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by revelio 3y ago
Proof by Daily Mail headline, really? Do you think that's convincing to anyone? The word woke doesn't mean everything, it has a very widely understood meaning. Even though you're literally citing clickbait as a rebuttal, the
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It actually was a made up number because they didn't measure correctly. They classified people as unvaccinated even for weeks after they took the shots. This is guaranteed to inflate effectiveness. Norman Fenton has made this point rep
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That's been memory holed but here's a similar one: https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1581034815700488192
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Polio wasn't eradicated.
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Conclusions are possible, the causes are known. You aren't going to get it from the CDC though. The problem is the first round of vaccines caused immune fixation. The boosters failed because the body can't tell the difference betw
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They did. The AZ vaccine was not mRNA based and was pulled from the market because it killed so many people. The vaccines had two problems: 1. Spike protein is nasty. It causes clotting and organ damage. Doesn't matter how it gets in y
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Unfortunately all those claims have turned out to be false when people looked more closely at the data and how it was collected. For example: deaths. Look at the Pfizer RCT trial results. There were more deaths in the vaccine arm than the p
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Some questions: > not understanding it very well, and yet presenting it. Failing these students likely leads to overly difficult classes What does a grade even mean in your classes, if not understanding the subject isn't grounds f
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So 33 hours of work, or a bit less than a week by one person then? Why is this thread full of academics claiming that apparently normal workloads of the sort everyone takes on, or trivial solutions of the sort high school teachers manage, i
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Vaccines aren't proven compared to things like the color of the sky, are they? Who on earth still believes that after "95% effective against COVID infection and will end the pandemic" turned into whatever this week's ver
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"Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.15004.pdf our alternative suggests that existing claims of emergent abilities are creations of the researcher’s analyses
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You're conflating two questions: 1. Can the human brain be simulated? 2. Can such a simulation recursively self-improve on such a rapid timescale that it becomes so intelligent we can't control it? What we have in contemporary LLM
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> surely would prefer for that to have been a good thing. Which would then give him even more credibility Why? Both directions would be motivated reasoning without credibility. Credibility comes from plausible articulations of how such
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Rayiner is from Bangladesh originally, not the USA. You may be surprised to learn that the USA is by no means the culture with the strictest rules about sex and prostitution.
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> so instead it uses its training data to seek other ways to reduce human populations without extermination. This is a real problem, but it's already problem with our society, not AI. Misaligned public intellectuals routinely try
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Not clueless, but unfortunately engaging in motivated reasoning. Google spent years doing nothing much with its AI because its employees (like Hinton) got themselves locked in an elitist hard-left purity spiral in which they convinced each
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Trying desperately to stay on technical topic here, I'd say the only places where this dichotomy comes up are in cases that are inherently ambiguous and subjective. If something is genuinely proven then everyone does actually accept it
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These things are conflated because it usually takes time to accumulate wealth especially if self-made, so older people will tend to both be richer and more small-c conservative. Also although in the tech industry this link has been broken&#
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It's because conservatism whether big or small c, political or technological, tends to be seen as standing in the way of progress by those who didn't arrive at the same underlying intuitions about the difficulty of tabula rasa dev
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I used to love Delphi but I'd expect most people still consider code written in it to be tech debt. How many new projects are being started in it today? Sadly Delphi became debt at the same time Win32 did. Win32 "works" in th
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It can be argued the other way round. POSIX is tech debt and exists in modern machines so widely mostly because there happen to be free implementations of it. My experience from interviewing has been that a remarkably large number of develo
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Not very convincing. The world is full of abandoned open source projects and companies that maintain proprietary platforms near indefinitely. Angular 1 is dead, Python 2 is dead, Perl is dead, GTK 1-3 are dead, old KDE is dead, X11 is dying
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Python is weird. It's a nice language but it was heading for tech debt status along with (maybe) Ruby, then the ML guys went all-in on it and that saved it. But how often do you find new programs being written in Python outside of the
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Not ... really. Those languages all became popular and got critical mass because they were the only way to access operating systems-like things. People wanted the value provided by those platforms and had to go through the language to get a
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Sure it is. Win16 -> Win32 (only partly backwards compatible) -> .NET WinForms -> WPF -> WinUI 2 -> WinUI 3 (with of course Java and Electron being in the mix too) ... or ... Motif -> GTK 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 (all bac
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That's the usual path of becoming conservative as you grow up. Or phrased another way, becoming normal. The training process humans go through leads to a lot of weird biases, just like how RLHF contributes to models getting bad ideas a
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Disney is very much not doing fine. They just replaced their CEO for a reason and they've had a long string of flops, as well as having trashed the Star Wars franchise.
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The last ads aren't saying climate change can't be stopped, they're saying that there's no viable way to replace oil and gas completely. Which is true. But The Guardian is a trash filled propaganda rag and says: "I
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There are repeated rumours that failed explosives were found at the site. https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-the-recovered Holger Stark, the German investigative journalist who broke this story for Die Z
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No they aren't. You've made a huge and nonsensical assertion here without any evidence at all, then said "don't believe the lies"!

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