Re: [Vo]:Solution to the Pandemic! And the next one...

2020-04-20 Thread Jonathan Berry
The harm from the virus is significant and lasting for many even if it does not kill. Also Corona viruses, well there has never been a successful vaccine for a corona virus and immunity seems not to be lasting. Indeed about a 3rd of those who have had it seem not to have notable levels of

Re: [Vo]:A contrarian thought experiment

2020-04-20 Thread Lennart Thornros
I like it. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 19:40 Jones Beene wrote: > Robin, > > Yes. However if an AI which is accurately modeling outcomes behind the > scenes was developed, programmed and funded by a secretive group to which > we can attach that name, then it makes little difference what label gets >

Re: [Vo]:A contrarian thought experiment

2020-04-20 Thread Jones Beene
Robin, Yes. However if an AI which is accurately modeling outcomes behind the scenes was developed, programmed and funded by a secretive group to which we can attach that name, then it makes little difference what label gets the blame ... why not "satan"? One could also label an expected

Re: [Vo]:A contrarian thought experiment

2020-04-20 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:29:04 + (UTC): Hi, [snip] > I like it. >Now imagine all that future you envision having been precision orchestrated in >the year 2020 by an AI which few humans knew about... I don't think it was an AI. More like the Illuminati. ;)

Re: [Vo]:A contrarian thought experiment

2020-04-20 Thread Jones Beene
I like it. Now imagine all that future you envision having been precision orchestrated in the year 2020 by an AI which few humans knew about... Jones On Monday, April 20, 2020, 12:36:14 PM PDT, AlanG wrote: View the current state of the world as a dystopian science-fiction book

[Vo]:A contrarian thought experiment

2020-04-20 Thread AlanG
View the current state of the world as a dystopian science-fiction book in progress. The plot line going forward: there was no easy cure found, an effective vaccine for example. Looking back from 50 years or so, we see carbon emission was reduced by 70%, world population reduced by 50% and

Re: [Vo]:Solution to the Pandemic! And the next one...

2020-04-20 Thread Michael Foster
This is a really good idea. Fortunately, the U.S. can supply its own krypton. 222 nm lamps are krypton chloride excimer bulbs. Maybe we can wise up and make the lamps in the United States. I doubt that any are made here now. I know this sounds ridiculous at the moment, but what if a baseball