drhead [he/him]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • Just something that I feel like I have to remind people of whenever it comes up: mainstream psychology does not recognize porn addiction as a real thing, based on the lack of evidence/lack of consensus to support a consistent diagnostic criteria. The only actually recognized related condition is compulsive sexual behavior disorder, which is not using an addiction model.

    I’m quite sure that there has to be at least someone who has problematic pornography use habits which aren’t just a symptom of another issue, but without anyone being able to pin down a consistent set of diagnostic criteria, then there’s barely any way to identify who those people are separately from people who report it but whose distress is coming from something else. One study done on self-reported pornography addiction found that the strongest predictor was moral objection to pornography, not amount of porn use. Another two studies found that antagonistic narcissism is an even better predictor (might read it when it isn’t 3AM). Your analysis is actually touching on this somewhat – a narcissist’s interest in “addressing their pornography addiction” is mostly that they think that it will elevate them above the porn addicts, or whatever other target.







  • Main difference is that blockchain never had an actual use case (speculation doesn’t count) beyond buying heroin and running ransomware. Machine learning had practical applications for years that nobody really thought much of at the time, and the marketers got a hold of it after it was fairly well established without them and right at the point of a massive wave of breakthroughs in the area.

    That being said, there is a fucking massive AI bubble. A large portion of the things we’re seeing will survive when that pops, but boy are there a lot of very overconfident investors who are going to get burned hard on this.



  • Should also probably include some recommendations for less expensive routers that can use OpenWrt along with this? Mine cost me $300… I don’t regret it because I have found at least that much utility in it, from this and from finally being able to intercept my smart TV’s hardcoded DNS requests and blocking the ads, but I’m pretty sure that there are better deals to be had that don’t involve paying $300 for one of the radios to not work due to bad driver support.




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