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Low and middle-income countries in Asia face significant disparities in scientific capacity and ability to influence public policy, which is likely to affect responses to future pandemics, climate change and technological advancements such as Artificial Intelligence, according to the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA).

I originally read the title as “it is more difficult to influence public policy in least-developed countries based on this study” but it appears it’s actually “it is more difficult for scientists to advocate for science-backed policies in least-developed countries.”

“Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?”

Gotta go fast!

-Ancient Middle Eastern Philosopher, probably

And now I want to know the deep meaning behind all of those Chinese knockoff tee shirts that I thought were just poorly translated.

No no no, we need to dig down to the magma to release the pressure!

Technically, it is very much linear. It’s just it doesn’t always go the way we feel like it should.

Then you should probably allow yourself to see some things you don’t like. I guess the answer lies somewhere in a middle ground where you both see things you don’t agree with and also filter out people known to spout untrue information or unnecessarily emotion-fueled sentiments? I don’t like genocide, but that doesn’t mean my options are fully head-in-the-sand or listen to non-stop Holocaust deniers…

Pretty close to exactly what we do right now, really but supercharged for the fast-approaching/already here world of supercharged fake news.

Or you can update it when you see fit, or go periods without filters to ensure you are still seeing something approximating reality, or base it on people you know personally and currently who you trust, or half a dozen other things that aren’t off the top of my head. The point was it’s less black and white than you’re painting it.

What if it’s based on what you think you should see?

I check on the calculator I have with me at all times. It’s $24.50

AI is going to destroy art the same way Photoshop, or photography, or pre-made tubes of paints, destroyed art. It’s a tool, it helps people take the idea in their head and put it in the world. And it lowers the barrier to entry, now you don’t need years of practice in drawing technique to bring your ideas to life, you just need ideas.

If AI gets to a point that it can give us creative, original, art that sparks emotion in novel ways…well we probably also made a super intelligent AI and our list of problems is much different than today.

Man, caterpillar heaven looks pretty rad.

It’s the symmetry that really makes it.

I assumed it was something more inconsequential and personal. It’s the sort of thing I usually say after doing something particularly embarrassing that I can’t get out of my head…

You take a picture of the tree to remember later…and it was just an ordinary bush.

I think about this a lot. Modern homo sapiens have been around for ~160,000 years. Recorded history starts around 5,000 years ago.

I cannot comprehend the amount of human history we will simply never know.

No! It was not meant for us.

Well she evolved to hunt and gather, so maybe don’t blame her for gathering.

Probably the most violent octopus on that beach, but we really can’t say if it was the angriest octopus.