The joy of foraging aeon. I am a coward about stuff like this but I have no doubt many readers are enthusiasts. I remember Into the Wild.
This Sydney suburb has ranked 7th coolest neighbourhood in the world
Ancient settlements show that commoning is ‘natural’ for humans, not selfishness and competition MR Online. Kevin W: “For those on NC who always go on about ‘selfish human nature'”
Section 230 Catches Up to AI: An appellate court holds companies liable for the actions of their algorithms. Wall Street Journal. Important. So this ought to severely dent AI for medical diagnostics.
AI Snake Oil—A New Book by 2 Princeton University Computer Scientists Eric Topol Big thumbs down to using AI to moderate speech.
Cloudflare’s new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping TechCrunch
Men have a daily hormone cycle — and it’s synced to their brains shrinking from morning to night Live Science (Dr. Kevin). The daily hormone cycle is not news but I assume the brain shrinking is.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Skill of the Week: Gird Up Your Loins.
Even $10,000-a-week rehab is no guarantee of getting clean
At the start of the second season of Succession, the viewer knows the personal hell that has landed Kendall Roy at an Icelandic drug rehabilitation centre. But as he immerses himself in a spa amid picturesque tundra, it looks like a heavenly place to be.
The idea that recovering from addiction can be a luxurious experience is one being eagerly propagated by Australia’s booming number of high-end rehab facilities, where $10,000 a week or more buys you the chance to
DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says.
- A movie that seems to be based on Parfit’s teletransportation problems — “Mickey 17”, from Bong Joon-ho (the director of the critically acclaimed “Parasite”) will be out in January
- “We don’t find any significant downsides that can’t be resolved with relatively simple tweaks to current review practices” — Nathan Ballantyne and Jared Celniker (ASU) defend blind review
- “The representational arts… would seem to have little in common with children’s games of make-believe… But a closer look reveals striking similarities”” — Kendall Walton (Michigan) is interviewed by Richard Marshall at 3:16AM
- A “skeptical attitude toward the mere appearance of expertise is a great fruit of philosophy” — which is one reason the best way to teach students AI skills will include teaching them philosophy, says Adam Zweber (UNC Wilmington)
- And if you enjoy stumping AIs, here’s a chance to win money and a co-authorship credit doing so — it’s “Humanity’s Last Exam”
- “How does one come to learn what one does not know one does not know?” — Daniel DeNicola (Gettysburg) on ignorance, education, and cognitive comfort
- John Rawls on MSNBC — Daniel Chandler (LSE) talks about his Rawlsian book, “Free and Equal”, with Chris Hayes