Tuesday, August 30, 2022

New book co-written by philosopher claims AI will ‘never’ rule the world

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you ‘ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

—  Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher


“You have achieved something that some people spend their whole lives trying to find. What you achieved is that ever-elusive victory within.”



YEAH, YOUR EMPLOYER CAN MONITOR YOU. THEY’RE AMATEURS COMPARED TO GOVERNMENT:  Forget ‘quiet quitting’: Employers are doing ‘shocking’ things to monitor your productivity.


There’s no surprise in rise of the independents


New book co-written by philosopher claims AI will ‘never’ rule the world TechXplore 


Criminal barristers in England and Wales vote to go on all-out strike BBC 


Workers at UK’s biggest container port Felixstowe due to begin 8-day strike Reuters


Paywatch: Top Lifeguards are Making a KillingStatista 


Struggling Taxi Drivers See Congestion Pricing as Fee That Breaks Their Backs The City


Americans’ Pay Floor for Accepting a New Job Rises to $73,000 Bloomberg


Once amongst the tallest people in the world, the generations of bison-reliant people born after the slaughter lost their entire height advantage.


Our evidence suggests that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat, but do not integrate faster because of higher discrimination in more hostile regions.


Trump Had More Than 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago The New York Times: “The initial batch of documents retrieved by the National Archives from former President Donald J. Trump in January included more than 150 marked as classified, a number that ignited intense concern at the Justice Department and helped trigger the criminal investigation that led F.B.I. agents to swoop into Mar-a-Lago this month seeking to recover more, multiple people briefed on the matter said.

 In total, the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from Mr. Trump since he left office, the people said: that first batch of documents returned in January, another set provided by Mr. Trump’s aides to the Justice Department in June and the material seized by the F.B.I. in the search this month. 

The previously unreported volume of the sensitive material found in the former president’s possession in January helps explain why the Justice Department moved so urgently to hunt down any further classified materials he might have…The specific nature of the sensitive material that Mr. Trump took from the White House remains unclear. But the 15 boxes Mr. Trump turned over to the archives in January, nearly a year after he left office, included documents from the C.I.A., the National Security Agency and the F.B.I. spanning a variety of topics of national security interest, a person briefed on the matter said…”