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Environmental laws are necessary to make sure we’re not poisoning ourselves or the planet.

I thought Sam has no equity in OpenAI?

Your issue sounds more social anxiety rather than being a slow thinker. In any case, one way to combat it is to ask clarifying questions.

I can be one of those of people, but I can also tell you there’s a bevy of other people in my life who never fail to annoy the crap out of me calling me out for leaving the lights on, using too many napkins, etc. Don’t lose hope, for every person that like me, there’s many more who are not

This is a co-venture of Egypt, they’re not selling a part of their land.

Well I mean they are supposed to be non profit. Not that I’m complaining, OpenAI does great stuff.

It’s a fat lighting cable, why would Apple do this?

Congress should be in charge of that, they legislate not the president.

Stuff like this really makes you wonder what other kinds of fraud are happening in scientific research, especially in medicine where lives are on the line. Despicable stuff.

I don’t understand this issue too well to feel one or another. I just want all of my purchases and subscriptions to remain tied to my Apple ID and cancelable from my place.

It makes life so much easier and saves money because it’s very hard to forget about subscriptions I no longer use when they’re all listed in one place. Also if I want to refund a purchase for whatever reason I can deal directly with Apple instead of the developer.

All things considered Apples tight grip on the App Store works for me.

That’s the basic idea, the problem is how do you reload it? You would need a mechanism that changes the DNA for every one of the trillions of cells in the body.

I assume by information you’re referring to DNA? If so we can already sequence human DNA from all sorts of samples (so for example we store a copy of it from a young age, like 20), the hard part would be replacing the damaged DNA with the undamaged copy, in every cell of the body—sort of like reinstalling an operating system.

It’s interesting to think about the implications of such a technology, if we can swap DNA with another, fresher copy, we should also be able to modify it and make the body do things it wasn’t previously capable of doing. One idea that comes to mind is expanding the range of our senses, or giving our body a better system to repair and regenerate itself beyond what we naturally evolved to able to do so we can have longer life spans with a quality of life that makes it worth it.

It sounds like a bad idea to play god like this, and it probably is, but we’ll never know until we give it a serious try. I remember a while ago a scientist in China modified the DNA of human embryos by using Crispr, the goal was to make them resistant to HIV infection and he was jailed and ridiculed for it.

The search space for new and improved capabilities is endless once we learn how to program DNA like a computer. We are probably at least a century away from this level of control, and probably another century before it becomes socially acceptable to do it at scale.

Aging should be classified as a disease because there has to be a set of biological levers that we can manipulate with drugs or other forms of medicine which will have an effect on the aging process across the entire. Like using RNA to reprogram the cells in the body to do things outside of what’s encoded in our base DNA.

I don’t see why aging can’t be reversible, I’ve heard some people say it’s an impossible task because they equate aging with the fact that time can only move forward and therefore aging must inherit the same property. But aging is just damage that accumulates over time, but damage can be repaired with the right tools.

I should say I am not a biologist, I just try to use my imagination to solve problems and this what it’s telling me about aging.

Isn’t a fixer just someone who bribes on someone else’s behalf?

Merry Christmas to you too. Hope you have a great holiday :)

Whether it’s the answer or not, technology will never not evolve; I find its best to learn to work with it and not against it.

One of the benefits of iOS locked down is that all of your app subscriptions are in one easy to find to place, no dark patterns, no tell us why you canceled questions, etc etc. If an app doesn’t let me subscribe through the App Store I just won’t do it regardless of how much I want to. And this is just one of the many benefits. There’s no reason to turn iOS into Android. Apple worries about their users, not everyone.

That’s kind of what I had in mind, I don’t really know if it’s feasible or not but if I had billions of dollars deposited in my Robinhood account just made the order for that many shares, would it not go through?

As long as the cost is less than what apple makes from the watches annually, it would still be worth it, no?

Since Masimo is a publicly traded company, can’t Apple just buy enough shares to have a controlling interest in the company and just force them to back out?

I agree with other the comments that executives should be criminally liable for negligence like this, and anyone else who doesn’t relay the message to the decision makers.

Knowingly committing crimes against humanity on a grand scale should be prosecuted and their fortunes seized.

Some people like it to call it the “Mind’s eye” - Basically you can create images in your mind by just thinking about them. Like if I wanted to “see” a golden retriever, I can just imagine one because I’ve seen them before, so my mind knows what to do. You can also manipulate those images; so for example instead of the golden retriever being gold, I can imagine it in a purple or green color, etc.

A good analogy is that the human mind can have it’s own internal stable diffusion or Midjourney, complete with the ability to give it a “prompt” i.e. thinking about what you want to imagine.

I was surprised to learn a while ago that not everyone can visualize things in their mind. As far testing for it, I don’t really know how that would work. I don’t think you really need to test for it, I assume most people who can visualize things in their mind know that they can.

As someone who has a very vivid imagination - daydreaming is second nature to me. It’s very useful to me because I can use it to learn stuff by doing my best to simulate how they work step by step, usually all I need is a good description and some background info.

Expansion of surveillance powers will only give more fuel to the Qanon nut jobs that will see the government as even more of an enemy than they already do. Who knows where that’ll lead, political divide is only getting worse every year to the point where the Republican Party is now sharply divided into two factions. This type of shit doesn’t help the situation.

That’s ~$86,000 not bad at all imo and probably comes with other benefits as well. Not really sure how economical that is in the EU but it can’t be worse than the U.S where this is still pretty good compensation.

This is great, thank you.

Philips Sonicare 7300 electric toothbrush - this thing is awesome, every time I brush my teeth they feel super clean and smooth like porcelain. $149 one of the best purchases I ever made. https://a.co/d/2fFJgow

Another product that improved my life is AirPods, if you’re into the Apple ecosystem they’re worth every penny.

It doesn’t matter whether you share it or not, the DNA of a close relative can be used to figure out your own DNA. I don’t know how the actual technique really works, but I know it’s possible and it was used to catch the golden state killer.

What are you gingivitis levels?

This is great. GTA is the only place I’ve ever been a billionaire.