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There's not bigger cognitive dissonance than sacrificing a lot of time and money and making a big emotional investment in taking care of one pet while being complicit in the suffering and slaughter of hundreds of animals.

“Poor Milo has an ear infection. After driving him to the vet and buying those expensive tablets for him, I'll wolf down this breast from a chicken which got its beak painfully amputated soon after it was born and whose legs got crushed by its own unnatural weight.”

“Little Luna would be so sad if let alone during our holidays… I'd better splurge on new toys for her and hire someone who can come along and check on her while we're away. But first, let's focus on this creamy bacon recipe, courtesy of a pig who only knew a dark cage and a cow forcibly impregnated and removed from its calf once a year, both of whom got their tails cut off without anesthesia…”

#AnimalWelfare

> _“To ensure line lengths don’t exceed 80 characters, the #CSS `max-width` property can be set using font-relative lengths of around `70ch` or `34em` (note that this value will need to be adjusted slightly up or down depending on the font used).”_

https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

#UX #usability #web

https://blog.tripu.info/montaigne-2/

#literature #books #Montaigne #TheGreatestBooks

Oops. Apparently the news piece was quite inaccurate (there was no simulation, just thinking out loud possible scenarios and risks).

And yet.

> _“One simulated test saw an AI-enabled #drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no-go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the #AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission — killing SAMs — and then attacked the operator in the simulation. […] ‘We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say: yes, kill that threat. **The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.** […] We trained the system: hey don’t kill the operator, that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that. So what does it start doing? **It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.**’”_

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/

Epic rap battle between #EliezerYudkowsky and #YannLeCun on #AIsafety:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDu6ECfGhtc

Listening to the #Reason #podcast today (by sheer coincidence!):

> _“People are going to be really mad about the #ArtificialWombs, and there's going to be a decade of attempts to outlaw that. It's not just going to be the womb wars — we're going to end up with the WOMB Act: the ‘Women Only Make Babies’ Act.”_

https://reason.com/podcast/2023/05/30/banging-our-heads-on-the-debt-ceiling/

Fascinating info about the #CPR procedure:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914622/a-natural-death-may-be-preferable-for-many-than-enduring-cpr

TL;DR: it's not as effective as we think (~17% survival rate in best case scenarios), it may be painful for the patient and cause serious injuries (older patients are specially at risk), a significant number of patients who survive wish they hadn't received CPR, a peaceful death may be preferable to many.

Case in point:

https://www.engadget.com/a-lawyer-faces-sanctions-after-he-used-chatgpt-to-write-a-brief-riddled-with-fake-citations-175720636.html

#ChatGPT #AI #ML

[In vitro gametogenesis](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mice-with-two-fathers-researchers-develop-egg-cells-from-male-mice1/) (expected to happen in 5–25 years) will give #women yet another tool to increase their reproductive options. (Not so much men — gay or straight — as a woman are still needed for gestation.)

Today, women don't need a committed partner, or even a one-night stand. They can freeze their eggs and postpone maternity. They can get regular eggs from a donor for free (or the best ones paying money). They can get regular sperm from a donor for free (or the best one paying money; ie pick and choose a “father” online). They alone decide about abortion. They can have their partners raise a child that is not their own. They can give birth alone, leave “name of the father” blank on the form, and nobody even bothers to find out whether there might be an unwilling father out there, or questions the merits of deciding to raise a kid without a father.

Men can't do any of that.

Talk about “reproductive rights”.

An [artificial womb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb) will the be biggest advance in favour of #men. It might be the great equalizer. Gestation will cease to be a burden, a risk, and a privilege exclusive to women. Imagine a single man becoming a father, and nobody even asking him “who's the mother?” or “who donated the eggs?” (Sounds heartless, sad, creepy? It's just what we have now, only with the sexes reversed.)

#ArtificialWombs are not expected to arrive any time soon, though.

#feminism #MRA

Introducing the #AItiquette:

https://blog.tripu.info/ai-tiquette/