Verbatim response to that tweet, from a highly qualified friend with relevant scientific expertise:
"idk that critique is pretty dismissive of the actual experimental evidence that they generated in the study… consuming an erythritol sweetened beverage raises the erythritol level in the blood to a level that clearly causes an effect on platelets, and coincides with the difference between the measured levels in the observational study… seems pretty convincing to me".
I was confused by your first reply at first. I think that's because you are answering a different question from a number of other people. You're asking about the conditions under which and AI might fool people into thinking it was a human, whereas I think others are considering the conditions under which a human might consistently emotionally attach to an AI, even if the human doesn't really think it's real.
My father was present, as a boy, at the opening of the Lancaster bypass, which was the first section of motorway constructed in in Britain, followed by the Preston bypass. He was always very careful to remind people how the M6 was the first motorway in Britain and not the M1.
Another issue here is there is a problem with laws which are broad enough that it requires selective enforcements for them to be available. Because then you can get a problematic force which then uses them selectively for political purposes. This indeed is how the Soviet state worked and indeed current Russian state works to quash dissent.
Indeed. Farmed ones aren't given the same diet. I suspect it's not as healthy for them either, but it does well enough for industrial purposes. Think of cattle feed v grass, etc
I like the ending:
'If you don’t like Hancock’s story about the super-intelligent advanced civilisation being wiped off the face of the planet, here’s another that might explain how Netflix gave the greenlight to Ancient Apocalypse: the platform’s senior manager of unscripted originals happens to be Hancock’s son. Honestly, what are the chances?'
While I don't disagree with the general tenor of the article and the apparent real issues with these oils,
Regarding the section quoted below: this doesn't appear to have any statistical coherence, since naive calculations like this tend to make many implicit unwarranted assumptions.
'If heavy smoking (a pack of cigarettes per day) increases risk of death by 80% and increasing vegetable oil consumption (by 12% of calories) increases risk of death by 62%, we can use some back-of-the-napkin math to infer that every 5% increase in daily calories from vegetable oil is as dangerous as smoking 7 cigarettes per day.
Another way of looking at it: each additional teaspoon of vegetable oil you consume could increase your risk of death as much as smoking 2 cigarettes. '
It's not the same at all. At first glance it might feel the same, but the structural questions are different. The fact that the Facebook does have privacy problems does not show that Atlantic salmon does actually have parasites problems in the same way that pacific salmon does.
Where you went wrong is getting it backwards. The vaccines are orders of magnitude less likely to cause cardiac problems than the virus itself, for fairly obvious medical reasons.
And that cardiac events in both cases are a minor part of the greater effects and dangers of catching the disease.
Given the level of corruption within the current UK government, I would not necessarily agree with your use of the word literally here. But at least in law and in principle yes.
Whereas I would call Northern Ireland an exclave colony, although in the current political status fittest part of the UK, much as Puerto Rico is part of the US, or the non-Russia Soviet States were part of the Soviet Union.
You misunderstand the status of these countries, which are countries. They have their own football teams. The only reason that they are largely ruled from Westminster is due to the the military strength of England.
This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe.
Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain
And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might suggest Northern Ireland as well.
"idk that critique is pretty dismissive of the actual experimental evidence that they generated in the study… consuming an erythritol sweetened beverage raises the erythritol level in the blood to a level that clearly causes an effect on platelets, and coincides with the difference between the measured levels in the observational study… seems pretty convincing to me".