The title is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’. He then seemed to slightly walk back the claim, but it might be slightly more accurate to say that:
“Huang said we’ve achieved AGI. Because he thinks everyone except him is a replaceable idiot”
Hey thanks, I really appreciate that. I assumed nobody would read it, especially after the deletions. It was way longer than I had intended.
They are. There’s also another account a for boxing and fitness timer app.
And that sounds like victim blaming to me. You can’t stop people lying about you. They’re individual researchers getting paid peanuts, not corporate executives with PR agents and lawyers at their disposal.
Their only choice would be to stop allowing public access to science, which has really terrible consequences for science and society both.
In my experience researchers are being very clear, but the context of this is super important.
When researchers publish in journals, their target audience is other people in their field. In this case other researchers and doctors. With that in mind, they choose words and phrases very specific to their field that have agreed-on definitions inside that field. Their obligation (amongst others) is to communicate to their field about their findings, as accurately as possible. They obviously have to publish their research so that science can move forward too.
But then when they publish it, people outside the field can also read it, and this is where the problem starts creeping in.
There are no qualifications required to be a “science reporter”. Unlike the researchers, those reporters aren’t required to have experience in the niche they’re writing about. They’re not required to have any knowledge of the wider field or subspecialty. They don’t necessarily know which of the words are specific and which are common use words. They don’t have to declare their conflicts of interest. They aren’t required to quote the researchers in full. If you’re lucky, they might have a science-related undergrad degree, but that’s only a taste of what is needed.
And researchers almost always say a hell of a lot, knowing that they’re trying to translate their everyday jargon to someone who doesn’t know it.
So in better examples of this problem, nuance gets lost. In worse examples, words are substituted that fundamentally change the meaning of the work. You can see this happen in the abstract here, emphasis mine:
“We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) testing the efficacy and safety of cannabinoids as the primary treatment for mental disorders or SUDs.”
In common speech, “primary treatment” sounds like it could just mean “biggest help”, but in medicine it holds a lot more meaning. “Primary treatment” in medicine means the absolute first thing you do that has the least destructive side effects and cures the patient, or if there is no cure, it is the thing that has the best quality evidence to help the patient as much as possible with the least destructive side effects. It’s the silver bullet you reach for before all other things, or as close as you can get to it.
And so sciencedaily, not appreciating (or actively disregarding) that there was significant meaning in those two words, chose the word “helps” for the title. The title differs from the body, which comes closer with “does not treat”, but that’s still not the same thing. The difference between title and body is part of why I lean towards classing this as wilful misrepresentation. The other part is where they’re pushing discussion about regulation, which has no relation to the contents of the paper.
The abstract could have been better, I did have to read some of the methodology to confirm what I suspected, but as far as I can tell, they did use the correct terminology for their target audience. And you’re not supposed to only read the abstract anyway.
Ultimately the responsibility for the accuracy of reporting about a research paper outside of a scientific journal comes down to the reporter and their employer. The researcher can only do so much to explain their work to that reporter, they can’t be responsible for teaching that reporter their entire field of knowledge, or knowing which parts the reporter is ignorant of. They probably also aren’t given the opportunity to suggest edits for the article before release and they probably don’t know to ask for the opportunity because they don’t work in the media.
Tl;dr sciencedaily needs to do better
I hear you and I know the feeling very well. I just hate that really bad media reporting is causing people to lose trust in decent science.
I hope that if you find a moment of space and energy, you can consider adjusting the target of your anger. If not, I totally get it - I’ll continue railing against the wilful misrepresentation of people’s hard work elsewhere, and I wish you the best of luck.
But it’s not the study that said that weed doesn’t help. It says there’s no evidence that using it on its own will help, which is exactly what you’ve described. The awkwardly positioned dick sucking you demand should be from sciencedaily.com
It’s not the study that’s the problem here, the study clearly examined it “as the primary treatment”. This is a common science media failure, they’ve conflated “primary treatment” with “helps”, and that is not the same thing at all.
Crutches aren’t the “primary treatment” for a broken leg either, but they do assist recovery by allowing someone to not use the broken leg. I’d suggest cannabis plays a similar role, it gives people the distance from the pain and further injury that they need for actual recovery, which sounds like it could describe your experience.
I suspect Liberia is just going to do something similar to what it was originally designed for - to be the dumping ground for former U.S slaves.
Being one of the poorest places in the world, I doubt it has a particularly robust immigration system.
So he’s originally from El Salvador.
ICE claims that preventing deporting him to Liberia is a “direct contradiction to established judicial norms” - as though it’s normal to deport people to entirely different places to where they’re from.
