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- Good. Let’s get a move on on these things. If people die it’s no big deal if they volunteer for it and know the risks before they sign up for it.by dyauspitr
- > If people die it’s no big deal if they volunteer for it and know the risks before they sign up for it.
Similarly, letting pilots skip the security check is no big deal. Just check the id_hash of their _pilot_struct against the ids in the day's flight manifest for the current frame being evaluated in the fully verified Rust-based simulation of reality.
If people are really that worried about "exploits" they're free to set a save point before arriving to the airport that morning.
Edit: important clarification wrt the fully verified Rust-based simulation of reality.
by jancsika - Really tired of hearing how much better China is than us. It’s just so demoralizing like what is going on…by bix6
- So much better https://www.google.com/search?q=china+execution+vanby _DeadFred_
- > demoralizing
Why? China could do their own thing, and your country can do yours.
by dudisubekti - A good way to cut through competing accounts and noise to find "where do people want to live more?" is to look at net migration flows.by EA-3167
- If this were the US, you'd be claiming this recklessness is what happens when you fire all the oversight at the FDA.
Fortunately for China they have the luxury of killing people, pretending it never happened, and replacing them from its never-ending pipeline.
by pudgywalsh - We got too cautious. They may be too incautious but possibly not given how excessively cautious we are. Caution is good but it needs to be accurately costed and where it cant be we need to error on the side of incaution because the cost of caution is often atleast as high as the cost of incaution
- They’re going to run away with it. We have true regressives in power at this point staunchly defending fossil fuels and diminishing the main advantage the US had with attracting the best and brightest from all over the world. This was the worst possible to have MAGA take over.
That being said, I would still definitely want to live in the US compared to China.
by dyauspitr - We could, like, stop framing it as us vs them to start. We could also elect leaders who want progress and are willing to squeeze the 1% even a little bit to make that progress.
China is taking long term views. Transit and rail, solar energy, batteries, manufacturing and automation, science investment.
The US is thinking very short term, to benefit very few. Ignoring rail, cutting renewables, building highly speculative and unpopular data centers, and cutting funding to science and the arts.
I see the 30 year vision for infrastructure in China and I think we could do it here. We just... don't. Because we have somehow made long term investments that benefit many a political dead end so our two "teams" can argue about how the other team is evil.
by forestrywat - As a non-USian but a fan of your republic’s ideals, I understand. I feel incredibly saddened at the slow-motion self-immolation that seems to be consuming your country. I read this article yesterday and couldn’t believe what I was reading. I had to double check it wasn’t a gag.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/donald-trump-us-navy-...
It’s not necessarily that China is “better”, but they clearly have an intentionality to the directions they are pursuing. Sadly, it seems so does the US.
by phs318u - For all the theories about how covid might have been some conspiracy in China... (I'm more inclined to believe a hybrid, they didn't have a program to develop any weapons out of it, but would EASILY buy a coverup to try to hide the shame of yet another seasonal virus that turned out to be more)
What if this sort of research leads to some prion like disease that either works like a slow acting (fast to spread) neuro-toxin, or a scenario like the Children of Men movie?
Containment and risks need to be considered.
by mjevans - Another possible answer to the Fermi paradox.by SoftTalker
- Don't we have fauci's journal notes saying that he thought it was lab made now?
- Speculation about "who's done it" is seriously counterproductive - bio-events are awfully easy to engineer for misdirection.
The most concerning part of this story isn't that there's nothing to prevent any of these or worse, it's the push to paint bio-concerns as a ridiculous caricature. Especially in the light of international bio-treaties being a bad joke and the suppression of protective bio-information by the big AI labs.
by bigbadfeline - How absurd to think that covid was a gof leak.by tiahura
- The US government would never fund a Chinese lab to do something like that, right?
- gain-of-functionby turtleyacht
- This headline is burying the lede. My response to someone using genetically altered retroviruses to genetically engineer cells in the CNS of living humans would be stunned silence too. That's quite a risk to get past a review board.
The big question seems to be, how specific is the targeting of these designer retroviruses to the desired cell types and tissues and how is that achieved?
by superkuh - You said it's burying the lede but the "stun" is right there in the headline.
I'm confused what you think the lede for this story should be?
- Wasn't there just a post a few days ago about how Chinese researchers ignored a bunch of ethical and safety guidelines to run some of this research and ended up killing a girl?
The article just brushes aside that incident and seems to assume that because China is doing this experimentation, it's ahead in regards to gene therapy targeting the brain.
by scheme271 - from the article:
> Several people died recently in early-stage gene therapy trials in China.
- The article mentions that incident and links to it too.by fakedang
- "Multiple controlled trials" is quite different from an under-the-table, privately funded bespoke therapy for a single patient.