vishho

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by vishho 5y ago
I feel like I am going insane. Pure psychopathy or scientism to want randomized controls for studying infection of a deadly virus . Absolutely disgusted. No wonder we had a lab-leak...
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by vishho 5y ago
We cannot do the science, because such a randomized test would be deeply unethical. Compare to having pregnant women smoke cigarettes to study effect on the fetus. You do this only afterwards with observational data. Next to politization th
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by vishho 5y ago
Right-wing cancelation happens, but it is usually reported as a campaign of harassment. Instead of calling your advertisers to complain about perceived racism, think unsavory stuff like spam and GamerGate threats. Right canceling grew out o
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by vishho 5y ago
Correct. A canceling is social/mob justice, never settled in a court of law. To conflate the two is playing into the pitchforks of the cancel crowd. These label legal acts or free speech as illegal racism or hate speech, and we should
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by vishho 5y ago
I think it is ironically relevant. People complain about the target selection and first-mover advantage of Von Neumann, in the same thread which seems to be taken over by collateral damage of polarizing identity politics propaganda, set to
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by vishho 5y ago
Game Theory eventually settled on Mutually Assured Destruction. MAD can be seen as the tit-for-tat strategy in an iterated PD with multiple level thinking (If we have crazy von Neumann, do they have similar consultants? Do they know that we
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by vishho 5y ago
A first strike is not lunacy. It is a rational decision, if the nuclear arms race is viewed under game theory. He was a consultant, not had his hand on the button. The people with the hand on the button were talking about the rising threat
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by vishho 5y ago
There is no logical reason. The emotional reason, of course, is that one targets men and the other targets women. Most activism these days is retalitory, not consolidatory. So you are allowed to attack white men, because they are always in
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by vishho 5y ago
Zoom has attention tracking, which when enabled silently, shows an admin if the screen is maximized or if the user is focused on other applications. They don't yet tell admins what other apps the user is active in, just whether the use