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Agreed on all points. The SGTF sampling by UW, Yale, and others have been more than sufficient to get a good-enough estimation, in combination with the really e
by ISL 5y ago
Agreed on all points. The SGTF sampling by UW, Yale, and others have been more than sufficient to get a good-enough estimation, in combination with the really excellent work from the UK and Denmark, of what we're facing.
Our trajectory for the next ~10+ days is largely locked-in, but strident (and empathetic) leadership may help to blunt the impact in the weeks that follow.
It might be Christmas week, but if you limit contacts for the next week or two, you'll put yourself in a much-better place to be able to manage the month to come .
May this be the last time humans have to pay so dearly to learn the lesson that exponentially-scaling adversaries are best-confronted when they are small.
- sk5t 5y agoPeople can't even really grasp compound interest, nevermind an invisible, exponentially widening something.
- ethbr0 5y ago> learn the lesson that exponentially-scaling adversaries are best-confronted when they are small *looks at Florida* Nope.
- rblatz 5y agoThere is a 0% chance of that happening. In every timeline in the multiverse that doesn’t happen. People are sick of sacrificing to protect those too dumb or brainwashed to protect themselves. Especially when all that sacrifice means nothing because of those people spreading it around and acting as hosts for it to mutate in.