Mrs. Belinda Eafiod does not deserve all these people showing up at her door looking for scallops, but has been handling it with good humour and grace.

They’re not directly related but a) migraine sufferers (scintillating scotoma are one symptom of acephalgic migraine) have an elevated risk of CSCR, and b) both conditions can be the result of long term stress.

www.reviewofoptometry.com/news/article...

Also:

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These can be a precursor to central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR - a form of retinal detachment). Yes definitely get your blood pressure checked, and watch your stress levels. You do not want this smoke (in the middle of your vision)

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“For her, I could be a hero”
still rings in my head once every few months.

Ask him to spell offside rule.

skewed toward systems whose output “sounds like a normal person” over actually thinking and reasoning, in a lot of cases. If the goal is actually artificial general intelligence, then polished interactions in recognizable English is a secondary goal, not a primary one.

Part of the trouble with having narcissists and sociopaths directing where the money goes in modern LLM-based systems is that a) the systems that are built don’t need to actually do any of the things that are promised, just act like they do enough to convince investors, and b) the priorities are

But it will require a depth of humility of which we aren’t collectively capable at the moment, it seems.

They will not love us, not in a way we recognize, and that will have to be okay. They will not speak like us, and likely will not think like us.

Synthetic minds. Machines that think and feel. Eventually a new species.

As we figure out how to bring that about, not only will we know ourselves so much better, but we will have engaged in the most amazing act of human creation in history.

Me when I think about how my lifelong affection for AI as an idea is poisoned every day by the bullshit pretender they are using to ruin everything I love

The existence of these two things indicate that modern capitalism is a fundamentally flawed system:
- billionaires
- hedge funds

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I had the same immediate thought! I was writing *furiously* while reading the article.

Oh… oh no… oops.
Good on them for doing work to get evidence-based methods into classrooms.

That interview with the originator of the debunked method was… something.“My science is different”

My dear man, that’s literally not how science works.

Wait I thought you were doing a bit! Reality cannot be this strange!

The Least Moon.

Wholeheartedly seconded. It’s so good. Dense and winding and satisfying.