Is this a peer-reviewed paper?

> Men included a higher degree of physical violence into their ideas while women favored ideas that reflected social aggression, though these effects were small and not statistically significant.

And yet this non-significant difference is used as an explanation for the EEG results. Poor science.

Don't share
clothing down there
you'll just make a fuss
when your crack's caked in pus.

> Statins (a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs) may be one such method, according to the new study..

Does that mean that a CPAP using sleep apnoea sufferer who does not have raised cholesterol will not gain benefit from statins? (I've been on CPAP for 25 years+ now, but my cholesterol is not raised).

A map can be based on extrapolation or interpolation between known points.

Essentially this is a map vs territory issue. Our senses - which is all we have - can tell us what something looks, tastes, feel like, but absolutely cannot tell us what something is. Our brains allow us to create a model from this data, say for instance that the red thing that tastes that way is a tomato. That is then a theory. If more and more evidence backs up that theory, we can be more and more confident that the theory is accurate. But we can never really 'know' the underlying reality of a thing. Apart from anything else, the whole thing could just be an illusion, but even without considering that extreme case, it could be that it's another thing that's very similar to a tomato in most ways but has important differences. At the end of the day, though, all that matters from a practical point of view is whether by treating it as a tomato we are at risk of failing to predict how it will behave in any given circumstance. Prediction of the unknown is the only worthwhile property of a map. The existence or nature of any underlying 'reality' simply doesn't matter.

Does violence cause schizophrenia, or are schizophrenics targets of violence?

Categorising entire musical genres by a single piece of music is simplistic at best.

For the future: Anything you don't want people to see, store on an external hard drive or in cloud. The rest they don't care about any more than you would if you were in someone else's computer.

> I am in actuality not a creepy paedo who has a photographic memory of toddlers.

You keep telling yourself that..

> Don’t get a lap dance from my boyfriend.

I'm willing to give him a try, but then I'm a 280lb male too..

> I want someone who really loves me. Who opens up to me emotionally. Who wants to spend the rest of their life with me. I want someone I’m enamored with, that I want to marry.

Sorry to be harsh, but dream on. Relationships like that either don't happen at all, or the love element doesn't last, or is one-sided. You are far, far better off with:
> He marks off all the boxes, we have great communication, great sex, a great home life but a lot of times it feels like we’re just friends.

I speak as someone who's been in a relationship with my partner for the past 43 years, married for 36 of them, kids, grandkids. I love them, always have done, but in a practical way, not is a dreamy heads in the clouds way. Those people I know who had that kind of love, almost without exception ended up hurt. And in the exceptional cases, it developed into something more 'real'. And FWIW I, the man, pushed for the marriage after we'd had our daughter..

I just looked it up. Estimated total quantity of plastic produced to date since plastic production started is about 10 billion tonnes. Estimated total weight of seawater in the world is around 1.5 billion billion tonnes. So even if all that plastic was in the seas, there would be 150 million times as much water as plastic. In reality it's only a problem when the amount of plastic particles in a particular location is very much higher than the global average.

One 100 micron particle per 10 litres of water isn't gonna make a very strong soup.

I've read a few, but they don't really address the question of the level of contamination needed to cause measurable harm.

Really good news, at least for now. Has anyone done research to identify at what level of contamination with plastics there is a measurable harmful effect on higher lifeforms than copepods?

What degree?

And yet, we live in a capitalist society. Like it or not (and I don't), profit decides what scientific developments get implemented. The only way around is that the government incentivises 'progress'. But the government isn't going to incentivise something which causes mass redundancies. At least, not until AIs get the vote.

For many jobs 'better' translates as 'more cost-effectively'. But not for all.

I remain to be convinced that when it comes to design safety audits - my job - "good enough to pass" is going to swing.

Perhaps worth remembering that they said the same and worse when personal computers became available. Time will tell. Almost certainly not mine, as it happens, as my current life expectancy is below 10 years.

Sorry, by 'apocalypse' I meant loss of the workplace as the social norm, not some sci-fi nonsense. In my judgement the timescale for this exceeds my life expectancy quite significantly. That in part is mediated by the fact that I'm in my late sixties with various health conditions, but even without that I think the doomsday predictions are too premature.

"..very soon.." is an opinion. AI has been around a while already, but the signs of it taking over aren't there yet. Yes, it's improving and accelerating, but for now anything that's not repetitive and easily interfaced is not happening. There's still a huge gap between 'theoretically possible for AI' and 'cost-effective to implement for AI'. I'd be very surprised if the apocalypse you predict will happen in my lifetime.

My work is facilitating a particular type of technical safety audit (HAZOP) in the process engineering industry. There's no reason why AI couldn't do it, but the demand isn't great and the complexity of learning is such that it would be unlikely to be cost-effective even in the medium term.

For what it's worth I'm 67 now, so probably yes. But I doubt that there'll be AI doing my job for a long time after that.