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> Every model of intelligence I'm familiar with includes memory as a significant component

Fallacy of affirmation of the consequent. Intelligence is a sign that there is memory, not v.v.

P.S. No, I did not commit a fallacy of denying the antecedent (which is the contrapositive of and thus logical equivalent of affirmation of the consequent), and it's not a game. And you just committed the same fallacy again ... yes models of intelligence include memory -- that's what I said. But memory does not entail intelligence -- again, that inversion is your fallacy.

Is H2H transmission mutation similar to all diseases? Like, if it's composes of the same component. Can fungus evolve to have this mutation?

> some people can't make the smell

So ... does that mean that their body breaks down aspargusic acid in a different way or do they capture the sulphur products immediately or ...?

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If you have both, what does that make you?

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On the side here, I sell furniture and often nail salons buy a few chairs and when I drop them off ( more than 10 times over a few years) they always have a very acrid smell inside the salon where they do nails. Its realy bad and I actively try not to breathe whilst inside. It reminds me of superglue cyanoacrylate and cannot be healthy for those exposed continuously.

Hm, speaking as an ornithologist who works directly with wild birds, do you know how difficult it is to obtain a vaccine? My boss keeps bringing up bird flu in staff meetings and I feel like a vaccine would at least make her less worried.

>This vaccine is not part of the routine flu shot schedule and is usually only recommended for people who work with birds or people who are traveling to areas where the virus is known to be present.

Where have you read this? We have a vaccine in development, but no responders nor poultry workers are being vaccinated for this specific strain. Is this in a specific country? Is it attuned to this specific strain? I know of an older one developed by Astrazenaca, but it is only for those 18 or younger. Nothing for the current situation is in use that I am aware of.

Thank you for the entirety of your answer, very helpful

Regarding this

> You also need time, space, and money to do such an experiment, and in 2020 that would not have been an ethical experiment so it could not be done. It MIGHT be an ethical experiment in 2023 with the current variants of COVID, but even that is unclear.

I am curious what the ethical issues you see are, and if they are alleviated with the use of informed, healthy volunteers....

If an RCT of masks is not ethical, what are the ethics of a mask mandate especially on young children?

believe it or not, I really wasn't trying to make this about masks themselves, but I was intrigued when I heard a scientist mentioning that some tests can't be blinded but that there were alternatives, what he was referring to

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the claim is made that unless you are testing masks in real life, for example on kids going to school and playing all day, sometimes wearing masks and sometimes not, you really aren't testing masks in any meaningful way that matters in terms of how kids will use them.

It seems like we should probably be stockpiling that, even if it ends up going to waste. And we should be inoculating people in the developing world who work with birds.

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That does seem like a nice pedagogical step. You still get the same sign for enthalpy though, regardless of which convention you use. My observation was really just that, it isn't a meaningful convention in terms of the results you get. (Unlike, say, using a convention that current is the flow of negative charge carriers, which would change all sorts of signs all over the place. That would be crazy...)

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This is true, but the amount of damage done by tourniquets is overstated, whereas the damage done by uncontrolled hemorrhage is…death.

Let’s say that, as you posited, only one of every hundred wounds needs a tourniquet to prevent death. If the perception is that tourniquets cause minor injury every time they’re used and permanent damage one time in 10, then you’ve hurt 99 people and caused permanent damage to 10 for every life saved with a torniquet.

Now let’s do the math if, say, you see minor injury one time in 10 and permanent damage once in 1000 applications. All of a sudden, you’re only causing 10 people minor harm for each life saved. Completely different math.

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It's already been said that this won't work. However, an enclosure around the printer and a high quality HEPA filter should work, although it's not specifically my background. Just trying to give an idea you can take to them, if you find out it will work. Sucks that they're forcing this on you, but office politics are finicky and it's better to offer a solution when saying no.

Edit: HEPA may not be ideal. Here's a blog post to get you started on filters that might work. https://molekule.com/blog/the-best-air-purifier-for-3d-printer-fumes-and-other-pollutants/

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