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by odyssey7 9mo ago
What happened to just being honest, communicating respectfully, and doing the right thing?
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
Ah yes, we’re back to the idea that the public cannot be helped. The answer is that the problem is a different, unsolvable one: presumably due to misinformation, members of the public have opinions that are too strongly held for them to fol
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
So, let’s start from the idea that a certain vaccination compliance threshold is needed for each illness that we need to and have the ability to prevent. And then let’s consider the reality that many parents—enough of them to matter—think t
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
There are vast trade-offs that are worth considering beyond what you’ve outlined. I encourage you to think more about this.
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
Are you prepared to jail people who don’t get covid vaccines? If not, then you understand that there are trade-offs and limitations to what public policies will actually be effective in the real world that actually exists. Edit: added the f
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
There isn’t an equivalence between pierced ears, which is reversible, and circumcision, which is not.
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Also: given the historic role of circumcision in religious and cultural conversion, one could view infant circumcision as removing that possibility for certain religious or cultural conversions later in life. In this sense, it might be view
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
I remember around 2016 seeing videos on social media of Clinton endorsing circumcision campaigns.
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
Some people are traumatized by it. There have been suicides. These experiences never candidly enter public policy discourse, because keeping people from getting depressed etc. is important for productivity, birth rates, and trust in public
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
I appreciate the nuance you’re bringing to this topic. The child vaccinations schedule is a step further than public advice due to its role in clinical practice and social expectation setting. Policymakers have a job that stands apart from
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566754
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Expert opinions are pluralistic, not a monolith, so there’s a judgement call when a policy is written. There is a spectrum of importance when you consider medical interventions. A pluralistic society, including pluralistic opinions among ex
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
Do you want public advice that is followed (useful) or public advice that is ignored (not useful)? The ability to have the public accept advice is a capability that has unquestionably eroded. However smart an expert may be, they aren’t help
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
As you increasingly mandate things that the public thinks are optional, eventually mandates in general start to look unimportant, and eventually you get less safety seat compliance. If there are some illnesses we can handle with without u
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The federal vaccine recommendation on polio vaccines is not changing.
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Vaccines are unpopular with many. I don’t see why the motives have to be more complicated than that. But, I would say that trying a different approach that acknowledges how patients feel could help rebuild public trust in healthcare institu
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Yes, but maybe not from one specific lineage. E.g., extinction really is the end of the line for some species.
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
Yes, the connection to clean energy was just a coincidence. Newer alternatives to incandescent bulbs at the time just happened to offer cool color tones, so getting off incandescents meant switching from warm colors to cool ones. But now we
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
These headlights are a menace. Also, I think it was a mistake switching street lamps over to cool color tones, something that happened amid the clean energy push.
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The long history of art shows a story of technology developments and how artists have creatively applied them as new techniques and mediums. Is AI music today able to emulate what a brilliant human artist does? Not really. But is it somethi
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
I haven’t updated to the new OS because the liquid glass experience made me think of historic UI elements that were more novelty than substance.
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by odyssey7 9mo ago
Introduce UX problems today —> enables a big win when you remove them next version.
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Yes, there are different levels of sureness being described. When I hear guarantee , it makes me think of correctness proofs. Confidence is more of a practical notion for how much you trust the system for a given use case. Testing can defi
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by odyssey7 10mo ago
UC Berkeley: “Top-level functional equivalence requires that, for any possible set of inputs x, the two pieces of code produce the same output. … testing, or input-output (I/O) equivalence, is the default correctness metric used by the
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by odyssey7 10mo ago
This is a good idea, though I don’t think it would guarantee program equivalence beyond the test cases.
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Likely not what you’re describing, but this hypothetical is what came to mind. Consider if organism A consumes organism B in a symbiotic way. E.g., organism B makes berries. Then, we engineer A to seek out and consume DDT, perhaps by making
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by odyssey7 10mo ago
Have consumers ever been offered the ability to pay Google to opt out of advertisements and to opt into privacy?
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Now that we know about this, that the calculations in the trained models follow some particular forms, is there an approximation algorithm to run the models without GPUs?
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Or an architecture chosen for that subspace or some of its properties as inductive biases.
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by odyssey7 11mo ago
Proper tail calls for the win! Hopefully Google, now in its AI race, decides to give V8 its due.

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