I often wonder about whether an analogue to an endocrine system (the seat of emotion) could be simulated for an AI. I wonder about whether emotion is entirely dependent on these neurochemicals, or whether sentiment might arise in some fashion independently of chemical precursors. I'm not so much thinking about the obvious feelings like love or anger; but more things like wistfulness, or that nameless feeling you get watching the rain.

Some people never grow up :P

People from some countries almost do not have psychiatry problems. Maybe problem is with society and its system. Do you want fix it by changing genetics? I already think it is horrible specialists using legal drugs for doping people so they can accept distopian realities...

I think emotion is just a bias that influences decision making. An AI will presumably be able to make decisions more precisely than that, though in our messy world having such shortcuts may actually be better and more efficient than keeping a full list of someone's previous history in your "context window".

good point. i suppose one idea is that the minimum wage should keep pace with productivity & inflation, which would make the min wage $30/hour or something now.

What makes you say that?

Psychopaths do experience emotion. It is not as simple as "the emotional area in their brains being turned off".

Yeah the brain is mostly fat, about 60% iirc

I noticed this when using this for my programming. A’lot of times its right, but you can’t just blindly follow it. Because theres a’lot of times there’s something wrong with the code but I’d say its 75% - 90% right then. Still a huge time saver. It even documents code or finds bugs. But its far from perfect but I’m hoping it will get there.

This is a philosophical question. The answer is yes, the AIs have emotions (and consciousness).

The headline of the article should say “trial,” not “trail.”

The researchers hypothesized that the RNA generated from human telomeres could generate a series of toxic proteins, which they termed VR (valine-arginine) and GL (glycine-leucine). The VR protein is present in elevated amounts in some human cancer cells and cells from patients suffering from diseases resulting from defective telomeres. The researchers believe that the amount of VR and GL in our blood may steadily rise as we age, providing a new biomarker for biological age as contrasted to chronological age.

This is connecting cancer and aging, again.

Awful political systems create environments people don’t want to have children in. How do we break this feedback loop?

Yeah let's make statements against technological progress, looking at how things are going that makes so much sense!

North America will tend to be insulated from global instability caused by climate change because it has much lower population density than any other big developed country.

The geography of the United States isn't that bad for climate change, but the big benefit is like there's only like two big countries besides the US and there's just not that many people compared to almost everywhere else in the world.

So there's basically like no way that's not a significant benefit and like as long as Yellowstone doesn't explode or something North America will probably be the premium location on the planet for many decades.

But of course you have to be able to put up with Americans and that might be a significant challenge.

The downside is that you know Americans have been on top too long and they've kind of gotten fat lazy and disconnected from reality so you could argue America is a bit more mentally fragile and most certainly spoiled.

The team utilized a technique that they believe could speed up the drug discovery process in the production of lissodendoric acid A.

Organic chemists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have synthesized the first artificial form of a molecule found in a sea sponge, which holds potential therapeutic benefits for Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders. The molecule, named lissodendoric acid A, has the ability to counteract molecules that can harm DNA, RNA, proteins, and even destroy whole cells.

In a surprising turn, the research team utilized an unusual, long-neglected compound called a cyclic allene to control a critical stage in the chemical reactions required to create a usable form of the molecule in the laboratory. This breakthrough, according to the team, has the potential to be beneficial in the development of other complicated molecules for pharmaceutical studies.

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The whole point of automation is to do more work with less people involved.

The utopia narrative of AI, automation, & Industry 4.0 is pointless unless we get rid of our predatory economic doctrine & make technological advancements designed for the betterment of everyone instead of just a select few.

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Hey now some of us are OLD and foolish too!

Think building your production line in a digital environment to optimize before you build it.

This is where the industry is looking to.

It would be a win if you can see your bottlenecks and common error scenarios before you actually build the thing on the real world.

> Bookishly, an online shop, chose Wednesdays off to avoid having three days in a row

Completely ruins the point for most workers. You’re not getting any additional consecutive time off compared to before, and you have two “Mondays” every week where you will spend part of your day off thinking about going back to work.

> Becoming a four-day operation can be hard in a five-day world

Your business can remain a 5 day operation with half the employees working M-Th and half working T-F. This keeps you fully staffed three days out of the week.

Don't listen too much to people on reddit is the first important step.

Go outside more, see things for yourself and decide.

Reddit caters to people who want to listen to people and talk to people who only agree with them. It's not a place for unbiased anything.

When machine learning comes after jobs that took 8+ years of skilled training and debt like law, medicine, pharm, PhD's, how does the prospect of another job that would take more time training without income and more debt for schooling even matter?

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