It turns out the brain may not be a single organ - the hindbrain seems to have developed from different stem cells than the forebrain and midbrain. This could explain some difficulties researchers have had trying to work with neural stem cells. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the…
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"She is talking as if the occasional grifter is the exception rather than the rule, but if she had done a proper investigation she would know the situation is the opposite. Exploitation is core to the industry, it is not incidental."
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"Even if you do understand this, it is easy to be overly influenced by their output, which can falsely seem to be objective and definitive – even when they are completely wrong or simply making judgments."
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"I would argue that gratuitously humanizing an LLM’s interaction is inherently deceptive. And sometimes this deception works, in that it convinces people that a non-sentient AI is actually sentient."
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"This is nothing short of a hack into human psychology – our brains are literally not equipped to distinguish things that are actually alive from things that simply act as if they are alive."
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You may have heard of phantom limb pain, where someone feels pain in a limb they no longer have, but did you know that the opposite can happen? People with Body Integrity Dysphoria feel like a body part, such as a limb, doesn't belong on their body. sciencebasedmedicine.org/bod…
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"The primary mirror of Roman is a wide field infrared camera, with a 2.4 meter lens (the same size as Hubble’s). However, one of Roman’s primary features is that this lens is wide field – it can see 100 times as much of the sky in clear focus at the same time as the Hubble."
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In the midst of a global pandemic, we work off the best information available to us at any given time. Now that we've had time for more extensive research, we can look back and see whether drugs like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin work against COVID. sciencebasedmedicine.org/ive…
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"So basically, we cannot have a Mars that is simultaneously breathable and warm. There is simply no scenario in which the surface of Mars becomes livable for humans without pressure suits and masks to provide O2 and limit CO2. Total Recall is a fantasy."
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