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>...home remodeling, yard work, or canoeing...

Are you sure it's actually the physical exhaustion and not the hours of exposure to direct sunlight which calibrates your circadian rhythm?

youareostricheson Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

For corporate espionage it is most certainly company meetings which are of interest.

youareostricheson I Got My Attention Back (2017)

Nicotine also has nootropic properties

youareostricheson Proposals to Amend Section 230 Share a Similar Goal: Damage Online Users’ Speech

Reddit prohibits content which:

* Is illegal

* Is involuntary pornography

* Is sexual or suggestive content involving minors

* Encourages or incites violence

* Threatens, harasses, or bullies or encourages others to do so

* Is personal and confidential information

* Impersonates an individual or entity in a misleading or deceptive manner

* Uses Reddit to solicit or facilitate any transaction or gift involving certain goods and services

* Is spam*

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy

A few of the banned subreddits are:

* Beatingwomen

* Braincels

* CreepShots

* CringeAnarchy

* DarkNetMarkets

* Deepfakes

* FatPeopleHate

* Gore

Your position basically insinuates that right-wing discourse is impossible without violating these rules.

But I think that’s pretty unfair considering the range and depth of conservative intellectual thought.

Maybe you should encourage the more moderate segments of conservatism to speak out against extremists who use the language of racist violence instead of defending them.

youareostricheson Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug?

>As a species, we're approaching the time where we've obviated evolution.

This is hubris. Everything that humanity may accomplish in the future, from editing its own genome to creating general artificial intelligence, is a product of that same evolutionary process. We do all that out of our innate need for self preservation and reproduction—evolutionary imperatives for all organisms.

But it’s more accurate to think of evolution as a universal computational process occurring within the substrate of (bio)chemistry. That computation will yield further computation (intelligence and its products).

youareostricheson People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features

What was the term again? “Snowflakes”. Right.

youareostricheson Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens

Surely you started with textbooks.

youareostricheson Introducing Facebook Shops

Facebook needs to be broken up immediately, and their core platform offering replaced by an open protocol.

youareostricheson Electrons May Well Be Conscious

Oh, certainly the processes occurring on the chip itself could bring about an entirely separate consciousness while at the same time simulating a human one on a different level.

youareostricheson Electrons May Well Be Conscious

>Now take this to the extreme: replace all of these neurons with empty shells and route the computation to a billion people in the world to perform on pen and paper. Is it still conscious? If so, what if you removed the brain altogether and just performed the computations directly on paper, is the paper conscious?

Yes, absolutely consciousness would exist in all of those scenarios — but you couldn’t claim that any one “thing” such as the paper itself, would “be” conscious. The notion of a separate self is still fundamentally an abstraction placed on top of billions of neurons interlinked with a musculoskeletal system, through which quadrillions of new atoms are constantly cycling through. On a long enough scale you only have the psychological “gestalt“ of a human.

Even the sensation of “self” is still ultimately just another internal cognitive model, because ultimately everything else we perceive is also just an internal model of reality.

In your example, that internal “self” model would continue to exist within the abstract computationally-mediated consciousness-generating process.

Each conscious process exists in its own fully separate ontological space—because it is inherently subjective.

youareostricheson Electrons May Well Be Conscious

We can imagine consciousness as a purely informational process, which can occur in any adequately complex substrate—real or virtual. In this regard (integrated information theory), the inherent “properties” of consciousness would be more readily described using graph theory or topology.

However, we can also view physics itself as something inherently informational, given that all the base particles in the standard model can ultimately be boiled down to scalar values. Would it be possible to say that those values are ultimately derived from the inherently mathematical properties which result in this reality “existing”? What does it mean for something to exist on the basis of its inherent mathematical identity?

If both consciousness and reality are purely mathematical phenomenon (maybe consciousness is more derived through the computation-generating properties of life), why would one such phenomenon be any less expected than the other? Isn’t it impossible for a non-mathematically-derived (informational) consciousness to exist at all in such a universe?

youareostricheson Old TB vaccine gets new look in tests for coronavirus protection

>The MMR-version of the same "this is the magic key" story seemed much more promising (except for Iran) ...

