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- No. The lab wasn’t doing gain of function work on anything remotely similar to COVID. If one of its ‘chimeric viruses’ leaked we would have a SARS1 outbreak. There is no such thing as an ‘accidental’ version of the lab leak that aligns with anything we know about SARS-COV2.
- It is more plausible that there was an accidental lableak due to Wuhan lab using BSL3 rather than BSL4 standards required in the US for the Coronavirus studies and gain-of-function research. Trump fired the Obama era CDC oversight scientists or brought them back, so we don’t have samples that can /1
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- youtube account where barber demonstrates his skill by shaving any person or object? like 'will it blend' but for shaving? occam's razor
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- it is also an anagram for 'booty phlem'
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View full threadgenerally fascinated by stigmergy, the ant trick of turning the ground into a computer memory by laying down scent traces stigmergy feels like the entry level of 'doing maze solving on representations of a map' vs by sending ants to explore the map directly memory speed matters for learning though
- and stigmergy has, like, pathological locality/speed tradeoffs, even compared to a digital computer which is already pretty pathetic at this
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- arthur nobel memorial prize for participation
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- cursed image someone sent around on work slack once during wikipedia fundraising season, this exact ad but the dog's head is jimmy wales
- Release is step one. Step two is justice for Rümeysa Öztürk—justice in the form she needs and articulates. She is owed a tremendous amount for the violation of her rights.
- piercing the veil of qualified immunity to create personal liability here would be worth something imo esp if we can create simultaneous state + personal liability (state has more $$ to make good, state employees need consequences to act right)
- kind of broadly a type of high decoupler that could help our society a little bit is social decoupling, and this is actually vanishingly rare even if we limit to effectively or strong social decoupling
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- all 'reject an idea' decisions imply an overton window, which means that all social functions imply thanksgiving
