It's crazy but not surprising that the cowardly NYT would have an article this long about this many links to epstein and his island without any acknowledgemwnt that these men almost certainly raped children. Bill gates without a doubt did.
Yes yes yes! The clutter, the teeth, the bills, the ghosting. Watching things you can and want to do not get done is a special kind of frustrating.
However:
identify and accept that I am the problem... sucks to suck
Naahhhh, fuck that.
If a shelf is too high for me to reach, I don't suck for being short. No amount of people telling me to reach harder will help.
The entire rest of the world is the problem. Don't internalize that bullshit, don't blame yourself for things you know could not have possibly gone differently.
Theres probably variation from the background there, that drives clicks to that particular spot. Several of the red-female locations have blue-male dots at the same spot.
Most social mammals mirror the behaviour of high status individuals.
That's why i think celebrity endorsements should be illegal, it's basically abusing an exploit, a known flaw in how our brains work that routinely leads to sub-optimal decision making.
I worked in a phone room of a large drug company. By early 2021 we had AI agents making phone calls to insurance companies to confirm basic insurance coverage details. They only handled the "no surprises" kind of plans - so a limited set of expected answers. They would encounter something unexpected and pass off to a human maybe 10-15% of the time.
But within their limits, they did what a human did. It was recognizably AI to most listeners, but vocal tone, probing for clarity, getting all the info - the output was like listening to the output an experienced human agent.
There's a credible argument that we're just strongly overestimating what consciousness is.
I don't think AI is conscious. But it processes information and comes up with an output that's often dumb, obvious or not really on topic and then rarely kinda cool - just like humans do. It doesn't have a will, but most experts agree that free will is scientifically impossible, even if many think we should just pretend that it's real. AI doesn't have the feeling of subjective experience, but that's not really very important - we could still see a red light, understand what it means and execute appropriate bevahiour if we lacked the subjective experience of seeing the color red.
AI is not conscious, similarly to how a ventilator is not human lungs. It's not, but it's still doing mostly the same thing.
Cannabis use was more common among: ... Youth on Medicaid or living in more deprived neighborhoods
Regular reminder that correlation =/= causation. Living a more stressful life due to poverty makes both mental illness and adolescent cannabis use more common.
That said there is a credible biological pathway to cannabis use having a causal role:
THC acts on CB1 receptors, which are highly expressed in the adolescent brain and play a key role in emotional regulation, motivation, and cognitive development.
However we still don't have definitive evidence of causation:
Q: Does this study prove cannabis causes mental illness?
A: While causation can’t be definitively established, cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric conditions
My favorite UFO explanation is that it was largely a ploy to waste the USSR's money. They'll have to expend more resources chasing down a red herring than it takes us to lie about it. No coincidence then, that as a near-peer competitor emerges again we get UAPs.
"I'll release some BS we made up" is incredibly appropriate as a desperate distraction.
Most of the conservative majority on the court are active participants in the ongoing fascist coup, probably a few are just committed sympathizers.
This isn't the supreme court enforcing the law against the president, this is a disagreement between factions within the regime about the priorities and direction.
I don't think any hominin of floresiensis-like size emerged from Africa. Just floresiensis on Flores and luzonensis on nearish Luzon. They're probably descended from erectus that shrank "on site" so to speak.
They are some aboriginal australian stories about two other kinds of people - tall thin good ones and short stocky bad ones. I've wondered if that's describing neanderthal, denisovan or some other close but extinct branches of homo.
Yeah it sure is.