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 No.1580[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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Lets give two hypothetical scenarios:

Let's say, science discovers a way for two men to reproduce with each other. The result is always a  baby boy and the men born from this process are able to repeat it and reproduce with other men as well, when they reach sexual maturity.

Now let's also say that, through some mechanism, it was possible for a person to quickly rid the world of all human females, in such a way that no one would be able to stop the process once begun. All biological women would suddenly disappear from the Earth and cease to exist.

Would men alone create a better society than the current one? A "better" society in this context meaning a society with less crime, less violence and less inequality for it's members. And if so, would someone be morally right, or even morally obligated to commit this act?
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 No.4967

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>>4966

lol, it's just a necroed thread

 No.4968

Necroed or no, this is an interesting concept. I suspect that while society might enjoy some rather efficient, straightforward communication initially, after a few months it would splinter into a group of men looking for a way to bring women back, a group of misogynists trying to stop them, and a group of misogynists helping them for the purpose of enslaving all new women born so that they grow up believing they exist only to become the property of men.

I almost want to write a book on this now.

 No.4969

>>4966
It literally is, and its from back then >>4965

 No.4830[Reply]

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There's not much going on on this site.  I've mostly been working at my confidential job -- spring is our busy season and we are essential, but the thing that's been on my mind that I can talk about is creating a science society.  Managing social groups is not something I would generally do -- I tend to upset people because there are details about being human that I guess I don't get -- but I feel like scientists should stick together and this is important enough.  I guess in this thread I'm looking for ideas about creating and managing professional societies, or helping scientists.  Has anyone done anything like this?
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>>4832
I think as far as research availability, I would leave it to individuals to decide whether to put their work behind a paywall or not.  I'd just note that if someone can't talk about their work in a society -- for confidentiality or national security reasons -- their participation will be kinda one-sided.

>group needs a more clear-cut purpose
I'm thinking of it being somewhat local, and focused most on the needs of independent scientists, and value diversity the best I can.  I would focus on one kind of science, but I do work with plants and animals and astronomy, along with computer science, and I don't want to create a lot of groups.  There's always an option for sub-grouping if necessary.  Really depends on if anyone joins, I guess.

Sorry, still been very busy with one of my jobs, just trying to survive.  I think in a few weeks I will be able to get back to the scientific profession.

 No.4944

I see you're still not very good at maintaining your anonymity

At what point would you consider someone a "scientist"? Only people who work in a scientific field? There are plenty of people with a casual interest in science like me. What about students who don't have a job in the field yet? Or people who invent in the spare time? And what fields would count? There's scientific components in a lot of fields that aren't considered "science", like cooking.

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>>4944
>maintaining your anonymity
That involves authorities on this site.  I have no role in being anonymous.

>At what point would you consider someone a "scientist"?

For the sake of my group, someone who does some kind of science, is able to talk about science, and is not a troll.  One of my values is making science more democratic.

(Suppose I might have to make some judgements on people who pursue scientific work but only tolerate one result -- eg. fundamentalist Christians trying to prove the literal truth of the Bible.)

>And what fields would count?
My impulse is to avoid fields where science and public health intersect too much -- medicine, mostly.  I want to encourage people to do scientific experiments but not endanger the group through association with people getting hurt, I guess.

 No.4828[Reply]

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If someone has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution, but has subsequently received treatment and can demonstrate, by a preponderance of evidence, that he/she no longer poses a heightened risk of being a danger to self or others, should his/her civil rights be restored?
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 No.4835

>>4834
If a licensed psychologist can prove someone has one, why can't they prove it ended?

 No.4923

>>4835
True.  So if they don't it's not that they can't, since they are authorities and may do whatever is their pleasure in their domain, it's more a standard.  In the Rosenhan experiment where people briefly feigned illness, the best psychologists could do was say the disease was in remission.  All the fake patients were eventually released, showing release is probable following remission.

 No.4931

>>4828
I think there's a lot of room to question restricting people's rights based solely on their mental health, as opposed to anything they've done, on the face of it, honestly.

 No.4821[Reply]

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Italy is showing a continued decline in the rate of deaths from COVID-19, presumably that also means a decline in viral activity.

Some predict the pandemic will meet decline at herd immunity.  With a basic reproduction number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number) of 3 -- I see numbers between three and four -- that would mean at more than 66% immune, viral activity begins to decrease because there becomes a better and better chance that the average of three who have contact with an infected person are immune.  Italy is seeing decline far below this level, enough that I want to say herd immunity isn't the factor, it is more changing behavior.

