unknowing8343 @ unknowing8343 @discuss.tchncs.de

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Well, 20 years ago you didn't need a computer but now it is virtually ridiculous if you don't have one in your pocket.

Also you are not using a virtual assistant nowadays because they are s***. But once you can have a natural, context sensitive conversation with your assistant where instead of "create an alarm at 8:30" you can ask it to "see if there is any important email or WhatsApp I need to answer" or "please tell me if Joe messages about mom"...

Writing emails, generating summaries, translation, code, true phone virtual assistant, dubbed-with-AI content... This year we are going to see very probably important announcements from GAFAM, that's why the AI pin startups launched their products so early, because they are very soon probably being made obsolete with whatever GAFAM has in hands for summer and fall announcements.

Full respect, but I have a feeling you (and I)'ll be using AI as part of your daily endeavours in the next 2 years easily.

Your complaints should light this fire inside you against these asshole companies, and you should feel entitled to hurt them with piracy and converting as many family and friends computers to Open Source software as possible.

Your fight is our fight, you are not alone.

I use ZHA. As I have a Pi, I prefer the less addons the better, and there are ZHA devices for everything. It simply narrows down the spectrum, but overtime it's coming closer and closer to Z2M in terms of device support and features... So...

There is also Matter and Thread on the horizon, so I wouldn't bother complicating things further.

Also bought an ESP and some components but haven't yet done anything.

Just make sure you have a prototyping board.

I hate soldering, so I will only cross that road once I have a very solid project and idea.

My trick is that I listen through LibreTube with sponsorblock on. The experience is exquisite.

And even without sponsorblock, on YouTube you can move through chapters easily, and ads are chapters which makes it incredibly easy to move to next chapter when an ad comes

Some responses are somehow disappearing, maybe some federation issue?

But yes, so far responses are very much very meh. From such an amount of hate I was expecting a Jordan Peterson level of evidence where you get him rambling for 10 minutes about how women should be more in the kitchen or something 😅.

Turns out most "evidence" so far is basically personal life rumours and "pseudoscience" claims without explicit examples.

We'll see.

I am not defending the man. I am just trying to get to the meat of why there is so much hate on him.

All that young men, nofap, supplement-seller thing is NOWHERE in his podcast. It just shows that people are just reading clickbait article titles. Please watch one of his episodes about sleep, or alcohol, or whatever. I've explained it in many comments already. This dude is REALLY careful about what he puts in his podcasts, and it shows.

BTW, none of his advice has ever said anything losely related to Peterson's rethoric of male superiority thingie, and I don't even know who that Sam Harris is.

I can tell you something tho. So far in all discussions, NO ONE has brought up what I believe is Huberman's biggest mistake: bringing Zuckerberg in. That was a very bad episode, but everyone (I even remember Veritasium f*cking it up hard once) deserves to make mistakes sometimes (particularly if no illegal action was taken). I think (hope) he learned his lesson because every comment was clear. No highlight videos were made out of that episode which clearly shows they probably realised the mistake.

This is starting to feel like a neverending loop. Where is the pseudoscience? Where is it? That is what I want to know!

All those comparisons with Joe Rogan make absolute no sense, 😅. The only thing that these share is that they go to the gym and have a podcast.

I am not treating him like the answer to anything. I am just weirded out because I am getting bombarded with cancel-culture comments that go nowhere.

First of all: yes, science is about constantly trying to disprove hypotheses. That is what the guys at CERN are doing, that is what people at Stanford are doing. What else could it be?

If you think Huberman is giving these people a right to spout off scientific matters and that's horrible, then we should cancel Veritasium, we should cancel Sabine Hossenfelder, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox, MinutePhysics, VSauce, all TED speeches, damn, BURN every science book and magazine, cause it is making people have opinions about these evil things!!

Good journalism would be an article going through all the papers from the Huberman podcasts and his analysis of them (which he always cites if it's been peer-reviewed, etc) and debunking all the misinformation. But nope. It's all about talking to enough people hoping they say some crap about the personal life about a private person, cherry picking information and building up a story from that.

