Hegar

"Child of prominent pedophile has an AI startup" is such a vibe right now.

Several issues here:

50Kya is a big pulse of human expansion in Australia, but arrival is reckoned at 60-65kya. Some even claim 80k+, but that fucks with out of africa dates.

That 30k -> 1500 line for NZ is deceptive. That expansion actually starts in southern taiwan 3-5kya, or luzon 2.5kya if you count from the lapita culture, but not from new guinea.

15kya is the major clovis expansion in the americas but like australia initial arrival was much earlier, maybe 22-25kya.

100kya for the middle east is not the earliest sapiens presence in the area, but it's also not the wave that extant sapiens (us) descended from either, that's generally reckoned at 50-70kya.

Theres probably variation from the background there, that drives clicks to that particular spot. Several of the red-female locations have blue-male dots at the same spot.

Most social mammals mirror the behaviour of high status individuals.

That's why i think celebrity endorsements should be illegal, it's basically abusing an exploit, a known flaw in how our brains work that routinely leads to sub-optimal decision making.

It's probably 1 click = blue, right? The more clicks overlap at a certain point the closer to red.

I worked in a phone room of a large drug company. By early 2021 we had AI agents making phone calls to insurance companies to confirm basic insurance coverage details. They only handled the "no surprises" kind of plans - so a limited set of expected answers. They would encounter something unexpected and pass off to a human maybe 10-15% of the time.

But within their limits, they did what a human did. It was recognizably AI to most listeners, but vocal tone, probing for clarity, getting all the info - the output was like listening to the output an experienced human agent.

"Less cognitively capable than previous generations" sounds like kids are getting dumber, but...

Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the previous one.

... just does not mean that. Many factors influence test scores, like say, more people growing up in poverty.

This article reads like fortune magazine enjoying their own farts.

Of course, but sinophobia and yellow peril narratives having been going strong in Aus for over a century.

To be more unpopular than Xi with australians is a big deal.

Got the muchies for a california cheeseburger.

I lean toward that interpretation but am open to being wrong.

I work in mental health and was surprised by the amount of people in the field who believe marijuana is part of the problem, not just a symptom of it.

Cannabis use was more common among: ... Youth on Medicaid or living in more deprived neighborhoods

Regular reminder that correlation =/= causation. Living a more stressful life due to poverty makes both mental illness and adolescent cannabis use more common.

That said there is a credible biological pathway to cannabis use having a causal role:

THC acts on CB1 receptors, which are highly expressed in the adolescent brain and play a key role in emotional regulation, motivation, and cognitive development.

However we still don't have definitive evidence of causation:

Q: Does this study prove cannabis causes mental illness? A: While causation can’t be definitively established, cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric conditions