How things stand 6 months after the Palisades fire. You basically have a neighborhood where people just gave up. Lesson learned. You can have insurance and think you're prepared. But you're not. There's no protection against a total house fire when you live in a Blue state, especially in a Blue city.
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"Unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on," Amodei wrote in an internal Slack message to staff, obtained by WIRED. "This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."
There is a word for this – realpolitik. But this is how power gets into the wrong hands. Because of people like Amodei. It's really sad that the West doesn't have enough billionaires that could have shepherded this technology.
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What factors cause lung cancer in never-smokers? Two things: second-hand smoke and air pollution. There are signature mutations that are seen with different causes and in different locales, so you can almost predict what causes the lung cancer.
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Yes! Yes! Are Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices Anticompetitive? This was one of the worst things that came out of Obamacare. Hospitals were handed gobs of money and it became very hard for individual physician practices to compete against them. In Portland there were new glass-and-steel monstrosities that came up. Meanwhile, doctors sold their practice and became employees subject to the whims of hospital administrators, and in OHSU's case, the governor (Kate Brown).
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Will AI take people's jobs away? Here's one guy's take on this. He thinks that there will just be changes made, new jobs and some reshuffling. One of the points that he uses to bolster his argument is this graph.
Notice something? The author says that the drop in jobs occurred before AI became a thing, around 2012, so it's not just AI. But who was president during that time? What was set in motion during that time that might have led to a loss of jobs? It wasn't AI, but I think the presence of AI now will make this worse.
Seattle has got the nation's highest inflation rate, according to WalletHub. Not only do things cost more, but services cost more, especially as the minimum wage has increased again. Luckily, there is Bellevue and surrounding municipalities.
And Oregon was ranked by CNBC as the most expensive state, mainly due to housing. And Portland wants a 75% increase in the property tax, to support parks, trails, community centers.
Intel Raptor Lake hardware crashes in the heat wave. The last thing Intel needs now is that their chips are defective and underperforming. It's like a Boeing situation. People will ditch Intel for something else.
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Omega-3 fish oils can reduce aggression in people by up to 28%, whatever that means. I don't think fish oil is going to make a difference.
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Humans can be tracked based on how their bodies block WiFi signals. Yeah, basically they trained an AI model on a dataset and got predictability. We see so much "science" like this. Just because you do that doesn't mean it can be used generally.
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Why government-funded media is a bad idea. It started with noble intentions, but people are people, and leftists took over.
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Pretty soon, the choice is going to be AI or A/C. AI energy demands will mean less electricity for the rest. We cannot rely on low energy density sources like wind and solar. It's just not going to cut it. We need petroleum- or nuclear-based electricity. It's clear to anyone who has studied energy production.
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