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by estearum 2mo ago
Yes, but they should be criticized all the while... obviously. In fact, beyond criticizing them, they should be denigrated and made fun of incessantly. Ostracized and reaffirmed as low-status individuals, no matter how much wealth they can
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> Precisely because they are dedicated to a particular set of morals, they are unlike the prince. These are morals both of us dislike, yet they believe in them dare I say, naively and idealistically. They view capitalism and profit as an
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If creating working drugs was as simple as "supposed" MoAs or animal study results, we'd all be cured of everything.
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Maybe I wasn't clear, when I say people should be dismissed for saying "taking chemicals," I mean that they don't get to turn the conversation into a battle of anecdata to try to make their arguments. For the vast majori
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Cheap land
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In theory, maybe. In practice, there are far better sources of signal for far more valuable therapeutics to develop. There are far more promising development targets than there is development resources. Self-reports from a bunch of the most
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Hormones control a lot of what you describe as "feeling like." The drugs (coincidentally of shape "peptide") that have been through clinical trials are obviously measured against placebo, and they (like the approved GLP-
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"peptide" is just a category of chemical. Some of them do good things, some do bad things, some do nothing at all. Anyone talking about "taking peptides" as a meaningful sentence is absolutely dismissible in the same way
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Except the data is completely useless. Especially given the extremely strong selection biases towards: status/image-obsessed; high-risk; low-intelligence; generally high appetite for a constellation of dubious interventions.
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You misunderstood the thread. Automated speed cameras are not part of a surveillance network. ANPR networks are obviously created specifically for surveillance. GP said "I remember pushback to automated speed cameras" and I said
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Am I understanding that the line you're drawing here is that this person's repository is not important or legitimate enough for you to consider it to be "an actual person/project"?
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> I'm not sure it's able to be stopped? It seems part of the human condition. Yet somehow there are many places in which it has pretty much stopped?
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Being a global threat but "pretending" so well to be a good faith actor that people treat you and engage with you as a good faith actor, is literally the same as just being a good faith actor. The US was a good faith actor, espe
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"The stated goal" is stupid as fuck, especially when it comes to our literal immediate neighbor who has been a steadfast ally for the last 100+ years.
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April 2: Trump "liberates" Americans from low-cost goods by placing tariffs at 46% on Vietname May 16: Vietnam approves $1.5B Trump hotel project ( https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-trump-golf-estate-investm..
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Such are the challenges of being someone who can't read four sentences.
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Some states they're illegal, and by "common" I do not mean they have significant coverage. I mean that they're not exotic or unusual.
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But the point is you can't just "shut off memory" in the sense that it would've prevented the OpenAI attack.
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Yes, but the problem and interesting part was not "they use memory."
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It is empirically the case that societies have been perfectly capable of thriving while having police... If you understood my comment to mean "police are perfect", then I must've been unclear. That's not my position and
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You responded "I don't know, sometimes cameras catch cops beating people up" to the statement: "It is better to have cops than cameras." If you have no cops, the cameras don't mean anything. It is now de facto
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"The model saved memories" is absolutely not an accurate depiction of the OpenAI attack. Several different models across several generations independently found a shared communication space and wrote coded, obfuscated, and hidden
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Let's play this out: Cops don't exist. On video, you catch a person beating the hell out of a citizen. ... ... ... Welp, sucks to get the shit beaten out of you, better luck next time.
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I think people understand "rich tech CEO putting cameras everywhere offers no assurances of people's privacy and legal rights, instead opts to call them terrorists" perfectly well The fundamental issue is that Flock doesn&#x
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People, broadly speaking, are totally fine with police having guns and jails. Flock in absence of police is not that bad except for the whole "now we have no police" problem. Having police in the absence of Flock is totally fine,
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You should start with the lede: "I built a tool to help you understand how/if your community has agreed to deploy Flock cameras. You can try it out here: [ ]. The hardest part of this was..."
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Police are bounded by evidentiary laws and warrant requirements, all of which legitimately do stand up in court. Flock is not. So no, actually Flock itself is the problem. If Flock were willing to sign some consent decree that its data can
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I don’t disagree with your assessment of your individual contribution to overall risk. The problem is that if everyone decided the same way, then it absolutely would have produced a gigantic difference. So we’re back to the fundamental
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You see that I haven't heard of the thing that I explicitly mention in the exact comment you just replied to? In any case, an evidence modality that can only be used via parallel construction is still far, far, far less risky than on
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You are again misunderstanding the data and its relevance to what we're talking about. The vaccine protection was not superior for a short period after vaccination. It was superior for the initial variant. We've already establ

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