If people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it’s usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance

They are the goodest space dogs

One reason I’d like to see Germany held to account is their long-term efforts to push the interests of their car industry, even as it filled the world with overly polluting (and, recently, increasingly over-sized) vehicles

I recently used just some smoked paprika for the same job. It was much nicer than the OEP spice mixture, and a lot cheaper

It’s one thing to push for car dependency, and to push for oil profits. But what boils my blood is the people who dress it up as being about equity.

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can’t see a version of computer “intelligence” that’s any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”. Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

I can’t remember who said it, but somebody once framed this as “You can make a place easy to drive around or you can make it worth visiting, but you can’t do both”

I loved this game! I’ll never forget the time I came back from certain defeat when we suddenly passed a pub in northern England called something like “The Batley Marching Band”

Outside peak hours, by very slow-moving delivery vehicles. This is a solved problem all over Europe

A few years ago I’d have jokes about data ports being the same fitting as power sockets, but USB-C has ruined that

I’m guessing there were three authors on this study, based on the “human” dots

Oh, this looks good! Thanks

It’s a very American style thing. UK English media don’t do this, and it always feels strange when I see it in US media

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonormativity

Thing is, a lot of these aren’t that bad? Making an oxygen mask feels really different to just setting fire to the fossil fuel to shift a 3-ton vanity pickup truck half a mile to Starbucks. And lots of the others can readily be replaced. Clothes, for example: rayon from bamboo can replace a lot of polyester and nylon

Every metric? What about the poor shareholders in oil companies? Have you no empathy for them at all, you monster?

A small local one. The big ones do great work, of course, but another £1000 doesn’t change things much for them, whereas £1000 would make a tangible difference for a small charity

They don’t make inflated profits for US companies. That’s what this is about

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