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Beware explanations from AI in health care(science.sciencemag.org)
53 points by pcrh 5y ago|51 comments
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by pcrh 5y ago
It's estimated that ~50 years passed since the time bat virus (RaTG13) and SARS-CoV2 diverged. So it's certainly not a recent transmission, which is why an intermediate host is proposed, which could also be bat, or some other host
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by pcrh 5y ago
>I will await the discussion from mainstream virologists on tv and in medical and scientific journals demanding transparency and reform. That exists. It's exactly what people mis-read as scientists supporting the lab leak hypothesis
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by pcrh 5y ago
GP referred to the virus being unnatural, whereas there is very strong evidence that it is natural. As to a natural virus being accidentally leaked from a lab, there's no evidence for that scenario, except for the fact that the first m
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by pcrh 5y ago
No they do not. Most believe it jumped from a wild animal to humans a short while before the outbreak in Wuhan.
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by pcrh 5y ago
On the contrary, no expert believes the coronavirus lab leak hypothesis is correct; a few do however say it should be investigated. This is exactly this kind of misunderstanding that this whole thread is about.
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by pcrh 5y ago
I quite agree that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a "new world order" event, but I'm sceptical that a loss of Taiwanese Fabs would be the same.
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by pcrh 5y ago
The EU has a lot of carrot for countries like Poland or Lithuania. Even longer term members such as Belgium, etc, that don't have such history with the Soviets know they are better off being in the EU than splintered.
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by pcrh 5y ago
While semiconductors are a very important part of industry, it's naive to think that a loss of Taiwanese output would be as disastrous as this article suggests. Consider the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, they are much larger tha
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by pcrh 5y ago
>People that don't exist can probably not file lawsuits either. Haha, very Kafka! Seriously, though, I find it hard to imagine that this is an impossible case.
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by pcrh 5y ago
Why would she not be able to sue for recognition as a living person?
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by pcrh 5y ago
This seems to be a clear case of fraud by whoever had her declared dead. As well as earlier incompetence by whoever handled the transfer of Mme H's employment records. Further, Article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sta
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by pcrh 5y ago
The article mentions the public pressure brought by these organisations. They may come to regret that pressure.
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by pcrh 5y ago
This is akin to the "unimaginable" resources in asteroids. By and large, we really don't need more resources to mine, but to use what we have more efficiently. I'm sure there are a few edge cases, but the attitude that w
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by pcrh 5y ago
>Wikidata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata Thanks for that! TIL. It seems a fascinating project in epistemiology!
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by pcrh 6y ago
Thanks! I really liked some of the examples there. Do you have any links to other work, or are you primarily interested in what can be coded?
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by pcrh 6y ago
I'm a native English speaker, and I also had a hard time finding the lie. Especially when the context shows that masks were not "not recommended" due to potential lack of efficacy, but due to shortages. Clearly if they were b
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The Turing Challenge(gchq.gov.uk)
4 points by pcrh 6y ago|0 comments
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by pcrh 6y ago
You have a very good point! I has also been shown that under the right conditions grazing lands can actually sequester carbon [1]. So there is no a priori argument against meat from the point of view of climate effects, though there are obv
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by pcrh 6y ago
>The Moderna vaccine was created in a weekend On the face of it, this is an uninformed opionion, whether or not it was "created in weekend" or not.
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by pcrh 6y ago
>A group of unelected people, mostly from the same social class, being able to determine the rules of something so important seemed inherently flawed to me. None of these points pertain to the scientific, medical or ethical rationales be
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by pcrh 6y ago
As they say: "On mange d'abord avec les yeux".
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by pcrh 6y ago
The massive palm oil plantations of Malaysia and Borneo are not being planted by poor locals, but by wealthy landowners.
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by pcrh 6y ago
This kind of effort serves the function of helping people to _approximately_ "know what is known", but it's really not very useful to the more important part of research efforts, which is to know what is not known.
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by pcrh 6y ago
It's possible to have good CEO talent at hand without a full-time CEO. It's one of the better things a VC can help deliver (apart from cash).
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by pcrh 6y ago
2.5 million is only 2.08 X 1.2 million. In situations such as this, the order of magnitude is often the best one can estimate.
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by pcrh 6y ago
The Brazilian city of Manaus is an example of where restrictions were ignored by ~50% of the population (based on mobile phone data), resulting in approximately 66% of people becoming infected before herd immunity started to have an impact
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by pcrh 6y ago
>pretty much business as usual. Not only is it not actually business as usual, as other commenters remark, but this rate of death is despite the severe measures taken. Without such measures, deaths would have been 10-20 times higher.
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by pcrh 6y ago
Failed companies are dropped from stock market indices, so I wonder if investing in indices is in effect a method of biasing the selection in favor of "winners" over the general performance of the economy....?
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by pcrh 6y ago
It would help to reduce your response to tinnitus. Most of us are able to "tune out" constant environmental noise; the same can be done with tinnitus.

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