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by mkolodny 6y ago
There's a real possibility that a gain-of-function experiment created SARS-CoV-2: "Lipsitch’s activists (calling themselves the Cambridge Working Group) sent around a strong statement on the perils of research with “Potential Pand
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Great idea! I'll keep using the main hacker news site, but I'd love an easy way to go from a hacker news story to the related audio discussion. I'd probably use a chrome extension that takes me from a website to its related d
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Noam Chomsky has some excellent books and talks on YouTube about how dissident voices are silenced in mainstream media exactly like this. You'll only get hired as a journalist if you seem to agree with the political views of owners and
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Germany's power was centralized - Hitler was its dictator. I doubt that Germans would've voted to commit the atrocities Hitler commanded. Americans never voted on segregation. So we'll never know how much sooner black America
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by mkolodny 6y ago
While most democratic governments currently involve some form of centralization, a pure democracy is one where every person has equal power. I believe that it's possible, and preferable for everyone to have the same amount of power. A
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by mkolodny 6y ago
In no way would this law make the US a pure democracy, where citizens can vote directly on whether or not to pass laws. The US would still be a representative democracy, a republic, where citizens vote for representatives, who then pass law
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by mkolodny 6y ago
> The topic under discussion here is whether the "new public square" (or things like payment infrastructure!) are considered critical enough to society that we want to protect access to them. That's one core question. Anot
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by mkolodny 6y ago
I see removing "stop the steal" posts as an attempt to prevent violence. Flat earth groups aren't trying to incite violence as far as I've seen.
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by mkolodny 6y ago
The voters voted out the current president. "Stop the steal" is an attempt to override the voters' decision.
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by mkolodny 6y ago
The sitting president was claiming election fraud months before the election even happened [0]. He said that he would accept election results "if I win" years before the election happened [1]. It's not on the media to prove t
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by mkolodny 6y ago
"For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that 'Now is
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by mkolodny 6y ago
According to the New York Times' "How Full Are I.C.U.s Near You?", AdventHealth Ocala in Florida is currently at 97% capacity with 56 Covid-19 patients, and the average I.C.U. in Florida is at 82% capacity. https:/&#x2F
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by mkolodny 6y ago
That was a great episode. I've been really enjoying all of Lex's podcast episodes. He has on many of the top thinkers across many different fields. AI and CS in particular. https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman So
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by mkolodny 6y ago
> I think it's better to have a society where property rights (which includes the right of self-ownership i.e. owning your own body) and other natural rights (speech, self defense [technically these are just derived from property ri
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by mkolodny 6y ago
I agree that saying self-driving is a threat is very different from saying that your business will fail unless you create self-driving cars. Also, saying that Uber/Lyft need to create their own self-driving cars is ignoring the fact th
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by mkolodny 6y ago
This graph shows 357,335 excess US deaths from January 5 - October 25: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-cumulati... There have been 2,000 - 3,000 known US Covid-19 deaths per day for the past few day
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by mkolodny 6y ago
"Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the
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by mkolodny 6y ago
From the CDC: "People who have gotten sick with COVID-19 may still benefit from getting vaccinated. Due to the severe health risks associated with COVID-19 and the fact that re-infection with COVID-19 is possible, people may be advised
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Children can, and, according to the CDC, should get vaccinations during lockdowns. "CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend every child continues to receive routine vaccinations during the COVID-19 outbreak." [0
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by mkolodny 6y ago
> it is very unclear whether, in the long run, more lives will be lost to the costs of a severe lockdown than saved by it I have yet to see data that shows any evidence of this theory. If you are aware of any existing data that points to
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by mkolodny 6y ago
> Thinking things were better off not existing or better off dying of organ failure instead of being eaten doesn’t always make sense to me. Would you rather live a long life and then die of organ failure, or get eaten when you're th
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by mkolodny 6y ago
From your line of reasoning, I'd guess that you have no moral issues with eating humans. If eating animals and plants is the same, then isn't eating non-human and human animals the same? If you do have a moral problem with eating
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by mkolodny 6y ago
By "legislators" do you mean members of government? You linked to a California proposition, which any citizen can create: "In a special election held on October 10, 1911, California became the 10th state to adopt the initiat
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Depending on where you live, ZocDoc can be a great way to find a therapist: https://www.zocdoc.com/ I'd recommend searching "psychotherapist" or "psychologist". Psychiatrists seem to be more focused
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Instead of guessing how someone feels and what they are thinking, you can ask people what they're feeling and thinking directly. Sometimes people will tell you what they're feeling and thinking without you having to ask - then you
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by mkolodny 6y ago
I think both are mass cruelty. The way we treat animals is the slavery of our time, if not much worse. We keep using words like "cull" instead of "kill" or "mass murder", as though it's not killing if the
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by mkolodny 6y ago
The Associated Press, who called the election this year, and who has been calling US elections since 1848, didn't call the election for either side in 2000: "AP did not call the closely contested race in 2000 between George W. Bus
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Unfortunately Twitter's fact checking is the best solution we have so far. If you have a better idea, go build it :)
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Here's a paper that provides evidence that voters are more informed when they have more political power: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=316694
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Not with GPT-3. I believe only Microsoft is allowed to do that.

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