BickNowstrom

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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
I think a lot of ammo for anti-vaxers comes from the government and media not being completely honest about vaccine side-effects. That's because it is difficult for an individualist or a socialist to separate public health from individ
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
> 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 virus? That sounds conc
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
A 50000 people study is likely to see adverse events completely unrelated to the vaccine. Halting the trial is not a sign that they think it is related either, since it is protocol to rule things out before continuing.
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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 modifications. The most
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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 vaccine, to test in co
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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 systems. While these
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
- 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 General @Surgeon_Ge
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
Snowden could have exposed this too.
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
Snowden was even willing to burn his future career, as he took a job with Booz Allen Hamilton with the sole purpose of leaking as much information as he could get his hands on. As an admin at BAH he was using his colleagues' passwords
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
> 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] https://www.bloomberg.com/news&#x2F
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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 weeks. You&#x27
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
> 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 preven
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
> "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 lemon/t
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
> 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 gu
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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 problem yet. A solution
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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 to patent a mathemati
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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 ethical problems. Good day.
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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, subjecting innocents to da
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
I feel you are splitting hairs here. Lie detection is necessarily a part of interrogation. The references say they can do this, and have been interested in doing it, so why wouldn't they be using it? The nature of intelligence agencies
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
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. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/nov&#x2
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by BickNowstrom 6y ago
There are quite a few ethical problems. On the reading side, there is interrogation (of suspected spies or terrorists), which is already decades underway with fMRI, and brainjacking (a keylogger for your thoughts). As for deep brain stimula
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
3-4 days after John Hopkins started tracking and the number of infected was still below that of SARS 2003, but exponentially curved upwards. The WHO increased the threat level, but lacked confidence to declare international emergency. Then
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
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 emergency, saying th
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
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 floating around, but it pal
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
ARDS is not permanent lung damage. You may recover lung function after ARDS. You will not recover from permanent lung damage. It will even deteriorate and your prognosis is less than 5 years to live. Stratification is a red herring, but f
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
> 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 and panic time
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-chinese-regime-deplo... Chinese regime deploys 1600 internet trolls to suppress information on Coronavirus.
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
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 severi
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
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 sa
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
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 cu

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