Iran only administered a single MMR shot and consequently had lower levels of protection.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197120...

Italy had a inadequate MMR vaccination, too:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5243a4.htm

See this report on a multi-country analysis from last week:

https://www.contractpharma.com/content-microsite/covid-19/20...

youareostricheson Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19

Units, please. He said micrograms and it sounds like you’re talking about IU.

youareostricheson Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19

Glass actually fully blocks the helpful UV-B rays while still allowing some amount of harmful UV-A rays through.

youareostricheson Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes

vitamin K deficiency is also associated with covid19 symptoms.

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0457/v1

youareostricheson Covid-19: Impact on business sectors and the economy

Explain how the virus could spread after they had recovered, a necessary step for which is their immune system clearing the virus.

youareostricheson One Day Sooner – Covid-19 Human Challenge Trials

Immunity passports reveal a naive understanding of infection. Thousands of people in South Korea have tested positive even after testing negative. Some of those people continued to infect others. One man in China has tested positive for the virus for over 70 days despite having no symptoms. You can read anecdotes on /r/covid19positive from people who, after exercise, suddenly tested positive and developed more severe symptoms after having previously “recovered” and tested negative.

It could very well be that the virus remains reactivatable in some people for an unknown amount of time, maybe even establishing permanent latency like HIV or herpes. Neurological effects are known to occur with this virus and the types of tissue known to be affected continues to expand.

In such a scenario, an immunity “passport” would become more of a scarlet letter.

youareostricheson Nearly a third of blood samples taken in Chelsea show exposure to coronavirus

It’s certainly not a hollywood movie—for the flu, it’s already the case!

Change in Human Social Behavior in Response to a Common Vaccine

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20816312/

Conclusions: These results show that there is an immediate active behavioral response to infection before the expected onset of symptoms or sickness behavior.

youareostricheson Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media

> And then after that the companies will get involved in politics in those places so that it never happens again. This in turn increases the chance of regulatory capture and corruption.

Sounds like a great reason to change the distribution of wealth and systematically reduce the power and influence of corporations.

youareostricheson Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free

Carrousel! https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22080/what-did-the...

youareostricheson Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of SARS coronavirus (2004)

Yes, they do that. It would be consistent with the results seen:

Treatment with ACE-inhibitors is associated with less severe disease with SARS-Covid-19 infection in a multi-site UK acute Hospital Trust https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.07.20056788v...

youareostricheson Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of SARS coronavirus (2004)

the hypothesis about ACE inhibitors and ARBs promoting covid-19 severity has never been proven in any human study and in fact ARBs have been shown to reduce mortality in one of the few covid studies which have been done:

Anti-hypertensive Angiotensin II receptor blockers associated to mitigation of disease severity in elderly COVID-19 patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.20.20039586v...

youareostricheson Deep Molecular Programming

Well, what do you think life is? It’s a product of chemical computation.

youareostricheson Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script

Actually, killing coreaudiod can be necessary every once in a while.

youareostricheson Machine translation of cortical activity to text with encoder–decoder framework

I’m curious of your opinion on Openwater: https://www.openwater.cc/technology

youareostricheson France could nationalize big companies if necessary: finance minister

https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/crisis-next-time-pla...

Among other things, nationalization would all but eliminate institutional resistance to, and subversion of, public policy and regulations.

youareostricheson France could nationalize big companies if necessary: finance minister

This is a far, far better response to bankruptcy of essential industry than the bailout of 2008.

youareostricheson Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff

The reason economic recessions kill people is because our system doesn't currently guarantee people the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, and health care. This is a political choice to let people die in order to preserve the status quo -- it is not an inevitability.

youareostricheson Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff

Whether people like it or not, shrinking global economic activity in fuel-heavy and extractive industries (by extension, via demand destruction) is inevitably linked to reducing carbon emissions. We must be prepared to give up certain things for the sake of our ecosystem.

youareostricheson Layoffs Are Coming

In the case of the former, it's the virus that kills people. If deaths occurred by way of the latter, it would be only because the wealthy ruling class refused to pay their fair share (via the subversion of our democracy) to support basic necessities of food, shelter, and health care.