Aaron Stupple

@astupple

Physician Optimist

Massachusetts
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  1. 12 hours ago

    Exactly, a corrected version of the precautionary principle boils down to obvious claims like “be careful” and “be honest.” Let’s replace it with “solving important problems fast in the absence of knowledge.”

    I sometimes wonder if we shouldn't retire the much abused 'precautionary principle' and replace it with an 'honesty principle' ... 6/
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  2. Nov 27

    Triceratops is the worst dinosaur to step on in bare feet.

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    Nov 25

    The good news is it will only take the FDA two years to approve the updated vaccine Moderna will make for this tomorrow morning.

    Nu, a variant of real concern
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  4. Nov 26

    Absolutely fabulous - has done is a favor. Historians will ponder the strangeness of how we spooked ourselves about abundant clean energy. I wonder what else we’ve spooked ourselves about - scary AI gets my vote.

    The Energy of Tomorrow: The Promise, Failure, and Possible Rebirth of Nuclear Power Why did nuclear seem so promising in the '50s, how did it go wrong, and what is its potential for the future? My talk at
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  5. Nov 25

    As soon as humans divert a planet-killer, the argument that we are a scourge on the environment will be dead. The trick is slaying that argument sooner.

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the DART spacecraft onboard from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
    Asteroids have been hitting the Earth for billions of years. Now, we begin to make it stop. 's planetary defense test mission – the – has lifted off and is now on a journey to impact an asteroid in the fall of 2022. Read more:
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    25 Aug 2019

    Every human being who is functional at all, is rational and creative and capable of being more so.

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  7. Nov 24

    In which describes an impending chess fork. Changing the consensus for chess and bitcoin requires convincing a large segment of users.

    In which I also predict the outcome of vs. Nepo:
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  8. Nov 22

    Any human, male or female, can care about anything, from moldy cheese to jumping off mountains. Non-humans are stuck with what their genes tell them to "care" about. (Scare quotes bc I don't think non-humans have the understanding to care at all.)

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    In most mammals, only the females care for the young. In our species, the males often do too. Which is why you sometimes see scenes like this... 😍
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    Nov 22
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    Exactly, we're looking at their best! They are inherently politicized, conflicted, and ineffective. Getting good information on diseases and drugs quickly is not an unsolvable problem.

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  10. Nov 22

    This quote is very wrong.😊 Our knowledge grows in all domains, technology is not a special branch. And all domains interact - moral growth supports technological growth and vice versa. It’s one big jumble, and we are making progress everywhere.

    Love this quote every time I come across it.
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  11. Nov 21

    Also the dying part.

    No matter whether you're liberal or conservative, if you understand how the death penalty works in practice (sloppy police, lying witnesses, crooked DAs), you can't support it.
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  12. Nov 21

    Excellent illustration of how attempts to stop misinformation require guessing at the source’s intention and Vic allegiance. Why isn’t the surgeon general all over this?

    10. Most frustratingly, this was flagged for the CDC three weeks ago, by a site called Voice of San Diego. A CDC spokesman acknowledged the issue. But the bad data is still on the CDC's website.
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  13. Nov 20

    Shit, this is the most joyful thing I’ve ever seen.

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    This is Ellen Alaverdyan. 9-year old bassist. Wait for the smile...
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  14. Nov 20

    OK, Lones Smith is a comic genius - he never misses!

    That's the 3th time I have seen this sign so far, but the 1nd time I understood it
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  15. Nov 20

    If an expert is uninterested in criticism, it’s going to be a long time before I get around to their book, as I’m pretty sure the arguments in it will have been similarly shielded and hence not worth my time.

    Don't we need to read his book before taking issue with his claims? It's not really just about Jason, it's a more general point about the deference to experts.
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    Nov 20

    Once again, thousands of lives hang in the balance as the FDA decides how quickly to issue an EUA for a new tool against COVID-19, but there is almost no curiosity about the extremely opaque process, just widespread apathetic trust that the current pace is fine.

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  17. Nov 19

    Oh my god.

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    Egg-eating snakes (genus Dasypeltis) live in Africa and feed on bird eggs. Watch one swallowing a egg bigger than its head breaking its shell with its cervical vertebrae. The entire process took 2 hours [full video, Living Zoology: ]
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  18. Nov 19

    Children come into the world not knowing a lot of stuff, including how not to lose things. Why not teach them how to avoid it, like you would a friend, not admonish them for being born without the knowledge? Admonishments offer fear and shame, not learning.

    Again, if you are engaged in some lunatic parenting approach that is putting undue psychological stress on your child (such as accusing them of "destroying the planet"), I beg you, please do not write about it for a major magazine.
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  19. Nov 19

    Looks like only tweets interesting stuff. "Degrowth-lite" is a great phrase. I think I need to start a thread on "Basic economic theory IS basic moral theory."

    Actually impoverishment is a generally bad thing, and so is this degrowth-lite opinion.
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  20. Nov 19

    Govt-provided services are monopolies, shielded from competition, shielded from criticism, unable to adapt and improve, guaranteed to disappoint. When was the last time a govt-provided service didn't disappoint?

    The monopolistic FDA’s bureaucratic foot-dragging is a threat to public health, example eleventy billion.
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