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Fair point, yes, the urn's contents are mereologically weird, neither wholly discrete nor continuous, liable to coalesce into orbs of manual or digital or social or intellectual utility which evolve in our minds and hands Also some bal
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This is a useful thought experiment but it ignores the fact that the balls are more like a tangled mass of burrs, all variously interwoven Try to pull one out and you get a web of affordances and side effects and unforeseen interactions stu
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The "vigorous open debate" only began when the initially vehement denial of the possibility of a lab leak (from many Chinese and American scientists, officials, and press alike, e.g. Daszak's early 2020 publications) failed t
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> it isn’t fundamentally based on measuring empirical evidence of a natural process. What leads you to say this? If computation is in some sense the construction of certain forms of mathematics, is computer science not then the empirical
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by walleeee 5y ago
Other work by both Lindenmayer and Prusinkiewicz tends to be equally accessible and equally cool, even the research publications, check it out: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pjH7e8IAAAAJ Note that though some fe
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Indeed nobody tends to publish negative results or failures to reproduce unless there is already a monetary or social bounty on the question, it seems
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by walleeee 5y ago
A friend startup-pitched exactly this idea (remote monitoring by request, e.g. late-night walks home) to me 6 years ago and found me less enthusiastic than he had perhaps hoped, it's strange to think about how many people might converg
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Incidentally, the organization which keeps a central record of personal and commercial drivers' licenses in the United States (AAMVA, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators) is nominally non-governmental, although it work
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And even if small investors do share some fault, it is incoherent to end a critique with them and their (perhaps understandable ab)use of Robinhood's business model, and skip the pervasive estrangement of financial speculation from pro
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"Academia" is so broad it's difficult to generalize, caffeine addictions are ubiquitous like everywhere else but quantities consumed seem high Chronic amphetamine/etc (ab)use is probably linked more to the intensity of c
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Kinda hard to trust anything out of Washington at the moment too, considering neither nation's government appears to have publicly audited gain of function research programs or reconsidered their utility and potential risks/benefi
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> I'm honestly not sure what you mean by America's fascination with health Might be referring to the tendency (of some) to track biomarkers in meticulous detail, pay not-insignificant sums for personalized "health plans&qu
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If you watch a video of a booster or starship coming down you can see the engines twitching around, pretty cool
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:%s/thinking/computing/g
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Humans are machines?
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Landauer would say so: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/037596...
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Large corporate or state media outlets are unlikely to provide the historical context or the epistemic humility required to follow geopolitics with nuance
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If you believe this is somehow unprecedented, or that the United States does not also exploit extralegal methods for proxy conflict/geopolitical subterfuge when convenient, you need to read more
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by walleeee 5y ago
I can't comment on the situation prior, but post-covid it's pretty common afaik. I've been entirely remote since last March, in both software developer and grad student roles, and although word is students will be back in the
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by walleeee 5y ago
If this interests you, check out Phenome Force, they do weekly webinars featuring the open source/DIY agtech tools people are building: https://phenome-force.github.io/PhenomeForce/ We need more software/hard
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There is a bit of progress towards open standards: e.g., MIAPPE, BrAPI. But you're right, we have a long way to go. Programmers and software/hardware engineers are sorely needed but ag struggles to attract them, and the startup mo
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> Because Americans were helping to finance something, does not make them directly culpable. Yes, and the same can surely be said of Chinese- we must consider whether to allow this kind of research in the future however A conclusive &quo
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There is a paper trail establishing joint American-Chinese gain of function research taking place in Wuhan, and if we're going to judge the lab leak hypothesis plausible, I see no good reason not to ascribe similar motivations to cover
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by walleeee 5y ago
I think you're misunderstanding me. I totally agree- humans are frequently careless and wont to ignore risks which don't slap us in the face I'm saying there's a paper trail establishing joint American-Chinese gain of fu
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The Chinese state is by no means the only body pushing politicized information regarding covid origins It doesn't make much sense to single it out here, the most plausible version of the lab leak hypothesis is that covid is the result
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That's cool! Always thought that would be fun to work on.
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> Historians do history because they love their topic so much that they are willing to suffer an abusive career and low pay. Yes, incidentally people like this are probably not easily swayed by the minimally researched thoughts of a vent
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Philosophy of Science: the Central Issues (Curd, Cover, & Pincock) is a decent although limited aggregation
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I see little evidence he would want to talk to them, indeed his way of life is an insult to their discipline and their discipline is a threat to his way of life Consciousness of history is inoculation against the sort of "thought leade
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by walleeee 5y ago
I don't dispute your point about the Trade-Peace theory, friend. Respectfully, since you affirm your convictions re: #2, my goal here is to get you to think critically about why "democratic" nations do not go to war with one

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