Herd immunity pretty much has to work to send a virus into decline, if it comes to that.  The question on my mind is whether pandemics typically come to that.  The Spanish flu is said to have infected 1/4, which would mean viral activity was probably in decline at 1/8 or so of the population (if for simplicity, I assume a symmetric curve), so a reproduction number of 1.14 -- pretty low.  Or sustained changes in behavior brought the basic reproduction number down before herd immunity had any significant input.

My question is, given lockdowns and isolations are hard to sustain, especially as the virus declines in a country or state and these measure seem less necessary, and a vaccine only possible later in 2021, is herd immunity still a reasonable prediction for the final end of COVID-19?
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 No.4826

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>>4825
The prediction of when a vaccine comes out comes from various articles that say 18 months is the best we can hope for, the worse being never.  It's been a month or two, so perhaps 16 months, now.  Personally, I know about nothing about how vaccines are made.  I do know there's a fairly widespread fear of vaccine side-effects, a vaccine must be trusted enough that >67% of people will take it, and of course, it must actually provide immunity.

The FDA is retarding the process, I take it.  Are other countries less held back, and can America get vaccine from elsewhere if they have an effective one?

 No.4827

>>4826
ya know?
It will be finding a balance to popping out a vaccine asap without relying on a dud or worse

 No.4836

>>4825
I'd like a citation on this if you don't mind. Specifically on the phase 3 trials being held back for ethical reasons.

 No.4793[Reply]

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Which presidential candidate would do the best job managing the pandemic?
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 No.4799

>>4793
I would probably lean more towards a dem for a disease problem. Republicans like the free market healthcare system, which is going to be garbage for managing a pandemic. The American health system is good at providing the best treatment for a small number of cases, not for a widespread pandemic, as people just won't be able to afford to go to the doctor without it ruining them financially, so they just won't go, and so the disease spreads and kills.

A dem is a lot more likely to prioritize American lives over stock market numbers, and as such be willing to do things like quarantine and provide treatments that don't destroy people financially for the rest of their lives.

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One that doesn't go playing musical chairs of who is in charge of actually dealing with it, and lets the CDC do its job.

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>>4793
>Which presidential candidate would do the best job managing the pandemic?
They all do great for various meanings of 'best job.'  I listed areas where the current American President is doing an outstanding job, but the list started to look sarcastic, so maybe someone else should make the list.

 No.4811[Reply]

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So apparently the shortage of hand sanitizer [1], test kits [2], and N95 masks [3] is a result of stupid regulations.  Distilleries could easily pivot to making hand sanitizer but for heavy-handed regulations.  NIOSH said that they'll take 45-90 days to inspect new N95 factories before they're allowed to sell N95 masks, despite the severe shortage facing our nation.  (It is relatively quick and easy for a doctor to test an N95 mask for functionality.  So concern about bad batches shouldn't hold up production, because they can detected and rejected by the purchaser and the user.)

Obviously some amount of regulation is good for addressing bad actors in the private sector.  But at this point, I think we'd be better off temporarily repealing all regulations that impede production of necessary goods to fight COVID-19.

[1] https://reason.com/2020/04/02/the-fda-is-making-it-much-much-harder-for-distilleries-to-produce-hand-sanitizer/

[2] https://reason.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-testing-fda-cdc-covid-19/

[3] https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/plan-a-for-the-coronavirus-7db3997490c1
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 No.4819

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>>4818
>denatonium
I suppose the worry is still that dedicated alcoholics would avoid tax.  Or maybe it's harder to make.  Well, really I don't know.  You seem to know more about this than me, so why don't they use that?

>Coronavirus is an RNA-only virus.
Yes, I think that's correct.  My confusion is whether the primer would be RNA or DNA.

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>>4819
>so why don't they use that?
The issue is that the distilleries can't add it to their industrial equipment, because cleaning it out would be very difficult, and it would make their beverages taste disgusting.  

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>>4820
The denatonium can be mixed at a final stage in the process, perhaps even off site.  Adapting the brewing process to produce methanol, I thought, was the main concern.  Perhaps I am confused somewhere.

 No.4801[Reply]

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Is there an unmoved mover?

 No.4802

I don't think they're any evidence for such a thing, nor reason to believe one might exist.   Even deities are subject to the laws of physics.

 No.4809

Our universe likely exists as a part of many universes in a kind of hyperspace superstructure.

What lives out there in hyperspace? Who can say! Gods? Goddesses? Intelligent robots? Creatures identical to ourselves? Creatures we couldn't even see let alone relate to?

The possibilities are exciting! Hopefully, humanity will travel to see what is out there someday!

