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kcplate commented on Decide Now; We Won't Know More Later Re UFOs   overcomingbias.com/p/deci... · Posted by u/paulpauper
commakozzi · 5 days ago
I'm a pilot, i know what things look like in the air from varying distances, balloons, other planes, helicopters, stray plastic sheet, lasers, whatever. I'm also not a believer in supernatural things and i hope aliens are not visiting our planet without our knowledge and/or permission. However, (here we go): I have seen an object in the sky seemingly being intelligently controlled & doing things that we have no current ability to do or understand (as far as we know) and these maneuvers would absolutely turn the occupant (if there was one) into a warm liquid. it had a single kind of unnaturally bright (but not blinding for some reason) blueish light and it just danced in the sky like physics just didn't matter at all. I and 4 other friends of mine watched it for about 3-5 mins until it turned toward space and zipped away like it was nothing. This was clearly a large object, about the size of a fighter jet.

Based on that experience and my interpretation of my senses, I feel like i personally know for a fact that SOMETHING is flying around in our skies that we currently have no inventory for (that is publicly known at least) and to be absolutely prudent i would want to investigate that object and understand what it is, where it came from and who made it (i also want to fly it) and that would be an absolute priority. It's not that there's nothing in the skies of interest. There is something up there that people are seeing that's not being misidentified (it's not being identified at all!), but it's a real object. My guess: advanced american drone with a new power source and propulsion system that the general public (including research scientists) didn't know was possible. Other than that, sure maybe aliens, if our understanding of the universe is just completely flawed and FTL is actually possible.

I'm not here to try to convince anyone (maybe i am subconsciously, but whatever). It's just incredibly frustrating because i absolutely hate religion and any other belief systems that might promote a lack of critical thinking, and it looks like i'm presenting a lack of critical thinking here. Yes, i do not know what it was, but I'm also an educated engineer who happens to be a pilot. I completely understand that humans have faulty perception and probably even more faulty brains, but I also understand when something is an object versus when it's of some other quality (gas, solid, etc.). I'm increasingly annoyed when i see the entire subject seem to get dismissed simply because there are so many bad reports and bad information.

I agree somewhat with the premise here but also, if there are aliens visiting our planet from another solar system and they just got here today, then what kind of action could humans take anyway? These things would probably be able to reshape reality at that point, idk.

kcplate · 5 days ago
> My guess: advanced american drone with a new power source and propulsion system that the general public (including research scientists) didn't know was possible.

This to me is the most likely explanation and no doubt the military and government certainly benefits from people attributing advanced terrestrial technology to extraterrestrial sources.

kcplate commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
oblio · 6 days ago
> You really need to look at the timeline here. Operation Warp Speed was a Trump program that fast tracked the Covid vaccine development and their “emergency use” approval.

After he dismantled the pandemic taskforce...

kcplate · 6 days ago
The Global Health Security and Biodefense Directorate inside the NSC was disbanded 18 months before Covid emerged. It was established by the Obama administration as a response to the Ebola outbreak. What’s your point exactly?

I know people point to that in some sort of accusatory suggestion regarding Covid, but to my knowledge no one has provided any definitive proof that the pandemic would have been better or worse for the US if that council was around in 2020. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence that the US response would have been different if it existed or the that the pandemic would have been prevented. It was re-established under Biden, but Biden’s coronavirus approach didn’t seem to be measurably better than Trump’s, in fact it was worse. They pretty much continued and doubled down on the same wrongheaded approach that Trump was doing.

kcplate commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
oblio · 7 days ago
They're anti science and I'm also fairly sure that despite Trump hypocritically getting every COVID vaccine ASAP for himself and his family, he's been at best ambiguous about vaccines publicly (pandering to his "freedom" base) and has peddled pseudo medicine a bunch of times.
kcplate · 6 days ago
I write all of this as a fully vaccinated person who never voted for Trump…

You really need to look at the timeline here. Operation Warp Speed was a Trump program that fast tracked the Covid vaccine development and their “emergency use” approval. The vaccines were not even available to the public until 5 weeks before Biden was sworn in. VP Harris in an interview prior to the election suggested that should would be skeptical of “Trumps Vaccines” and that the American people should be as well.

When Trump was talking about those alternative treatments it was way before the vaccines were available. Those things were not necessarily “pseudoscience” at the time because scientists were actively testing many different treatment therapies because the vaccines were not yet available. Those were definitely some treatments that was being tested and experimented with by numerous doctors and scientists becuase the medical establishment was desperate for an effective treatment. Certainly the idiot Fauci had his opinions, but we now know that many of Fauci’s recommendations were utter bullshit that was not grounded in science either.

But back to your characterization of “hypocrisy”. Is it hypocrisy to simply “not force someone to get an experimental vaccine but get one yourself”? Seems to me “hypocrisy” might be better illustrated by downplaying the development of a vaccine and expressing and encouraging skepticism publicly of it just because your political opponent is associated with it? THEN…adopting that same vaccine you decried and forcing people to get it. That’s a better example of hypocrisy than just saying “I am getting it, but you do you”.

kcplate commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
ponector · 7 days ago
Aren't there more gay liberals than ever?

/s

kcplate · 7 days ago
Well…there is more 5G in my area, but it’s still voting consistently red. Although, there is a lovely gay couple new to my neighborhood.
kcplate commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
oblio · 7 days ago
> Trump appointing RFK due to popular demand from his base even though Trump previously never expressed any of those views.

Trump? Ivermectin Trump? Bleach Trump?

kcplate · 7 days ago
Are either of those two things anti-vax?
kcplate commented on Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=1A6uP... · Posted by u/tomwphillips
betaminecraft · 8 days ago
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kcplate commented on Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=1A6uP... · Posted by u/tomwphillips
Draiken · 10 days ago
So much copium.

People are so invested in this bubble they have to believe it will not burst at all costs.

If this works as well as the evangelists say, they'll all soon be millionaires, right? Everyone is 10x more productive! I'll be waiting... seated.

The good part about this is that if it does indeed get as good as they claim, anyone will be able to get the same benefits. If it doesn't, I'll be around to fix all the garbage code vomited out of LLMs.

kcplate · 10 days ago
Here is the thing that concerns me…at least philosophically. This won’t affect me personally (at least adversely) since I am at the end of my career.

If this works—even remotely—this will devastate upcoming entry level software engineering vocations and no longer will we have an army of bright people choosing that vocation. You will still need the upper class SWEs to manage and refine what the AI produces. However at that point AI will need to improve beyond the need for the upper class because you have dried up your engineering well. So what I see is an eventual technological stagnation…or shitification brought about by AI.

kcplate commented on Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=1A6uP... · Posted by u/tomwphillips
yobbo · 10 days ago
Step 2 does not imply step 3.

Step 3 only occurs in a small fraction of cases. Step 4 even smaller fraction.

kcplate · 10 days ago
But they occur…

And it only takes one or two breakout products to create a buzz around a platform or method in our world nowadays.

kcplate commented on Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=1A6uP... · Posted by u/tomwphillips
kcplate · 10 days ago
Your statement reads as a contradiction of sorts.

u/kcplate

KarmaCake day2276July 10, 2020View Original