stablechaos

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by stablechaos 5y ago
And there are three completely plausible explanations for why Shi Zhengli and Peter Daszak's research could have led to the outbreak: (a) It was successfully created in the lab using gain of function research they were developing (b) I
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by stablechaos 5y ago
It's the totality of the evidence taken together, not a series of things to be considered independently. When a lot of "coincidence" add up, they cease being coincidences. Or, at the very least, if there's no serious inv
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by stablechaos 5y ago
Because all of the major players, the Chinese Communist Party, the US government (DARPA & the NIH), and several universities and their IRB boards (UNC-Chapel Hill, WIV, and others), all had a hand in this, and the second they give legit
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by stablechaos 5y ago
This is something I wish more people understood about academia with regards to this grant.
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by stablechaos 5y ago
And the novel technology to create novel viruses was being actively developed in this lab. They've proudly and openly published results to this effect. Further, they were trying to get tens of millions in grant funding to develop the t
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by stablechaos 5y ago
"Zero evidence", huh? The epicenter of Covid-19 was the middle of a major metropolitan city (instead of a rural area near lots of animals), blocks away from a major virology lab which was specifically studying these viruses, colle
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by stablechaos 5y ago
Seeing a link like this at the top of HackerNews is deeply disappointing. Regardless of the accusation or the status of a person, everyone deserves due diligence when it comes to attacks on people's character and reputation. A brief 20
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by stablechaos 5y ago
Wouldn't the most parsimonious explanation be that the NSA got spooked by "unknown unknowns"? You've got a lot of researchers working in private on cloak-and-dagger projects, no doubt some of them get paranoid in the sam
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by stablechaos 5y ago
A stochastic optimal control problem can be interpreted as a free energy minimization problem [0], but this is a more general result than what is looked at in the paper OP linked. I'm not sure the "reverse SDE" is technically
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by stablechaos 5y ago
Although the application is interesting, as someone who studies SDEs the notion of "reverse SDEs" is frustrating to me, as Brownian motion really isn't reversible. The citation provided is from 1982, but I'm not convince
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by stablechaos 15y ago
My mother and grandmother have devoted their lives to outreach to the low-income community. From what they have told me, "poverty" is not at the heart of this issue. Most of these parents have self-destructive habits which will persist re
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by stablechaos 15y ago
Agreed. The solution presented is by far the absolute worst to the wealth-gap issue. It reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut story "Harrison Bergeron". The only way to achieve pure equality is to handicap those individuals and businesses who