Pragmatically, though, AI will only end up doing the jobs it can do cheaper and better than humans can. And the more sophisticated the task, the more expensive it will be getting AI to a level where it can do it better than a human can. I have no doubt that, given time, AI will be capable of doing my job as well or better than I can. But the amount of specialist knowledge necessary for it to do so would make it an expensive project, sufficiently so that I see no risk to my career before I retire.

Could it be that more emotionally stable people both tend not to have such mystical experiences on psychedelics, and tend to be more resistant to changes in their levels of anxiety / depression?

There's still some universities - or there were in my day - that gave MAs rather than MScs for natural sciences..

Interested in your take on the extreme vegans who want to see all carnivorous / omnivorous animals genetically modified to become herbivores to prevent animal cruelty.

All I know from personal experience is that several gas-fired power stations are currently in the design phase in the UK with carbon capture technology included to greatly reduce stack emissions of CO2. The companies involved are big emitters, the carbon capture and storage technology is more than just greenwashing, but it takes time to design and build new plant.

Alternately the companies which emit the most may be the ones who are looking at what they can change.

Surely it's going to depend on the nature of the sound, with sounds which are like those made by prey species attracting the snakes, and those which sound like predator species causing them to run away?

Thanks. Clears it up for me.

Yay! Time for one of those illicit workplace romances..

Understood. Fair enough. Genuine follow up question: Why does the body regulate to prevent higher concentrations?

..to the sound of the bells of St Clement's.

Fair comment.

> Is this a sarcastic question?

Indeed. The way it's worded almost sounds like marketing.

Unless the authors believe there's a difference between pharmacological and natural vitamin C they should just say 'vitamin C'. Otherwise it makes it sound like it's work that's been done by or for a supplement company.

And non-pharmacological Vitamin C? Should I just stop eating fruit and veg and just take supplements instead?

I've had recent involvement in carbon capture technology for power plants and other large CO2 emitters, and there's still an anti-technology bias there also. I don't personally hold with conspiracy theories, I suspect it's just that those who shout the loudest against emissions and pollutants tend to see 'green' as being equated with pre-industrial approaches.

Read the title. "How fast does thought spread up mountains?".

The actual paper is both interesting and hopeful for our futures assuming continuing global warming, though further research in other locations would be helpful.

Pretty much right on both points, except that historically the 'British' were the Welsh, driven back to this corner of the island by Anglo-Saxons and others. Brythonic Celts is where 'Britain' comes from. What resentment there is gets directed towards the English (which, incidentally, I am) not the British.

Opinion: That may be a US-centric view. Here in rural Wales it seems to me to be alive and well, though far from universal.

Social trust has been around, and been nurtured, far longer than any attempts at defining it.

> With one of the longest consecutive studies of youth well-being to date..

70 days. 204 participants. If that's really the best anyone has done to date, the field is very weak.

It's all to do with exerting dominance..

Give him "wanna try it for real??" (wink), see the look of shock on his face. For extra points, do it in front of your aunt. Then the old-school "..NOT!"

Oh come on, at least try to make it sound like it actually happened.

If nothing else, there's solar wind on the moon.