Bayesian_bro

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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   My backstory is that I used to live in SF for 10 years before this pandemic. We moved to a rural western area because of the pandemic. I need the diesel truck to tow trailers.
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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   I definitely voted for Biden.
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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   This logic works on the average. There are plenty of nuances between the two countries. This is my reduced experience from spending lots of time in China from the early 2000's.
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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   I think you need to look up what "deontological" means. It's putting a means before an end. America does this with spreading freedom. Colonial Spain did this with spreading christianity. Russia did this with spreading communi
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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   The Chinese also don't talk about a lot of the bad things that happened in the great leap forward, which could have a case made that it was worse than slavery.
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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   This is just an example of the different ethics between China and America. America is very deontological in terms of FREEDOM. We love freedom above everything else. China is very consequentialist, they care about prosperity and success over
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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   I don't see good enough evidence to show the zoological origin yet. I don't see good enough evidence of a lab leak origin yet either. I do see good enough evidence for a Chinese coverup. I can say for 100% certainly the Chinese ar
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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   Getting flagged in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
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   by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

   The origin of COVID-19 is going to be one of the biggest news stories in 2021-22 IMO. China's global reputation is going to take a hit. I don't think they did this intentionally. I think everyone had the best of intentions and eit
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    by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

    The origin of COVID-19 is going to be one of the biggest news stories in 2021-22 IMO. China's global reputation is going to take a hit. I don't think they did this intentionally. I think everyone had the best of intentions and eit
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    by Bayesian_bro 5y ago

    I've been looking into the research that was going on at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There is an NIH grant that was doing interesting research around bat coronavirus. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=R01AI11096
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    by Bayesian_bro 6y ago

    We are declining because we are becoming more like China. More censorship, larger control of central government, currency manipulation. I actually see this as inevitable as you get a larger and larger population freedoms need to get reduced