A custom loathsome to the eye, harmful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."[45] Quaint old Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," recognizes the virtues of the plant while he anathematizes its abuse
India had a higher proportion of individuals who have attempted to quit tobacco, which may be associated with the countrys higher rate of providing advice for quitting
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-- new research and various social factors related to Alzheimer's = goldmine of philosophy of medicine issues Mary Midgely once observed that almost all the canonical figures in philosophys history had been unmarried men -- that may depend on who you count, yet we can ask, as Elle Robson does, how this affected their philosophizing Problem Trolley -- a prompt to reflect on the kinds of examples moral philosophers like to use (via Daniel Story) While GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving -- a new study on the effects of AI use in "knowledge work" There is little reason to think that these defenders [of strict immigration control] have done anything better than fantasize about immigration restrictions in an imaginary world -- Edward Hall on why the facts about immigration matter for philosophizing about it I thought, I could spend the rest of my life playing whack-a-mole with each empirical claim, or I could step back and say, what exactly is the thing that makes it wrong to cut somebodys penis without their consent? -- an interview with Brian Earp at the Bruchim Podcast One gets a view of the whole profession that cannot easily be matched in any given department or within any given subfield -- Richard Bett, who has been involved with the leadership of the APA in one capacity or another for 25 years, reflects on his experiences When an LLM adds two numbers together to get a sum, how does it do that
If that AI becomes an integrated intelligence with intelligence and reason, will it have human-like thoughts like us humans
