said?
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Reply to comment by koloquial in What was history class like before the modern era? by SunsetShoreline
This is true, though empirical findings often cause paradigm shifts that could not be explained by prior philosophies, and so a new philosophy must be written to explain the findings. It is in cases like this that science and philosophy feed each other. The basic assumptions weren't asserted out of nowhere, but were based on inferences on empirical findings. These inferences were sometimes wrong and so we had to reject those assumptions as we got more data, but that also shows the empirical foundations of the basic assumptions.
swampshark19 t1_itq90jp wrote
Can a singer claim copyright over the sound of their voice?
swampshark19 t1_itilcd4 wrote
Reply to Given the exponential rate of improvement to prompt based image/video generation, in how many years do you think we'll see entire movies generated from a prompt? by yea_okay_dude
I think that the main hitch is that the generation of content isn't strict enough in terms of following certain rules. It's all fuzzy logic, and that's why weird glitchy faces are generated sometimes. What needs to happen is that the fuzzy logic is strictly constrained by some explicit rules, like the flow of causality. Otherwise there will be way too many plot holes and plots that break causality.
Basically I think AI needs the capacity of reality testing.
swampshark19 t1_j8eno92 wrote
Reply to comment by FiendishHawk in Investigators assessed the risk of dementia using changes in alcohol consumption in nearly four million people in Korea and found that after about 7 years, dementia was 21% less likely in mild drinkers and 17% less likely in moderate drinkers. by Wagamaga
Sure, or that alcohol causes more negative effects in those prone to dementia.