1/ No, I don't trust a Chinese company to produce "safe" AI.
But the DeepSeek breakthrough is fantastic for both practical and philosophical reasons.
Here's what I mean: we've never had a tech hype bubble bigger than AI - not even the early Internet...
2/ And a key element of the hype the huge complexity and expense of the systems these companies are building to produce AI.
We're gonna need a whole new electrical grid! But it'll be worth it, because reasons. We promise!
3/ The race for complexity and cost has taken on its own logic. You're paying a guy who writes transformer code $500,000? Screw it, we'll pay him $700,000! You're buying $20 billion in Nvidia chips this year? We'll go $30!
There aren't just longitudinal studies, there are longitudinal studies examining both causation and reverse causation (looking at use and psychosis over multiple periods to see if psychosis in N is causative for cannabis in N+1. It's not)...
2/ The associational data is incredibly strong, with unadjusted ratios on the order of 10x.
There is clear biological/cellular level data showing that THC use dysregulates the cannabinoid system and that heavy users have changes in brain morphology...
3/ Many cannabis users (and practically all heavy users) have some experience with cannabis paranoia - which looks a lot like prodromal psychosis, why is everyone laughing at me? This is so common users joke about it - and have strategies to deal with it...
How to lie under oath, a masterclass from Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the voice of Science itself
Part 1: Ralph Baric? Who dat? I barely even ever done heard of Ralph Baric, suh...
Part 2: Ralph Baric? Know Ralph Baric? Why never, detective, our paths may done crossed at sometime or other, at one of the many revivals I have the pleasure of attending -
But I don't know him, detective, most certainly not...
Part 3: A meetin', officuh? You're telling me me and Ralph Baric had a meetin'? At my own offices?
At the verrrah start of the tragic Covid epidemia?
As I live and breathe, it does so look like that. I cannot argue with you, for you represent the law in its majesty...
1/ And @maiasz continues her heroic quest (with @nytimes help) to get US opioid prescriptions back to 2009 levels. In Maia’s fantasy land, deserving patients are being deprived of painkillers. Back in reality, the US is STILL a world leader in opioid dosing…
2/ Note that decades ago, all countries had the same and very low levels of prescription opioid use. Some still do. The pain “crisis” is fiction; aside from palliative, post-surgical care, and VERY short-term acute pain use, all opioids do is get people addicted to opioids…
3/ Further, opioid prescriptions correlate VERY highly with all opioid deaths; this is both because once people get addicted, some inevitably migrate to more dangerous drugs, fentanyl, and because normalizing medical opioid use normalizes ALL opioid use…