Today
An account of using AI to do a project that was just a bit out of reach previously. There’s some really good insights, like comparing AI coding to slot machines.
Are Most Claimed Psychiatric Diagnoses False?
In this essay, I argue that most claimed psychiatric diagnoses are false. By most, I mean more than half. By claimed psychiatric diagnoses, I mean all the instances where a person is told by a licensed healthcare professional that they have a mental disorder. By false, I mean that the person does not actually have a mental disorder, has a diagnosis different than the one they are given, or has multiple labels when only one is accurate. This is not a debate about the definition of mental illness, and it accepts DSM/ICD diagnoses on their own terms.
Excellent piece.
via: https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/making-sense-of-a-world-where-most
You will not be a member of the permanent underclass
Part of a comment I left:
When I first read this article’s title in my inbox, I was at first baffled with regard to how someone could even begin to have the belief Ozy argues against here. I then thought about it for a few seconds, and then thought “no wait; if they were white, that would work.” I am going to assert that the median person worried about this is an upper-middle class white man, because people who are actually part of an underclass in the West do not really think about their class in this way. Putting the AI doom aside, the fact that this median person is worried about being oppressed like the various groups the white world has colonized over the past few centuries demonstrates a lack of self-awareness and understanding of history, IMO.
see: https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/you-will-not-be-a-member-of-the-permanent/comment/238570128
Proof-of-thought
For the longest time, writing was more expensive than reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate proof-of-thought, a basic token of humanity.
Now, AI has made text very, very, very cheap. Not only text, in fact. Code, images, video. All kinds of media. We can’t rely on proof-of-thought anymore. Any text can be AI slop. If you read it, you’re injured in this war. You engaged and replied – you’re as good as dead. The dead internet is not just dead it’s poisoned.
A method of writing proofs is described that makes it harder to prove things that are not true. The method, based on hierarchical structuring, is simple and practical. The author’s twenty years of experience writing such proofs is discussed.
Lisette — Rust syntax, Go runtime
Algebraic data types · Pattern matching · No nil Hindley-Milner type system · Immutable by default Interoperability with Go’s ecosystem
altdesktop/playerctl
🎧 mpris media player command-line controller for vlc, mpv, RhythmBox, web browsers, cmus, mpd, spotify and others.