nhchris

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by nhchris 4y ago
It has nothing to do with ends vs. means, and I have no idea where you got that from. It is about reaching truth. To give a simple example, the question is "Did the Umayyad caliphate bring new irrigation techniques to Spain? What was t
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> Comments such as "research is only allowed to conclude .. " etc. are not supported here The ability of people to refuse to understand that which they don't want to never ceases to amaze me. His colleagues abandoned him,
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> Do we cancel people into their graves next? Yes. And out of them, too: A Confederate General's Remains Are Being Moved Out Of Memphis - https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008371491/confederate-ge
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For some events, research is only allowed to conclude that they were as bad as we thought, or that they were even worse. Anything else is professional suicide. Like a control circuit only able to correct the system in one direction, it will
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Married into Jewish community – I am content to be the outsider in my own family(telegraph.co.uk)
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> It’s important to take his actual course and not just do the breathing exercise by itself. Is there published information on what the course entails, beyond just the breathing? E.g. a manual.
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"The ship is already leaking, so why not drill a few more holes?" "You want to plug the leaks? But look at how numerous they are!"
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> So should everyone shut up until they have hard evidence to present? And let the narrative given by "trusted US officials" stand unchallenged, yes.
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Your post is incredibly enlightening. This study, that looked at 30 million citations, found left-wing bias, even after controlling for news media factual reliability. Yet media only (or mostly) report anecdotal examples of right-wing bia
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> We also show that this effect is not mitigated by controlling for news media factual reliability.
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Science is incidental. The purpose is to select candidates that will produce ammunition in the form of research (e.g. various marginalization studies) for your side, and exclude candidates that might produce research useful to your opponent
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By that logic they shouldn't visit the Grand Canyon either, because their echo might say something mean. It's the logic of banning sad songs from the radio. "Tiniest pushes" are omnipresent, calling them "dangerous&
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> the danger seems to be that there is no currently documented way to completely remove these possible outputs I know OpenAI likes throwing around terms like "danger" and "harm" liberally, but is this really a danger
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So don't install alternate app stores or side-load apps. Why do you need lock-in?
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How many people choose a browser, compared to those that use whatever the OS defaults to/pushes on them?
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Notably, they did not ban Jeffrey Epstein's or Ghislaine Maxwell's families.
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> And yet the tree, fungus or octopus who can write award winning literature has yet to be seen. Or the human that can sing a touching whalesong.
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> you may be able to prevent it from booting while still allowing the rest of the system to run, but probably not. To be clear, this is not a technical side-effect of some incidental reliance of the boot process on the management engine
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I don't understand - why would the "anti woke" be terrified of criticism/demotion of economics? Are you trying to say most of them derive their personal morality from questionable economics teachings?
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> What's next? Scanners only working under a subscription? Your Wi-Fi router or switches only working when a license is active (even your LAN)? Your chargers, PSUs or UPSes only being allowed to work for 6 months, before you're
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Snowden and a muzzled free press (2013)(cnn.com)
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I quit the CIA in a fit of anguish and published a memoir, “Decent Interval,” about botched intelligence and the abandonment of our Vietnamese allies. Prosecutors in the Carter Justice Department hauled me in for allegedly violating CIA se
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Can somebody elaborate? The article claims the MIT license's no-warranty clause has been voided in the UK, but provides no details or a source.
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> In the real world you've got to work to overcome previously held positions. That work is conducting rigorous studies and meta-analyses, not talking to dishonest journalists whose goal is to twist the findings, instead of report th
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A 2004 editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal noted that Cochrane reviews appear to be more up to date and of better quality than other reviews, describing them as "the best single resource for methodologic research and
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I Won’t Talk to ‘Fact Checkers’ About Our Mask Study(dailysceptic.org)
8 points by nhchris 4y ago|10 comments
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Written by a co-author of a recent Cochrane study (considered the highest bar in quality for medical studies)
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Seems to be a documentary on industrial meat farms.
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Actions speak louder than words - he did the exact opposite, and lobbied to keep vaccines out of public ownership: A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course. It signed an exclusive vaccin
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I only argued it is evidence that the charge of "stochastic terrorism" is applied very selectively. And the evidence isn't "opinion" - it gives examples of mainstream publications and professors that you can verify

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