> Across our studies, individuals formed similarly favorable impressions of partners who asked non-sensitive (e.g., “Are you a morning person?”) and sensitive (e.g., “What are your views on abortion?”) questions, despite askers’ reticence to ask sensitive questions.

From the conversation on this article over on lobste.rs [1]

> This is exactly why I left my last job. First day on the job, I was told I was senior, look for work. Second (or at most maybe third?) day on the job, literally, I was told that I’d stuck in my neck into places it didn’t belong, and to ask first. I then asked where there was an org chart or something so I could know who to ask, and my boss said none existed. So I went into some team chat rooms to ask who owned what, and was then told to stay in my team’s chat room. All of this in the first week or perhaps two, absolute tops.

> ...

> Anyway, I don’t work there now, but those parts of this blog post you highlighted gave me PTSD flashbacks.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/j1gmob/room_where_it_happens_how_rails_g...

I use the HN frontpage link which only updates stories about once a day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/front

This.

I'm glad my employer has hack weeks twice a year when I can play, or grind out useful-but-low pricey tasks.

Thank you for such a concise description. Now I understand what NLP is. Just created a laugh-out-loud image of one of my most painful job rejections.

The problem is that deep-linked media (e.g. pictures and videos) are still publicly available

Typo on the front page:

"be we can't" -> "but we can't"

Thanks! Just fixed!

And for a fictional treatment of realistic space battles, read "Through Struggle, the Stars" by John Lumpkin. I skipped lots of the story sections so I could get to the space fights

The blocker now is getting brain preservation equipment in every hospital; we already have techniques that will preserve brains for centuries until uploading tech is perfected.

See the BPF's article [1] or video series [2] if you prefer.

[1] https://www.brainpreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2scSuw0om8

Disclosure: I volunteer for them.

I know Nectome is a YC company. Altman has signed up I believe.

Vitrification is better than cryo as a last resort as I understand it, due to market risk.

Hi @russfink. That can't be the case since, as mentioned in the debate, there are medical procedures [1] where a person's neural activity ceases and the patients recover their (long-term) memories

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001346...

This doesn't fix the philosophical issue, though. Is it the same person? Or did that thread of individual conscious perception disappear forever and was replaced by someone "new" who acts the same?

In the end, this is a philosophical discussion because consciousness is not something we can observe in a way to test and falsify hypotheses.

Hm. The cessation of electrical activity is just that which is measured on scalp EEG; ie, we can only really be certain that the most superficial layers of cortex aren't firing and what we are measuring.

Very fair point. There are other examples that go beyond DHCA, though, and point clearly in the same direction. One example is that sometimes people suffer cardiac arrests and lose consciousness for minutes to hours 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.06.015. Coordinated electrical activity stops after a few minutes following cardiac arrest, but people can (rarely) be revived with their apparent memories and personality intact.