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As the cost of making such models becomes less and less, it seems inevitable, spin up many such models and see what sticks and/or combine some evolutionary process for feeding back user-engagement to fine-tune and adapt the models. How many of these influence machines will latch onto the language of existing religious traditions and how many might invent or spur on the development of entirely new ones? Maybe not exactly the "Age of Spiritual Machines" that some futurists predicted...

How far are we from "Show HN: I started a cult by training a model on the sermons of televangelists and MLM copy."

I'm sure it can be helpful to have some kind of feedback for productivity and output but it could also be seen as a bit patronizing and or paternalistic if you're not careful.

Summary: "investigators found that the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies among hospital employees was lower than what had been reported for the surrounding general community that is consistent with personal protective equipment being effective at preventing exposure of hospital workers. In addition, researchers found via laboratory testing that N95 masks with intact elastic straps or if sterilized maintained their effectiveness even if they had passed their expiration point, offering alternatives to the scarcity of N95 masks."

Conclusion: "PPE, when available and properly used, confers protection and lower infection rates of COVID-19 among health care workers when compared with reported infection rates in the general public."

>>Well obviously. If you want to build a halal certified banking product it has to be implement syariah principles, thats the point.

https://www.ojk.go.id/en/berita-dan-kegiatan/siaran-pers/Pag...

Participating in the Indonesian sharia finance economy would be more akin to something like organic certification on produce. Most farms are not organic but if you want to label your products as such then you have to undergo a certification process with an agency like the USDA. In this case to be certified Halal you have to gain the MUI certificate which is recognized by the OJK Financial Services Authority of Indonesian. However, an Indonesian person is likely better person to clarify this more precisely.

It seems weird to pronounce that you detest it in general since it's not a monolithic thing and is more of a general concept encompassing a law tradition informed by a moral/religious framework.

https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-sharia/

https://ing.org/a-closer-look-at-sharia-in-the-united-states...

The difference is, for example, that they don't charge interest. They can't indulge in some particularly risky or speculative transactions. There's actually a whole long list of requirements, such as not selling debt, that are derived from these basic prohibitions against interest taking and against excessive risk. So because of those specific rulings, they have to design the transactions in slightly different ways.

For example, rather than borrowing money to buy some goods, they'll have the bank buy the goods and then resell the goods to the customer, so the bank becomes involved as an owner at one stage of the transaction. That makes it lawful, from the Islamic perspective. Whereas if the bank lent the money to the customer, that's an interest-bearing loan, and that's not allowed. So they use slightly different routes, typically involving ownership of goods at some point, to achieve finance."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/201...

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/debunking-two-chemical...

In the general public, there's a logical fallacy that people seem to fall for when thinking about psychopharmacology. It seems that when it is learned that serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs)are used to treat patients with depression it is followed with some mechanistic explanation of a "chemical imbalance" resulting from "not enough serotonin."

Yet people don't make this mistake when talking about opiods or pain killers. If you break your arm and the doctor prescribes Codeine we don't come to the conclusion that "you broke your arm and all your endogenous opoids came spilling out so we had to replace it with Codeine." Although Tylenol/paracetamol are useful for treating pain, we don't hear a lot of talk about Tylenol deficiencies.

As to your claim about antidepressants, psychiatry and psychopharmacology is abound in RCTs, many on treating depression with antidepressants. You are perhaps mistaking a common clinical approach (outside of clinical studies) for finding the best medical management for single patient with how clinical evidence is procured in the first place. There are more Cochrane reviews under "mental health" at 679 than there are under "orthopedics" at 478.

Also, when RCTs are proposed, no matter if they placebo controlled or not, they are reviewed by IRBs and ethics committees.

- Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Republican Candidate for US President

I don't think robot soccer is going to be the intermediate step since the threat of human death and the follow through on that threat is an essential feature of the war machine.

As difficult to get belligerents to agree to ethical rules of engagement, which would be a requirement for war as robot sport, we can't ignore the rise of asymmetric warfare and warfare via proxy through militias and unofficially backed terrorist organizations. These are often used by states as loopholes to get around treaties and international law. Are terrorists and militias going to be adhering to something resembling Asimov's laws of robotics when deploying their autonomous weapons?

At the moment, it seems that the vast majority of people carve out a special ethical exception for the military but I suspect this will change over time. Many futurist/sci-fi dystopian scenarios have the general shape of the Terminator movies with autonomous killing machines roaming the planet. If these proliferate, perhaps the terror of that reality will bring into focus the immorality of using force to achieve geopolitical goals. And it feels like we're getting uncomfortably close to that future.

https://twitter.com/DocBunker/status/1270390796978536450

https://www.ausa.org/publications/mission-command-and-armed-...

So I did. And then I wrote about it for @sciam “

https://twitter.com/KelseyAHE/status/1169310784133971969?s=2...