Today is Chuseok – Korean Thanksgiving.
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Just what America needs - more dementia. There appears to be an uptick in dementia, and the suspicion is that it's COVID-19. Funny, if you look at the graph, it's just the younger folks. I suspect it's not COVID-19 but something else that afflicted the younger set selectively. Like alcohol and drug use. Depression. Disruption of social connections.
And SwissRe is confirming excess mortality in the post-COVID era. I thought the vaccines were supposed to have prevented that.
"Save lives". It always starts that way, doesn't it?"The police will be on their best behavior because we're constantly watching and recording everything that's going on," Ellison told analysts. He described police body cameras that were constantly on, with no ability for officers to disable the feed to Oracle.
Even requesting privacy for a bathroom break or a meal only meant sections of recording would require a subpoena to view - not that the video feed was ever stopped. AI would be trained to monitor officer feeds for anything untoward, which Ellison said could prevent abuse of police power and save lives.
Sam Altman will no longer be on the board of OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee. This is supposed to be a good thing. But...
Even with Altman removed, there’s little to suggest the Safety and Security Committee would make difficult decisions that seriously impact OpenAI’s commercial roadmap. Tellingly, OpenAI said in May that it would look to address “valid criticisms” of its work via the commission — “valid criticisms” being in the eye of the beholder, of course.
In an op-ed for The Economist in May, ex-OpenAI board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley said that they don’t think OpenAI as it exists today can be trusted to hold itself accountable. “[B]ased on our experience, we believe that self-governance cannot reliably withstand the pressure of profit incentives,” they wrote.
And OpenAI’s profit incentives are growing.
Nobel Prize winner has to retract 13 of his papers. And this is in cancer research. At Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering, too. Not a good look.
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Amazon wants workers to go back to work, but the workers aren't having it. Why? This is one of the reasons:
Flexibility gives people more energy and more chances for individual self-expression, growth and subsequent creativity. This violet-glitch due to covid gave us a glimpse of an alternative lifestyle and we see a utopian world that can become real forever.
Is ChatGPT getting better at math? Some think so.
Scientific American makes a political endorsement for the second time in history. Some people think that this means science is on Harris' side. Well, remember that their first ever endorsement was for Biden. How'd that turn out? SciAm should stay in its lane. Avoid politics and stick to science. No matter how hard you want to trumpet your personal ideology. We don't want to hear it.
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Intel is trying to downsize and is even looking to split the company into independent factories with their own governance. What a bad time for Hillsboro, which cleared a bunch of land for Intel. There's apparently no one else to use that land. All that revenue-generating farmland, now all gone. And for nothing.
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This is exactly why you don't hear as much news about vaccine injuries. It's only due to brave reporters like this guy, who are willing And then there is Francis Collins, so obsessed with immunizing against misinformation, making sure that only his version of the "truth" goes out. After all the lies about "safe and effective", how can we trust medical authority anymore?
Misinformation poses a smaller threat to democracy than you might think. It's so nice to read a contrasting and calming rational voice to counter the rapid media voices and politicians. All the efforts to counter misinformation ends up being verschlimmbesserung.
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