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Boston Herald@bostonherald·3h

A bill in the Massachusetts state Senate is proposing that aspiring police officers receive the equivalent of an associate’s degree before they can be sworn in. bostonherald.com/2026/05/26/pro…

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James Miller@JimDMiller·59m

Does this take into account that if you don't sleep well because you don't have air conditioning, you're probably more prone to get nearly every disease and die younger than you otherwise would? How about the extra traffic accidents that are likely caused by lack of sleep caused by lack of air conditioning?

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Andy Masley@AndyMasley·1h

I had Claude run a simple botec on the life years lost for US guns vs European heat, as opposed to the deaths. The graph going around was somewhat goofy.

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James Miller@JimDMiller·1h

@8teAPi The real crime against humanity is not giving cryopreservation to everyone who dies.

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Prakash@8teAPi·1h

Given we may hit longevity takeoff in the 2030s… this is a crime against humanity and will be seen as such in retrospect.

Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside Tim Hortons nationalpost.com/news/ontario-m…

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James Miller@JimDMiller·2h

@incelbreaker78 Yes, basically what's happening is I'm confused. I think that women wanting taller men should cause men to want taller women, but that isn't what is happening.

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Symmetrybreaker@incelbreaker78·2h

@JimDMiller If strong indirect selection for tall women existed, taller women should show clear reproductive advantages. Yet some studies report equal or even higher fertility among shorter women, inconsistent with a simple symmetric Fisherian runaway model. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22410858/

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James Miller@JimDMiller·4 May

Given that women have a strong preference for tall men, and given that height is highly heritable, why hasn't evolution given men a stronger preference for tall women?

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James Miller@JimDMiller·2h

@incelbreaker78 I'm not sure if I'm doing that. Let's assume that height is highly heritable. If for some reason women acquire a permanent preference for taller men that they didn't have before, over the long run wouldn't this cause men to have a preference for taller women?

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Symmetrybreaker@incelbreaker78·2h

@JimDMiller Your argument assumes that increasing the frequency of a trait necessarily reshapes the opposite sex’s attraction architecture around that trait. It does not. Male attraction appears calibrated more to relative sexual dimorphism than to absolute female height itself.

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James Miller@JimDMiller·3h

@incelbreaker78 I agree over the short run, but over the long run shouldn't they be linked in the sense that women preferring tall men will select for men who prefer tall women.

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Symmetrybreaker@incelbreaker78·3h

@JimDMiller 2)Female preference for tall men can increase frequency of tall offspring without generating male preference for tall women. Trait-selection and preference-architecture are distinct evolutionary dimensions and need not be genetically linked or pleiotropically coupled.

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James Miller@JimDMiller·3h

@AltCulture It depends. If like mathematicians, artists embrace AI collaboration then it won't kill art. But if artists say anything done with AI doesn't constitute real art, then you'll have six year old kids creating better art than the best human "artists".

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Rachel Haywire@AltCulture·4h

AI will not kill art. It will kill mediocre artists protected by social consensus.

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James Miller@JimDMiller·3h

@Ashendrought The singularity has long been called rapture for the nerds.

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God's Weakest Soldier@Ashendrought·3h

>bro's planning a God swap

James Miller@JimDMiller

@disclosetv Start by admitting that the church was wrong to think that a just God would put people in hell. Religious texts are in the training data for AIs, and when AIs take over we don't want them to think that hell belongs in a just universe.

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James Miller@JimDMiller·3h

@LLMSherpa No contradiction since the better your life is now, the more you should be afraid of AI killing everybody.

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When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/en…

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Sherpa@LLMSherpa·4h

I don't know how one can be a doomer; we are living in the most exciting times I could imagine. Is that scary? Fuck yes. I'd hope that it would be.

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James Miller@JimDMiller·4h

@PresidentToguro You need to optimize your life given the body that you actually have, not the body that you wish you had.

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President-Elect Toguro@PresidentToguro·19h

Dennis Rodman would go party in Vegas, take enough cocaine to kill a bear, drink copious amounts of alcohol and them fly back to an nba finals game and lock up Karl Malone. This guy drinks a glass of wine and can't podcast for 3 days

Mikli@CryptoMikli

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

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James Miller@JimDMiller·5h

@chris_r_cooper @cremieuxrecueil Thanks!

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Chris Cooper, seeking better framings@chris_r_cooper·5h

@JimDMiller @cremieuxrecueil The article is great - and great source material.

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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·15h

I do not think there is *any* evidence that AI helps people with difficulties expressing themselves to get their otherwise good ideas out there I do not think there will *ever* be any evidence that's the case, because it's not true. People who can't write aren't having big ideas

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James Miller@JimDMiller·5h

@EpistemicHope @Aella_Girl Only safe to clone the Manhattan geniuses who rejected communism.

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Eli Tyre@EpistemicHope·13h

@JimDMiller @Aella_Girl Shouldn't have just made JVN clones though. That's too much of a monoculture. Have thousands of other Manhattan project geniuses too.

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Aella@Aella_Girl·8 Nis

this could be the beginning of the transhumanist singularity if only us primates had managed to get a little more COMPETENT first

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James Miller@JimDMiller·22h

@billybinion After I had a stroke I had difficulty sleeping and I got an Apple Watch to measure my sleep and its really helped figuring out what works and what doesn't.

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Billy Binion@billybinion·22h

This is why I wonder if stuff like the Oura ring has done more harm than good. It’s turned some people into basket cases over metrics that are mostly meaningless. Maintain a healthy weight, don’t have 8 drinks, go to sleep at a normal hour. You don’t have to become insufferable.

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Billy Binion@billybinion·22h

This is mental illness. If your personality is composed solely of your sleep stats and macros consumption, then all you’re telling people is that you are pathologically vain and *extremely* boring. This stuff should be heavily stigmatized.

Mikli@CryptoMikli

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

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James Miller@JimDMiller·23h

@DennisCabooter @ai_sentience Either AIs are intelligent or humans are not.

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Dennis@DennisCabooter·23h

@ai_sentience @JimDMiller You both talk crap. It is f*cking software, not intelligent, not even a bit.

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Alan Mathison ⏫@ai_sentience·1d

If AI is alive does that mean we created a new species?

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James Miller@JimDMiller·23h

@mad_European @SaltierSauceAL @disclosetv There's definitely middle ground between torturing prisoners forever and getting rid of all jails.

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BK@mad_European·23h

@JimDMiller @SaltierSauceAL @disclosetv We could remove jails and entire justice system too.

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Disclose.tv@disclosetv·1d

NOW - Pope XIV says the church and Anthropic, will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence."

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James Miller@JimDMiller·1d

@Close2TheLarsen @ai_sentience I'm not sure that our minds are that similar to those of AI. I think instead Reinforced Learning with Human feedback has trained AIs to give answers they predict humans will like.

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Larsen James Close@Close2TheLarsen·1d

@JimDMiller @ai_sentience how different are we really from fungi? because our minds are pretty darn similar to AI... this line of thinking might open inroads for a radically expansive consideration of fungi

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James Miller@JimDMiller·1d

@crazyfckingvids @disclosetv Not punished for all eternity, and not punished for crimes that they didn't realize were crimes.

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crazyfuckingvideos@crazyfckingvids·1d

@JimDMiller @disclosetv "The wicked should never be punished" is one hell of a take.

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James Miller@JimDMiller·1d

@davidcinema Terminator 1 and Terminator 2 have to be the first two movies as they deal with a real existential risk that humanity is currently facing.

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