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qsera
·yesterday·discuss
>Your "flow" is just habits, things you've taught yourself to do

By this logic a person who were comfortable with mouse should never grow to like VIM.

> there is no "natural" or "intuitive" way to operate a computer.

Fundamentally a computer is something that execute instructions. It is pretty poor interface to pick instructions from 100 options using a mouse as opposed to type it using a keyboard. A mouse hides the power of the computer behind a set of fixed clickable options. That is a pretty poor interface.
qsera
·yesterday·discuss
> do better than state slavery.

The point is the exploitation of the masses and the ensuing concentration of wealth is the enabler. Sure we might find a way to do that without Ads...
qsera
·yesterday·discuss
I hate ads of all kinds and I hate targeted manipulations of all kinds.

But that does not stop me from recognizing the part it plays in the world. That shouldn't stop you either.

> we wouldn't have charities, freedom of thought, and literature:

Does great literature require huge capital?
qsera
·yesterday·discuss
Not sure what you find funny about it.

>Those ancient wonders were enabled by slave labor

That is exactly the point.
qsera
·yesterday·discuss
Advertisements actually run the world. Imagine a world without ads. The economy would grind to a halt. It is exploitation and manipulation, but that enables creation of large capital, which leads to great things. In the past it was pyramids and temples, and in modern times it is space exploration, scientific research and other things that require huge capital. Even the current advances in AI/LLMs are made possible by mass exploitation.

Without ads and exploitation of the masses, none of these would not be possible.
qsera
·3 days ago·discuss
And thank you for demonstrating mine..
qsera
·3 days ago·discuss
> to detect an effect significantly stronger than most drugs..

What the heck are you smokin? Did paracetamol have a weaker affect on temperature than smoking causing cancer?
qsera
·3 days ago·discuss
>because that information is indistinguishable from noise.

Not if the signal is strong. Whether a thing works or not, is a pretty strong signal. Your equating it to bad effects of smoking is flawed and is not comparable.

You other arugments are also pretty bizzare, but not going into that for sake of focus.
qsera
·3 days ago·discuss
>I am clearly talking about both positive and negative effects of drugs.

Then you are answering to a point that was not raised.

> most lovely features in an environment of complete information, which this is not. The more the information asymmetry (or complete ignorance) there is, the less-well markets work...

I am well aware. But for what I as well as the parent is saying, this only require information regarding if the thing works or not for the people who use it as long as that information is not censored.
qsera
·3 days ago·discuss
Not sure, I was just talking about the efficacy, not long term side effects. The parent comment was also talking about showing efficacy...

>Literally one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard.

It is capitalism 101. Not sure if that is the dumbest idea, because the whole world seem to run on it.
qsera
·4 days ago·discuss
So if both the standard of care as well as the drug being trials have the same side effects, would they be included in the package insert/drug literature? Because the incidence rate of it would be same for both the groups?
qsera
·4 days ago·discuss
>There would be virtually no incentive for anyone to make an actual drug.

Dumb question: Wouldn't the market discover what works and what does not automatically, like any other product?
qsera
·4 days ago·discuss
> The increasing availability of large datasets should make this an especially good time to reconsider observational evidence in many fields.

This is not happening.

> I was surprised to find that they usually discard papers based on observational evidence wholesale.

He he...welcome to the real world!
qsera
·4 days ago·discuss
>I think this is overstating it and makes me wonder how familiar the author is with literature and music...

I can vouch for that statement. I have written poetry. And often searching for a right word or expression is often akin to searching for an elegant abstraction or architecture when programming.

I was enjoying writing a poem in just the same way I was enjoying writing a program.
qsera
·5 days ago·discuss
>Careful you don't "it's just a text predictor" yourself into unemployment .

Says the guy who is "I-can-now-just-push-buttons-and-get-paid-forever"-ing into not only into unemployment, but also being totally redundant.

Before you come back with, "Oh I review everything LLM does": Only in your dreams you ll gain or retain experience by just reviewing stuff. That is even if you actually review every line that the LLM writes...which have literally zero chance of happening. People have hard time keeping their eye open even when their life is on the line when using a pseudo self driving car...
qsera
·7 days ago·discuss
> I'm going to look into starting this as a startup.

I dare you, I double dare you...

>it's not worth my time trying to educate..

Exactly why I am not spending too much time to educate you...

The flaw in your reasoning is here

>You (being deeply uncurious) are confusing "health insurers evaluate drug safety/efficacy" (which is true) with "corporate liability insurers refuse to insure vaccine injury risk" (which is false)

I didn't confuse anything. I went of slightly in a tangent because I don't want to spend too much time to educating you. Because ultimately our differences arise from what or what not we trust or what scale conspiracy we think is possible or not, or how broad or narrow our consideration of the reality is. You will never admit that and will go and on and on...Don't have time for that. Sorry.
qsera
·7 days ago·discuss
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qsera
·7 days ago·discuss
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qsera
·7 days ago·discuss
Obviously I am talking about insurances for the general population..

Why don't you stick to answering the point that I am raising, instead of responding with some...arbitrary thing...

The question is why is there no insurance that a person can by that will cover any FDA approved vaccine injury for them or their family?

The "government fund" does not anyway prevent existence of such an insurance. So why is that not a thing, given that there is a large number of people who are worried about it, and is probably willing to pay large premiums for it...

It is interesting that you are aware of this government fund, and still brings up corporate libaility claim (which the fund makes irrelavant) shows that you cannot even reconcile the very the facts that you are aware of...
qsera
·8 days ago·discuss
> Tell me: Why haven't insurers – who spend all day every day understanding cost/risk/benefit tradeoffs of different drugs - detected this?

They have. That is why they don't sell an insurance against vaccine injuries...