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by Mattasher 4y ago
Interesting analysis, though he mentions early on a huge issue with the analysis: > It does come with one major caveat: Because it counts ALL deaths, it cannot on its own disentangle deaths caused by Covid itself, impacts from the lockdo
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by Mattasher 4y ago
This is a complete misunderstanding of the corporate and human motivation. Corporations are run by people, specifically by rich people who spend their time in elite circles with a set of acceptable cultural and political beliefs. Everyone i
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by Mattasher 4y ago
The wealth each "person" has after N rounds is equal to N trials where the expectation is zero each time, and the rounds are independent, at least according to the setup described in the title and first paragraph.
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by Mattasher 4y ago
It should. I suspect this sim is done wrong. If each round is independent and variance is constant the CLT should dominate.
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by Mattasher 4y ago
If we start with those numbers and a null hyp that both the control and the "experimental" group have a mean of 10, then the chance that of finding 4 or more extra killings than in the "experimental" group is about 21%.
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by Mattasher 4y ago
For years I've tried to explain to people that working in tech, especially over time, is like having a job as a beer taster while living above a bar and hanging out with your drinking buddies all evening at that same bar, where an attr
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by Mattasher 4y ago
This is a funny way to frame mass indefinite home detention, filthy quarantine centers, and the many, many reports of people not having enough to eat, and deaths from lack of access to medical care. Did you know that only residents with off
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by Mattasher 4y ago
The merits of putting 16 million people under indefinite house arrest in tiny apartments, depriving them of fresh air, exercise, real social interaction, medical care, access to food, etc? I'm not sure if you understand just how deeply
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by Mattasher 5y ago
Copenhagen looks like a lovely city but from what I can tell it's almost impossible to purchase real estate there.
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by Mattasher 5y ago
We moved from Toronto to Florida at the beginning of last year. Could not be happier with the decision. The US used to be much more of a monolith, now there are huge differences between the states. All of Canada is still in a mass hysteria
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by Mattasher 5y ago
I noticed this as well in Toronto. If you tell people it's the end of the world, and create that impression by shutting everything down so it looks like zombie apocalypse out there, people's time preferences shorten, their anxiety
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by Mattasher 5y ago
1. We moved from Ontario to Florida 2. My podcast The Filter was pick up on terrestrial radio as well (KeysTalk FM) 3. I filmed the first season of a TV show featuring long-form conversations, see https://www.pbs.org/show&#x
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by Mattasher 5y ago
Brandy Schillache wrote a great book about these experiments and full body transpants for humans. Check out: Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher I interviewed her for The Filter also recommend :) https://mattasher.com/2021/07&
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by Mattasher 5y ago
This is the wrong way to do the math (setting aside that your numbers are wrong and other arguments). The right way would be to compare number of people vaccinated to prevent one person falling so ill they require monoclonals. Since this &g
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by Mattasher 5y ago
This is correct and very frustrating! For a deep dive into this issue check out: https://statisticsblog.com/2011/11/23/monte-hall-revisited/
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by Mattasher 5y ago
Front-running domains was a huge issue with registrars. Not sure sure if it still is. Registries were allowed a grace period to hold names without paying the ICANN fee, if they later released them, the idea being they might have been boug
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by Mattasher 5y ago
If you like this, you may be interested in my episode about Cargo Cults, and the value of letting go of causality completely: https://mattasher.com/2020/04/29/the-filter-podcast-episode-...
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by Mattasher 5y ago
"New Zealand To Begin a Three-Day Lockdown after a Single Case is Reported." Headline from The New York Times 5 days ago. I'm willing to believe this is fake news from the NYT, or that the situation has changed, but others ar
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by Mattasher 5y ago
Maybe you remember way back at the very beginning that it was "two weeks to slow the spread"? The narrative has always been we‘ll be back to normal in X weeks if we are all good little boys and girls and do what we‘re told. Unle
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by Mattasher 5y ago
I was there at the end of 2020. Almost no one wore masks in Stockholm, even coming out of the subway less than 1%.
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by Mattasher 5y ago
Sweden "went back to normal" a long time ago. Their Covid deaths rate is near zero. The "it's bad so we need to x" reflex, where x is any of masking mandates, social distancing, or especially take kids out of school
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by Mattasher 5y ago
I agree with your last statement, but I think you are mixing cause and effect. Crypto is exploding because our system is already corroded. Starting with the creation of the Fed, and tracing through endless money printing and complex finan
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by Mattasher 5y ago
People seem to think that if they approve of a goal, actions taking in the name of that goal can't be totalitarian, or fascist, or bad in any way. Every authoritarian measure in history was justified by something that sounded like good
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by Mattasher 6y ago
If you find this conversation interesting you might want to check out this Ep of The Filter: Our Glorious Future as Amish or Termites. See https://open.spotify.com/episode/6uSd3fSZz3gg6idbdUyvKB
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by Mattasher 6y ago
For those looking for a deep (audio) dive into the details of panpsychism, I interviewed author and researcher Tam Hunt about the subject last year: https://mattasher.com/2020/07/19/episode-11-tam-hunt-on-cons
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by Mattasher 6y ago
I had a great discussion about Class with author Sandra Tsing Loh: https://mattasher.com/2020/09/01/ep-18-sandra-tsing-loh-on-a... Sandra wrote what is imo the definitive book review of Class.
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by Mattasher 6y ago
This may be true when viewed at the micro level, but it's highly debatable at a zoomed out level. Put it this way, is it in Facebooks best business interests to be viewed as endorsing every single thing it hosts? Note that the more the
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by Mattasher 6y ago
See https://beforetheban.com/
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by Mattasher 6y ago
It surprises me that people still think big tech and social media companies are acting in a free market independent of political considerations. You have high-ranking politicians threatening them on a regular basis and demanding they censor
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by Mattasher 6y ago
Those functions exist. They are culture and adulthood. I'm not being glib here. I'm not a crack addict because as an adult I can recognize even trying that drug is a really bad idea, and because I exist in a culture where doing cr

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