Readit NewsYou apply for a job, using your standardized Employ resume that you filled out. It comes bundled with your Employ ID, issued by the company to keep track of which applications have been submitted by specifically you.
When Employ AI does its internet background check on you, it discovers an article about a horrific attack. Seven dead, twenty-six injured. The article lists no name for the suspect, but it does have an expert chime in, one that happens to share their last name with you. Your first name also happens to pop up somewhere in the article.
With complete confidence that this is about you, Employ AI adds the article to its reference list. It condenses everything into a one-line summary: "Applicant is a murderer, unlikely to promote team values and social cohesion. Qualifications include..." After looking at your summary for 0.65 seconds, the recruiter rejects your application. Thanks to your Employ ID, this article has now been stapled to every application you'll ever submit through the system.
You've been nearly blacklisted from working. For some reason, all of your applications never go past the initial screening. You can't even know about the existence of the article, no one will tell you this information. And even if you find out, what are you going to do about it? The company will never hear your pleas, they are too big to ever care about someone like you, they are not in the business of making exceptions. And legally speaking, it's technically not the software making final screening decisions, and it does say its summaries are experimental and might be inaccurate in 8pt light gray text on a white background. You are an acceptable loss, as statistically <1% of applicants find themselves in this situation.
Will an account get suspended/banned because of their views on AI? No. Therefore, still allowed.
Epstein headlines are big engagement vectors, yet haven’t seemed to bring about any sort of accountability. They can report on things that make him look bad, and he remains in power, with his supporters still supporting him despite the evidence presented.
Ignore the writing on the wall at your own peril.
Gonna look it up, and I’ll edit this post when I find out.
Edit 1: Didn’t find the quote from the film yet, but did find [1]this video (unedited interview from I Dream of Wires) where Paul explains how he himself is not a musician, but rather an engineer.
[1] https://youtu.be/6ixv4F4XD4Y
Edit 2: Still haven’t found it.
I have the film at home, but I’m traveling in Europe at the moment, so it is out of reach for me currently.
Maybe think about this before knee-jerk flagging
And I'm certain one could trivially dig up data correlating the decline of IQ in New York to fluoridation. The Flynn Effect reversal began in the 90s, and New York began fluoridating their water in 1965, so there's an excellent age correlation there. But that correlation does not necessarily mean causation. What matters are more controlled studies determining definitively whether fluoride is intellectually harmful by using fluoride levels in urine to control for various confounding variables (people in the same regions getting fluoride from multiple sources, consuming more/less products with fluoride, etc). And we do have those studies, and the answer is yes it is.
That certainly doesn't mean it's the sole cause for the reversal of the Flynn Effect as its seen across the developed world, and many countries do not add fluoride to their water. But it is likely a contributing factor. In recent decades we have begun moving far faster than we're capable of evaluating the consequences of, and long-term consequences may well be stacking from multiple sources of mistakes.
[1] - https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
This is disingenuous, and itself a political talking point.
> In reality US education spending per student has continually increased and is always near the top of the world.
It is much more nuanced than “money in equals IQ out”.
Where does the money end up? Not in classrooms, unfortunately.
What is the average ratio of teachers to students? Is this number going up, up, up?
Now do counselors, nurses, etc.
How much are teachers spending out of pocket for classroom supplies? Has this number gone down, down, down?
That is probably because you are unaware how far it has gotten. Irrespective of that, a driver still needs to be there and pay attention. As soon as you take your eyes of the road for a few seconds it will warn you very prominently.
I'm going on the record here to say that FSD will be a better driver than 99% of humans in the next 2 years. I may be wrong, but I don't think I will be.
The others aren't doing well right now despite the fact that the tech that runs them can do what crypto promised, often better. It will all come down to whether people will buy in?