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by hwillis 3y ago
> the connectome is there, we know all the neurons and their connections No- each synapse has its particular neurotransmitters, and the distance, size, shape, number of receptors, and associated glial cells have very large impacts on tra
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by hwillis 3y ago
The world is 100k blocks to a side, with players split up in groups of 20 over the whole thing. Since allocation rose steadily from 35 min and peaked from 47 to 63 minutes, I'm guessing they were spread out pretty widely. There were 1
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by hwillis 3y ago
> Mixing fact with speculation is never a great sign for an argument. You're the only one who's speculating, because in the page that sentence links to a scientific paper: https://zenodo.org/record/6342616#
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by hwillis 3y ago
> What do you have to say about that? I think that despite the efforts of any of those people, I never stop hearing about these "bombshells" which are trivially disproven. There has been no new evidence or anything of lab leak
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by hwillis 3y ago
That's not really relevant. The cases are all still very far away from the WIV, which is itself far from anywhere the thread implicates eg residential areas. I also suspect the thread is just flat wrong- the people most relevant to vi
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by hwillis 3y ago
This is a very large, very modern city. I'm very willing to believe they went to real hospitals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan#/media/File:Wuhan_Yangtz...
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by hwillis 3y ago
https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/the-case-against-the-...
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by hwillis 3y ago
The wet market was one of the less densely trafficked areas of the city: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348750/figure/... Check out the other figures in that paper. The epicenter was the
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by hwillis 3y ago
Incredibly unlikely. There are thousands of locations that are far more trafficked than the wet market: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348750/figure/...
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by hwillis 3y ago
Did they "end up in the hospital" or did they go to the hospital to get a diagnosis? I live in a city, and my PCP is in the local hospital. "seasonal illness symptoms" sounds FAR more like they were just sick and went
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by hwillis 3y ago
That's the CDC, a totally unrelated building which even then isn't very close to the wet market, which is not a very popular spot in the city. The WIV was many miles outside the city.
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by hwillis 3y ago
That's ridiculous. The animals are transgenic mice.
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by hwillis 3y ago
The CDC is smack in the center of the city (on the other side of the river). The WIV is way outside the urban area, past a very large industrial park. The distribution of cases also strongly contradicts you: https://www.ncbi.nlm
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by hwillis 3y ago
"finally"? This was put out in the state department Jan 2021, 2.5 years ago: https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan... > The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers
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by hwillis 3y ago
Very. This was put out in the state department Jan 2021, 2.5 years ago: https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan... > The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV
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by hwillis 3y ago
Note that this is NOT the Wuhan CDC, which is the building across the river from the wet market. They did not do any research there. This building is ~10 miles south, well outside the main city. https://geohack.toolforge.org&#x
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by hwillis 3y ago
> No Language model is yet even close to the scale of the human brain If GPT-4 has 100 trillion parameters, it has as many parameters as the human brain has synapses. Synapses are a lot simpler than parameters; they're digital. A
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by hwillis 3y ago
Local surface gravity varies by up to a ten-thousandth, about .001 m/s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal_(unit) Sensitive detectors can measure differences in hundreds of millionths (10^-8 parts) or around .1 um&
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by hwillis 3y ago
wiretapping, voyeurism, intrusion on seclusion... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_on_seclusion
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by hwillis 3y ago
Lots of things are illegal when the government does it, but not when regular people do it. That's like, a major part of the constitution. Here's what's relevant here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo
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by hwillis 3y ago
> Who determines context in this case? On what basis? In general, you'll be sorely disappointed if you expect law to justify itself rigorously. That's not the point. The reason we use phrases like "beyond a reasonable do
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by hwillis 3y ago
I'm not really trying to make a big statement, since the general gist of 'I, Pencil'[1] is obviously indisputable. But the point is actually about self-organization rather than atomization (ie maximum specialization). It do
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by hwillis 3y ago
With AoE, the machinists handbook, and some textbooks on medicine/chemistry/agriculture/geology you could rebuild society on a different planet. It's one of those counterpoints to the "nobody knows how a pencil is
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by hwillis 3y ago
Context and scale matter. Drawing a picture of a dollar bill is not illegal, but forgery is. It's not illegal to call someone, or to ask them a question, or to follow someone. It IS illegal to stalk someone.
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by hwillis 3y ago
Basically every way? If the government was tracking everywhere you went via cameras, people would also call that spying. Are you arguing that when a spy follows someone in public and watches everything they do, that isn't spying?
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by hwillis 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy_(United... You are entitled to privacy even for certain public situations. Even if you can see through a window, the government can't go training telescopes in
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by hwillis 3y ago
> But divorces per 1000 inhabitants? Is that per year or what? yes. "Divorce rate" implies it's the rate of failed marriages to existing marriages. Instead it is the rate of new divorces to new marriages: https:&#x2F
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by hwillis 3y ago
It is a statistical artifact. "Divorce rate" implies it's the rate of failed marriages to existing marriages. Instead it is the rate of new divorces to new marriages: https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/
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by hwillis 3y ago
That's not what this statistic is. Instead it is the rate of new divorces to new marriages: https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+100+... Which is down from the peak and is an obvious inverse
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by hwillis 3y ago
No. "Divorce rate" implies it's the rate of failed marriages to existing marriages. Instead it is the rate of new divorces to new marriages: https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+10

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