tazedsoul

It is written in the New Testament scriptures and the book of Revelation.

The author wrote, “It's like tech is making each one of us our own little village with a computer priest.”

Indeed it is. Make no mistake. We are building a false god in hopes that it will serve us. However, this thing is not of the creator but man. The technologists have forgotten history.

Something doesn’t have to be necessarily true for it to have a high probability of being true.

Penrose would say that logicians can’t compute consciousness, so no wonder they don’t agree with his argument; computers (logicians) literally can’t! That’s Penrose’s very argument, which so few seem to get.

Gold

Love how people won’t even admit this fact into the conversation. Thank you, sincerely, for bringing this up.

This seems to be an anti-ivermectin narrative. Obviously, taking doses meant for horses is foolish. But people are conflating horse dosage ivermectin with human dosage. An anti horse dose narrative is perhaps necessary, but I still don’t see numbers to indicate the scale of that exact problem. The media seems hyper reactive to just about every idea these days. But the real scientific question is whether human dose ivermectin has efficacy in treating COVID. We are sidetracked about a debate about whether people taking horse dosages are foolish or not; this is a red herring. Again, we ought to be concerned with the question of whether a therapeutic dose of ivermectin for COVID exists. That horse doses are bad for people isn’t proof against the entirely different thesis that therapeutic doses exist.

Do we have numbers for ivermectin sales?

The article has the number of Ivermectin prescriptions in the last month, but not the number of people seeking emergency care due to Ivermectin. “Clogged up” isn’t quantifiable.

Let’s upperbound an average worst-case situation. If every single person ingested Ivermectin and needed emergency care last month that did, that would be 88000/50 people in need of emergency care per state assuming a uniform distribution of such cases across the US by state, which I know is false but we are just concerned with the order of the problem. Still that’s 1700 people per state, or about 50 people per day per state in need of care. How many hospitals are there per state on average? Oklahoma has ~150, so that’s 50/150 cases per hospital per day. That’s .3 people per hospital per day seeking emergency care for Ivermectin. Does this “clog” the system? Maybe if it’s already overwhelmed by COVID, which it seems to be in Oklahoma.

Of course, this is a back of the envelope approximation, but I’m skeptical that this is the problem it is being presented as.

Individuals can’t fix this problem. That people don’t understand this yet is not a good sign

The problem here is that the police are buying $75k robot dogs. Sure, this one is being used to sniff out COVID. What’s the next version doing? It’s a slippery slope, and given the history of the police in America becoming increasingly militarized, it’s worrisome the direction we are going.

How’s this relate to Wal-Mart?

Those of us in science who are genuinely interested in the truth (of nature, of the world), and not the exercise of justifying some religious-esque dogma of our own unconscious beliefs, seem increasingly outnumbered and outshouted by the orthodox choir. It is frightening because “science” now carries with it a powerful authoritarian connotation. That the lab leak was written off so early, and whatever the cost of that to society, is a consequence of this. Our age may be one of dogma masquerading as science. But this emperor lacks clothes.

I felt like I was screaming about COVID-19 months before anyone I knew understand what was going on. I feel like I’m screaming about artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, and platitude society.

“In the U.S. and other rich countries, welfare states provide even the poorest people with access to housing, food, and other needs, though there are still those who go without because severe mental illness and/or drug addiction keep them stuck in homeless lifestyles and render them too behaviorally disorganized to apply for government help or to be admitted into free group housing.“

This is not exactly true. Welfare in some parts of the US may be minimal; for example, food stamps may be available but not enough to feed yourself every meal. Further, housing assistance may be non-existent or virtually so in the sense that many are homeless while waiting extended periods of time before they can utilize it, don’t qualify because their income is too low (it’s true, but how does that make sense?), or such housing is temporary.

Also, some of the “right” interpretations are rather optimistic or generous in their assessment. But fun read.

Few can see it