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The irony is that 'manual' laborious jobs cannot be replaced by AI, while information processing jobs are already being replaced by relatively 'primitive' AI. A lot of young people have been lied to.

If you mean English as spoken in certain parts of Britain, I don't think I can understand it now !

You may be right, but I'm hoping he gets scared enough to start naming names, and some other people, who also seem to want to hide their past offences using their personal Department of Justice, are dragged into the spotlight.

I'm not a Luddite; I was building 8 bit computers in 1979, programming Z80 assembly, faithfully reading BYTE magazine ( and Steve Ciarcia;s hardware column ) along with Microprocessor Report in the University library, and waiting for the micro-computer revolution which came 15 years later. I do think that AI has its uses, as others have outlined. I don't think it's the panacea that a large number of people think can substitute for independent thought. The 'group-think' of LLMs is no substitute; think for yourself, before someone, or something ( AI ), does your thinking for you.

our health is being sacrificed on the altar of profits for billionaires.

I have heard of cases where young kids fall through the ice of frozen lakes, and are pulled out as long as 15 min later, that have survived ( this is cold Canada; it happens more often than you'd think ). This probably has to do with the 'malleability' of young brains, and the effects of the cold temperatures. But I wouldn't say they were conscious during those submerged 15 min.

I heard about this incident this morning ( but happened a few months ago ). In the US, Baltimore to be exact, they have a program to combat gun violence. This program makes use of AI to 'detect' students who may be armed, and notifies Police. As many as 8 police cruisers showed up, all with weapons drawn,, threw a 16 year old kid to the ground and handcuffed him before realizing he was actually carrying a bag of Doritos ( corn chips ). Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US AI seems to be the new 'lazy' way to get 'easy' results/solutions to problems. I hope the kid's family sues the sh*t out of the police, the school, and the board of Education, or the City, that allowed such a project. What is this world coming to ...

Today I learned that the fake snow, used on the set of 'The Wizard Of Oz' was actually fluffy Asbestos fibers. Veritasium just dropped another video on the history, use, dangers, and attempts to regulate the use of Asbestos. These are my favorite kinds of videos produced by Veritasium. Turns out the spray-on insulation protecting the steel structure of the World Trade Center buildings was impregnated with Asbestos, which was then pulverized in those huge dust clouds, as the buildings came down. To this date, more than twice as many people have died from 'asbestosis' ( pulmonary fibrosis related to Asbestos exposure ) and related cancers, than in the original event, from simply breathing the resulting dust.

Standard First Aid training teaches that the brain can survive ( in various states ) up to 4 minutes without oxygenated blood flow. Any longer, without re-setting the heart with a defibrillator, or manually pumping with CPR, is usually useless.

For a deeper dive into how the probability of a state depends on the number of allowed microstates, see the first part of this video. The rest of it goes on to describe how the 'arrow of time' emerges, from an estimation of the early universe's entropy, compared to the possible maximal entropy.

A very useful mathematical tool. ( as are all other theories which portend to describe the workings of 'reality' ) What is the matter with the SFn servers lately ? They are extremely slow to respond and sign in. And just now, caused a doubled post.

The 'forever chemical mentioned by KJW, PFSA, was the topic of an excellent Veritasium video. Check it out for pertinent information

I don't have a problem with women being 'promiscuous'. Why are men allowed to be 'promiscuous' but women are not? Why have double standards ? And why the assumption that being 'promiscuous' means consent ?

There is no reality until an observation/interaction is made. You, nor anyone else, can prove otherwise. Think about it ...

Ooops ... Forgot the 6 factoral when editing my last post. I guess we have it a little better with only 49 numbers to choose from, but the average prize is only 5 Million Canadian ( not real dollars ) in 'Lotto 6/49' lottery.