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by yawpitch 2y ago
Not so silly, considering it’s almost certainly always going be the furthest man-made object in the Universe.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I understand the point of the paper, just not the point of enumerating those points here without any of its context.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Whose (and what) thesis, specifically?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> The unequal distribution of height and muscle mass is part of sexual dimorphism. No, it’s potential evidence for sexual dimorphism. It’s also potential evidence for systemic dietary sexism. You’d need to establish that the latter doe
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Is there much point in enumerating them, considering the paper makes it clear these are just potentially “taboo” polarizing issues for which no actual conclusions or consensus exist?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
You’re asking the wrong question… what we’d need to do is take a girl with the same height and muscle mass as a boy and give them both the diet and training (and societal and economic incentives and rewards) of a Usain Bolt from birth, the
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Of course we would have and expect exactly that same (extremely cherry-picked, confirmation bias serving) result if it were true that female athletes had similar innate physical capacities — and they do, sexual dimorphism in humans is quite
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> sports, etc Just going to keep pointing out that human beings have very little sexual dimorphism compared to the other great apes, and that any difference is any sport that does not actually employ the genitals is probably more down
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> So today we are not living in patriarchy just starting with the fact that a man is punished for raping or killing a woman. And there’s where we begin to drift away from credibility. A patriarch can choose to punish some of his sons w
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by yawpitch 2y ago
With all due respect to Simon, the very first thing I do to make any machine running Windows useful is install another OS.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Uh, just so you know, you cannot “hone” obsidian, in the sense of making it any sharper, the edge is produced by a stress fracture, not by sharpening. Also quite a lot of the world’s obsidian scalpels are still made via what is essentially
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I wouldn’t think there’s any conceivable way of training anything we currently see as the state of the art in machine vision ML/AI (and definitely nothing in the area of LLMs) to meaningfully interact with the human spinal cord. Think
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Bit of a coincidence? On the balance of probabilities and with plenty of evidence of the first human infections being in the market and absent any evidence whatsoever of the first infections being in the lab then, yes, absolutely, just
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Given that furin cleavage sites have been found naturally occurring on other, earlier in the phylogenetic tree of coronaviruses, viruses than SARS-CoV2, the natural assumption is that such a site is not only possible to develop, but likel
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Autonomous robotic surgery, even for relatively simple and usually routine procedures, is way off. Robots are currently in use in numerous surgeries as highly precise and repeatable assistants / instruments, but the state of the art
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> […] the Chinese ordered all samples destroyed, and the databases were taken down or erased […] If the evidence doesn’t exist then, absent evidence, you’ve got no reason to believe that evidence was destroyed. > I disagree about scie
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by yawpitch 2y ago
An LLM will give back essentially the mean advice gleaned from all the training data, which cannot be better than a human expert who has just discovered some pertinent fact not in that training data… thus if you suffer from something very r
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Uh, they don’t need to understand how it works to recognize how it does not work. > A common definition of a rational agent (human or artificial), which the authors adopted, is whether it reasons according to the rules of logic and pro
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> if you say if came from the lab you are a conspiracy theorist and lose your grant and job. And, absent actual hard physical evidence, not the slightest amount of which exists, you should be labeled a conspiracy theorist, because th
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Python spec says Python is PEG, so you should use PEG parser for parsing Python. Python switched to PEG in IIRC 3.9, the language standard, parser and the grammer were previously CFG, specifically LL(1). That switch implies that mayb
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by yawpitch 2y ago
When you take into account drug overdose + suicides + issues caused by morbid obesity + propensity to engage in high risk impulsivity, PTSD (and especially CPTSD) are much closer to generally fatal than anyone should be comfortable with.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Alternative headline: Panel advising US FDA decides PTSD sufferers should enter illegal narcotics market.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Sachs (an economist) is not and never has been amongst the actually qualified to speak on virology. Formal graduate level research work in virology / epidemiology is the minimum qualification.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Likely precursors have been known in both bats and pangolins since virtually the start of the pandemic (see below) and are widely found in those populations to this day; the entire catalogue of possible precursor genomes in both wild bats a
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Virologists and epidemiologists, as opposed to a molecular biologist with no particular specialized training in either of those topics. Well, that was easy.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Duplicate (under a different title) of your own post and one other: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40537629
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by yawpitch 2y ago
And yet, shockingly, the consensus of the actually qualified remains that it didn’t start in a lab.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Are we ready for the next pandemic? No. Hell no. We’re mostly not even ready for the currently ongoing ones.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
If it turns out the Nasca were, in fact, cohabitating with a three-fingered and toed (but with 4 joints on each finger and toe) intelligent humanoid, but not human, species a little over 1700 years ago, I will, with every sign of joy, eat m

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