I once heard that this is an oft repeated myth, that neurons are not replaced throughout life.
It seems to me to that what you said is true, but for some odd reason I have a recollection of reading a debunking of this. Does anyone know what I might be thinking of?
Wow, that sounds scary. I hope it doesn't come back. Weird about the 4.2 PSA; that wouldn't have raised alarms, normally. I guess acceleration is as important as absolute values.
I hope nobody was confused into thinking I thought a BIOS was required, I was pointing out the evolution from this to a monitor. I've written some code[1] that runs on the STM32 series that uses the newlib printf(). I created the UART code [2] that is interrupt driven[3] which gives you the fun feature that you can hit ^C and have it reset the program. (useful when your code goes into an expected place :-)).
These are all things that sound great to a religious listener of Ezra Klein’s podcast but normal people either don’t know about them, don’t care about them, or disagree with them.
The article omits a real, serious source of microphone data though: your smart TV. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that my TV (a Toshiba Fire TV, although I’m sure many do it) is listening to every conversation I have within earshot, even when I am not using the voice remote, and selling it to ad networks.
And of course it is also doing screen recognition (the kind of stuff OP article mentions), but that is not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about microphone data picking up live conversation from people in the room.
I'm pretty well travelled across Europe and North America, and a little bit of South America.
I've never seen anything like the BART anywhere else - and I don't mean that in a positive way.
It's late where I am, I'm about to go to bed, and now this image of a BART car that has "seen it all" is going to haunt me... I might eat a load of cheese to calm the dreams down...
If the mere possibility of AI-generated context invalidates an argument, it suggests the standards for discourse were already more fragile than anyone cared to admit.
Historically, emotional narratives and unverifiable personal stories have always been persuasive tools — whether human-authored or not.
The actual problem isn't that AI can produce them; it's that we (humans) have always been susceptible to them without verifying the core ideas.
In that sense, exposing how easily constructed narratives sway public discussion is not unethical — it's a necessary and overdue audit of the real vulnerabilities in our conversations.
Blaming the tool only avoids the harder truth: we were never debating cleanly to begin with.
Certainly not unreasonable. But it does require you to commission your own transport subject to the rules that that private entity seeks to impose. Public entities which indiscriminately service residents and visitors of a given territory would obviate this requirement. But if you're in the US, good luck convincing taxpayers to agree to pay for that.
It's interesting to see how upset people get when the tools of persuasion they took for granted are simply democratized.
For years, individuals have invented backstories, exaggerated credentials, and presented curated personal narratives to make arguments more emotionally compelling — it was just done manually. Now, when automation makes that process more efficient, suddenly it's "grotesquely unethical."
Maybe the real discomfort isn't about AI lying — it's about AI being better at it.
Of course, I agree transparency is important. But it’s worth asking: were we ever truly debating the ideas cleanly before AI came along?
What's to stop any malicious actor from posting these same comments?
The fact that Reddit allowed these comments to be posted is the real problem. Reddit deserves far more criticism than they're getting. They need to get control of inauthentic comments ASAP.
This is a really bizarre claim to make. Are you claiming that the United States is, idk, forgetting how to farm and so we have to do mass immigration to bring in people who remember how? It also flies in the face of historical facts, like how the United States gained its status as an industrial powerhouse when immigration was at its lowest point in its history.
In school we were taught that the OS does the printf. I think the professors were just trying to generalize to not go on tangents. But, once I learned that no embedded libc variants had printf just no output path, it got a lot easier to figure out how to get it working. I wish I knew about SWO and the magic of semihosting back then. I don't think those would be hard to explain and interestingly it's one of the few things students asked about that in the field I'm also asked how to do by coworkers (the setting up _write).
While I think that audio recording is not a thing, your economic argument is not complete.
What if only the audio of "high value" targets is recorded. Meaning people who buy a lot of stuff. So it might be worthwhile to only record their sounds. Which will explain why random testing (usually with new/clean phones) is never successful.
> This is a story about citizens being deported without due process.
No. Let’s be honest here, this is a story that really attempts to justify the use of birthright citizenship to create chain immigration and legal forgiveness for people who broke immigration law in the US. I think it’s pretty vulgar for the ACLU to use these people as political pawns to tug on folks heartstrings and I am saying that as someone who believes that we should carve out exceptions for situations like this. But it needs to be done in a way that clarifies the law vis-à-vis congress passing immigration laws to do it.
The only questions that really matter are 1) Is the undocumented immigrant being deported legally? Now if that is a yes… 2) does the US citizen want to go with the person being deported if they are not a minor? Or 3) If the US citizen is a minor and the person being deported is their parent/legal guardian, does the undocumented immigrant being deported want their child to go with them?
Let’s keep the family together if that is what they want.
Can you phrase that in a less medical way? You sound like a creep. It gives me psychology experiment chills.
Also, your comment makes no sense, you added nothing relevant to the discussion, and the fact that you decided to drop the "hacker" word to instead play on rephrasing is kind of silly.
There is absolutely nothing you will ever achieve of any benefit by doing these stunts. You are getting the wrong vibes of the "shifting perspectives" thing. It is meant for one-on-one empathy, not public displays of creepiness.
You're getting a bit worked up over a list comprehension there.
"Newcomer" is in scare quotes because I personally am not a fan of the word. "RTFM" is in quotes because I am paraphrasing you as having said, essentially, to RTFM. It's not that complicated.
Creata is a reference to a Homestuck song I enjoyed. Sue me for having poor taste in music, lol.
Your ability to misinterpret things is truly wondrous.
I actually don't believe that CCC gives you significant benefit to admission in the faculty of math compared to other factors like ECs and actual Average.
Some of us want to be able to cross the country in an afternoon, and not have to spend days on a slow, uncomfortable train to make the same trip. I don't think that's unreasonable.
I have a feeling I know where this is going, but -if you like- you can email me privately, and I promise not to disclose anything to a 3rd party without your approval
