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Condemned? I think you're confusing 'condemned' with 'reluctant to inject the entire future generation of the human race without a little more data'.
August 13, 2021 at 16:48
Applied ethics.
August 13, 2021 at 16:46
I wasn't asking what it was 'about' I was asking whether you had any evidence that it was difficult. I'm talking about safety nets, what does having t...
August 13, 2021 at 16:45
Yes. Evidence of this here on this site, where Coronavirus posts have focused almost exclusively on the moral culpability of the unvaccinated, with ba...
August 13, 2021 at 13:20
Do you have any evidence of this difficulty, or are you just guessing? Again, do you have any evidence, or are you just guessing? In the UK, 50 year o...
August 13, 2021 at 12:51
Are you implying that those are difficult to answer? That the need to make a few decisions first is sufficient to prohibit worker-ownership or democra...
August 13, 2021 at 11:56
You might be interested to read https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/capitalist-competition-covid-19-vaccine-rollout
August 13, 2021 at 11:27
What kind of self-immunised, circular twaddle is this? "Leaders lead because they're leaders". Your point? Whatever the organisation, the lowest paid ...
August 13, 2021 at 09:46
Not sure if I cited this already, but there's a blog in the BMJ recently on the issue you might be interested in - https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/05/0...
August 13, 2021 at 06:38
I've literally quoted the medical dictionary on what it means and you still persist as if you were some font of knowledge... Depends on the context. I...
August 13, 2021 at 06:04
All true. I'm not seeing any relevance to the claim that the unvaccinated infectious are clogging up hospitals, or that the vaccinated infectious are ...
August 13, 2021 at 05:35
I agree with the combination, but not the way you've put it. Infection is morally irrelevant without transmission (which you already account for in th...
August 13, 2021 at 05:33
Yes. And as I've cited, that's the definition of 'safety' used in the industry. Safety is the degree to which we know what the dangers are. If a medic...
August 12, 2021 at 19:59
Oh, it didn't appear to be a quote. So people keep saying. No one has yet explained how that gem of statistical understanding everyone is so proud of ...
August 12, 2021 at 18:09
Exactly the kind of anecdotal evidence we've been trying to stop anti-vaxxers from using to spread disinformation. Yes, it is. What difference does th...
August 12, 2021 at 17:41
Yes. And the argument is that waiting will increase the safety by decreasing the uncertainty (risk). As I said, safety and efficacy are not binomial, ...
August 12, 2021 at 17:35
Why would I require proof that it's not an extraordinary case? Yep. Which is why I wouldn't demand that it's met. I'm not demanding anything here. It'...
August 12, 2021 at 17:22
Ludicrous. I advise risk analysts. Safety is entirely measured in terms of certainty. If anyone is 100% certain of a negative effect it is mitigated. ...
August 12, 2021 at 15:30
Yeah. I think that's exactly why we're seeing the higher percentages. The point was about restriction on movement. In that context it was claimed that...
August 12, 2021 at 15:22
Well then I wasn't clear enough. I wanted you to support your claim that... 'It' being the take up of the covid vaccine. Evidence would therefore have...
August 12, 2021 at 15:16
The vaccinated infected make up about 40% of all covid-related hospital admissions (source - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceutica...
August 12, 2021 at 13:49
It is safer on Tuesday because by Tuesday we'll be less uncertain about it's effects than we were before Tuesday, because the FDA will have finished c...
August 12, 2021 at 13:39
I don't have any interest in you believing them. You do you. What bothers me is that the fact that I don't is being used to paint me (and others of my...
August 12, 2021 at 09:51
Why would evidence of the effectiveness of the measles vaccine have any bearing on the effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccines? We're not discussing th...
August 12, 2021 at 07:06
Your argument is that everyone in America should get vaccinated even if they live rurally, are healthy, socially distance etc. Thus using up precious ...
August 11, 2021 at 18:32
Yes, that's what I said. No, that's not the choice is it. If I said to you "wearing a hat will kill you", you're not then deciding whether your fashio...
August 11, 2021 at 18:27
None of that has any bearing on the matter of whether it will be rendered more safe by the work being done to complete the BLA approval. It's just a l...
August 11, 2021 at 18:19
...? Maybe, but if I disagree with you about the causes, then the consistency of human nature doesn't help arbitrate between our positions does it? It...
August 11, 2021 at 18:15
I don't follow you. Why, if it's on average 90% efficacious would it be less likely in all categories? If, on average drunk people are more likely to ...
August 11, 2021 at 10:10
The problem here seems to revolve around two things; Firstly the confusion between medical advice as to the safety of the vaccine and ethical decision...
August 11, 2021 at 07:04
I'm not seeing the 'trouble' you started out claiming was there. You may well imagine that, yes.
August 11, 2021 at 06:53
Far less likely than whom? The unvaccinated? The unvaccinated but masked? The unvaccinated but healthy, the unvaccinated but rural dwelling, the unvac...
August 11, 2021 at 06:46
Interesting. How is it that you know this? What you believe is irrelevant. why would your guess as to the reasons of others have any bearing on the ma...
August 11, 2021 at 06:34
So confused. ...They must complete the thing they've actually already done - because all their work is about safety and efficacy which they've already...
August 11, 2021 at 06:22
Yeah. But we want to minimise surprise, so a good match between the probability function of the model and the distribution of the hidden state is some...
August 10, 2021 at 20:14
August 10, 2021 at 20:12
That's what perception is. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-42986-7_5
August 10, 2021 at 18:24
Are you unsure what 'rather than' means?
August 10, 2021 at 18:18
I believe the source of the data for each of my inferences is external to the model doing that inferring. I also believe that the source of the sensor...
August 10, 2021 at 17:44
I think that BIVs are more significant for you, perhaps, for this reason. I don't believe the object is out there in the 'real world' in the first pla...
August 10, 2021 at 17:33
Indeed. And you'd have a perfectly reasonable and well-evidenced support for your position if you were to believe that. The point is that there are ot...
August 10, 2021 at 17:30
Safe and effective enough is an individual judgement. Do you expect the government to tell you if you'll personally find riding a motorbike to be safe...
August 10, 2021 at 16:45
We can all speculate, that's the point of each individual being left to decide for themselves (on proper scientific advice, of course).
August 10, 2021 at 16:33
OK, I see where you're coming from. When I model, both the front ends are just 'Hidden State', so they're equal, to me. One last fling... Even in the ...
August 10, 2021 at 16:31
Tricky. None of us know the state of the world outside our Markov blanket, so we infer it. If we're BIVs (prior to any thought that we might be), then...
August 10, 2021 at 12:02
Ah, I see. It's not for the faint-hearted that's for sure.
August 10, 2021 at 07:29
I think this only holds if you can somehow quantify each of the safety levels (unless I've misunderstood what you mean by 'marginal', I took it to mea...
August 10, 2021 at 07:06
I see. I don't think anything that anyone is doing at this level is falsifiable, they're frameworks through which we can view the data. That's not to ...
August 10, 2021 at 07:01
I don't see how it applies to the BIV. 'Reality' is just a word which in the computer game case we're using to distinguish between the game world and ...
August 10, 2021 at 06:55
Really? I thought is was so nonsensical as to be beneath reply (and I reply to some garbage sometimes!). My argument is that TMF simply assumed that t...
August 10, 2021 at 06:54