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by benchaney 6y ago
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you wrote, but it seems to me that Wallace is actually arguing the point: that these two senses are in fact an artificial distinction, that people are inherently religious, that they are inherently
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by benchaney 6y ago
>It is etymologically correct though: condition of being worthy, dignity, glory, distinction, honor, renown. The etymology is not even close to being relevant. Conflating two different meanings of the word "worship" and implyin
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by benchaney 6y ago
Landlords don't create demand, they convert one type of demand to another. One of the reasons that increasing supply is such a popular idea is that there is no practical way to truly decrease demand. Everyone who is alive needs somewhe
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by benchaney 6y ago
The cognitive error being discussed here relates to a systematic failures to make accurate descriptive statements. The distinction between deontological and consequentialist thinking is entirely prescriptive. Being able to make accurate des
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by benchaney 6y ago
Is there any actual evidence that the paradox of tolerance is correct? I suspect people stopped taking it seriously (and mentioning it in discussions on speech) because it’s advocates always seem to expect everyone to take it on faith, inst
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by benchaney 6y ago
This article has nothing to do with whether or not platforms ought to be able to perform content moderation. The point you are making is just not relevant. Not even tenuously.
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by benchaney 6y ago
> why don't we just start everything one hour earlier? Because that is an impossible coordination problem, while moving to permanent DST could be done easily. I don’t see why being close to solar time matters, when it is such a movi
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by benchaney 6y ago
This is incorrect. Informed consent requires that people be given the best available information. If that contains a lot of unknowns, and they understand that, and consent to it, that is completely valid.
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by benchaney 6y ago
In practice you wouldn’t be able to mine at all, because the difficulty updates infrequently, so you would have to mine several blocks at the old difficulty. Obviously this is impossible on a pocket calculator. I’ve always assumed that the
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by benchaney 6y ago
What difference does it make if there is an alternate meaning to the word than the one they are using?
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by benchaney 6y ago
It's true, sort of. > Bell’s palsy was reported by four vaccine participants and none in the placebo group. These cases occurred at 3, 9, 37, and 48 days after vaccination. One case (onset at 3 days postvaccination) was reported as
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by benchaney 6y ago
Nobody knew what the long term effects were, but we knew that there was uncertainty about them. Informed consent doesn't require perfect information. Just the best possible information, and a fair appraisal of uncertainty.
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by benchaney 6y ago
This makes no sense to me. Preventing challenge trials causes more people to die and become permanently ill. What ethical system are you operating under where that is morally preferable? FWIW, ethicists were split, but mostly on board with
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by benchaney 6y ago
The people and government organizations that opposed challenge trials are preventing the participants in challenge trails from saving people who actually did die from Covid.
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by benchaney 6y ago
Actively preventing someone from saving a third person is murder. Even if there is risk involved.
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by benchaney 6y ago
This is much farther along than the Russia vaccine. They are also publishing their data publicly. I know they haven’t published this data yet, but they say they are going to, and they have a good track record of doing so.
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by benchaney 6y ago
Elections are important to society. Those elections being safe and secure is important to society. Computerized voting methods that are fundamentally unsound undermine that. They are occasionally being adopted anyway because of lobbying (re
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by benchaney 6y ago
Hard disagree. Blockchain gives a few very narrow security benefits in a specific situation. None of them are relevant for the purpose of election integrity. Some people are quite cavalier about switching over to computerized voting system
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by benchaney 6y ago
Twitch is for live-streaming. You can fast forward if you aren’t watching in real time though.
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by benchaney 6y ago
Is the full paper available online? I was not able to find it.
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by benchaney 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24962295
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by benchaney 6y ago
Giving something a name doesn't automatically make it bad. Internet discussions (HN included) seem to mostly just be people who have no idea what they are talking about speculating wildly, and treating their speculations as unimpeachab
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by benchaney 6y ago
RCT means a randomized controlled trail. GP is confused. This announcement is about an RCT. Injecting a disease into volunteers is called a human challenge trial. It is a type of RCT, but it is not what is being discussed here.
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by benchaney 6y ago
It is extremely good news, but they haven't published their data yet. I will get excited when they do, and the data matches the PR (assuming it does).
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by benchaney 6y ago
You would need something that is "cognition capable" first and that has not been invented yet.
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by benchaney 6y ago
Your cat was already capable cognition before you started training it. GP is talking about generating a cognition where it did not previously exist.
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by benchaney 6y ago
I don’t see what is misleading. The drug trial was done on the target population of the drug. That is how drug trials work. I don’t see any reason for anyone to assume that the trial was done on a random subset of the population. That would
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by benchaney 6y ago
They are implying no such thing.
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by benchaney 6y ago
Randomized means that the decision about who receives the drug and who receives the placebo is done randomly. Not that the participants are a random subset of society. The trial was done on hospitalized patients who obviously have a much hi
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by benchaney 6y ago
You may be interested in: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation...

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