15 May 2024

For patients with traumatic brain injury, don’t pull the plug too soon. Try to wait at least 72 hours. Even so, quality of life afterwards may be such that prolongation of life might not be in the patient's best interest.

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Femtosecond lasers might create displays you can touch. One step to developing holograms?

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Ilya Sutskever will leave OpenAI soon. I feared as much. Hard to recover from last year's debacle.

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What are the dangers of AI going rogue?  I predict we won't know until something happens. Rear view mirror. And we might have super-intelligence faster than we think.

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Out of control spendingFederal interest payment on the national debt now exceeds defense spending.

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Larry Huss comments on Tina Kotek's unpopularity, but only to try to explain how she got elected. He thinks it's because people don't bother to vote. I think it's mail-in balloting, and the potential for cheating.

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Top Five reasons why the homeless die.  Overdoses, heart disease, suicide, homicide and vehicle crashes.

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