Yeah it’s been happening here but nobody cared until recently.
Remember Elian Gonzalez? There’s thousands of these kind of cases every year they just don’t get the spotlight. Removals aren’t even at an all time high (which is already insanely high).
It’s good that people are starting to finally see it at least.
I’m wondering if anything meaningful will change because the people on the ground in migrant settlements and family support aren’t seeing more help, that’s for sure.
> Did the average person throughout history have more leisure than we do?
Unambiguously yes. This is well documented and impossible to ignore.
Marshal Sahlins described it best in Stone Age Economics but reading Graeber will get you there or Levi Strauss if you’re into the whole structural anthropology thing
The elderly are simply not as tolerant of the side effects. It still works fine in younger cohorts who can manage with potential side effects. This means the criteria for use in the elderly needs to be modified so they aren’t force fed this pharma intervention for revenue optimization.
(both my partner and I, early 40s, are on a GLP-1, with no side effects; we’ve each lost ~40lbs in 4-5 months)
We heard the EXACT same from phenphen users too in the 90s. My friend was the litigator for the class action.
There’s no biologically free way to lose weight that quickly without massive downstream effects, SOMETHING is going to eventually come out like it always does.
The fact that people are making conclusions with less than 5 years of evidence is why we’re always screwed.
And I can provide examples of Metformin being very safe with the exception of a few edge cases, while providing exceptional benefit across a wide cross section of the population. Could something exceptional crop up? Potentially. But so far, the data is very compelling GLP-1RAs have a reasonable safety profile for the enormous benefit provided.
> Are GLP-1s safe? What are the side effects?
> GLP-1s have been extensively studied and are considered safe when prescribed and monitored by a healthcare provider.
With all of this said, I'm open to having a mutually agreed upon subject matter expert provide the equivalent of an opinion letter on the safety of GLP-1RAs at my (reasonable and customary) cost. Feel free to propose one.
> I thought it would take a decade for the side effects to catch up with people but this is way faster than expected.
Regarding the side effects, nothing seemed beyond the realm of what you'd read on the outside of an OTC cold medication. I'm not a doctor but they don't seem that severe.
>It is fascinating that it can bootstrap moderately complex projects form a single shot. It does a better job at writing unit test (not perfect) then the fellow human programmer (few people like writing unit tests). It can even find bugs and point + correct broken code. But apart from that, AI cannot, or at least not yet, write the code - the full code.
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?
The infrastructure for air travel requires all that for safe travel
As a pilot myself I know why all the holds exist and while not perfect, the majority of complaints aren’t random bullshit they are flight safety issues
The fact that people demand luxury because it went from veblen good to commodity is the problem
Different airlines have different policies. e.g. others you don't get stuck waiting on the plane because they don't load passengers while a mechanic is still working on the avionics.
The term Artificial Intelligence was coined in 1955 for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. The Gods of AI all got together: John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. They defined the entire concept of Artificial Intelligence in a single sentence:
The conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.
Remember Elian Gonzalez? There’s thousands of these kind of cases every year they just don’t get the spotlight. Removals aren’t even at an all time high (which is already insanely high).
It’s good that people are starting to finally see it at least.
I’m wondering if anything meaningful will change because the people on the ground in migrant settlements and family support aren’t seeing more help, that’s for sure.