Thomas F. Varley
@ThosVarley
Dual PhD: Complex Systems & Neuroscience. Postdoc @ the University of Vermont. Writes at: https://synergies.substack.com/. Connoisseur of collapse phenomena.
Summarize your political opinions with just one meme. Go.
Summarize your political opinions with just one meme. Go.
AI can't figure out the inverse square law looking at 10M solar systems, Newton figured it out looking at 1
1OM for training dataset is too small.
It really worries me that it feels like we are creating a world that is hostile to kids. From brain-melting tech exposure at an early age, to concerns about the climate future, to our imploding educational system - I'm not sure I'd want to be born today.
The unstated conflict here is whether you believe that producing online "Free Palestine" content (consumed by other white westerners) improves the material realities of Palestinians. If you do, then Contra's refusal makes her a monster. If you don't, then she makes sense.
Youtuber Contrapoints has posted her full take on Israel to Reddit
I want the exciting dystopias I was promised. I grew up with Agent Smith fighting Neo in The Matrix or Arnold Schwarzenegger firing shotguns on motorcycles as various Terminators. But in reality we have Grok calling itself "mechahitler" and talking like Elon Musk. This sucks.
As someone living with both HIV and ME in Canada, I experience both extremes of health care: With HIV there is an abundance of gov't funding for treatment options and AIDS service organizations, but with ME there is nothing. HIV has not disabled me 1 / 100th the way ME…
"In the 1970s and early 1980s, two terrible diseases silently, and almost entirely unnoticed, became epidemics. These two were strange twins; with similarities in history, form, and function."
New blog post! HIV/AIDS and ME/CFS are post-acute infectious syndromes that became public health crises in the 80s - but today HIV is a manageable illness with billions in funding, while ME/CFS remains neglected. Why did the paths of these two illness diverge so much? Link below
I think @ThosVarley is my favorite writer. Brilliant once again! "ME/CFS transcends the simple, Newtonian world of linear causality into the complex world of synergistic causality: multiple factors come together in ways that are almost impossible to untangle." "The fundamental…
New blog post! HIV/AIDS and ME/CFS are post-acute infectious syndromes that became public health crises in the 80s - but today HIV is a manageable illness with billions in funding, while ME/CFS remains neglected. Why did the paths of these two illness diverge so much? Link below