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Sam Altman: "I'd rather not have another synthetic biology pathogen causing a global pandemic" youtu.be/1egAKCKPKCk?si…
Cunliffe compared the situation to the “Great Stink” of 1858, when the stench from the Thames river was so bad that it disrupted business in Parliament and precipitated the construction of London’s sewerage system under civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Bertrand Russell wrote a self-help book on how to be happy called “The Conquest of Happiness” (1930). Some of the passages are pretty funny.
America can take credit for inventing fudge, even if it happened by accident. Some believe a confectioner "fudged" a batch of caramel, and it quickly became a hit at women's colleges in the late 1890s. It's the only snack that ranks higher than a Nutter Butter with Diesel:)
Replacing human connections however trivial with AI robots is debased and anti-human.
Fabio Wibmer riding on the edge of a dam
Human-like beings are doomed to drop toast butter-side down 🥪 In 1995, Robert Matthews wrote a paper showing that toast landing butter-side down isn’t just bad luck or evidence of Murphy’s Law ('If it can go wrong, it will') - it’s physics and ultimately ascribable to the…
You run a government infectious disease research agency. You get a grant that proposes to carry out gain of function research into potentially dangerous coronaviruses. If you fund the grant you probably won’t learn anything useful, but 40 million people might die from a lab leak.…
This is the central problem with higher education in the age of AI. We can't require students to do take-home writing assignments (e.g. term papers) any more, because most will cheat and have ChatGPT or Claude or Grok do the writing. But we can't teach critical thinking,…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Mr Trotman, said: “It is very unusual to have a clear scan with glioblastoma, especially when he didn’t have the follow-up surgery that had been planned to remove all of the tumour that was initially visible on scans" share.google/5ZSuWr5TuUKePh…
Can you reconcile robots replacing human jobs as they do in this diner with your concern about falling fertility rates? People need jobs if they are going to have kids.
I don't see how Elon is concerned about fertility rates yet seems not to see that replacing human jobs will further depress fertility rates?
Owning a home is "extremely high maintenance". Existing is "extremely high maintenance" (eating 3 times a day, working a job, cleaning yourself). The reality is that the joy from these things greatly outweighs the cost. You have been brainwashed.
Labubu is zero maintenance, whereas children are extremely high maintenance.
The research on unemployment suggests Dr Singularity is gaslighting people?
Most jobs will be obsolete, and almost no one will miss them. AI does the work. People create, explore, or chill.
"A pareiasaur is a stocky, barrel‑bodied tetrapod that carried a tiny tail and a head often ringed with bony knobs. Most species topped out at about 8 feet long and weighed as much as today’s American bison." share.google/Lr27Etpb4bhcyy…
No evidence for a lab leak? Not quite. The author was just too lazy or biased to thoroughly investigate the topic before writing his piece. A substantial body of evidence prove that SARS-CoV-2 was manipulated: vbruttel.substack.com/p/why-sars-cov…
Estonians retain about 2 percent, Finns about 10. At the eastern end of the distribution, the Nganasan people — clustered at the northernmost tip of Russia — have close to 100 percent Yakutia ancestry...modern-day Hungarians have lost nearly all of theirs share.google/BxV4GxvShBkp2O…
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world share.google/XLNMB67rNoP7A1…
The migratory birds, which are among North America's largest species of swallows, gather in large numbers in the city before embarking on their southbound journey to South America. Estimates suggest that between 150,000 and 180,000 Purple Martins roost... share.google/VjHKeYBL3b8wik…
In accordance with Executive Order 14292, the Office of the Director asked NIAID to identify projects that could potentially fall under the definition of dangerous gain of function (dGOF) research. The NIAID staff identified those projects, but then inappropriately made an…