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Recently, they made a deal with News Corp.

Then, last week, gave a seat on the board to the ex-NSA lead (I can understand why from a business perspective, though from a user perspective this is pretty damning, even assuming that most/all large AI companies are forced to cooperate with a/the government).

I'm afraid that on this trajectory, OpenAI will be a right-wing hard-government aligned tool of surveillance (though it probably is, already)

If I put my tin-foil hat on - could OpenAI force it's product to subtly alter responses for an ulterior purpose eg sub... (read more)

Rather than quickly developing large spacecraft that could rapidly intercept and guide asteroids for impact at a suitable location for mining (Canada?), would it be easier to instead alter the trajectory of the earth ("Calling all boffins! You were jealous of Oppenheimer's gang - now it's your turn!") to collide with various asteroids?

Maybe we explode all of the world's nuclear weapons in the atmosphere at one point which may suitably nudge the earth and thus aim the asteroid at a globally chosen "catcher's mitt" impact zone (Canada?), surrounded by eager bulldozers ready for the pickings.

"If anyone really wants to be in a position of power, they probably shouldn't be."

Trying to determine what your point here is.

Since "intelligence" (thorny definition) could be said to be distributed in a normal distribution (if it's even possible to plot "intelligence" (let's say, "intellectual" or, dear me, "IQ")), and those people below the median would be less likely to be well educated (making assumptions here), then it would be expected that a significant proportion of every population will have people that won't answer these questions as well educated people with higher intelligence (to me these are obvious points, though maybe I'... (read more)

I recommend to my patients to purchase(in the UK) Ferrous Fumurate (has better bioavailabilty than ferrous sulphate), the more you take the better (upto 3 times a day, you may have GI side effects) and take with 200mg+ of Vitamin C (or fresh orange juice), and don't have tea/coffee/dairy one hour either side of taking it.

(I'm a GP/Family Physician)

When people come to us (GPs/Family Physicians) with hair loss for example, the first thing a doctor would do would be to check their bloods, specifically looking for ferritin levels (and other things eg thyroid etc).

If the ferritin level is less than 60 then we would recommend increasing their iron intake.

Thinking about this logically, one could say that the usual lower threshold of normal iron(around 20, differss with age/sex and lab) Is too low if you can increased chances of hair loss at levels below 60, hence I recommend a goal of ferritin > 60.

I re... (read more)

Seems Musks actions are not "making it better".

Surprise, surprise: the opposite:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64804007

Good idea, and works in Medicine.

If you see a patient and say:

"You have X, this is what it is, take this medicine and this is what should happen but if this happens then do this",

They may not believe you ("But I just want antibiotics") and/or not follow advice (+/- trust in you). (It's more complicated in real life, of course, we explore the patient's ideas/concerns/expectations, and make sure these are also satisfied, which is usually more important than anything else, as well as making a plan together - fun to do in 10 min)

If you describe your logical th... (read more)

Interesting site!

Have you explored the Oxford English Dictionary - the bees knees of dictionaries and sources of etymology?

Here are the OED entries for "patience" : https://i.imgur.com/S5tGj7i.png

https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/138816

A goldmine if you appreciate the origin of language.

What are you basing your optimism for Musk's future for Twitter on?

(Sorry, I'm doing something wrong trying to insert links with markdown on)

[AP: eport: Tweets with racial slurs soar since Musk takeover]

 (https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-business-government-and-politics-2907d382db132cfd7446152b9309992c?)

[BBC: Scale of abuse of politicians on Twitter revealed] (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63330885)

[Reuters: Elon Musk's Twitter slow to act on misleading U.S. election content, experts say](https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-mu... (read more)

re Twitter:

Twitter is one of the worst sites in relation to social cohesion, and Musk's actions and likely future libertarian actions of allowing all speech with what seems little moderation will likely worsen the situation.

Most people may acknowledge that current social media trends (of STEM trained white male billionaire nerd goals of using psychological techniques to addict humans to their platform to get richer) are "unhealthy", however how do you pry the junk from the junky?

1. Government intervention? Won't sit well
2. Social media companies admitting their