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New comment by dqpb in "Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says"

dqpb — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:17:52 +0000

Why was it so stigmatized before and now it's the preferred hypothesis for FBI and DOE?

New comment by dqpb in "Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says"

dqpb — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:15:44 +0000

I can parse fine, can you?

From the article:

> The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak

People used to be called racist for saying this!

New comment by dqpb in "Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says"

dqpb — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:16:14 +0000

The people who are owed an apology are the people who did nothing more than to believe that the wuhan coronavirus outbreak originated from the wuhan coronavirus research lab.

New comment by dqpb in "Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says"

dqpb — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:02:47 +0000

Sure, but the real news is it used to be taboo to say this - Sinophobic even. A lot of people are owed a serious apology.

New comment by dqpb in "Documentary spurs a new look at the case of the first gene-edited babies"

dqpb — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:57:31 +0000

If it's possible to greatly improve our species via gene editing, then it's grossly unethical to stand in the way if that progress.

Convince me I'm wrong.

New comment by dqpb in "Google stopping coding competitions"

dqpb — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:22:18 +0000

Google is winding down and that's ok! There many exciting things to work on, and those things should be owned by the engineers working on them.

New comment by dqpb in "Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination"

dqpb — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 16:59:43 +0000

I understand, from a project management perspective, the need for a concerted, coordinated push to penalize widespread discrimination against a particular category of people. But I do not understand, from a legal perspective, why some groups are protected from discrimination while others are not.

New comment by dqpb in "Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination"

dqpb — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:28:54 +0000

> I believe the opposite position (that all discrimination against all people based on race is racism) is the underhanded approach

Your position is racist and perpetuates racism.

New comment by dqpb in "World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back"

dqpb — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 05:22:11 +0000

> most UK companies participating are not returning to the five-day standard, and a third are ready to make that change permanent

This is a confusing sentence.

New comment by dqpb in "College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting"

dqpb — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:29:02 +0000

I understand why you would do this, but I don't understand why you would admit to it.

New comment by dqpb in "SEC charges the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints"

dqpb — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:30:21 +0000

Employees are forced to accept a bad deal due to asymmetrical market dynamics. Without the job they would be worse off until they find a replacement. The person with the money (Bezos) has all the power.

Not so with church members. If they stopped attending they would have more money. They are the ones with the power. So why would a grown adult willfully hand over their money to an organization that already has all the money it could possibly need?

A better counterpoint would be - Why do people keep paying $60 worth of streaming video subscriptions per month when the content delivered is increasingly just lame irrelevant re-hashed bullshit?

New comment by dqpb in "CheatGPT"

dqpb — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 03:46:04 +0000

> Except that half the code was made-up. One of the API calls that it was using doesn't exist (I wish it did!)

I've also been using ChatGPT to generate code for a specific library, and had the exact same experience. It uses an API that should exist, but not the one that does exist.

New comment by dqpb in "What is a mathematical structure of conscious experience?"

dqpb — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:49:17 +0000

This argument is so empty of meaning it is itself ineffable.

New comment by dqpb in "What is a mathematical structure of conscious experience?"

dqpb — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:44:55 +0000

What I'm saying is different from self awareness. Self awareness could arguably just be having a model of yourself. I'm talking about a sensory feedback loop.

New comment by dqpb in "What is a mathematical structure of conscious experience?"

dqpb — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:35:12 +0000

I don't understand the mystery around "qualia". You sense something and it propagates through the system priming other neurons. It's just learned association.

New comment by dqpb in "Tech Progress Is Slowing Down"

dqpb — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 05:59:34 +0000

No it's not.

New comment by dqpb in "What is a mathematical structure of conscious experience?"

dqpb — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 05:53:00 +0000

I've always thought consciousness is basically just feedback (like with microphones). Sensing yourself sensing yourself etc.

New comment by dqpb in "Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society"

dqpb — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:57:20 +0000

lol, what?

If I killed someone, I can't be like "Whats the problem? Nature kills people all the time. Why are you so sentimental?"

New comment by dqpb in "Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society"

dqpb — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:17:15 +0000

Terminating a millions-years-old family line is pretty harsh imo.

New comment by dqpb in "Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society"

dqpb — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:12:59 +0000

Please don't break the lawyer