Saw this video "How Being Smart Can Ruin Your Life". It's more How Being A Nerd Can Ruin Your Life. There can be comfort in being a nerd, and you get a kind of personal satisfaction learning a lot about something. But you can't expect others to share in that joy, and that's what you have to realize early enough. I realize that the REALLY smart people were Johnny von Neumann, Richard Feynman, Stanislaw Ulam, Albert Einstein, etc. who were not only intellectual giants, but also people who were personable. Being like Langan, in the video, gets you nowhere.
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Are universities becoming more stupid? Looks like the collective IQ of college students has been declining for a long time, even before the coronavirus epidemic. Check out the two references given. Apparently, university officials didn't want this published. I think the problem is that universities now take just about anyone who had been able to get financial aid, which, since the Obama era, is now managed by the federal government, and is given to just about anyone who can fill out a form. If you look at figure 1, scores were stable until 2012 when they started the steady decline.
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When I saw the title of this article, I was intrigued that perhaps Lloyd Center was the location of business startups in Portland that I wasn't aware of. I was imagining AI startups setting up in that district, and had hopes that Portland was turning around and going to be the start of a tech renaissance. Not a chance. It's just an indoor Saturday Market, where kids hang out to play arcade games, or shop for quirky vintage clothes.
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Another reason to get rid of the Department of Education. This is exactly what we don't need: an education agenda set by the WEF.
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Now, Sam Altman is worried about massive fraud that he predicts will undoubtedly occur when the ability of AI to mimic humans achieves near-perfection. But he won't stop doing what he's doing, because of the Moloch effect, of course.
And some subscribers to Vogue are upset because the magazine is using AI-generated women, because today's real-life women are not quite up to their beauty standards. Yeah, well it's 2025, you know.
Lenacapavir, the first HIV prevention drug, is FDA-approved. Supposedly it's 100% effective. There's an interesting article I read (which I can't find now) that stated that women in Africa would use HIV-positivity as a defense against getting raped. That excuse will no longer work when men know that they can get the drug and not get AIDS. We don't all live in the same world.
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Speaking of which: who funds WHO? Turns out that they're little transparency. Most of the donations are anonymous, and it's thought that many are from entities such as the Bill Gates Foundation, who may be influencing WHO to direct policy that favors Gates' efforts, such as vaccines. I wasn't aware of the Emergencies Powers Treaty that the Biden administration favored, that would give the WHO power to direct American medical policy during "emergencies". Forget that!
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Scientists at University of Washington were working with people in California to perform actions that would block the sun, in the name of climate change. The climate change wackos aren't satisfied with banning straws or natural gas stoves or cows farting. They want to seed clouds to block sunlight significantly. And they wanted to keep it a secret.
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Oregonians are out of work longer than before. Nothing surprising there. There aren't enough business to provide them with jobs.
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