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I think you can find ethically good, bad and gray uses for AI.

The top commenter here mentions Youtube content creators using it. Most of them are on YT to make money. So its a rational smart choice to let AI do your writing, if it makes you more efficient and means you can earn more.

Sounds more like YouTube “content producers” are likely using AI to generate the words they read aloud.

I've noticed this too, and it sounds like a an example of what Marshall McLuhan was talking about when he said "The Medium is the Message”. The form of a medium (e.g., TV, print, digital) has a more profound effect on society than the actual content it carries.

Stupider people with weaker senses of self are more likely to use chatgpt.

No. AI use correlates with being younger and more educated.

Characteristics of ChatGPT users from Germany: implications for the digital divide from web tracking data

It would have been more accurate to say well-paying jobs for all of them.

There is only a limited amount of engineers available.

U.S. universities award roughly 150,000 to 200,000 bachelor’s degrees in engineering each year, whereas the EU produces 500,000 engineering graduates per year.

Europe's problem is getting enough jobs for them all.

there’s very little industry in the EU

The EU's Total Manufacturing Output & Global Share of Manufacturing is bigger than the US's.

Or maybe AGI turns out to be harder than some people thought.

Yes. It seems very unlikely to arise from current LLMs. AGI-Hypers keep expecting signs of independent reasoning to arise, and it keeps not happening.

The Germans have been doing it for a while too, but they seemed to have got more results and be closer to launch.

The US is also heading for a debt crisis. I wonder when the stock market crash comes, will Trump's attempts to 'fix' it be what finally ends the dollar's day as world reserve currency?

The purpose of the trial was to avoid diseases caused by faulty DNA transmitted via the mitochondria. Mitochondrial DNA is only 13 genes out of 20,000, and is transmitted separately, but in some cases can cause disease. The third person here was a woman who donated her healthy mitochondria & its DNA to a nucleus where the existing male/female nucleus was damaged.

Will swapping out some of the 20,000 core nucleus genes be a future development? Perhaps, but maybe it will make more sense to have them gene edited, and not get transplants from extra people.

Although gene editing techniques are patentable in some countries, I wonder if this could be much cheaper than the monthly weight loss shots, which can be very expensive in some countries.

In the future will medical tourism for gene editing be a thing? Maybe the same clinics that offer hair restoration, botox and plastic surgery today will have it as an option.

Submission Statement

"We wanted to test the entire planning process including approval, construction, and real-world operation of the plant to learn how to draw up concepts for building larger production platforms," said Professor Roland Dittmeyer, Head of KIT's Institute for Micro Process Engineering and coordinator of the "PtX-Wind" H2Mare project during the opening ceremony in Bremerhaven."

Interesting this isn't just a technical proof-of-concept, but they are looking at the practicalities of commercializing it too.

It seems logical they would test it on extracted gall bladders first. Finding a gall bladder during surgery seems far from an insurmountable task for AI.

"our" democratically elected leaders

You know the internet isn't just made up of Americans, right? (E.g. I'm Irish & the other 2 mods of this site are Indian & English.)

Why not try and see developments from a global perspective?

People overestimate how much an aging population will be a burden in decades to come, because they underestimate the impact of robots.

At least they're being honest about it.

A Swiss company is trying this, though using concrete instead of water. Wear and tear and moving parts are disadvantages though.

https://www.swiss.tech/news/giant-gravity-batteries-storage-renewable-energies

Oops, updated that now.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/11/millions-more-to-have-robotic-surgery-in-nhs-plan-to-cut-waiting-lists?

I'd guess it's the quality of the ingredients that matter, not if its robot or human put together.

Here's it in action. The dough base is pre-made.

https://youtu.be/7eunAdUqGZA

It looks believable to me that this might be far faster than a human.