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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Or more likely…probably will not come to the correct conclusion. Every past “accepted” or “settled” scientific consensus now known to be wrong once had its merits tested from the most qualified to not only read through all of the litera
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Longevity scientists are mostly just experts in the field of getting duped by pension fraudsters who say what they want to hear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone#Scientific_reception You've cited the de
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>After how the government deals with COVID I don't trust "the medical consensus" which is code for "things I want you, the mainstream to agree with" I can't believe I'm about to spend time responding to
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by p_j_w 3y ago
That's an example of a body of scientists changing its recommendations when there's data available to support it, which is what GP was trying to argue wouldn't happen because it'd make them look bad. I'm not advocat
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by p_j_w 3y ago
I could imagine this sort of thing having an impact on a scattered group here and there, but these are not static groups. Why would a member who joined 10 years ago would give a shit about doubling down for the sake of the reputation of the
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>That’s the key problem though, in the face of alternative hypothesis they fail to even acknowledge they may be wrong. That is not they key problem as you originally laid out. Your original position is that they key problem is they ARE w
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Why do they matter? Because they are the experts in their field. They are the most qualified to not only read through all of the literature, but actually properly understand it, debate it, and come to a reasonably correct conclusion. &g
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>In RF electronics, wires end up looking like transmission lines. This might be needlessly pedantic, but you've got this a bit wrong from a philosophical standpoint. Wires don't end up looking like transmission lines, they alwa
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by p_j_w 3y ago
You make it sound as though the Lipid Hypothesis has been thoroughly debunked, how many medical bodies agree with this conclusion, though? At the very least, the European Atherosclerosis Society, American College of Cardiology, and Canadian
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Im sorry, are you actually getting upset that someone responded to your snarky comment with snark? Get serious.
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It seems to me like the PR machine is doing its job pretty well.
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It seems obvious that tech media are largely not even close to neutral here. Most everything coming out feels manipulative as hell. I don’t know why anyone thinks they have a clear story of what’s happening here.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
You shouldn’t be getting your info from Brett Weinstein.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Have you tried approaching it with the idea that you don’t have to form a stable routine? The next time you’re sitting around with >20 minutes to kill, go for a run instead of doing social media/HN/Netflix/whatever it is y
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by p_j_w 3y ago
It’s amazing to me to see people on HN advocate a giant company bullying a smaller one with these kind of skeezy tactics.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Why do so many people buy into this belief that Sam Altman was the special sauce in OpenAI?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
This is far less likely in a world where people don’t use their cars to drive 2 minutes to the grocery store.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
The suggestion here is not that you walk these distances, it’s that you bike or scoot them.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Likewise, it's hilarious to see so many right wingers gnashing their teeth about orthodoxy now that Reaganism is out of style.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Can we take similar extreme measures against Trump supporters, as some of them actively tried overthrowing the democratically elected government?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
The only gymnastics going on are your gymnastics to make out that any criticism or warnings about fundamentalist Christianity are gymnastics because they should be about Islam instead.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>This incident does NOT give me confidence that Rivian is likely to offer a better alternative to CarPlat, I have complete faith that, 5 and maybe even 10 years from now, no auto maker will have delivered anything that can compete with e
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by p_j_w 3y ago
The idea that seeing the effects of a nuclear weapon wouldn't be enough to deter a war but seeing a man walking on the moon would is absurd. Is there any evidence for it?
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Putting people into space didn't stop the Russians from doing anything that was an existential threat to us, though, did it?
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Not exactly equivalent, but for some of us playing an instrument is every bit as entertaining as playing a video game.
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>I question this. There is signalling value in a degree, but it's more about providing HR and the hiring manager with reputation cover in case the candidate is a failure. "They were from $SCHOOL, it couldn't have been pred
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They also have vastly lower maintenance and repair costs. Real analyses of this stuff has been done and EVs win every time.
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Mass coordinated boycotts aren't market manipulation, they're the real market in action.
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> I consider life outside of the planet to 100% be a thing. Show your math?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>The comments here are like they're generated by an LLM. "Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol" I understand why people post such low effort trash: "make number bigger". What I don'

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