I meant a single individual living forever and morphing into a different species, which is what Sam Altman is talking about, not a whole species evolving into another across generations of individuals....
The first one has never happened and is the topic being discussed, the latter is irrelevant.
Yes but even that research is a generalized average, there are still dumb people who are very self doubting and smart people who are over confident.
Does anyone know anyone who has ever admitted to getting below 100 on an IQ test?
I'm guessing the answer is no. In which case, presumably none of us can know whether or not we have. You would need to have to know someone who both scored below 100 and was willing to admit that to know for sure.
This isn't really extinction in that sense. The author is being pedantic.
Extinction in the form of living forever and morphing into a different species is just not something we have a word for because it's never happened before.
No, that's because a lack of labour laws in the US allows them to do that.
If they weren't allowed to force their CPAs to do that, they would have to hire more CPAs, which would increase the overall salary for CPAs and attract more people into the field.
I'm always slightly skeptical of this answer just because residency pretty much intentionally gaslights doctors into thinking that exhausted decision making is normal and unavoidable... All because the guy who started medical residencies had a massive cocaine addiction and it was 1900.
I'd be curious to see a study with data on patient outcome, wait time, use of resources etc, that measures exhausted double shifted doctors, vs fresh doctors with more context switching, vs fresh doctors + appropriate overlap to avoid context switching.
They don't have to be as good to replace us.
The US tariffing the world to bring back domestic manufacturing is not a dumb idea on its face.
The execution has been dumb and alienating but that is one of the few areas where it's been baffling watching leftists flip from being anti free trade because it lets corporations siphon money and avoid regulation to suddenly being super pro free trade because Trump is against it.
Free trade is what has hollowed out North America's manufacturing industries. Corporations have used it to effectively send money to poorer countries where labour is cheap while getting paid bonuses for "efficiencies".
In a single country you can do things like set a minimum wage, with free trade companies can simply move manufacturing to somewhere with a lower minimum wage, pressuring governments to race to the bottom in terms of how badly they abuse their workers.
Yeah, they do sometimes and in some situations, usually when you have some major disruption, but the problem is that the disruptor often ends up becoming the enshittifier eventually.
Case in point, look at Google. On a technical level Google genuinely cracked search in a way that no other company did, and made it so good that it became the dominant way to find information online.
They then ambitiously decided to use those resources to try and break into / disrupt several other markets like web browsers, email, office software, mapping software, operating systems, video broadcasting, etc.
During those early years we got a bunch of genuine improvements. Chrome was way better then Internet Explorer, and substantially cleaner and faster then Firefox, and still open source and not developed by ad-focused people.
Maps was way better then MapQuest, Google docs at least gave you an easy and accessible alternative to Word, Gmail was way better then Hotmail with way more storage, the original Chromecast and Chromecast audios were amazing value.
But then companies get entrenched, they start tying every product together, building walls around the garden, and start pulling up the ladder behind them. Then when everyone is thoroughly walled in they start extracting every possible opportunity for money and we're back to enshittification.
Don't buy those crappy plastic bag-clips to hold chip bags, flour bags, etc closed. They're unsatisfying, they wear out and bend, and they just add more plastic pollution to the world.
Instead buy more binder clips. They're made from spring steel, they're strong as hell, they almost never wear out, they can be used to close bags, as small clamps, as hangers for almost anything in a pinch, and they're amazing for building pillow / blanket forts.
I have some from my grandma that she bought 30 years ago and they work just as well as the ones I bought a year ago. The only risk with them ever is rust, and you can just scrub that off with vinegar, add a brush of paint and it's fixed.
Truly some of my favourite robust little items.
Lol, no it's not, Darwin has thoughts on precisely what evolution is: