What disadvantage do you see from being a LGBT minority in tech? For instance, what disadvantage do bisexuals suffer vs. straight people? The disadvantage of having a minority political view is clear to me: You better…
> Despite this marked difference in virus replication in the lungs, reduction in viral shedding from the nose was not observed. So vaccinated people will not get too sick, not self-isolate, but will still shed the…
mRNA would not have hit Phase III if found unsafe in earlier phases. If mRNA succeeds things will look really great, since it in principle it can protect against many other viruses and upcoming pandemics with slight…
AstraZeneca and Oxford have subjects in the US, UK, Brazil, and South-Africa. The aim was to have diverse make-up of the testing groups, to have an order of magnitude more people in the Phase 3 trial than normal for a…
Mayo Clinic: Debunking COVID-19 (coronavirus) myths. Extremely unlikely to work and might cause serious harm. [...] Supplements. Many people take vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, green tea or echinacea to boost their immune…
- U.S. Surgeon General Feb 6 > Americans should be more concerned about the flu than coronavirus [...] As surgeon general, I’m telling folks the number one way to protect ourselves is to get a flu shot. - U.S. Surgeon…
Snowden could have exposed this too.
> Zuckerberg says Black Lives Matter and yet we know Donald Trump used Facebook’s tools to deliberately suppress [1] and deny black and Latino people the vote. With no consequences. [1]…
It is certainly impressive, and I don't want to discard GPT-3. Just critiquing the (smart) release: make a select few feel special by giving them API access, and watch your product dominate the tech - and news cycle for…
> Wojcicki: "So people saying, ‘Take vitamin C, take turmeric, we’ll cure you,’ those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy > Who: Fact. There is no scientific evidence that lemon/turmeric…
> "So people saying, ‘Take vitamin C, take turmeric, we’ll cure you,’ those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy The WHO bannable hoax page: > Fact: There is no scientific evidence that…
> Why should it not be possible to solve this with statistical methods? Doing just that for 10 years, beating hand-coded systems: https://www-nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/SocherLinNgManning_ICML201... [pdf] > I would guess…
That point is akin to stating: These three companies have not solved the hard problem of common sense [1], so are not allowed to advertise their AI without looking silly. Nobody has solved the common sense knowledge…
You can uphold your morals if your morals are different. Not like morals are encoded in law or need to adhere to progressive leftist political views. For instance: algorithm copyrights and patents are BS. It is immoral…
Heh, this conversation moved the goalpost so far that it ended up at the beginning. A needless detour. You are right about being skeptical if any of this decade underway technology actually works and this causing…
The errors and bias in these systems add to the ethical concerns. While it is arguably a good thing to substitute torture with brain image interrogation, there is a risk of putting too much trust in these systems,…
The brain can't lie (2003) > Brain scans can reveal how you think and feel, and even how you might behave. No wonder the CIA and big business are interested.…
Everybody could see that SARS-CoV-2 infection graph was going to beat SARS outbreak from 2003, long before WHO called an emergency. They waited until a foreigner (Thai national in Kolkata) died and only then declared an…
From this pandemic I learned that the current internet is far too controlled for information. I got most of my (by now confirmed) information from early leaks. Of course there are ridiculous hoaxes and bad advice…
> Or you just pick papers that support your viewpoint for the sake of argument? This. (Actually I believe both numbers are optimistically correct: 1 million infected and 50k death, but I also realize that's crazy talk…
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-chinese-regime-deplo... Chinese regime deploys 1600 internet trolls to suppress information on Coronavirus.
