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RE your link, I am not sure that anything of value has been articulated in describing this vague notion of "Collective Flourishing". After reading the page two or three times, the …

Not in my back yard!!

Alarmist title and poor article. I don’t agree that prompting an LLM to write targeted emails for your lobbying campaign counts as “weaponizing” AI —this is just common practice e.…

> The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or fa…

I seem to recall there was an article posted here recently which noted that galaxies have a preferred direction of rotation. Seems like the universe itself rotating could be a reas…

> And if we want to apply tariffs, do it slowly. Instead of saying that products will be tariffed at 100% tomorrow, say they’ll be 25% next year, 50% after that, 75% after that, an…

Doping potential aside, this sounds like a very promising area of research. The article mentions increased endurance, peak performance, and anti-aging potential. What are the downs…

Source on his backstory being made up?

My kid is about the same age. We recently bought a safety lock to prevent him from getting into cupboard under our sink. It had great reviews on Amazon. The first time he went into…

> RCMP said they don't believe the two Nova Scotia incidents are national security threats. Are they joking? Seriously, with everything that is going on the world right now, the au…

Naively, I would think the same. But in the first part of AOTD, Neil Postman argues pretty convincingly that America in the 18th and 19th centuries was the most literate, bookish s…

Predictably, I see a lot of concern being expressed here about how this will be implemented and enforced. There is an underlying assumption, which seems fairly reasonable, that the…

Just finished reading Amusing Ourselves to Death on the recommendation of some commenters here. Strange that Neil Postman's work is not once mentioned in the article. His basic arg…

Maybe position someone on shore with a megaphone to read out The Funniest Joke in the World?

The evolutionary transition from single-celled to multicellular life has actually been repeatedly accomplished in vitro [1]. So highly unlikely to be a Great Filter. [1] https://ar…

Not loud at all but it gives you a distinctive feeling like you've been slapped in the base of the skull by God. The Carl G was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the…

> brought the world to the brink of annihilation Should read *has brought*. As in the present perfect tense, since we are still on the brink of annihilation, more so than we have b…

AI posing as human customers to promote your product on the web is fraud, change my mind.

When I first heard that the gov't is trying to protect children from online harm, for some reason I thought it meant we were going to regulate their access to the highly addictive …

This is putting it mildly. The Interac network went down and no one could use their debit cards nationwide.

I agree and am in favour of carbon taxes. However this particular carbon tax is weak virtue signaling exactly because it is not sufficiently priced.

Q: Who decides whether the policy focus is on the supply side or consumption side? A: The government and its voters. That’s it. That’s who I am going to hold accountable. Now, the …

This is currently our biggest unsolved political issue IMO. Without a focus on the supply side, all of our current consumption-focused climate change policies (carbon tax on consum…

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2022: World's first psychopathic AI hailed as major breakthrough edit: 2022. Didn't realize this was already around.