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by csee 5y ago
How many deaths/complications will it prevent and how many deaths/complications will it cause? Isn't that ratio dramatically in the favor of vaccines?
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by csee 5y ago
It's not surprising that all convo is around the vaccine, it's our strongest tool against it.
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by csee 5y ago
It's close to a silver bullet. Yes they don't completely stop transmission but who cares about that? All we should care about are severe cases and deaths. Add the new therapeutics on top and we actually do have the silver bullet.
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by csee 5y ago
Vaccines probably reduce the chance of a new variant. A lower viral load means a lower probability of a mutation happening, given that the number of mutations is proportional to the load over time. There's some small chance that the op
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by csee 5y ago
Unable or unwilling? If their network effects endow them with an impenetrable moat, why would they voluntarily spend lots of money to address a problem that harms only a minority of customers and isn't substantial enough to drive peopl
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by csee 5y ago
Reality doesn't fit so neatly into these categories that you're trying to construct, where speech is perfectly harmless unless it's direct incitement to violence and then suddenly it's harmful. That might be how the lega
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by csee 5y ago
That's an obvious joke.
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by csee 5y ago
It isn't clear whether his advice here is just humor. This article goes on to explain that he uses semicolons in his own work, even in places where he didn't need to.
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by csee 5y ago
There's a spectrum between crackpottery and solidly evidence-backed consensus treatments. The middle of that spectrum: - The existing evidence, although positive, may be low quality, or preliminary. - The treatment is advanced by some
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by csee 5y ago
This is where the healthy skepticism part comes in. Going all out woo or quack isn't what I'm suggesting, and I'd agree that that's even worse than being too closed minded. Crystal healing doesn't work and people sh
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by csee 5y ago
It's the scientism mindset which is common among technical types. Anti-woo errs into a more dogmatic dismissal and closed mindedness towards anything not backed by multiple large RCTs and consensus among experts. I think a balance is i
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by csee 5y ago
Why are you assuming that there is no such thing as psychosomatic pain just because yous isn't? Such an unjustified leap.
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by csee 5y ago
"Slaves in the colonial days were also kept alive, housed, and fed." You misunderstand. I'm talking about net benefit, not gross benefits. "it’s mostly the developing manufacturing for the developed, to this
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by csee 5y ago
"The comparison is to be made between what could have happened, and what did." Disagree. If the question we are asking is whether developed countries have provided a net benefit, the hypothetical has to be with them never
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by csee 5y ago
I never said that colonialism was a net benefit. I said that developed countries have been a net benefit for underdeveloped countries. That's an important difference, and it's a claim that my thought experiment supports. On South
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by csee 5y ago
I'm not trying to present a 'two sides' story in the sense that it's exactly 50/50, since I think the viewpoint I was countering is quite a bit more false than it is true, which is why I flatly asserted that develop
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by csee 5y ago
I dislike these sweeping and 1-dimensional viewpoints, both because they're bait for extremist thinking and because they're high-bias statements despite reflecting the ghost of a truth. The reality is that there's not a clean
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by csee 5y ago
Just because it's not possible to control everything and guarantee a happy life free of pain, doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't control some things to make life a bit better than it otherwise would be.
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by csee 5y ago
You can't separate out that from the depression, though. He was prescribed benzos, a highly addictive drug, because of his depression, and possibly relapsed because of that depression in addition to a chemical dependency that developed
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by csee 5y ago
He's wrong about climate change but this is such a shallow piece of rhetoric. He's a "guy" who is a respected research psychologist with lots of clinical experience. Out of anyone, this makes him more likely to have inte
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by csee 5y ago
They'll be perfectly happy with that solution because they don't have to stop burning coal and it's funded by small fish taxpayers.
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by csee 5y ago
Yep, we're living in the future.
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by csee 5y ago
> The problem is that these crimes often vary so much that it's hard to find a common thread besides vague ideological motivations. I agree that it's hard, but some scholars have argued that there is a common thread. Why wouldn
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by csee 5y ago
> The same recategorization could be applied to any death that ostensibly “communism did.” In the case of famines, no it can't. The famines were a direct consequence of the specific communist policies that were enacted. That's
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by csee 5y ago
They do cite sources, in the "Proposed causes" section. > We can start with 100 million indigenous souls in the Americas and count from there! This example fits under colonialism, not capitalism, and there's already a pag
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Moderna's mRNA Vaccine Pipeline(modernatx.com)
6 points by csee 5y ago|3 comments
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by csee 5y ago
By figuring out how it leaked, you can fix gaps in lab safety processes.
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by csee 5y ago
They voted for it via representative democracy. If it comes out that there was a leak and politicians still want to fund this kind of thing, then they'll get less votes.
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by csee 5y ago
It matters in the same way that understanding why a plane crashed matters. If you can't figure out why a plane crashed then you can't improve flight safety much.
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by csee 5y ago
Marginal vs fixed costs.

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