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by guscost 5y ago
> Can Clubhouse ever recreate the magic of being a high status place to be seen? I sure hope not. That clout chasing crap leads to the worst and most boring conversations.
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by guscost 5y ago
Thanks for taking the time to read and reply sincerely.
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by guscost 5y ago
Yes. The harm is mostly psychological, but it is an existential threat to society. You might not agree, but that is my take, and I would bet it is shared by the others who are downvoting you.
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by guscost 5y ago
You’re being downvoted for flagrant abuse of the precautionary principle.
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by guscost 5y ago
I’m a member of society, and I (along with many others) believe that we are way across the acceptable boundary between my individual rights and the risk everyone else should bear. What do we do now? Do we need to fight a war to decide who
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by guscost 5y ago
> please re-read my post as someone who is trying to understand them. You may have convinced yourself that this is true, but I don’t believe it. Your comment was mostly passive-aggressive rhetorical sniping: > Okay, so then you die.
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by guscost 5y ago
I don’t get “nihilism” from any of that. It is just a healthy attitude about life and death, an attitude that is apparently not even close to universal in our culture. I can try to understand the other side, but please do the same. Pretty m
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by guscost 5y ago
This could also be a feint to get DoD money into the technology.
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by guscost 5y ago
TL;DR some establishment blowhard is flailing around in a panic, because with the internet and a functioning market, censorship is just a trivially-corrected malfunction - as it should be.
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by guscost 5y ago
Is there a toggle for "don't scrub content we have deemed 'misinformation' from search results"?
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by guscost 5y ago
It is possible and even likely IMO (at least for respiratory viruses). Look up the “transmission-virulence tradeoff hypothesis” for more info: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30734920/ The “Russian flu” in 1890 may hav
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by guscost 5y ago
> That's extremely inefficient, wasteful, and will tremendously slow progress. Democracy is also “extremely inefficient, wasteful, and slow to progress”. A process with those deficiencies can still be the best available approach (al
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by guscost 5y ago
> I mean, obviously nuclear war was averted because we ended the cold war (we changed our behavior). I had a very spirited argument the other day about whether a unipolar world is actually more stable than a multipolar world, or not. The
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by guscost 5y ago
I don’t believe that claim at all.
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by guscost 5y ago
If this doesn’t convince you that Google of today is nothing more than the unofficial thought-police agency for the political left, I guess nothing will.
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by guscost 5y ago
> The 1972 paper dealt with a system dynamics computer model named World3 That’s an incredibly dumb idea, seriously? These are the people who have been advising our leaders?
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by guscost 5y ago
I would also be financing the rest of what they publish, so it’s a non-starter for me. This journalist should quit and go to Substack.
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by guscost 5y ago
A magazine dangling this important humanitarian story behind a “soft” paywall to sell subscriptions, no less. Imagine the reaction if they had done this with their COVID collection.
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by guscost 5y ago
Even if your claim is correct: Hiding this kind of information from the public, and trying to steamroll them with “experts say” proclamations, has backfired spectacularly. Surely you can see that by now.
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by guscost 5y ago
What you are referring to is called the “transmission-virulence tradeoff theory” and while it does not guarantee that this virus will do what you claim, it is remarkable that public health officials and journalists do not mention it. https
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by guscost 5y ago
Your comment was not the right tone, to put it mildly. On the other hand there is probably no way to bring up this possibility without being attacked. For anyone curious, I am not a doctor, this is not medical advice, and every case is diff
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by guscost 5y ago
“Vaccine passports” would be used to open the door for this system.
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by guscost 5y ago
Rather than go into a long rant about how this is bullshit FUD, I’ll just remind everyone that the founding donation to Friends of the Earth (anti-nuclear NGO) was made by Robert Orville Anderson, an oil baron.
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by guscost 5y ago
> Each task consisted of estimating the correlation of a scatter plot
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by guscost 5y ago
Glad this lesson was finally learned, if nothing else.
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by guscost 5y ago
You could have said the same exact thing about aerospace in 1970.
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by guscost 5y ago
This is so obvious. Incumbents would like nothing better than a new law that makes it harder to operate (within “reason”, of course) in their industry. It is amazing that more people here don’t see right through the manipulation.
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by guscost 5y ago
Similarly: “Thou shalt not make a flying machine that gathers its own fuel from nature.” Or maybe: “Thou shalt not make a vehicle that travels on legs.”
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by guscost 5y ago
Most people don’t really use Instagram, it’s more like Instagram uses them .
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by guscost 5y ago
I respect your “toughen up” attitude, but this is not the place for it. You don’t know any of us.

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