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Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave – largely to no avail.
  • To be frank, I don't know. I just think we are in a situation where we can rule out some of the possibilities by making comparisons between earlier societies and today, as well as different countries. For example, if we assume that bad living conditions are the root cause, then we have the problem that in earlier societies with much less wealth, that has been more demanding for the average person, people tended to have more children. In addition, we see that people in quite poor countries have a lot of children. You could save the assumption by adding a hypothesis like "if people know that life could be better but cannot achieve that better life, they are less likely to have children". While this might work, we must note that inequality was even worse in earlier societies. The difference between a peasant and a member of the nobility may have been much greater than the inequality we see today (within most socienties). Maybe the peasant wasn't aware of it, or whatever.

    Anyway, you need a more complex theory in this case.

  • Crispr-Enhanced Viruses Are Being Deployed Against UTIs
  • I quoted the article in order to comment:

    One company is aiming to treat infections with a different strategy: arming tiny viruses called bacteriophages with Crispr.

    I checked it just out: CRISPR is already part of the intra-celluar immun system of baacterias and archaea.

    Whereas antibiotics kill bacteria indiscriminately—including the beneficial kind—phages have evolved to be selective in the strains or species of bacteria they target.

    So, the phages would not attacke the "good" bacteria within the stomach but the evil ones. Could be a great idea.

  • Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France
  • I believe it’s a much more complex topic than that.

    I think, most likely, you overestimated the consideration of the majority. I may be wrong, though. Most opinion I read or heard about are more emotional drived.

  • Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France
  • Signal is offering the most accessible e2ee messenger right now.

    Doesn't matter. In the reach of EU, some law about Chat Control. If they make this into law, no provider within the EU will have a choice in this matter.

  • Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave – largely to no avail.
  • Respectfully, you are delusional.

    Sorry, but your are just, bold wrong. The so called "capitalist world" has by far the greates wealth and possibilities than any other area of the world. And perhaps that partly caused the drop of birthrates world wide.

    The idea that bad conditions let birth rates drop is straight up false. The idea will be disproved by the fact that some of the most poor regions of the world have still high birth rates.

    Maybe, the problem is far more sophisticated and all, but many things around there are wishful thinking.

  • Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave – largely to no avail.
  • capitalist hellscape

    Doesn't exist. In fact, the people in the capitalist countries life far better lifes than those poor individuals in communistic ones. And additional, countries with large social-security-system like Germany or France has the same problem, even greater ones.

  • Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest.
  • "Indeed, we have already observed an AI system deceiving its evaluation. One study of simulated evolution measured the replication rate of AI agents in a test environment, and eliminated any AI variants that reproduced too quickly.10 Rather than learning to reproduce slowly as the experimenter intended, the AI agents learned to play dead: to reproduce quickly when they were not under observation and slowly when they were being evaluated." Source: AI deception: A survey of examples, risks, and potential solutions, Patterns (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2024.100988

    As it appears, it refered to: Lehman J, Clune J, Misevic D, Adami C, Altenberg L, et al. The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. Artif Life. 2020 Spring;26(2):274-306. doi: 10.1162/artl_a_00319. Epub 2020 Apr 9. PMID: 32271631.

    Very interesting.

  • Discussion: What is the Future of Mining on Asteroids?

    This thread is for a open discussion of the named question.

    Do you believe that miningoperation on asteroids are possible? Or not? Why?

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    What happen to The Remailer

    Does anyone has an idea what happend to the "Anonymous Remailer".

    Some years ago, there was an active scene of remailers in order to post anonym into the UseNet or send mails without a sender.

    As far as I know, there have even been technical solutions to problems like finding out whether someone is writing something based on traffic. I remember that there were even concepts for a kind of mailing list that worked in principle while respecting privacy.

    Has this been developed further?

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    "AMIE: A research AI system for diagnostic medical reasoning and conversations"

    From the Article: "The physician-patient conversation is a cornerstone of medicine, in which skilled and intentional communication drives diagnosis, management, empathy and trust. AI systems capable of such diagnostic dialogues could increase availability, accessibility, quality and consistency of care by being useful conversational partners to clinicians and patients alike"

    What do you say? Do you think its even possble? Could it rise privacy problems?

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    EU regulation of AI
    www.dw.com How the EU plans to regulate artificial intelligence – DW – 12/09/2023

    The EU Parliament and the member states agreed on a draft of their new AI Act. So what exactly will the landmark regulations entail?

    How the EU plans to regulate artificial intelligence – DW – 12/09/2023

    What do you think about the new EU AI Act?

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    The biology of aging
    www.nature.com Are your organs ageing well? The blood holds clues

    One organ in a person’s body can age faster than the rest — with implications for health and mortality.

    Are your organs ageing well? The blood holds clues

    I make a citation of the article. QUOTE: "But a new study1 that tracks proteins suggests that these changes aren’t uniform: an individual’s organs can age at different rates, and a given organ can age at a faster rate in one person than in another with the same chronological age." ENDQUOTE

    What do you think about this? Do you believe the may solved this problem with the pattern recognition of AI?

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