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Big Tech has accumulated too many grievances across too many segments of society and made too much money in the process, so let's not act surprised at a backlash. And data centers …

A growing segment of young men increasingly embrace violence, conspiracy theories, far-right politics and machismo in general. Women can tolerate and even embrace a lot of male-cod…

Those 60-year-olds existed in a brief and exceptional moment of wealth creation brought about by factors that are unlikely to happen again in ours or our children's lifetime. The p…

"Marriage follows the same pattern. Women now substantially outnumber men on university campuses and outpace them in degrees earned, yet the preference for husbands who match or ex…

The genius part is that the negotiations that determine how much they can get away with charging completely excludes the consumer. Two for-profit entities, with no mandate to actua…

And then do what, precisely? Quit your job and find one with better insurance options?

If hitting a home run is getting a woman pregnant, then I'd wager men are hoping to strike out in 3 pitches during 99.5% of their at bats.

I don't think most adults can get much social value or satisfaction from an AI conversation they know is not a real person. Those who can get that satisfaction likely have so few h…

“Obesity and diabetes could easily account for all of this,” Wither Ozempic? I've seen several friends and family members use it to great effect and thought it might sweep the nati…

Seems like a minor issue, since most men only utilize their sperm two or three times in their entire lives, if at all. Maybe men should be freezing sperm while they're young and vi…

The list of legislation we need is getting very big very fast, but our Congress is dysfunctional and the president only cares about the SAVE act. Even when we've had a functional C…

You're suggesting a for-profit company both hobbled it's own product and is actively lying about doing so. The only way that's true is if the Trump admin has crawled all the way up…

Better than a foosball table and kegerator.

Meanwhile, China is pushing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), which, in the face of internal divisions and impotent leadership among Western natio…

All of the agencies responsible for those regulations were created by and get their funding from Congress. Currently, they're asleep at the wheel. Or a better idiom might be "cower…

Any future president will know better than to economically hamstring our closest allies and important trading partners.

Trade is being reconfigured in the midst of Trump's idiotic trade war (and even more idiotic real war) and militaries worldwide, particularly our closest allies, are seeking non-US…

AI and microchips should probably be treated like nuclear weapons and disease research. They all have profound non-military value, but powerful nations hoard them, build elaborate …

It's also too bad our society shares in the collective delusion that sex work can be prevented. It not only makes sex work far more dangerous, but it tramples on these exact kinds …

You have to build up a context, or otherwise seed the memory, to get anything useful out of these LLMs on a large or existing project.

At a certain point, people value reliability over improved performance. I think a lot of us have hit that point as this technology becomes indispensable to our work. I'm sure I'll …

Yes, someone is asking you to consider the personal situation of the stranger you are critizing. My deepest condolences for your inconvenience.

I appreciate this comment immensely - too many people seem to mindlessly assume that every other person shares their own situations, and it could not be less true.