MisterDizzy

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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Why is MAID being pushed to begin with? I can't wrap my head around it.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
I could conceive of a future where nothing is required of most people besides continued consumption, as their eyes on a piece of content will generate revenue, which will be taxed, and those taxes will pay for the consumer class to live and
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Our cheapest food is largely in the realm of poison, and we have no idea what drug companies' lust for infinite profit is doing to us long-term. Of course cancer is getting worse.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
To the average person, science must seem less trustworthy than ever.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
As with many big tech companies, I'm inclined to believe that their emissions (which can be bought off) matter far less than their privacy violations, or their cooperation with government rights violations either domestically or abroad
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
I agree that AI gets a lot wrong, and it doesn't seem to be too great at reasoning either. Potentially more dangerous is how it repeats the lies we tell ourselves. Bits of cognitive dissonance may be something that we can ignore enough
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Ever been to San Francisco? Portland? Seattle?
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Yes, financial activism can have quite the wide ripple if you piss off the wrong big city liberals by taking away their ability to remove entire stories from the internet in direct cooperation with un-elected portions of the government. Edi
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
"Status Games" is a great way to phrase it. So much space that used to be occupied by political discussion is now devoted to status signalling disguised as political discussion, and the disingenuous presentation that comes with it
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
How safe is London these days? It's gaining a reputation in some circles for being a scary and dangerous place. Is there any truth to that?
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
This certainly appears to have been the case at Twitter. Many employees, if appearances are to be believed, seemed to socialize and eat (free) for a living while proudly declaring themselves and their organization to be 'not really cap
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
At least you're honest. Everyone must remember that "they" and "their side" are capable of the same evil as their enemies. The existence of a truly open discussion must be sacred, or we might as well dismantle it al
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
A lot of people are really defensive about this. What's the big deal if X does well? Why are people so personally invested in pretending like Elon didn't do the world a huge service by removing Twitter from the control of possibly
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
So many people will put up with the most heinous and blatant rights violations in the name of safety or health but as soon as you start making it more difficult to get unlimited free pornography, that's when it suddenly becomes a probl
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Thank you for the reply. It seems like this particular application of mRNA is a lot more promising than attempting to use it against a virus, which would mean constantly playing catch-up with the mutations. I hope mRNA has an application fo
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
After my COVID shot, I got 2 or 3 days of Transient Global Amnesia. It has scarred my son, who worries about amnesia every single time he's a little delirious from an illness or some such. By my estimation, the people who threatened an
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
I'm confused and the term vaccine. My understanding was that a vaccine contains a deactivated virus. Is mRNA not a form of gene therapy? I understand not wanting to spook people away getting the shot during an actual pandemic and alter
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
This seems to be a much better application of a gene therapy shot of this kind that has such a small targeted scope. A virus that mutates would clearly be an exercise in playing constant catch-up, but this seems a lot more realistic. Is the
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Yet somehow they keep adding value (so far).
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
It's pretty tough to be met with the realization that big tech companies' code education initiatives, and their support of things in the US like H-1B visas, all stem from a coldly calculated strategy to make the compensation for p
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
I can only speak for myself. The real cost was human. Someone in my family died of despair-related causes, due to restrictions and lockdowns. Nobody in my family died of Covid. I had a temporary vaccine injury that has psychologically scarr
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Drug companies are unambiguously out of control. Some of these new molecules don't even need to be invented, they're just legally distinct repackaging of something they can't gouge on anymore. These companies could, if they h
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
There are a lot of assumptions taken for granted in there. But sure, less technology is not the real goal, that's not a good way to phrase it, good point. I suppose the better way to say it would be that the goal is less energy use and
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Precisely. The people who tell you that you must radically cut back "for the planet" do not believe what they are selling, but they do think it would be very good for them if you believed it (and it would be).
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
These discussions are starting to worry me. There isn't much point to talking about the climate until we can start looking at this issue as a matter of "how do we increase human flourishing," which should be a universal goal
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by MisterDizzy 3y ago
I adore that I live in a time where scientific articles have headlines with the word "crap".
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by MisterDizzy 3y ago
Seems like quite a project. And very useful. Australia is the perfect example of when too many well-meaning people who think they can solve everything with more government power are given too much capability to see their vision through to i