Does ChatGPT disproportionately hurt Hawaii more than other states?
This person thinks so.
Hawaii faces distinct risks from unregulated AI deployment. Recent analyses indicate that a substantial portion of Hawaii’s professional services jobs could face significant disruption within five to seven years as a consequence of AI. Our isolated geography and limited economic diversification make workforce adaptation particularly challenging.
Our unique cultural knowledge, practices, and language risk misappropriation and misrepresentation by AI systems trained without appropriate permission or context.
Well, Hawaii's not the only place where AI could eliminate jobs. I think that the author is stretching things. But shutting down ChatGPT isn't going to happen. And why just pick on them? How about Google? Anthropic? Hangzhou AI Basic Technology Research? It's like the climate change activists picking on the United States and not China or India.
Dave Barry had a silly encounter with AI inaccuracy.
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Is RFK Jr tilting at windmills?
There’s no autism epidemic. But there is an autism diagnosis epidemic. So the feared increase in autism numbers was just a change in definition and an eagerness to get grant money? I've noticed that a lot of the kids I grew up would have been classified as autistic today. The ones that kept to themselves, had learning disabilities, were not sociable and said "weird" things and weren't interested in normal kid stuff, or who were obsessed with weird hobbies. I grew up with them. Even had a few as friends. Nobody called them autistic at the time.
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Suzetrigine is out now – the
first non-opiod pain killer. Well, if you don't count NSAIDs. I think they meant potent pain-killer. It's similar to lamotrigine, a seizure medication, sometimes also used for neuropathy. But this drug doesn't cross into the CNS. Maybe it'll be good for neuropathy, too.
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Ah,
modern science writing. I was reading
this article that stated that due to excessive groundwater pumping, the earth's tilt has changed by
31.5 inches! Huh? What do you mean by 31.5 inches. Measured from where? I was expecting the tilt to change by a number measured in degrees. But 31.5 degrees of tilt change would be huge, and would change all sorts of things, like mean global temperatures and climate. It couldn't be that – no one else is getting excited. So I went to the
original study, and read that what is actually happening is that the axis of rotation has migrated 78.48 cm eastward, in the direction 64.16°E. So it's actually 30.90 inches. Even got that wrong. Science journalism is not what it used to be.
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RIP Tom Lehrer. Math teacher, singer-composer, genius. What a mind!
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