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return.life · Group blog · on HN since 2022
Return is a site that collects essays on technology, health, culture and digital life, with articles from various contributors such as Riva Tez.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for its pieces on George Hotz and on endemic pathogens and psychiatric illness, with one asking readers to ignore the clickbaity tone.
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- 1George Hotz against the institutions4 people · 232 points · first shared 2022 · 153 comments on HN
- 2Endemic pathogens are causing psychiatric illnesses and shortening lifespans2 people · 17 points · first shared 2023 · 3 comments on HN
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- 12Page 51 people · first shared 2023
What HN people wrote when they linked it
bko · 2022-04-04
I mean, he's obviously not a normal guy. I don't know what you expect. From a recent profile:
> Apart from a criminal streak, Hotz shares with Raskolnikov, Dostoyevsky’s antihero, a predilection for instrumental reason and an urge to test his own mettle, to know himself by knowing his limits. As a young adult Hotz allowed himself to become addicted to prescription opiates almost as an experience in self-mastery. “I did it, I was addicted, and I quit,” he told me. “I think I had to have that experience. I don’t think I ever could have been the type who never tried it. Because in some ways I feel that if I’m not strong enough to defeat that and overcome it…” He paused for several beats before assuring me he’d never want anyone to follow his example. “In order to quit,” he continued, “it required me to rethink what I wanted out of life. After that, one of the biggest things that changed is I stopped caring about money.”
https://return.life/2022/03/07/george-hotz-comma-ride-or-die/
ccleve · 2023-01-21
There's a lot more to the relationship between pathogens and neurological conditions. This article has some good information: https://return.life/2022/05/endemic-pathogens/ (Please ignore the clickbaity tone, there's actually good stuff here).
We know there are a ton of correlations. We don't have causal links, although there is quite a bit of speculation about inflammation.
aritmo · 2023-01-13
The author is Riva Tez (https://twitter.com/rivatez). She first posted this on her blog, hosted on ghost.io, but she abandoned that personal blog. She then contributed her article on this new website that collects such articles. The new website does not show the author's name when you read an article. You have to look into the article index to view the her name as the author of the article.
The author name appears here
https://return.life/category/views/page/5/
tejohnso · 2022-04-02
This reminds me of George Hotz's Comma.ai end to end reinforcement learning approach vs Tesla's feature-engineering based approach described in an article I read.
Hotz feels that "not only will comma outpace Tesla, but that Tesla will eventually adopt comma’s method."[1]
[1]: https://return.life/2022/03/07/george-hotz-comma-ride-or-die
Previous discussion on the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738763