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New Research Points to Causes for Brain Disorders with No Obvious Injury
"Functional neurological disorders are very real, and medical compassion is an important part of treatment." … more »
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futureoflife.org
I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test. Here’s What I Discovered
"Estimated on the basis of five subtests, the Verbal IQ of the ChatGPT was 155, superior to 99.9 percent of the test takers who make up the American WAIS III standardization sample." … more »
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Justin Sullivan.NTS.SF Chronicle
New bill would let California’s attorney general jump into more housing fights
Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office is sponsoring a bill that would give the attorney general the unconditional right to wade into any lawsuit filed over a potential violation of state housing law. The measure, Assembly Bill 1485 by Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, comes as Bonta has increasingly sought to expand the state’s role in enforcing housing … more »
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Arificial Intelligence - Wikipedia
Elon Musk and top AI researchers call for pause on ‘giant AI experiments’
A number of well-known AI researchers — and Elon Musk — have signed an open letter calling on AI labs around the world to pause development of large-scale AI systems, citing fears over the “profound risks to society and humanity” this software poses. … more »
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MGI
Who’s Counting? How McKinsey Hyped California’s Housing Crisis
[This article was originally published in The Brooklyn Rail and is republished with permission] When Gavin Newsom was running for California governor in 2017, he ... … more »
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Amy Kalish
Dissonance: Do we really care about our own safety?
Two days after a strong warning by Daniel Borenstein (editorial editor of the East Bay Times) that the Bay Area needs to pull back it’s infrastructure projects bec... … more »
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Nature Conservancy
Use Nature as Infrastructure
"Wetlands, coastal plains, sand dunes, forests, and many other permeable surfaces do cheaply (or even for free) what engineered levees, seawalls and pumps do at a cost of billions of dollars." … more »
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NASA
Why Optimism Can’t Fix Our Climate Politics
"This week’s U.N. report shows how hard it is to save the world when capitalism is working against you." … more »
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Michael Maltzan Architects
Bad bets, dysfunction: Inside the collapse of the Skid Row Housing Trust
"The situation “was both a wake-up call and a cautionary tale. The buildings created with tax credit financing lose their primary investors after they recoup their funds in about 15 years, and their fixed revenue from subsidized rents may not cover long-term maintenance costs such as roof repairs and air conditioner replacements." … more »
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Wikipedia
California's population is on the decline, and high-income earners have joined the exodus
"Entering the 21st century, when California's population was about 34 million, we were predicted to reach 45 million by 2020 and 59 million by 2040. So much for that." The state's population has fallen below 39 million. … more »