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by yters 7y ago
If we have the virus dna, why can't we just have a pcr or similar kit to home test a swab? Someone can make their own pcr for $25 and synthesize significant segments of cov2 for a couple hundred dollars. I don't understand why c
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by yters 7y ago
Even if our mind were computational, we could detect if the universe was not.
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by yters 7y ago
What if corona is already very widespread and not especially lethal? The increase in cases may be a function of test coverage.
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by yters 7y ago
What is your definition of propaganda?
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by yters 7y ago
I would watch highly entertaining political propaganda. I think most people do this regularly.
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by yters 7y ago
otoh when dictator sends mass portions of your population to the gulags, and a 100 million die, just to fight the corona, the cure might be worse than the disease
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by yters 7y ago
It is strange how aggressive people can be against such ideas.
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by yters 7y ago
Any more than the annual flu that no one freaks out about?
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by yters 7y ago
Shouldn't the least vulnerable, ie most of the population, go mingle and become immune to protect the vulnerable?
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by yters 7y ago
Do you still drive a car?
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by yters 7y ago
No, the information cost grows exponentially going from random letters to English sentences. We can measure this with crossentropy to get a probability of generating a well formed English sentence from a uniform distribution over the lette
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by yters 7y ago
Notions like Kolmogorov complexity make information a measurable quantity. E.g. most possible configurations are incompressible. Only a few are compressible. Additionally, having access to the information of one system allows us to reduce
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by yters 7y ago
How do we know the wet market is responsible?
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by yters 7y ago
Great definitions. I would make a distinction between the measure of mutual information and the mutual information itself. The former is obviously not the same as the system effect itself. But the latter may be more related to your SC func
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by yters 7y ago
Not sure what you are saying. Informative content has both intrinsic (randomness deficiency, entropy, kolmogorov sufficient statistic) and relational properties (also randomness deficiency, mutual information, algorithmic mutual informati
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by yters 7y ago
I would say this is an engineered crisis. The mitigating approaches most of the world is taking don't make sense practically speaking.
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by yters 7y ago
Like I mentioned previously, there are objective sufficient criteria to identify meaning. Even if the interpretive context is subjective. So, we can guarantee true positives, even if we cannot guarantee true negatives.
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by yters 7y ago
There are certainly limits to formal definitions of information, but I see them as lower bounds on semantics, such that we can identify meaningful as that which passes the bounds. Doesn't guarantee true negatives, but at least gives us
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by yters 7y ago
Information theory addresses semantics through mutual information. 'Meaning' entails reference, and when A refers to B they have mutual information. Mutual information is how Shannon measures the carrying capacity of a channel.
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by yters 7y ago
A better example is the difference between the contents of a normal English book vs a randomly generated string of letters. The former has a lot of structural properties the latter lacks, plus shares a large amount of mutual information wi
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by yters 7y ago
Comp sci is a good upper bound on materialism, and provides a rigorous basis for distinguishing material and immaterial substances. E.g. if we detect a halting oracle we can conclude it is immaterial, insofar as materialism is bounded by t
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by yters 7y ago
Information is objectively described by notions such as entropy, algorithmic information, randomness deficiency, etc. Information is mind independent and has empirically describable characteristics.
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by yters 7y ago
I don't get the interest in analog. Whatever the secret sauce that makes Real Intelligence (TM), analog is not it.
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by yters 7y ago
They mostly blind me from behind as they tailgate, so I flip my rearview mirror to eliminate glare. Oncoming traffic doesn't bother me as much.
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by yters 7y ago
This will become the new normal. A two week quarantine won't fix anything, and the virus will spread all over again once the quarantine is lifted and a bunch of not immune carries venture out in public again. Then we will go into ano
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by yters 7y ago
Which hospitals are overwhelmed?
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by yters 7y ago
Wont extreme social distancing just lead to another outbreak in the near future?
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by yters 7y ago
Once the quarantine is lifted we will have a bunch of non inoculated people, and the corona will spread all over again.
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by yters 7y ago
I can believe what you are saying. I know people who've experienced pretty incredible healing. I've healed quickly from running injuries, but I don't know what to attribute it to. Anyways, I find your account believable.
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by yters 7y ago
My question is why are people so depressed nowadays?

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