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jakelafort wrote:

It feels to me like we are on the verge of a medical revolution

… and likely limited to the upper class, at least at first. Just like most new tech necessarily (in capitalism) begins with expensive prototyping.

Religions have simply resolved this debate, by the way. We’ll all rejoin our families, eventually, unless we end up…[Read more]

There’s no way to prove authenticity, or that the producer of the artifice or whatever is reliable or is a completely benevolent agent.

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Passing on things I know that could save somebody’s Life, Liberty, and Property and standing by it is just one of many skills. I could always charge for lessons. 😁

The smiley face feels encouraging to me, in light of other lessons that seem more obviously one-directional. 🙂

@asianne I can move posts on Mexico to a…[Read more]

Neither side of the debate ever fully agrees on the comprehensively and logically defined core issue of exactly when during gestation a fetus attains “personhood” and has its own right to live, and it’s practically impossible to do so. Every declared line of demarcation therefore is arbitrary. End of life decisions when the patient can’t speak for…[Read more]

I just read about research on likely climate change effects on animal species migrations that will increase inter-species spread of diseases, especially in places like south-east Asia and tropical Africa. I didn’t know this has already been proposed for years. One technical term for intra-species spread of disease is “spillover”.

Southeast Asia…

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Unseen wrote:

[…] There’s Reddit and Youtube, for example, where Musk gets lots of criticism, and people who prefer to live under a dictatorship of anonymous censors or an impersonal AI can still find a place to hide.

Reddit is still diverse. It includes non-censored sub-reddits, and everyone has a wide choice of what kind of sub-reddit to “…[Read more]

I agree, this is the clearest presentation on particles I’ve seen to date. But I think researching this kind of “pure science” often does lead to further, useful invention.

I was looking for a good place to cite the following science & medicine story without starting a new topic, and this here topic seems appropriate, even if just as another brief reminder of the monumentalness of science & medicine. Side note, mention was made about how the vaccine will contribute to herd immunity. This has been overstated many…[Read more]

About the use of AI in various decision making, I think it’s increasingly both useful, and risky. Ultimately, how AI is programmed and given credence will always depend on who owns and runs the AI… at least until AI is allowed — intentionally or accidentally — to take over completely, with no one able to control it or warn others about…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

Anyone know whether natural immunity plus vaccine is better than either standing alone?

An excerpt from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/vaccine-induced-immunity.html

Substantial immunologic evidence and a growing body of epidemiologic evidence indicate that vaccination after infection…

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