BrainVirus
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It's unreasonable to expect researchers vet someone who promises them $500K? In what insane world does this statement make any sense? It's not just common sense, but also necessary for keeping track of conflicts of interest.
Comment · 4 years ago
>SBF was treated as the king of crypto by the mainstream for whatever reason.
I think the reason is getting more and more obvious with every passing day.
His father and mother are professors of Law (and Business) at Stanford. (The mother is also one of two founders of Mind The Gap.) His aunt is a dean of Columbia University's School of Public Health.
https://showbizcorner.com/sam-bankman-fried-parents
His brother was running a lobby group called Guarding Against Pandemics. FTX's head of policy and regulatory strategy was a Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner under Obama.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/14/former-ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-f...
And that's not the end of it all, there are many more interesting connections.
Comment · 4 years ago
>It this real? Is he really THAT stupid?
No, it's media damage control. Gets you to think about unverifiable stuff like personal motivation instead of what his company actually did.
It revelatory that VOX interviews him instead of investigating him.
Comment · 4 years ago
Does it strand legitimate scientists or does it indicate that there is corruption in science? From what I'm hearing, this whole FTX thing reeks of clever, politically connected fraud and money laundering:
https://odysee.com/@Chris_Martenson:2/the-deeply-troubling-f...
Comment · 4 years ago
>Nevertheless, the attitude-change techniques used by so-called “brainwashers” are no different than standard persuasive methods identified by social psychologists, such as encouraging commitment to goals, manufacturing source credibility, forging an illusion of group consensus, and vivid testimonials
Ok, let me get this straight. You openly admit that brainwashing techniques are now routinely and knowingly used in "casual" settings, but you want me to stop using the term, because it's so routine and because it never was never long-term effective. Faulty reasoning at best, manipulative bullshit at worst.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wikipedia is one of the worst things that was ever launched on the web. Many people say that it's reliable, except in cases of controversy. That's a spin. A more honest way of describing it is that it's a system designed to accumulate trust by providing people with trivial information and then spectacularly fail them when the information is critically important for some society-wide issue. The failures aren't unfortunate mishaps, they are inevitable by design.
Comment · 4 years ago
There is no such thing as "mild" heart damage.
Moreover, clinical myocarditis and pericarditis are only tips of the iceberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vveMHtVk_mY
People who have no significant symptoms can still have troponin in their blood, indicating damage.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's almost as if building a hypercentralized faux-communication system that tries to encourage mindless behavior and doesn't have any notion of locality is an inherently bad idea that will always lead to misery and suffering. Hm. Nah, that's can't be true. That would mean a lot of things I've read on the internet recently are lies, which is completely impossible. Yeah, I think this is just a sign that people suck and we need more centralization to control them. If we tied all TikTok accounts to some kind of social credit score, that would probably fix everything.
Comment · 4 years ago
The reality is that W3C and Mozilla do not matter anymore. I'm not saying this because I like it, I'm saying this because it's the obvious state of things. Google controls the standards and protocols for the Web.
A few lines later:
"Tell me, how many lights you see?"