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by Pyramus 5y ago
I should have been more specific - Frontiers being a predatory journal is more noise than signal. It's useful to have heuristics such as Beall's list, but they will never capture the subtle (and broken) complexities of academic pu
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Not really. You fell into the trap of judging a book by its cover. That is not to distract from the fact that there were and are controversies surrounding Frontiers - you can't just lazily extrapolate from that.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Not sure where I changed the definition of censorship - I was saying that using the word censorship can easily lead to false equivalences, such as > they're doing exactly the same thing. No, they aren't, baseline and context ma
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Yes and no. Words do matter. Censorship usually (also) refers to restrictions of free speech typical for non-democratic societies [1], which doesn't lead to productive discussions (in my experience). It is not uncommon to see the false
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by Pyramus 5y ago
That is exactly my point - where do we, as a society, draw the line. suppression of speech != restriction of free speech It is a very very delicate and complicated balance - what I am objecting to is to ignore that this balance exists. If y
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Let me ask the question differently: Who would protect human rights? Extrapolating from your examples it seems that only democracies (and the hypothetical benevolent dictator) grant individuals human rights. The question is: What comes firs
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by Pyramus 5y ago
You are making a false equivalence here: Restriction of free speech != censorship. Every single Western democracy on this planet restricts free speech in exactly the way parent described - as a trade-off between the rights of the individual
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by Pyramus 5y ago
After studying this discussion it seems that the puzzle has been solved several more times: There is an active subreddit dedicated to it [1], with a handful of people credibly claiming to have solved the puzzle. So "solved for just the
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by Pyramus 5y ago
So why does Tesla not release the actual data? That would likely convince the DMV, and opponents. Just think of the win in terms of PR.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> In fact, I believe human+FSD is already safer on average, just due to the fact that FSD requires the driver to watch the road. Are you saying that 'Full Self Driving' is safer because it is not full self driving?
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Conditional on these advances in science, technology, and medicine it's quite obvious how badly many Western democratic societies have done (that's not to say there aren't also positive outcomes, and it varies a lot by nati
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> I actually have an alternative take on this: if society is not able to do something as simple as consistently use a mask, there's no hope to do something that requires concrete sacrifice as mitigating global warming. Let me frame
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> that a small percentage of vulnerable people can prolong their life for a few years What do you even mean? The population-weighted infection fatality rate is somewhere around 0.8% (for vanilla SARS-CoV-2), can you even imagine what tha
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> We’ve tortured and hindered the youth of this country to protect folks age 60+. I don't understand how this extreme rhetoric will lead anywhere. It distracts from the actual discussion about how to distribute the burden of the pan
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Not sure why you are being down voted, your observation is spot on. It's pretty obvious that 'politicians' took into account potential costs of shutdowns. Shutdowns aren't very popular with anyone, and politicians tend t
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Yes, it does seem to look the same for Covid, see e.g. here [1]. Note that this paper is likely before Delta, and the age bracket 0-4 does not match yours. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0/figu
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> I'm about to show you a complete finite representation of an irrational transcendental number: π. You just provided a great argument that π, and many other real numbers, should be part of the 'alternative number system',
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I think you misunderstood what parent was saying. There is no evidence the real numbers are based in physical reality. As parent was saying, it doesn't make sense to be able to store infinite information in a single number, or even, sa
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by Pyramus 5y ago
But then you are back to square one - the point of contention: Without the checks, it's a self-driving system, but it can't do so safely (yet), hence the checks. And as you said, there seems to be an intention to be full self-driv
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Are you saying FSD will never be full self driving? Where is indication/evidence that that's Tesla's intention?
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I don't fully understand your argument - are you saying FSD should be tested publicly, because we allow other impaired drivers as well? Wouldn't the solution be to strictly enforce the ban of impaired driving, on the one hand, and
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by Pyramus 5y ago
An open mind definitely, likely not the time to do it though. I've gone down similar rabbit holes for a number of related issues, and every single time what started as a disagreement with the scientific consensus in say, issue A, turne
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by Pyramus 5y ago
No, because this study doesn't exist in a vacuum. The contribution is to quantify the relative risk between Covid and vaccines. We already know that Covid has a significant myocarditis risk on its own (as has any viral infection). On t
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I love Joe Rogan and his podcast, but be aware that we live in such a complex world, any representation will be a mis-representation to some extend. How much of a mis-representation is extremely hard to judge, because often it's not do
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> Myocarditis has an extremely high fatality rate. Only for severe cases. Like any inflammation it can be mild to life-threatening. You can get myocarditis from any infection, and also allergies. Mild forms are quite common, if I remembe
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> This is not the case with Covid, and people rarely if ever get Covid twice. Beta, Delta and Omikron just called to disagree. In particular Omikron seems to be (speculative at this point!) spreading well amongst the previously infected
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> something more rigorous than tends to happen in this area. This is a great example of an ad-hominem attack, but against a whole profession, that tends to pop up fairly regularly on HN. I saw somebody else call it "hackers are bett
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by Pyramus 5y ago
So why doesn't Tesla share raw data with the public, or regulators? I cannot think of better PR for Tesla, and autonomous driving in general.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Had to look it up, it is the guy: "Vaccinated people under 60 are twice as likely to die as unvaccinated people. And overall deaths in Britain are running well above normal. I don’t know how to explain this other than vaccine-caused mo
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> because you don't have the lab or tools available. I agree, that's trivial. What's not so trivial: Where does the "experiment" start and where do the "conditions" end? In theory the scientific method

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