It’s small enough you can use it for innocuous purchases, but unfamiliar enough that most people wouldn’t recognize any defects.

Pope Leo leads most public figures in the US in approval ratings.

In theory, could the Pope run for president (given that he’s a U.S. citizen by birth, etc.)?

It doesn’t take much to boost the price of a stock by 400% if the stock is already practically worthless.

Now see, strokes are a different matter. Studies from China (where naturally-occurring fluoride levels in some places can range from 1.2 to 4.5 mg/L, far exceeding the U.S. recommended level of 0.7 mg/L) have indeed found a correlation between very high fluoride exposure and stroke risk.

To fight forces like big oil, we need to be able to focus our efforts appropriately. Indiscriminately attributing everything to big oil serves their purposes as much as complacency does.

Those kinds of issues would come into play if they were trying to establish a correlation between two things—it’s notoriously hard to eliminate confounding variables, spurious coincidences, etc.

But it’s far more straightforward to establish a lack of correlation, which is what this study does.

I wouldn’t say it’s not bad because of a study and “experts.”

While there are always biased studies, the data in this case comes from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a broad health and social sciences study conducted by the University of Wisconsin that’s been ongoing since 1957. You can access the data yourself here.

Everyone is dumb as shit now

That wouldn’t implicate fluoride, because not everyone was exposed to it. And the study indicates that fluoride exposure (on a community level, which would take into account soil and food) doesn’t make a difference.

Just need to replace the eagles with vultures.

The common element is that everyone adapts to society at large.

The 1920s—see The Adventures of Prince Achmed from 100 years ago.

There are churches where people have had round-the-clock vigils for over a century.

Humans are to cats as cars are to humans: similar difference in weight and size, similar (if not greater) danger—but we walk around them because we’re used to them and we think we can predict them well enough. And because we’re often going to the same places.

This seems like the most likely explanation.

The “memory palace” (AKA method of loci) inspiration is a plausible source for someone with a non-technical background, and there’s evidence that it’s closer to how the brain actually indexes memories natively.

(Although my understanding is that it bootstraps the hippocampus’s hard-wired ability to remember the layout of physical locations—I don’t know that an LLM would have a similar ability out of the box.)

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The second law of thermodynamics.

The owners of other robots.

Illogical fears require illogical solutions!

That’s what gives us “educated guesses”.

I would say that those are separate qualities: if someone had their memory erased, they could lose their knowledge and understanding without losing their intelligence or wisdom. (Intelligence isn’t unrelated, though—it’s what produces understanding from knowledge.)