Interesting Links for 04-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Privileges Committee Believes Boris Johnson May Have Misled House On Partygate

(tags:BorisJohnson lies fraud politics pandemic )

2. EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban (because Germany wants to be allowed to keep making them)

(tags:politics europe cars pollution )

3. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions

(tags:philosophy morality ai language )

4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers

(tags:terrorism engineering )

5. "Eat Out To Help Out" caused an increase in Covid cases. Matt Hancock covered it up.

(tags:Pandemic restaurant OhForFucksSake murder censorship )

6. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage

(tags:LGBT marriage USA republicans OhForFucksSake )

7. Happy Weird Pride Day!

(tags:weird pride )

8. Food Timeline: food history research service

(tags:food history )

Comments

[altamira16]

Number 4 has me wondering if I chose the wrong career path with engineering.

Arkansas was trying to pass stupid anti-trans legislation.

[dewline]

2. I sense the hands of Volkswagen, and possibly others.

5. I am unsurprised and angered.

6. Nor is Iowa alone in this obscene nonsense.

[calimac]

3. This article desperately needs a reference to Philip K. Dick and his theory that many apparent humans are really robots, which can be determined by what we would now call their AI-like responses to verbal stimuli.

[conuly]

4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers

Me, before reading the article: Is the good reason "because engineers suck"? Nah, there's gotta be more to it than that.

Me, after reading the article: That's a lot of words that basically boil down to "Engineers suck. Oh, and also so does getting waterboarded".