Plant Consciousness
A Litmus Test for Plant Consciousness: Pattern–Temporal Synergy in a Relation-First Ontology
The United States is one of the few OECD countries to pay individuals to donate blood plasma and is the most generous in terms of remuneration. […] Our findings indicate that the opening of a plasma center in a city leads to a 12% drop in the crime rate
Life insurers can predict when you’ll die with about 98% accuracy. […] Underwriting is the dark art that allows an insurer to figure out if you’re a good bet or a risky one. Typically, underwriters- suspiciously sounds like undertakers-rely on a handful of key health metrics like HbA1c, cholesterol, blood pressure, and BMI to calculate your risk of dying earlier than expected (and thus costing them money). […] Those same four metrics are exactly what GLP‑1s improve. So, what’s the issue? […] If we assume about 65% of people who start GLP-1 medications quit by the end of year one, that creates a big problem. When someone stops the medication, they’ll usually regain the weight they lost, and in two years, most of those key health indicators (like BMI, blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol) bounce back to their starting point. This means the underwriter has just locked in a 30-year policy at preferred rates for someone who’ll be high-risk again by year three.
OpenAI is also very meritocratic. Historically, leaders in the company are promoted primarily based upon their ability to have good ideas and then execute upon them. Many leaders who were incredibly competent weren’t very good at things like presenting at all-hands or political maneuvering. That matters less at OpenAI then it might at other companies. The best ideas do tend to win. […] An unusual part of OpenAI is that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack. There is no email. I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there.
