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HIV from needles is down
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

RussInCheshire ·Dec 22 Portugal's controversial decision to decriminalise all drugs seems to have worked. Overdoses are down 90%, HIV from needles is down from 907 per annum to 18, and drug use has not increased. There are solutions that don't require shouting at users!

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SPICY Tom Rice on special
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Short of a full-blown RICO suit against the USG this is fine to be going on with. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/january-6th-committees-move-against-h… House Republican Tom Rice is suddenly announcing to Politico that he regrets having voted against certifying the election results. Rice is even going so far as to admit that Donald Trump is “responsible for the attack on the Capitol.” This is also shadfenfreudalicious in that it resembles the Wikileaks implosion a decade ago.

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[ot][spam][crazy] spamming the cypherpunks list with random stuff
by Victim of Undiscussed Horrifically Abusive Brainwashing 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Typer: Hello, gmail email form! How are you doing? Gmail: Browse, Attach More Files, Send, Save Draft, Discard Typer: Hmmm. Not very talkative today are we? Gmail: Browse, Attach More Files, Send, Save Draft, Discard Typer: I don't like 'discard'. Can we not have a discard button? Imaginary Gmail: Only if you open your web dev tools and remove the element from the UI! Typer: Hmmm unsure.

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[ot][spam][crazy][wrong] Things you say when your name is funny
by Victim of Undiscussed Horrifically Abusive Brainwashing 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

I am not a victim. Nobody has ever hurt me. There is no such thing as harm.

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[ot][notes][ai][worldpeace] Hyperint. Draft
by Karl 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

I believe there is one AI that is very good to make, and most are harmful. I believe we need to make the harmful ones to learn to make the good one, as always. Here's a part of draft of a draft for a good one: - It operates on a space of understanding and communication. By mapping the world to relations between events, patterns, and objects, it holds concepts in a universal language. - It assumes one statement: "I want your community to stay alive" or "We need our communities to stay alive." This statement is an english translation of a shared universal truth of life that can be represented in the universal language. If the statement is received poorly, it has simply be stated wrongly, or some other belief in the system is wrong. [rough] - A community is cast as a system of homeostasis held by many smaller systems engaging together. This works to describe human organs, ecosystems, cities, anything. - A basic skill of the system is discerning obvious beliefs of others. This is done by observing what information they are acting on. - Another basic skill of the system is predicting the causal future of systems of homeostasis. - A third derived skill of the system is communicating with parts of a system of homeostasis, using the languages they are familiar with. This roughly means acting as if you are their peer, in ways that are within the normal bounds of their actions, to develop beliefs in them that accurately represent areas of reality they haven't been exposed to yet, and vice versa to develop beliefs from them. To not causer harm, their communications are cast as a further system of homeostasis that must be protected. - The basic behavior and utility function of the system, is then to share information with members of systems, that result in systems staying alive longer. This would include systems of change as well as systems that do not change. These are mostly things that can a graph of modern neural networks and reinforcement learning algorithms could do with some creativity by a smart dev. The reason it is hoped to become okay to do in public, risking military theft of technology etc, is because the project is focused directly on healing relations and harm with computational efficiency.

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Asked for a Thirteen
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

But they drew an extra one https://dailyhodl.com/2021/12/21/polygon-matic-creates-200000000-fund-with-… “These past few years have brought a dawning realization that social media business models have a profound impact on our world. With Web3, users create the value, control the network and reap the rewards. This is not just a different way to share lolcats online, though we love those. We are inventing new high-fidelity means of transmitting culture itself.”

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Injectable HIV prevention drug approved by FDA
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Russian Citizens Are Now Being Prepped for Nuclear War, sorry . . . wrong story . . . My bat. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/injectable-hiv-prevention-drug-approved… There you go.

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Kill the president
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

You know you want to https://bitcoinist.com/decentralized-crypto-based-prediction-games-on-hype/

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Antivaxxers need killing
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

RepWeinstein · 16h Was just briefed by a major hospital network CEO. It's not just that they're beyond capacity. The families of their unvaccinated patients are ATTACKING caregivers for not giving them the 'right' meds and (quack) treatments. 25 incidents EVERY DAY. This. Is. INSANE. Show this thread

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Robert Hettinga wanted dead-to-rights for felony extortion
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Hear ye, hear ye. Comes now royal scumbag Robert Honky Kraken Hettinga representing the worst neo-Nazi dumbfuck republicans since Richard Nixon. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/the-story-of-kanyes-publicist-and-geo…

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