I'm honestly impressed with all Fauci has done with the limitations he's working with.
Transmissibility wasn't super well known early on and people were fear-hoarding everything, to include N95 masks from what I've seen -- I've seen that cited as the main "failure" on his part. Following the science and supply/demand means adapting to the situation -- I don't see too much wrong with that. Certainly far better than dying on one or another hills, but that's just my/our perspective from what we're seeing here. :))))
I'm pretty sure this is a joke. There's no way you can run a SaaS on two lines of code... Unless it's some bizzarely simple calculator or something like that.
GPT-3 was trained on internet texts, not causal/logical-reasoning only texts. Without context, there is a good chance that samples will match the distribution it was trained on.
This is a non-result, posing as something critical or important. These conclusions are obvious given the model and a basic knowledge of statistics/the transformer architecture.
A bit shameful for someone to ride on the anti-hype wave like this, I'd hope there'd be a more balanced/scientific approach to analyzing legitimate weaknesses rather than setting up strawmen then claiming victory.
When you open the field to reward research itself rather than p-hacking, everyone benefits.
It's like a flea market. Bargain bin discounts, junk to many, valuable to some, but it shifts the economics of the whole system and lets specialty niche researchers not have to reinvent the wheel.
Also, knowing that a method or study was statistically insignificant is statistically significant for future study design.
This is like liquid gold to me. Thank you so much for sharing. It's been a long journey, and I'm of the typical self-studied knowledge base -- fractured, and an inch wide and a mile deep in spurious, seemingly unpredictable places that a "real" practitioner wouldn't waste time on.
There is a strange sense of depersonalization that doesn't fit traditional/vanilla DP/DR, and I'll absolutely have to take a look at the Schizoid PD and the surrounding literature. Any good sources to study to understand? Anything from articles to textbooks works for me.
Clusters B and C have been of more attention recently, as I have some overlap there, but as with everything, it seems like PDs aren't entirely discrete.
Now, you seem to be extremely well-studied on some of the intricacies of some of the PDs. Combinatorially, it could certainly be a very strong part of things. I find myself very social, generally, with interest in people and a variety of activities, but of course at times frozen in a fear response/very reclusive -- moreso than emotions might typically suggest. No traditional "hallucinatory" symptoms, though we both probably have experienced the vast gap between public perception and XYZ in some small areas or another.
Really appreciate you putting together a thoughtful response so much. I don't know whether you're a clinician, or what might have brought you into the PD neighborhood, but having another option to weigh and understand is vastly appreciated, and I was entirely unaware of the Schizoid PD before today -- I'd just thought it was a descriptor (and an odd one at that), so the expanding arena is much appreciated. If you have anything you're interested in that that you're willing to pass along, I sure would be.
Hi pencilcode, here's the passages that led me to my conclusions:
From Pessoa himself: "They are beings with a sort-of-life-of-their-own, with feelings I do not have, and opinions I do not accept. While their writings are not mine, they do also happen to be mine.”
"...heteronyms, a term he eventually chose over pseudonym because it more accurately described their stylistic and intellectual independence from him, their creator, and from each other—for he gave them all complex biographies and they all had their own distinctive styles and philosophies. They sometimes interacted, even criticizing or translating each other’s work. Some of Pessoa’s fictitious writers were mere sketches, some wrote in English and French, but his three main poetic heteronyms—Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos—wrote only in Portuguese, and each produced a very solid body of work."
The first is not only depersonalization, but someone who has come to grips and comfort with his symptoms of depersonalization. This takes a lot of time for many people with DID to accept as a symptom, as holding but accepting strongly opposed inner conflicts is quite a difficult skill that many dissociative personality systems both have to acquire and struggle with.
The second yields consistently in personas, these passages both have the consistent "fingerprint" of someone with DID, from my experiences both in the literature and in interacting with people that are DID/OSDD systems.
It is like talking to an experienced software engineer vs a novice out of college eager to prove his own worth and head knowledge. There is a subtle (or sometimes not so subtle), but obvious difference, and there is a set, or a particular "flavor" of tells that shows someone is an incredibly experienced engineer vs someone who is not. However, explicitly quantifying those tells is a difficult task, so my apologies if I don't do so as clearly here as I might hope to do.
Were it not for the first quote, I might think it would be something like Mark Twain, where it's a little more clearly just a literary act for some reason or another. However, I suppose it is wise to apply some level of skepticism or otherwise to backdiagnosing anything, as with anything. We can only presume beyond a certain point, I believe.
The authors of this article seem to interpret this as an imaginative fancy of his that he "created"; rather, this actually seems to be a classic case of a polyfragmented DID system [of identities], also known as complex DID.
Oftentimes, alters are not formed consciously, and this is a severe disorder that is heavily traumagenic in nature. In my personal nonprofessional opinion, it's one of the harder non-neurodegenerative diseases to live with.
Source -- personal experience, I'm on the dissociative spectrum in some way, as best as I know. Expecting to receive a diagnosis shortly as an OSDD-1b system, and potentially DID under the ICD/ANP qualifications. The dissociative spectrum is actually shockingly common as a disorder, appearing in up to 1 in 12 in the general population, but is almost never diagnosed because much like PTSD in the 80's, it's heavily underemphasized and is seemingly not well-popularized in psychological circles today. Rather, the food fight over the legitimacy of DID seems to be taking away from work that could be done to further dissociative treatment modalities/other complex trauma disorders. Sauce on the 1 in 12 stat: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579511/
Transmissibility wasn't super well known early on and people were fear-hoarding everything, to include N95 masks from what I've seen -- I've seen that cited as the main "failure" on his part. Following the science and supply/demand means adapting to the situation -- I don't see too much wrong with that. Certainly far better than dying on one or another hills, but that's just my/our perspective from what we're seeing here. :))))