They’re punishing him because the Supreme Court embarrassed the administration, and now they’re reminding everyone that they were schooled by their own stooges. If they deported him to Costa Rica, the media might not have even picked this back up.
Don’t overestimate the legitimacy of US elections. Voter repression is rife, before even getting into media ownership laws.
There are literally decades of news stories about people in majority black areas waiting hours to vote, even 11 hours. Imagine trying to do that if you’re sick or disabled, which is more likely when you’re a minority. Or if your job can fire you at will because there are no protections. Then there’s the gerrymandering to make that vote worthless anyway. And the voter ID laws, which again are harder for people from minority backgrounds to comply with. The corruption is systemic and started in the foundations.
The Obama and Biden administrations also chose not to pursue these problems. They didn’t want to set the “political witchhunt” precedent that conservative media were warning about.
Next election, I expect to hear about huge quantities of ICE “observers” at polling places.
Their tourism and banking sectors start doing really well. Don’t leave without a visit to the iconic deposit box vaults, a real cultural highlight.
They also have a $73 billion nuclear and gas collaboration to build next-generation small modular reactors and natural gas power plants.
This article seems to want to push the idea that Japan is distancing itself meaningfully. Japan is making deals with both Iran and US - Japanese media just announced Iran is allowing Japan access through the Strait. Make no mistake, the Takaichi government is a conservative government, with all that entails. And Japan is forever finding ways to bend around legal constraints without breaking rules outright.
I don’t think all three will actually IPO, if any. But they do need to claim they are working on it to maintain plausible deniability. Why IPO when you can just keep raking in cash from gullible VCs without publicly flaunting your damning financial information? Not to mention wearing your crashing share prices like a cone of shame.
A lot of it is certainly imaginary cash, but there’s a lot of actual cash sitting in many of the bank accounts of the pre-IPO companies. Those companies are functionally running shadow markets at their discretion, with some light touch regulatory checks or possibly no checks.
Swap the names and this could have been an article from where I am. I’d give examples but it’s a small enough place that I try not to mention it online these days.
The military action against workers doesn’t surprise me, but the eugenics sex change law thing was a truly bizarre law to begin with - and 2013 is… quite late. I’m guessing the name “Sweden democrats” is deceptive given that vote.
I’m happy to live here, but we’re not some utopia.
I hear you, I’m in the same situation. And thanks for the links, I’ve learned a lot more about Sweden than I have in many years!
I hope we both are fortunate enough to make and experience progress again in our lifetimes.
Thanks for being real about it. As a non-Swedish-speaker living outside Scandinavia, I could only suspect that the frequent lionizing of Scandinavia (and dismissal of counterpoints with the magic word “homogenous”) was another flavor of white supremacy. I’m sorry that you’re dealing with exactly the same bullshit as many other places though.
Mine does if I use the defrost setting. I assume it wants me to rearrange the contents, but when it beeps the contents are still one solid chunk of ice. It doesn’t make sense, especially for a device that claims to have a “smart” sensor.
It’s a bit like the excerpt. It feels like someone is trying to rewrite the American Psycho routine, but it hammers the obsessive compulsive tropes with all the subtlety of a brick to the face while simultaneously lacking an overall purpose. It’s just noise.
The records include State Department visa records, some files of U.S. Postal Service inspectors, years of suspicious transaction reports from the Treasury Department and call records from the Bureau of Prisons.
Investigative files of the FBI, DEA and other law enforcement agencies often include information about witnesses, associates of suspects and others who have never committed any crimes, officials said.
He wants to know exactly what they’ve got on him and from who. The ability to supply ICE with target lists before election time is an added bonus.
I think we can anticipate more Epstein and Ivana style incidents in the future, and certainly many more people kidnapped off the streets.
He’s a crap reproduction of Pinochet in a power suit.
WTF is this garbage in the Graurdain? “Let’s assume!” is a terrible premise for even an opinion column to begin with, but “let’s assume Musk is right and AI could allow us all to not work” is… bananas for the Guardian to publish. Even before considering that the author’s bio says he’s a business owner of a technology and financial management services company.
The Tumblr thread about covers it, but I had a quick look through the code and this caught my attention in the get2fa.ts file. It’s used in Authorisation headers for
https://api.resend.com/emailsrequests. I’ve never used an aws secretsmanager but I’m pretty sure this is a no.const RESEND_API_KEY_SECRET_ARN = 'arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-2:<REDACTED_HARDCODED_STRING>:secret:RESEND_API_KEY-<REDACTED_HARDCODED_STRING>';const result = execSync( 'aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id "${RESEND_API_KEY_SECRET_ARN}" --region us-east-2 --profile <REDACTED_HARDCODED_STRING> --query SecretString --output text', { encoding: 'utf-8' } ).trim();