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My, how sex averse. Personally, I would rather good design prevent people from picking their noses in robocabs. Disguising. Good design enables sex.

David Lee Roth did it.

50 year old grandmother of 5.

I’m not suggesting that Three Mile Island was anything like Chernobyl. I’m saying that neither is comparable to the HF situation where mere 1s and 0s interacted in an unplanned way. It’s an interesting data point—-back to work.

Not is the HF data point anywhere near a Three Mile Island type incident. Most commentary I read is a wild overreaction fueled by paranoia, to say nothing about my other point about the implications of AI as a national security asset.

I don’t understand the bases of all these recommendations. AI is an asset for national security. It will be developed and incidents will happen, no different from other national security programs.

Someday, laws will be useful to curtail plebian misuse of AI. It is naïve bordering on silly to think such laws would be put in place and genuinely applied to frontier AI development.

By the way, the HF incident is not Three Mile Island or Chernobyl—-it is a very interesting data point where unintended things happened to existing 1s and 0s.

This seems like yet another piece in a build up to a civil war. And those in governance know it.

That is an unnecessary default and also generalizes AI to the point of being analytically not useful.

That’s an excellent philosophy that ought be applied to your own child but not extended to others.

Because “science” doesn’t know everything, and people don’t want to wait until their options are scientifically-validated.

Yoga, breathing exercises, meditation and the like were once considered fads and derided by your ‘science’.

It’s lazy shorthand and also serves the obscurity that these individuals seek.

Similarly, I get irritated when people frequently almost continuously attribute actions and results to ‘the President’ or such state heads.

Working like a dog like this is necessary if you’re gunning for the elite / upper echelon of society, yes. If you’re already in that echelon of society, it’s not necessary.

Thank goodness I didn’t need to work so hard, but I can acknowledge what a shitty system it is.

Help me understand why these children or their parents are gunning in this manner and working like dogs in this manner, to join into and propagate such a shitty system?

Why bother referring to the stadium by some name that some unidentified person has deemed? Just keep calling it Three Rivers Stadium.

Earnestly following law and related processes and attributing authority to others are all errands of the foolish.

I feel as though I’m reading the script to a Monty Python sketch.

Queue the comments encouraging people to vote, under the ludicrous guise that voting would likely impact the ever-growing and effectively unaddressed cluster of issues in the USA widely discussed here at Hacker News.

Let us name some levers exponentially more powerful than voting, starting with lobbying. As I understand $10,000 will buy a Congressional vote, or has the price gone up?

What are the implications or recommendations for WFH environments, I wonder?

In many circles, indeed quite legitimate and prosperous ones, the New York Times is regarded as a mouthpiece for the CIA, a channel for spreading opinion among certain demographics.

As someone within those circles, this article gives me pause.

Does this support more than one user voice? Or, are there plans for this? I did not see that mentioned in the announcement.

In the worst case it generates symbolism; that is ultimately what you’re saying.

That symbolism is akin to prayer.

I am not casting prayer in a negative light, I’m simply categorising your voting concept.

There comes a time when voting becomes silly and ineffective.

And you can measure their influence how?

Civics is a kind of religion, and it is difficult for people caught up in it to approach discussion from a logical and external perspective. This kind of civics is dangerous to society.

Many of us find voting insulting, given very low marginal power in a vote; it’s akin to throwing breadcrumbs to the poor. The structure of governance (the reality, not the mythology taught in schools or pushed forth as propaganda) is not in support of ‘the people”.

Right or wrong, this is how many of feel. Voting is silly and futile.

Scratching my head: The majority of high-performers would absolutely not come from the richest areas. The very rich are relatively very few in number.

How best to teach and effective teaching are problems solved long ago. It’s unaffordable for most.

What’s being discussed here is how to optimize mass education so that it’s least bad and is effective for a majority or least a substantial portion of children.

...and postulate, for science doesn’t truly know why, and frankly, my guess is as good as any scientist’s. Much like in public education, policy makers in public health cater to and enforce the average. What a crappy way to do things.

Be aware, the vast majority of people who have ever smoked cigarettes occasionally never became addicted. They were not labeled as “smokers”. A non-trivial number of people today continue to smoke cigarettes on occasion. I like to have one on my birthday. Then again, I’m able to eat a chip and not consume the entire bag. I’m not convinced of these social science studies, and when digging into individual studies I’m sure the replication crisis comes into play.

Revolution, not election. We need a new governance framework in the US. I believe it’s genuinely silly to think this type of activity is limited to one party or one administration or that it is new.

I believe the Constitution and related artefacts should be stored in the British Museum with other historical documents. Civic religion needs to be done away with.

Presumably, you’re American? In many parts of the world we regularly consume cheese made with raw milk. For many cheeses, raw milk is preferable.

Hardly what I would label as ‘longform’, though the author did.