bostonwalker

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RE your link, I am not sure that anything of value has been articulated in describing this vague notion of "Collective Flourishing". After reading the page two or three times, the best I can understand is that it seems to be a call for technical solutions to problems that are actually deeply social in nature and require social solutions. Strange to see such nebulous slop coming from an official government agency.

bostonwalker

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Not in my back yard!!

bostonwalker

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Alarmist title and poor article. I don’t agree that prompting an LLM to write targeted emails for your lobbying campaign counts as “weaponizing” AI —this is just common practice e.g. in sales and marketing.

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> The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality... all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

Network (1976)

bostonwalker

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I seem to recall there was an article posted here recently which noted that galaxies have a preferred direction of rotation. Seems like the universe itself rotating could be a reason why?

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> And if we want to apply tariffs, do it slowly. Instead of saying that products will be tariffed at 100% tomorrow, say they’ll be 25% next year, 50% after that, 75% after that, and 100% in year four. And then make it a law instead of a presidential decree

This is the big difference between a tariff regime that is credible in such a way that the business community can plan investment around it, and the current one that has mostly just caused chaos and confusion.

bostonwalker

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Doping potential aside, this sounds like a very promising area of research. The article mentions increased endurance, peak performance, and anti-aging potential. What are the downsides to having more mitochondria in our cells and why did we evolve to have the levels we currently have?

bostonwalker

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Source on his backstory being made up?

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My kid is about the same age. We recently bought a safety lock to prevent him from getting into cupboard under our sink. It had great reviews on Amazon.

The first time he went into the kitchen after I had installed it, he notices it immediately, walks straight up to it, grasps it with both hands like an adult would, and has it unlatched within 5 seconds. He then proceeds to look at me like "Is this some sort of test?"

bostonwalker

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> RCMP said they don't believe the two Nova Scotia incidents are national security threats.

Are they joking? Seriously, with everything that is going on the world right now, the authorities in this country need to get their heads out of the sand and realize that we are not isolated from geopolitics.

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