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Its even worse than that, i can imagine people with undiagnosed early Alzheimer's self selecting for car accidents and cardiac issues through additional stress of mental fatigue wh…

Taxi Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 67.8 years. General Population: in the same dataset, life expectancy averaged 74 years. The average age at which patients are t…

plenty of studies into this; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13899... https://futurecarecapital.org.uk/latest/deprivation-linked-t... https://www.nature.com/…

Sleep is a predictor of poverty and poverty is a predictor of mortality. But i suspect if you hop over the second part there will be more funding in telling poor people to sleep th…

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I remember the video nasties of the 90s were 'far from imaginary dangers' for kids, before that it was rock music that the data was screaming at us about. Maybe social media does h…

The rebel is just a subset of the second type, and an effective subset if you look at history. The evil is just a subset of the first type, abuse and use are functionally the same …

Vitamin D excess can lower blood levels of vitamin K2, reducing bone development. Not sure if the levels would be high enough for this (difficult to find safe numbers for in utero)…

Its exactly the same, the universe is functionally a computing device, it is based on data and causality. Its complex but our brains do not work deeper than the neuron and so can b…

>As long as we have practically no idea how qualia arise Qualia or the feeling of consciousness arises from our evolved instinct and ability to personify other humans; turned inwar…

I was actually thinking of how tired i was talking to real people and how refreshing AI was to talk something through with. Most conversations with people, that center around somet…

There is nothing that we know of in carbon based structures that violates universal causality, even in quantum scales where causality becomes more vague it is replaced by a measura…

The answer to this is Life Expectancy; Ambulance Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 64.2 years. Taxi Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 67.8 years. Genera…

Double jeopardy was abolished by Blair in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, Scotland abolished it as well a bit later in Double Jeopardy Act 2011. However i doubt it would apply even …

Its five years with no limitations, so when you are due to be released; Whats your password? Another five years... Its such a poorly worded law you could literally spend your life …

How do the informed measure intelligence? I know I'm too late to ask this question, But I suspect its either; Feelings and intuitions, which is just a primitive IQ test. Or some ki…

Humans are large language models. Maybe the term language is being used a bit liberally here but we basically function in the same way, with the exception of the spacial aspect of …

That is really interesting; Though i suspect its just a effect of differing training data, humans are to a larger degree trained on spacial data, while LLMs are trained to a larger…

The same place as humans do, other humans.

Having listened to some the new AI generated songs on utube, looks like they might be better at being sensitive humans than we are as well..

>ChatGPT (o3): Scored 136 on the Mensa Norway IQ test in April 2025 If you don't want to believe it, you need to change the goal posts; Create a test for intelligence that we can p…

> ChatGPT (o3): Scored 136 on the Mensa Norway test in April 2025 So yes, most people are right in that assumption, at least by the metric of how we generally measure intelligence.…

>Huh https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5lxg2l0lqo >I’m sorry, what? Take the online protection act for an example, Nigel Farage though it went too far, Keir Starmer wanted to inc…

>the most authoritarian country in the West Australia and the US are more authoritarian in specific areas e.g. censorship and taxation respectively.. but overall, yes, the UK is wo…