The sunscreen thing, I just passed the first link that came to me, showing that in fact there is proof of bad agents in sunscreen.

If you go check the video of Huberman and sunscreen, very easy to find, you'll see how he literally says that sunscreen is important because you don't want to get cancer, it's just that SOME SUNSCREEN has been found to have toxic components that may cross the blood-brain barrier, and he simply advices to BUY A GOOD SUNSCREEN.

See how this "journalism" works? They pick those little things and extrapolate into madness instead of doing actual work. Because why would you do the actual journalism if there is an easier way to get clicks?

And I am sure one could find some contradicting science to Huberman's podcasts and I would LOVE to see that. In fact, I think Huberman would love that too. That's science!!

So Veritasium is also a liar because they don't have a lab? I am not going to comment on personal life issues unless there is a legal case there, which there isn't, so the probability of it being bullshit for clicks is high.

You cannot take an article and say it's true and therefore "Andrew bad". It doesn't work like that. I've seen that article a million times already. It presents no proof, it's just a reddit comment as an article for clicks.

The sunscreen thing, here's the first link that comes up when you search online:

Taken together, this review advocates revisiting the current safety and regulation of specific sunscreens and investing in alternative UV protection technologies.

In any case I am sure he wasn't saying ALL SUNSCREEN IS BAD but you know, people are going to build up their stories.

No, his personal life isn't relevant if all he does in his podcast is condense evidence about a subject, with all relevant sources right there.

I don't buy (pun intended) these arguments because I've been listening for months now and not a single time they made me think I needed to buy anything.

Supplements are generally discussed at the end of the podcast, as a last resort, with a big warning on consulting with a professional. Like any science-based program would.

Also there are no brands promoted, but components themselves.

Just got done reading it. (Try adding "12ft.io/" before the URL for a better experience).

Please, everyone, read it fully.

Why does 95% of the text focus on his personal life? What about the podcast's credibility?

There are countless clips of Joe Rogan showcasing his ignorance. Show me Huberman's lies or dangerous advice.

I'm not defending Andrew, but his content is mostly well-reviewed and delivered with delicacy for such complicated topics. If you have SEEN otherwise, tell me.

Again, don't link to articles about his personal life, because now I sadly know all of it and it bores me to death 😅

OMG that is a long, paywalled read. Do I have to go through all that? Will try, tho, and report back.

So now everyone that has been on Joe Rogan is a right wing fascist? Cause I couldn't imagine Neil deGrasse Tysson like that.

In terms of the pseudoscience and supplements... It clearly shows people don't watch his stuff. I am SURE it's not perfect, but most of it is clearly WELL referenced on the show description, and anything that hasn't been officially approved he states that clearly with CONSTANT warnings to PLEASE CONSULT A PROFESSIONAL.

I hate Joe Rogan. I hate fascist propaganda. Yes, Huberman makes money with his podcast, all podcasts are business, all big ones, at least.

All the claims about his personal life seem to me like journalists trying to come up with vector attacks to a famous figure for clicks, just like it happens with any other celebrity.

Yeah, he may be a terrible boyfriend, but Einstein married his cousin and Oppenheimer was a cheater and we live in this amazing (or horrible) world thanks to them.

Funny that you want a muscular male host, 😅

Currently my most favourite podcast is Andrew Huberman's, which would probably fit the muscular male criteria.

It's also very progressive in the sense that it is basically about science-based protocols to become a healthier human being both physically and mentally.

I strongly recommend listening on YouTube with sponsorblock if possible.

So far, the only truly bad episode was the one with Zuckerberg (that I have found) because, you know, there is really not much to learn from him, specially considering the topics of the podcast.

Oh, I just saw your comment about him, 😅, always interested in seeing evidence on his fakeness.

I have 0 knowledge of these things, but I do know that people always comment that sudo is bloated, that nobody is truly using everything that sudo can do, only one basic command.