Manjushri

I used to own a boarding kennel. We had several clients over the years who would condition place their plush toys face first in their food dish as if the toy was eating. I have have long supposedthat those dogs were pretending their toy was eating.

The trees have probably already exploded. It’s how they knew to warn those east of them.

The Trump administration has uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota and Minneapolis – billions siphoned off by fraudsters.

Proof or it didn’t happen. Who am I kidding? Everyone knows this claim is bullshit.

…yet

AI use is driving up energy costs and worsening pollution and global warming . Is that a good enough reason to vehemently hate it?

It’s funny, and it doesn’t hurt anyone.

It sure sounds to me like they were trying to justify it. Funny or not, if it hurts everyone so no, it’s not a justified use. Hurting anyone, let alone everyone, just for the lolz is far from acceptable.

But that can be studied. Scientists can repeat the study with autistic children who have not lived with the condition for decades, even if by just using EEGs as suggested in the article. If the mGlu5 deficit in autistic children is comparable to the deficit in autistic adults then that would strongly suggest that the deficit occurred during one period at a young age, rather than occurring over years as a result living with the condition.

Also, I assume that the deficit could be assessed from donated brain tissue. There is a group (https://www.autismbrainnet.org/) that has been encouraging the parents of autistic children who have passed away to donate tissue for research. If researchers can establish that the mGlu5 deficit exists at comparable levels in the youngest donors, it would indicate that the deficit occurs at a very young age. Perhaps during paring or myelination.

So, we need required classes, early, like in elementary school, that specifically teach problem solving, critical thinking, how to detect misinformation, and what I’ll call empathy.

Good luck. The 2012 Texas GOP platform specifically opposed the teaching of critical thinking skills. Needless to say, the entire GOP feels the same way to this date. Also, empathy is now considered a weakness or moral failing in those circles.

Face it. The federal government and the state governments of a large fraction of the states are diametrically opposed to our desires.

Don’t get me wrong. I think you’re correct about what our goals should be. But calling it an uphill battle to achieve them would be an understatement of epic proportions.

Edit: 2012, not 2021

T. Gondii is associated with increased likely hood of developing schizophrenia and other neurological conditions. In pregnant women, it can also cause abnormal fetal development, stillbirth, and spontaneous abortion. I really hope this leads to a cure.

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Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) found that an increased fMRI signal is associated with reduced brain activity in around 40 percent of cases. At the same time, they observed decreased fMRI signals in regions with elevated activity. First author Dr. Samira Epp emphasizes: “This contradicts the long-standing assumption that increased brain activity is always accompanied by an increased blood flow to meet higher oxygen demand. Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.”

Wow! This seems really big if this stands up to review and can be replicated. It may require a reevaluation of the results of pretty much every study done using fMRIs that assumes increased blood flow equals greater oxygen usage and vise-versa.

Google has noted that although its utility offered general information about how many instances your data has been found on the dark web due to breaches and what kind of information about you is available online, the feedback from customers indicated that it did not offer any clean remediation steps to follow next. Indeed, the existing dashboard is just a trove of information with no actionable steps. People can find out how their data was stolen, but they can’t do anything about it.

Welcome to the information age where information is everywhere except in people’s heads.

In economics, the Baumol effect, also known as Baumol’s cost disease, first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s, is the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response to rising wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth.

Gee, imagine a world where your wages increase just because other people’s wages in a similar industry rose. Modern experience shows that either these guys were clueless or our current economy has no more than a passing relationship with the economy in their era. For the last four+ decades, real wages have been stagnant at best despite wildly increasing productivity . Whose wages in the current era are rising despite stagnant productivity?

Kessler syndrome coming soon to a low Earth orbit near you. If we’re lucky it’ll just be in LEO and only wipe out Starlink and its ilk and not spread upwards to higher orbits.

Good.

Yeah! Let’s put natural gas turbines everywhere so Sam Altman can compete with China! That’ll fix everything!

/s - just in case.

That’s wild. Is there really that kind of cut throat competition in Ph.D. programs? I’d love to know the motivation behind this.

We let oil and gas companies poison the planet and our bodies. I guess we’ll let them poison the minds of young children with their propaganda too.

This needs to be considered a major ethical violation. When researchers and lawyers use AI to do their work for them, and the AI makes shit up, it should be considered no different than if the supposed professional made the shit up themselves. It’s fabricated material submitted as if it is factual. It’s a lie, plain and simple. And letting people get away with it simply because they used an LLM to fabricate the lie is nothing short of insane.

Back in the day, before autism became such a commonly used term, I knew a number of people who would claim that they had OCD. They didn’t of course, they were not really obsessive nor did they have any compulsive behaviors. They were just really picky about some stuff. I sometimes think that some people will latch on to a disorder like OCD or autism because it gives them an excuse to behave in a way that they would otherwise be expected to try and change.