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by topynate 5y ago
Doesn't strike me as particularly strong evidence. The victim's mother probably stopped a smallpox outbreak by identifying the symptoms as not-chickenpox. Unfortunately COVID-19 symptoms are not as distinctive. Rather than saying
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by topynate 5y ago
> They will arrive millions of (local) years before you. No they won't – in the frame of reference of the galaxy, both you and your pursuer will spend most of the journey traveling at very close to the speed of light. The difference
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by topynate 5y ago
> Is it simply that humans have about 30k genes, your children each only get half of your genes, and so after about 16 generations it is possible for someone to be a descendant of yours but not have any genes that came from you? Yes, the
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by topynate 5y ago
In Israel a short refresher course is mandatory if you haven't dived for six months. IMO any reputable company should require the same.
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by topynate 5y ago
Only if they decided to retain the technological means to revoke access to the items purchased.
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by topynate 6y ago
I had to vouch for the comment to reply to it. I also looked back through the history and saw some perfectly acceptable comments showing as dead.
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by topynate 6y ago
FYI, you appear to be shadowbanned.
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by topynate 6y ago
I mean, they're all nonlinear at some point in the range of possible doses. Radiation too. I should have specified I was focusing on the "very low" bit of the curves. Chest X-ray vs two chest X-rays, rather than Louis Slotin
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by topynate 6y ago
Just that increases in risk are usually approximated pretty well by a linear change with dose. Radiation, poison, allergens, etc. Drugs too – the ones where the toxic dose is close to the therapeutic dose are generally pretty nasty even whe
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by topynate 6y ago
Didn't I cover that in "danger"? The leaks are talking about maybe twice as much broken bits of mRNA in early batches. That's assuming all the not-intact stuff is broken mRNA rather than simple amino acids or something e
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by topynate 6y ago
Intactness of 55% vs 75% should make no real difference to your view either of efficacy or of danger. Because: Efficacy: the mRNA vaccines have a large margin for error with respect to dose. 55% of several times more than enough is still mo
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by topynate 6y ago
Reminds me, perhaps ironically, of C.S. Lewis' description of Hell in The Great Divorce. Canadian public domain link: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140726
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by topynate 6y ago
> since they remove GPS, microphones, have a custom OS and provide anonymous burner SIMs on a subscription That is, do a bunch of crap that will immediately make you stand out to any modern (by which I mean, total) surveillance agency. T
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by topynate 6y ago
Interesting that the size of the devices is limited by imaging technology rather than the ability to fabricate smaller ones. I guess the trade-off is that imaging small things with X-rays requires more ionizing radiation.
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by topynate 6y ago
It's a two-step manoeuvre: one, morality is "immanentised", meaning, it's made into an essential and necessary part of reality, and two, immortality is taken as the moral Good. You can also refine this by justifying immo
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by topynate 6y ago
It's not the technology as such, because the technology to defeat death doesn't exist right now. It's the systematisation of the anti-death instinct, creating an ideology that logically justifies that instinct and fleshes out
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by topynate 6y ago
This would make Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, a transhumanist. His fear of death had him seeking an immortality potion. This was about 2200 years ago. But this wasn't an "-ism" – just instinct, as you say.
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by topynate 6y ago
He was on LW for a good while, but it's not his focus, no. However, his substack is a good place to have a chat about it.
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by topynate 6y ago
Not sure why "lindyman" is on the front page but it's not too surprising. He's talking about the transhumanist plan. Very well, let's talk about that. Hormones, anti-aging, even cryonics are not the plan, but rather
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by topynate 6y ago
"Because of Tether’s inability to conduct significant banking activity during this time, it could not itself hold dollars sufficient to back the hundreds of millions of new tethers that had entered the market." The word "itse
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by topynate 6y ago
Sure, you can have a great idea and do everything right with it, but not see it succeed. I'm asking more about the corporate culture at Apple and more generally – is this sort of advocacy encouraged or discouraged, does it improve the
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by topynate 6y ago
This question is about understanding invention in large companies, not as a knock against Bret Victor: His job title had "inventor" in it, and he mentions making many things, but he describes the impact of his inventions in the pa
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by topynate 6y ago
This doesn't really work for paid newsletters. The two exceptions I've found are for RSS readers that operate as browser extensions and for substack podcasts, which come with a dedicated RSS address for each subscriber. I like to
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by topynate 6y ago
Just looked on Takeout and there don't seem to be any reCAPTCHA data there. I wonder what a GDPR request would produce.
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by topynate 6y ago
It says something about wingsuit flying that strapping a 25,000 rpm motor to one's chest and pointing it only slightly away from one's groin isn't even close to the biggest risk factor in this activity.
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by topynate 6y ago
You could use droppable skids or wheels for takeoff, if you don't mind enduring flight at, what, 60 knots at least, in ground effect, with your nose about a foot away from the runway. I can't imagine any sane person doing that, bu
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by topynate 6y ago
This gadget doesn't have any hidden layers, though. It does OK in comparison to a simple linear classifier. If you can make and train a multi-layer architecture with perovskite, that starts to get interesting.
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by topynate 6y ago
"No economic justification"? That has to be faux-naïf. Yes, I was shocked at first to hear of prices turning negative. For about thirty seconds. Once I learned that the oil had to be delivered somewhere without enough storage, and
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by topynate 6y ago
This happened two days after Firouzja effectively defected from his homeland so that he could play Israelis. I see it as something of a credit to him that this is the worst behaviour he displayed in the aftermath.

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