In related new researchers discover most humans don't have a coherent understanding of the world...

Raise the price when they put the item in the cart! - obviously demand has gone up!

Once AI is developed we are really only to be good for picking up things, and manual manipulation of things - almost any intellectual task that can be performed by a human brain running 100W is going to be crushed by a computer running 10-100KW - just like computers crush people at chess and GO - AI will crush us at almost any intellectual task that can be trained or modeled - we need to restructure society for this

Chicago metro area has a GDP of +900 billion, to put that in perspective Chicago alone has a GDP of 1/3 the UK - if it was an independent country it would be in the top 20 in the world in terms of GDP. Chicago has problems for in large part because companies want to work there (crowding, traffic, expensive) not because they are running away. It is a right wing fantasy that all you need is low taxes for businesses to come running to you for you to be successful - Chicago is a strategic location as a transport hub, has decent infrastructure, easy access to all the agriculture from the midwest and a well educated work force - nobody gives a shit that the tax rate is a few percent higher some city without these assets.

Drowning in AI generated bullshit is a pretty crappy way to go extinct but it seems like a fairly likely outcome

Amen - if they could have fired you they would have by now - if they are keeping you maybe they are getting you on the cheap - always know your market price

This is great ! Next time I have a heart attack or gunshot wound I will be sure to go to the website and check the prices!

This idea isn't new - compressed sensing was pioneered in MRI a decade ago - sounds like these guys are amateurs...

It appears the Russians promote anything and anyone who will cause increased mistrust of institutions, American government or fear of personal safety -Trump is ideal since he pretty much hits every one of their objectives - their goal is a paralyzed or completely dysfunctional US with a sympathetic oligarch in charge - barring that a civil war with a devastated US would be just fine - good news for them we are pretty much on track for one or the other

US cities were built around mass transport then General Motors came in a paid cities to rip out the infrastructure and replace it with buses - this is the way America works it is owned by big corporations and public transport is not in their interest - and most people in America don't get it - somehow America can't have trains, public transport or healthcare because it is special - and it is - it is special but not in the way they think - it is because it is wholly owned by corporate interest and its people are too stupid blaming immigrants, liberals, gay people and minorities for their problems - instead of blaming the fucking banks, big box stores, auto companies, and insurance companies who are just fine with the way things are

Pnumonia is pretty easy to see in XR or CT - this shouldnt suprise anyone - but it is an advance a tired overworked resident can miss even the blatantly obvious

I am a drirector of a US R&D group for a large foreign owned company - the majority of our research PhDs at the individual contributor level are foreign born (most Chinese) - however most of research mangers and directors (all Phd) are native born. A couple of things are pretty clear to me 1) if there was not a good supply of highly skilled immigrant researchers my company would not have put its R&D in the US and 2) if you are a native English speaker who can compete technically with foreign PhDs you will end up in management - there is only a limited fraction of the population of any country that can perform at a high level, the US for whatever reason puts its high performers in finance or maybe software and then siphons the other specialists/talent from other countries - if this dries up I know at least for my company they will just leave - I also believe this is a key reason why the US has been technically dominant over other developed countries which have, in general, healthier, better educated populations

I say get rid of patents and I have 15 of them - 99% of the time the guy who invented the patent gets almost nothing - so what incentive are we really eliminating by getting rid of them? I say make everything open - people who invent stuff make money because they understand how use it and less money goes to lawyers and the fat fucks who own everything

The classic "solution" to reduce excess capital stock and unused labor is to start a war - either internal or external - this sucks up the labor and destroys capital both physically and by arms production - when a sufficient amount of labor and capital has been destroyed the system can reset and start building capital again using up the surplus labor. Of course we could just not destroy all the capital and live with a large surplus of labor through a combination of progressive taxation and basic income to labor - the problem is we are too stupid to understand this - it's immoral not to work! Those lazy people without a job should get one and we like to worship kings or billionaires and magic job creators - fuck it, I hate people - they would rather fuck the other guy over than do something that might benefit everyone - we would rather burn the whole fucking system down than give a nickel to someone "undeserving" - shit if someone had a job pushing a button twice a day they would be resentful of the "freeloaders" who didn't push a button - fuck them

You know all those things were created by people not corporations? Corporations are simply legal entities