Very soon somebody will have to decide how to use this power – based on some implicit or explicit story about the meaning of life. – from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari – #yuval-noah-harari-quotesĪrtificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving humanity the power to reshape and re-engineer life. Indeed, AI might make centralised systems far more efficient than diffused systems, because machine learning works better the more information it can analyse. AI makes it possible to process enormous amounts of information centrally. However, soon AI might swing the pendulum in the opposite direction. Given twentieth-century technology, it was inefficient to concentrate too much information and power in one place. Democracy diffuses the power to process information and make decisions among many people and institutions, whereas dictatorship concentrates information and power in one place. In the late twentieth century democracies usually outperformed dictatorships because democracies were better at data-processing.
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The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. At some point after midnight a dog barks. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Whicher : Or the Murder at Road Hill House She’s never put herself out there, but then again, there’s never been anyone worthy of putting herself out there for.Until one day in a burger joint, an asshole practically enters her into a wet t-shirt contest with his drink. An energetic spit-fire who has some heat to her sauce, she’s dedicated to her new business, her family, and a select group of friends. Paige might come in a small package, but she makes up for it in spirit. Even if it is Paige Carpino–smart and sweet but at every turn, knocks him on his ass with the unexpected.That’s figuratively speaking of course. 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In 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe examined the medical records of over 5,000 medical patients as a way to determine whether stressful events might cause illnesses. While there is good evidence that chronic stress can lead to ill health, there is not much evidence to support the ranking of stressful life events in this manner. The American Institute of Stress for instance, regards a score of 300 or more as an "80% chance of health breakdown within the next 2 years". The test works via a point accumulation score which then gives an assessment of risk. The Holmes and Rahe stress scale ( / r eɪ/) is a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. |