The fact that this is sensible, inevitable, and the way forward for medical procedures doesn't reduce any of the horror of watching a human being operated on by a machine. It's like 1984 meets the dentist.
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Andrew Wight
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Andrew Wight
@AndrewUX
Social Impact Entrepreneur | Co-founder of https://t.co/MSc7ZplRqd | Climate enthusiast | Optimist
Brisbane Katılım Aralık 2007
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I have a lot of theories about how despair goes viral in English speaking places. I’ll just share this tidbit, from an analysis of 170 years of American news coverage.
We really are living in an era of negativity-poisoned discourse that is (*empirically*) historically unique.
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@darrenrogan Absolutely - it artificially polarises everything and reduces the resolution of any problem down to 1 bit.
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The concept of left and right is a bit nuts
It assumes that there is only one axis.
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"If you disappear for a year, when you come back, the world hasn’t ’moved on’ as much as you thought it would"
one of many gems here
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Gm gm,
just a reminder that what people project isn’t reality.
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I think I got distracted by the dancing, but I stared at this like a magic eye picture for a about 30 seconds before I got it!
Darren Rogan@darrenrogan
This cracked me up 😂
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I find great comfort in the fact that I'm not the only manchild who thinks this sounds like the perfect day.
Sam Altman@sama
you are listening to the new blink 182 album for the 17th time today and about to play the new mario with your friends who brought over mountain dew. you ordered dominos with a discount code your mom gave you, $10/pizza. the year is 2023, and you are 38 years old. life is good
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@darrenrogan Yup - not only am I well past this illusion myself, I'm now probably the "adult" that others are realising does not in any way have it together!
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Gm thought for the day
Remember when you thought “Adults” had their shit together, and were mature etc. Those were the days 😂
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I wonder if one day there will be media nutritionists
Where you hand over your media history and they tell you how to improve it to reduce ignorance and outrage and to inspire.
Kids- Just say no to TikTok
Adults - keep your tv news below 10 mins daily
Etc
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Every day on social media I'm reminded that only a small fraction of people seem able to understand the idea of tradeoffs.
The question is almost never, is X a nice thing to do.
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Is anyone in European government ashamed and embarrassed about the cookie banner thing?
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This is even more true for Australia than the US.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Climate debates are often stuck in 2010. But there's no longer a tradeoff between economic growth and stopping climate change. In fact, thanks to technology, the two goals now go together! noahpinion.blog/p/our-climate-…
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very hard to do something novel for the first time; orders of magnitude easier to copy something that is known to be possible.
conviction is either extremely difficult, or free.
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A Volvo engineer named Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt, but Volvo gave away the patent to other manufacturers because it had more value as a free life-saving tool.
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