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>>4801
In reference to Thomas Aquinas' proofs of God?

Sure, if you like.

In physics, macroscopic motion is not a conserved quantity in general, but for those things that are conserved, I suppose you can either posit they have never changed and time goes back without end, or they were begun by something outside the rules of conservation.

 No.4769[Reply]

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There exists a hypothetical poster who might go by the name Flower and use pictures of skunks sometimes.  Perhaps this person reads a book on Marijuana and finds out skunks and Flower(s) -- as in Flower Power, and the part of the plant potent in cannabinoids -- both have associations with this schedule 1 narcotic.  Maybe some people were worried about this.  To be helpful, I will make a thread about the harms of cannabis.  (You don't need drugs to be cool.)

Cannabis is know to the United States Federal Government to be highly harmful,  immoral, and not at all good, but if you use some other authority, I guess you could talk about other things, maybe.  If nobody is worried about that.
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 No.4810

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Hey, this thread is still here.  I've been a little busy with worrying about the virus and being an essential worker.  Anyway, someone complained about marijuana smoke coming from our apartment and said they'd call management if it happened again.  Although I think you're suppose to not complain about smoke since many people smoke, but anyway if marijuana gets me evicted, I will have an even more negative view of the narcotic.

I should probably make some new threads or something.  Still a little annoyed about not getting to have a name.  Eventually I'll make my own site where names are allowed.  Anyway, take care, everypony!  (I've got to go to work again now.)

 No.4814

>>4810

>apartment complex

Vapes smell less and of course edibles produce no smell

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>>4814
Likely true, but such decisions are not my prerogative, I am only involved in the consequences.

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>Picture a very beautiful woman. How sexually arousing would you find it to imagine *being* her?
Answering "a lot" to this question would signify autogynephilia: getting aroused by imagining oneself as a woman.  (Likewise, "autoandrophilia" means becoming aroused by imagining oneself as a man.)

Blanchard and Bailey speculated that auto{gyne,andro}philia are the most common cause of transgender.  The Slate Star Codex survey data suggests a different hypothesis: if you identify as a gender and you’re attracted to that gender, then it’s a natural leap to be attracted to yourself being that gender.  This hypothesis can also explain other things that Blanchard and Bailey can’t explain.

Is this subject of interest to you?  And if so, do you have any thoughts on it?

For more details, please see: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/10/autogenderphilia-is-common-and-not-especially-related-to-transgender/
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 No.4805

>>4763
Seems reasonable. The different experience alone is likely to be interesting and that is about half of the interest in porn
No reason to assume it must or is likely to mean one is actually trans. If anything, I would presume that would be less of a sexual item in that case.

 No.4806

>>4804
I wanted to add to this. You often have to be sexually positive if you're transtioning.

You've been in the wrong body for years, been denied engaging with other people in the way that feels right for you, and now you have to make up for potentially decades of sexual and intimate inactivity.

Add to that the world certainly isn't going to praise or accept your sexuality, or know anything about it at all, and that you have to defiantly assert your sexual nature in order to be recognized as having one at all, and you can start to get the perception that people who are transitioning are overly sex-focussed or sex-positive.

In reality society really really really really really wants trans people to dissappear, or failing that, they definitely don't want them to have a sex life or to be any kind of open in public. Once you're on the margins like this, already completely rejected and incapable of being socially acceptable, there's no reason to not just do exactly what you want  all the time. Snuggle up to someone you like in public? Yeah, why not, society retches when it sees my adams apple anyway, so its not like some weird stares are gonna discourage me.

Talk openly about my cabinet of sex toys or the threesome I wanna have tonight? Yeah, definitely, I've already got enough people calling me a freak tonight, it's not like them reasserting it is going to make me feel less safe.

I think everyone really has similar desires to sex-positive trans people, they're just holding on to society's acceptance by their fingernails instead of letting go entirely.

 No.4807

>>4779
>>4780
>>4804
>>4806
I was going to post something, but really these four comments do a fantastic job of speaking the truth. I've really nothing to add here, at least, nothing that I can think of at the moment. Ditto.

 No.4781[Reply]

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The 1960's and 1970's saw some rudimentary online communities, and futurists predicted increasingly better audio and visual links would allow people to diffuse from cities, presumably people wanted to live in more natural settings if jobs and social opportunities weren't concentrated.

Things didn't pan out that way, at least as far as I see.  It is true that most Americans live in suburbs, but rural areas are in decline, and younger people are more likely to end up in cities.