I'd love to have more helpful information, but there is an information blackout in effect: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQ_ICkxWAAICMMJ?format=jpg Like said, China should have all the data on reinfection and severity of…
It was the WHO who claimed on 4 jan that person-to-person transmission was impossible. It was CDC and WHO who said asymptomatic transmission was unlikely ("not a driver of the outbreak", "unclear"). It was the WHO who…
Prognosis for permanent lung damage is you have five years to live. EDIT: sourced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_fibrosis which we saw in SARS coronavirus-induced pulmonary fibrosis. > There is no known cure.…
https://nypost.com/2020/02/19/whistleblower-doctors-say-coro... > “It’s highly possible to get infected a second time,” one of the doctors, who declined to be identified, told the outlet. > The physician said that…
What disadvantage do you see from being a LGBT minority in tech? For instance, what disadvantage do bisexuals suffer vs. straight people? The disadvantage of having a minority political view is clear to me: You better…
> Despite this marked difference in virus replication in the lungs, reduction in viral shedding from the nose was not observed. So vaccinated people will not get too sick, not self-isolate, but will still shed the…
mRNA would not have hit Phase III if found unsafe in earlier phases. If mRNA succeeds things will look really great, since it in principle it can protect against many other viruses and upcoming pandemics with slight…
AstraZeneca and Oxford have subjects in the US, UK, Brazil, and South-Africa. The aim was to have diverse make-up of the testing groups, to have an order of magnitude more people in the Phase 3 trial than normal for a…
Mayo Clinic: Debunking COVID-19 (coronavirus) myths. Extremely unlikely to work and might cause serious harm. [...] Supplements. Many people take vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, green tea or echinacea to boost their immune…
- U.S. Surgeon General Feb 6 > Americans should be more concerned about the flu than coronavirus [...] As surgeon general, I’m telling folks the number one way to protect ourselves is to get a flu shot. - U.S. Surgeon…
Snowden could have exposed this too.
> Zuckerberg says Black Lives Matter and yet we know Donald Trump used Facebook’s tools to deliberately suppress [1] and deny black and Latino people the vote. With no consequences. [1]…
It is certainly impressive, and I don't want to discard GPT-3. Just critiquing the (smart) release: make a select few feel special by giving them API access, and watch your product dominate the tech - and news cycle for…
> Wojcicki: "So people saying, ‘Take vitamin C, take turmeric, we’ll cure you,’ those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy > Who: Fact. There is no scientific evidence that lemon/turmeric…
> "So people saying, ‘Take vitamin C, take turmeric, we’ll cure you,’ those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy The WHO bannable hoax page: > Fact: There is no scientific evidence that…
> Why should it not be possible to solve this with statistical methods? Doing just that for 10 years, beating hand-coded systems: https://www-nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/SocherLinNgManning_ICML201... [pdf] > I would guess…
That point is akin to stating: These three companies have not solved the hard problem of common sense [1], so are not allowed to advertise their AI without looking silly. Nobody has solved the common sense knowledge…
You can uphold your morals if your morals are different. Not like morals are encoded in law or need to adhere to progressive leftist political views. For instance: algorithm copyrights and patents are BS. It is immoral…
Heh, this conversation moved the goalpost so far that it ended up at the beginning. A needless detour. You are right about being skeptical if any of this decade underway technology actually works and this causing…
The errors and bias in these systems add to the ethical concerns. While it is arguably a good thing to substitute torture with brain image interrogation, there is a risk of putting too much trust in these systems,…
The brain can't lie (2003) > Brain scans can reveal how you think and feel, and even how you might behave. No wonder the CIA and big business are interested.…
Everybody could see that SARS-CoV-2 infection graph was going to beat SARS outbreak from 2003, long before WHO called an emergency. They waited until a foreigner (Thai national in Kolkata) died and only then declared an…
From this pandemic I learned that the current internet is far too controlled for information. I got most of my (by now confirmed) information from early leaks. Of course there are ridiculous hoaxes and bad advice…
> Or you just pick papers that support your viewpoint for the sake of argument? This. (Actually I believe both numbers are optimistically correct: 1 million infected and 50k death, but I also realize that's crazy talk…
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-chinese-regime-deplo... Chinese regime deploys 1600 internet trolls to suppress information on Coronavirus.
I'd love to have more helpful information, but there is an information blackout in effect: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQ_ICkxWAAICMMJ?format=jpg Like said, China should have all the data on reinfection and severity of…
It was the WHO who claimed on 4 jan that person-to-person transmission was impossible. It was CDC and WHO who said asymptomatic transmission was unlikely ("not a driver of the outbreak", "unclear"). It was the WHO who…
Prognosis for permanent lung damage is you have five years to live. EDIT: sourced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_fibrosis which we saw in SARS coronavirus-induced pulmonary fibrosis. > There is no known cure.…
https://nypost.com/2020/02/19/whistleblower-doctors-say-coro... > “It’s highly possible to get infected a second time,” one of the doctors, who declined to be identified, told the outlet. > The physician said that…