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Interesting aspect is that suspicion that the threat of a potential lawsuit means the journal would not withdraw the paper.

The original article is available here[0].

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...

Ultimately, they need to monetize.

This is just my prediction of how they will do it. And it capitalizes on the same processes as Twitch, YouTube, etc.

You will be able to pay one offs for a tweet you like, like Reddit gold. Or generally buy them a month.

If 100 of Kim K's 75million followers buy her a single month thats over 8 years of bluetick for her.

Twitter doesn't care, and ultimately you would not have control over someone else buying you bluetick. Nor would that person be eligible for a refund should you deactivate your account.

I don't think twitter will care too much.

Their focus is on how to monetize and I think I've got it.

Musk has admitted buying some people bluetick. Why stop at him? I predict he will let anyone do it. Soon how far in advance your bluetick is paid up will be as important as your follower count.

And it will all go into Twitters pocket.

Here is the corresponding article.

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 Sébastien Bubeck, Varun Chandrasekaran, Ronen Eldan, Johannes Gehrke, Eric Horvitz, Ece Kamar, Peter Lee, Yin Tat Lee, Yuanzhi Li, Scott Lundberg, Harsha Nori, Hamid Palangi, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Yi Zhang

    Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. The latest model developed by OpenAI, GPT-4, was trained using an unprecedented scale of compute and data. In this paper, we report on our investigation of an early version of GPT-4, when it was still in active development by OpenAI. We contend that (this early version of) GPT-4 is part of a new cohort of LLMs (along with ChatGPT and Google's PaLM for example) that exhibit more general intelligence than previous AI models. We discuss the rising capabilities and implications of these models. We demonstrate that, beyond its mastery of language, GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks that span mathematics, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology and more, without needing any special prompting. Moreover, in all of these tasks, GPT-4's performance is strikingly close to human-level performance, and often vastly surpasses prior models such as ChatGPT. Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. In our exploration of GPT-4, we put special emphasis on discovering its limitations, and we discuss the challenges ahead for advancing towards deeper and more comprehensive versions of AGI, including the possible need for pursuing a new paradigm that moves beyond next-word prediction. We conclude with reflections on societal influences of the recent technological leap and future research directions. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

Windows does, you can update whenever you life. All 4 possible options are offered when you go to shutdown, including skipping the update to shutdown/reboot now.

Windows does sometimes get it correct.

I should have left a "sequence shortened" warning. Windows 10/11 offer you 4 options when an update is pending. "Update and shutdown", "Update and reboot", "Shutdown" and "Reboot".

Perfect!

The biggest problem is that Firefox updates the next time you open the app, without warning.

That's not a sane decision. Sane would be to update on closing.

Same way Windows offers to "Update and Shutdown" (you don't need the PC anymore why don't I under after you walk away) and not "Update on next Start up" (I'll wait until you need me to get in your way).

I said that dictators are *willing* to make their countries poor. That is different from wilfully make them poorer without marginal gain.

> which is not an economic self own even most dictatorships are willing to make.

What basis do you have for this claim? People make these claims constantly so confidently, but wherever I look all I see is that dictators have always been willing to make their nations incredibly poor.

> These firewalls are an exercise in having your cake and eating it too.

More to the point this isn't the Gordian Knot you think it is.

HTTPS isn't designed to prevent this. If you want to allow 'legitmate' access you just issues your own certs, and proxy requests. Universities etc can install your root cert and use your DNS servers.

100% oxygen via nasal cannula, even at a barely tolerable 6L/minute. Still only results of an intake O2 concentration of <50% [0]. You can with heated humidified systems achieving rates approaching the 100% used here.

But they are still at atmospheric pressures, this research is on a combination of high oxygen (hyperoxia) and high pressures (hyperbaric), which leads to much higher partial pressures of oxygen within the body according to Dalton's equations[1].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK526071/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420699/

There are many fascinating HBOT studies coming out of Israel in particular.

However, we must be careful how we interpret them. One key feature of all the studies I've seen with significant positive results is that some subgroup with psychiatric co-morbidity improved. In this article they list many as references 16-19. But I will highlight 14. The title alone should make you think something is up

"Hadanny, A. et al. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can induce neuroplasticity and significant clinical improvement in patients suffering from fibromyalgia with a history of childhood sexual abuse-randomized controlled trial. Front. Psychol. 9, 2495. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02495 (2018)." [emphasis added by me].

Back to this study, it in particular notes improvement in depression/anxiety/somatization scores, that's the second most significant change, second to pain interference. Depression and anxiety are self explanatory, but somatization is the tendency to experience mental distress as physical symptoms. Pain interference is the degree to-which pain impairs function (working, looking after youself, social interactions etc).

It cites prior studies showing benefits to those with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyaldia and post-traumatic stress disorder. All conditions with significant co-morbid psychiatric conditions.

So is HBOT a treatment for depression/anxiety, or is it a treatment for a variety of conditions? Is depression the common mechanism of these conditions?

> I guess some people aren't familiar with it and therefore see it as weird or unnatural?

I think this is part of it, but there seems to be an amplifying effect where the social context - people being upset about mislabelled food leads to people feeling stronger about their otherwise small objection.

It's almost like because of the social pressure people know they are angry but not too sure why, and they end up ascribing all that angry to whatever reason they can think of.

Had they been introduced to the idea of eating horse meat at a jovial bistro in the Swiss countryside they would be primed to enjoy it.

I agree.

I don't see how this is not magical thinking but the rules of arithmetic are.

Here it is https://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm#pt2

I've never thought much of it.

You might have been up against a ground start phone line.[1] Apparently, some designs gave access to the powered wired from the phone line, and grounding this would trigger the dial tone from upstream.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_start

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.dcom.telecom/c/weJ0FW0Njb4

I may be wrong, but as I understand it HTTPS connections typically use an ephemeral key with the certificate used to authenticate the servers identity.

So simply having the certificate does not mean one can read the traffic without conducting a man-in-the-middle attack.

This means that anyone who could read traffic from a HTTPS connection could read it from a HTTP connection just as easy.

The arguement seems to boil down to, everyone uses a master lock, some people can open master locks, please consider leaving your locker unlocked... why?

Yup excellent if it pans out - although Kazakhs remain sceptical.

But it is quite extraordinary to see parts of the government lead by Tokayev, eject an autocrat (Nazarbayev) and begin the process of democratisation. And it does seem to stem from a lack of willingness to carry out a crackdown on the people.

It is not likely to become a liberal democracy soon if ever (not that is needs to be a goal at all). A hybrid regime is very likely though.

You love to see it.