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It's unclear which message you're trying to convey, but your math checks out. The net CO2 impact of natural processes is -19Gt/yr. Humans add +37G/yr for a net +18Gt. If we stopped…

Systematic thinking may be associated with autism. Explains why they're showing up in the crosshairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathising–systemising_theory

A real consideration for warehouse staff in some areas.

In addition, a good human knows when to ask for help or feedback. Our AIs are always just as confident whether their output is brilliant or terrible. That's more or less the opposi…

I love this insight, and it generalizes. Just swapping out humans with AIs won't just fix everything, because many of the biggest problems are structural or emergent. I'm hopeful t…

Democracy had enemies before the founding of the Republic. Our founders warned us that it would require constant maintenance: "a republic, if you can keep it," warned Franklin. Was…

You can get vastly different outputs claiming that the input is yours or not.

Wouldn't we expect AJE to be pretty biased in this situation? I was thinking something from Europe or Asia (SCMP) might have less skin in the game.

Abortion used to be a Catholic issue until a Republican strategist saw an opportunity. The point is to get citizens fighting each other on things that are personally important so w…

>Despite their self-image, I don't think liberals are actually any better at empathy than anyone else. I can see how you think this, since othering and dehumanizing responses rise …

One of my favorites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xwedodah >Xwedodah (Persian: خویدوده xidude; Avestan: xᵛaētuuadaθa) is a type of consanguine marriage historically practiced in Z…

They could also help with color-blindness and face-blindness.

I'd recommend something like Breakfast with Seneca. It's an awesome read, and should hopefully help to differentiate the philosophy or school of stoicism and whatever we have now. …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy I came up with this idea, too, but was beaten to it by at least 100 years.

Many people raised the alarm back then, and were shouted down by promises that these laws would only be used when appropriate. In 2002, very few would've been okay with tearing apa…

>It's the same reason vacuum cleaners didn't reduce the amount of cleaning work to be done. It's true that some of the some of the capacity created by technology was consumed by in…

It's incredibly difficult to stop a well-funded, 50-year plan to subvert a democracy. The attention spans of politicians, corporations, and the public are measured in days, months,…

I saw the same thing immediately. The robot arm could be calibrated to use a real slicing motion as well. They're misrepresenting the actual performance of this product. 100% confi…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat shows up in this list as not replicated, however, it is one of the most studied phenomena in psychology. >meta-analyses and systemat…

I know someone who was concerned about depression, and went to get checked. The diagnosis was normal. They were having an appropriate emotional response to very challenging situati…

I was really surprised when I first got an iPhone. After all the hype about it being so intuitive and polished, it was just different. Some things better, some things worse. But Ap…

The speed of light is rather unaccommodating. We run into human-perceptible relativistic limits in latency. Light takes 56ms to travel half the earth's circumference, and our signa…

Adguard works fine? How are they not friendly?

Pain, like sleep, is a super interesting field and specialization, that is somewhat secondary for most medical practitioners. In physiotherapy, we used to think that structural iss…

Apple wants you to buy both... $100/year may make it worth it for them.