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Comment He could have spelled out the dehumanisation risk (Score 1) 69

more clearly.

Let me give mundane examples from my life.

I'm a teacher.
My mind is already starting to compare the children I teach to agentic interactions when I see them talk to each other:

"Meme memey"
"Oh yes, meme -meme-meme" says another.

Likewise, when you can switch an AI, can you switch off a human just the same if you think they're the same?

What is unique about being human left?
AI could do boring work for us, yet it went straight for the _soulful_ stuff first: music, art. What is it with that?
Nick Cave called it a soul eater.

This is more in the realm of what the Pope could be talking about. The industrial revolution pushed people in England to the USA... all around the world trying to escape poverty. But is that really the comparison? The AGRICULTURAL revolution left only 10% of males on the planet standing after all the fighting. So is AI closer to the Industrial Revolution or the Agricultural?

More practical discussions could also be about overuse and its mental implications, comparing to Google Maps and our ability to navigate, but that wouldn't have been what I would have expected the Pope to talk about. He could have gone all Uncle Unibomber on us and said something about the tree of life rebalancing the tree of knowledge of something. Perhaps his audience is seen as particularly ignorant such that such topics can't really be talked about without dumbing down and vague comments?

Comment Re:This is not surprising (Score 5, Informative) 76

"The Apollo missions successfully navigated the Van Allen radiation belts with minimal health risks to astronauts. The spacecraft's aluminum hull provided effective shielding, reducing radiation exposure to harmless levels. Additionally, the rapid transit through the belts—approximately 52 minutes—limited exposure to about 13 rads, well below hazardous thresholds. Overall, the mission planning and spacecraft design ensured that the radiation doses received were within safe limits for the crew."
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fwp-conten...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

I'm not sure I believe it though, to be frank.

Comment Very misleading conclusion. (Score 2) 48

Trash proxy study doesn't invalidate heat shock proteins since correlation !=causation.

Could be:

- aircon sucks
- hiding inside means less light and less fresh air
- the need for more highly chlorinated water dries out skin microbiome and disrupts gut microbiome preventing bifidiobacteria, akkromansia and friends

Props to NotebookLM for pointing out the basic flaws.

Comment Interpretability (explainability) (Score 1) 18

There's a gap in the market for Interpretability and diagnostics, but it's smaller and seems like downstream than just blazing ahead.

They've mentioned interpretability in a word salad with other goals, so there doesn't seem to be much of a strategy yet.

Probably best to think about the personalities involved and judge it from there, or at least "Judge them from their fruits" rather than predict

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