My question: is there something about face-to-face contact or being on site that technology isn't going to replace anytime soon -- from the perspective of employers, friends, and partners -- or is tech too clunky now, and as soon as we get good VR or something, location won't be a deciding factor in people's work and social life?
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 No.4784

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>>4783
>There's been online internet communities in the 60s?
I guess 60's is pushing it a bit.  PLATO and ARPANET birthed in the late '60s, but how much there was an online community, in the first few years, I don't know.

>I didn't consider the internet mainstream until the late 80s or 90s...

I guess it's somewhat a matter of terms, the world wide web didn't begin until the 80's or 90's.  The 70's was a time of large mainframes, however since these mainframes serviced many simultaneous users, some at remote stations, and some mainframes were interconnected as well, the small group that had access were using things much like discussion boards, e-mail, and instant messaging.  It was pretty siloed, not until later would worldwide standards for communication between systems be developed.

>I still get the message accross better in face-to-face interaction.

I'd mostly agree there.  Face-to-face seems more efficient, at least for some things.

>retail, drone delivery
The book The End of Man, which is classed as satire, so I think in part it was suppose to be making fun of all the futuristic predictions at the time by taking it to the extreme, imagined a conveyor belt to everyone's house.

People still do a lot of shopping offline, supporting local business is one reason certainly.  Living in apartments, I've found delivery uncertain (for example, the UPS guy can't get into our building so unless I want to wait all day at the door, getting my package is a bit of a questionable thing), but that's a bug that I assume will be worked out by the likes of Amazon eventually.

 No.4787

>>4781
Touch is still always going to matter when it comes right down to it.

But as long as its in there somewhere, the sky's the limit on remote togetherness.

 No.4788

I think economic factors explain it sufficiently, no need to square it with the fact that social media exists and is more technologically advanced than it was in the 70s.

 No.4506[Reply]

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Perhaps I am not using this site respectfully enough, as I am not really bringing up topics with probable ad hominem temptation.  So, I thought about it for awhile and I think I can turn up the heat, and be a good townhall poster.

Debate Question:  Prison rape -- hurtful stereotype about incarcerated communities, a problem to be fixed, or a healthy feature of criminal justice, especially for perpetrators of sexual or violent crimes?  Explain your answer as best you can without posting more than people will probably read.
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 No.4710

>>4636
I don't think most people think about it that way. Though i also think that if everyone had the choice to be employed or unemployed, with both having equal pay, then everyone would choose unemployment, society would grind to a halt, and we'd all starve. Someone not being able to find a job isn't the same to me as someone who is perfectly capable of contributing to society choosing not to work and living off welfare. I don't think anyone owes someone like that anything, including the government owing them funding to survive.

That being said, i don't think we should actively incarcerate these people, which is what ends up happening. Police should no harass the homeless, and we should have more robust systems to guide people who are homeless or jobless into employment. Right now, there's a cliff which, if you fall down, you'll have a very tough time climbing back out of.

 No.4711

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>>4636
> I suppose you're saying to some an increased probability of rape is a fair cost

I'd go further and say that people are quick to ignore any amount of suffering if they can compartmentalize it with a dehumanizing label:  freeloader, criminal, jew, whatever.

Yet still consiser themselves compassionate etc.  Its more a rule for our species than an exception, too.

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>>4711
>dehumanizing
I see authoritarian enforcement as fulfilling a human need for justice, and to be honorable it must meet the needs of all involved.  I don't think I understand dehumanizing in the context of justice.

 No.4762[Reply]

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What does a college degree mean?  What does  it signify to be college-educated?

I'm going to try to remain detached in the discussion from my personal perspective in an attempt to understand wider social perceptions.  I have strong opinions for me (and perhaps those like me).  I was going to write my idea out, but I realized it's a bit unfair to say:  here's what I believe, I don't intend to see it otherwise, so I'm just going to think of this thread as leaning how others see things, or how things are in general.

So anyway, I often hear demographers grouping people by education.  Employment opportunities are sometimes contingent on a college degree.  Some people mortgage their future earnings to get their degrees early.  I gather college graduation is pretty important.
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 No.4767

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>>4765
Sounds like you see a college degree as representing the actions to get that degree.

>>4766
>Would a college degree be of a much better worth if the price was a lot less?
I'm not sure if you're asking that of me, or if it's rhetorical.  If to me, cost factors into my judgement of college (for me), but not primarily.  It's more college doesn't feel right.

>evaluates how well you are at grasping the material
That's an important element.  Many people don't see it this way, but I think people who chose to make hiring decisions based on the educational attainment of the applicant expect college guarantees a minimum standard.

