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Stahp means stahp. You've been warned. Don't refuse moderation. (Also, an answer to the eternal question, the moderators moderate the moderators)

I've heard that a lot growing up. Usually just after my friends were innocently calling the staff "chinkies".

Are you imagining that people can come to the country and stay indefinitely without work in the current situation? If someone stays, they have a job o...

Stahp.

I'm quite convinced that the timing is not a coincidence. I wonder what populist right driven campaign was backed by those same populist right rags an...

(1) It facilitated freedom of movement agreements. You didn't need a Visa to go on holiday to France or visit relatives in Germany. You should probabl...

Such trust seems to me to be a default state. We always end up trusting something since doubt is always practiced on some ground, held up by trust in ...

:groan: You're doing exactly the same shit you were criticising in the original post.

I don't think your theory makes much sense, it doesn't respect thresh-holds. Say the limit is 10 politicians, and that can be a just arrangement, sudd...

Stop virtue signalling. Are you working towards a boycott movement? What're you doing that makes it more likely for other people to stop buying Chines...

As a, or the, central explanatory category for the unfolding of nature considered as its own thing. So the connection goes: phusis -> naturalism, natu...

Scientists rarely engage with nature as its own concept, right? You don't need to think of nature as its own thing to have a predictive theory. Maybe ...

Nah. My argument is that there are major incentives to buy them, not that everyone buys them. It's financially responsible (something I assume you lik...

Isaac DESTROYS evolutionary psychology. (Maybe). How I'm thinking about emotions in the natural kind flavour are that they are attractors in the dynam...

... Are you serious about the idea that less politicians means more accountability? Where did you get it?

What would "not pretending to care" look like? I can think of a few scenarios for it: (1) Yeah I don't actually care about workers in China, we need t...

China's a state capitalist country. You can tell because they have workers who are payed to do jobs. One reason why we keep importing from there is th...

Brexit was power consolidation of the political class you're railing against. The same people that want the UK out of EU trading and tax transparency ...

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75 here's a study that's actually quantifying how much life has been lost and adjusting for comorbidities ...

Can see it now. "EU refuses to negotiate with Britain on fair terms, leading to no deal arrangement" "If only the EU were willing to negotiate with us...

This makes sense. I couldn't find much on Google scholar, the things I've found stress the necessity of ventilators, rather than looking at of those w...

Have you seen any papers that are looking at weather ventilators are bad for people with covid, to the extent where it's better if they are not used?

I don't doubt it!

My friend in the UK tried looking for work, he's a chemical engineer that can do data analysis. He's had over 80 applications, no responses except for...

I don't think these are good evidence that using a ventilator increases risk (of death, or that it worsens outcomes). It would be extremely surprising...

Well I'm glad the surgery worked. Though in that scenario, notice that the only reason the tracheotomy was necessary was because the ventilator ceased...

We're leaping to point the gun at ventilators because it's convenient for the emerging excess healthcare expenditure narrative, and articulate people ...

... Until you're dead, never go to the doctor's again. But don't go after, you were going to die anyway after all.

On what basis are you assuming ventilators kill people who would choke to death without them?

People on ventilators tend to die. Having a high death rate due to respiratory failures while on ventilators is not so surprising. This is fully consi...

President Hanover issues a decree where patients currently on ventilators stop using them due to inconclusive evidence that they do not help. Almost e...

Ok. The question: "Do people who are put on ventilators tend to die?" is not... the question "Do ventilators preserve the life of those patients and a...

Are you seriously suggesting that there's no evidence that a machine which demonstrably keeps failing lungs working facilitates recovery of people wit...

Good luck to both of you!

Can I imply something with a question?

You are right of course. It is my partisanship, my ideological blinkers, and my thorough lack of critical thinking skills that lead me to believe Trum...

Maybe 20 years ago people would've said "Someone who would advise their public to inject bleach into their veins is unelectable". Now it's a bunch of ...

That's about where I was going, aye. I think "infelicity" is a good touchstone to describe what the "prediction errors" of active inference, in terms ...

That's very cool. I think I might have to pick up that book. Thank you. Will have a read of that tomorrow, and will try to make a post about that "inf...

What would your take on a formal semantics approach to 1's referent be? Like, taking it to be by definition the successor of 0, or the equivalence cla...

Maybe one way of condensing Barrett's points about errors is that they are more like infelicities of speech acts; in the regard that promoted actions ...

To draw a really special emphasis on this point (which was lacking in how I presented it); the predictions of our self models are also in part propose...

Philosophy rarely contains interpretations of dimension reduction techniques applied to psychometrics (plotting emotional states as they were measured...

Continuing from here. The titular "Emotion Paradox" from the paper is that: So there are two thrusts of it: (1) people are compelled by their experien...

I wanna share what I think to be Feldman Barret's positive account from the paper "The Emotion Paradox", rather than dealing with the details of the e...

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I believe in that sense, comorbidity presence and severity explain a lot of the variation between those cases (they are the common factor). In general...

I guess linking to both; we rarely articulate the criteria by which our arguments are seen to flow. Or how our assertions/attempts to reframe things a...

A: "Assertion!" B: "On what basis do you believe this is true?" A: (supporting argument or citation) Is how it should go with a fixed question, or ana...

Answered no. It's difficult to perturb a wrong question with right evidence.