>say developer
Part of the reason I thought people might want to share their ideas on college is I'm part of a Facebook group for programmers (who are often also software developers), and posts related to the value of a college degree in the software fields tend to get a lot of attention.

 No.4768

I don't use college for job searching, but rather, if there is something I really want to learn about and the only way I can learn more is from the experience that others (at college) can offer me.

I've never been career focused though and have have tended to lean more towards a simple job/life. As long as my bills stay relatively low, I'm happy with just minimum wage jobs.

 No.4773

>>4768
That sounds reasonable.  College can teach people things, I don't deny that.  I understand liking simple jobs.  I  have one of those (but I also multi-career.)

 No.4712[Reply]

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To what extent is hyperbolic discounting a contributing factor to the obesity epidemic?
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 No.4744

>>4733
>I think you're underestimating the loss of quality-of-life caused by diabetes.

Quality-of-life Years is a neat concept when imagining stuff like this, but there's no concrete agreed upon method for even determining a QALY, much less a full consensus that it's a useful tool.  At the very least, every method used to determine QALYs involves subjective questionaires, and you can't really take the average of what people answered as accurate to any given individual.  There are no doubt people out there who could go down every single thing associated with diabetes and say "Yeah, that's perfect health."  And surely there are people who would prefer that to giving up their lifestyle for even a short period of time.

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>>4744
>There are no doubt people out there who could go down every single thing associated with diabetes and say "Yeah, that's perfect health."
And there are people who believe that the Earth is flat, that the moon landing was faked, et cetera.  Nephropathy is objectively a disease, by any objective definition of the word "disease".

>>4744
>And surely there are people who would prefer that to giving up their lifestyle for even a short period of time.
Such people would be a tiny minority.  And I'm not sure how much we should credit such 'preferences' anyway.  There are people who 'prefer' death to living and who accordingly commit suicide.  For some of those people, it is a legitimate preference (in particular, for people near the end of their life with progressively worsening disease), but for most, it is a result of a chemical imbalance in their brain.  Many people who preferred suicide received psychiatric treatment that reversed their preference and now they are glad that they didn't commit suicide.

 No.4761

>>4738
There's a leap here that makes me uncomfortable.

The data and theory do not demonstrate that unsaturated fatty acids *prevent* insulin resistance but rather that they fail to trigger it.

Furthermore, I think that intentionally producing ROS in order to induce insulin resistance is missing the forest for the trees. Considering the role that frequent insulin resistance would play in developing actual diabetes and that ROS are more implicated in vascular disease than anything else, especially in the presence of high blood sugar, I am skeptical of the health benefits of weight loss via this method.

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Is assassinating the second-most powerful military leader of a foreign country generally an act of war?

And specifically, was Trump's airstrike that intentionally killed Soleimani an act of war?

And, keeping in mind that the Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war, did Trump violate the Constitution in ordering the airstrike without authorization from Congress?  And if so, should he be impeached for it?

Relevant source: https://www.vox.com/2020/1/3/21048012/iran-general-killed-qasem-soleimani-legality
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 No.4679

>>4677
>Wait a minute, the President CAN pardon State offenses.
Nani???  The president only has "power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment".

 No.4680

>>4679
Well how bout that.

My ignorance has no limits.

 No.4760

Yes.

No.  First, it was not a declaration of war.  Second, every president since at least Clinton has been involved in undeclared wars and/or targeted strikes.  Impeachment for it would simply be another partisan instance of Democrat hypocrisy.

 No.4718[Reply]

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How would you define "general intelligence"?

I think most people would agree that, for example, AlphaGo Zero is intelligent but not generally intelligent (i.e., it is intelligent only at the specific task of playing Go).  GPT-2 is a little more general, but still nowhere close to human general intelligence.  Do you think existing deep machine learning will ever lead to general intelligence, or is a completely new paradigm needed?
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 No.4756

>>4755
So...IQ measures a ceiling of success.  If a successful group scores low, the test is to be revised.  If high scorers are not successful, the test is acceptable.

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>>4756
>So...IQ measures a ceiling of success.
Only certain types of success, in particular, success that requires intelligence.  And IQ isn't a perfect measure.  For most humans it is a decent measure of intelligence.  But it doesn't work well for everyone.  Just like the Glasgow Coma Scale doesn't work as well for people who have an eyelid infection that makes it hard for them to open their eyes.

 No.4758

>>4757
OK, IQ measures a ceiling of success, in tasks involving intelligence, for many people, but not everyone.  (Perhaps mostly for people who are neurotypical, if that's the psychological analog to having eyebrows?)

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