Six Facts on Men’s Health - American Institute for Boys and Men

This brief highlights key statistics on men’s health. Men face significant health challenges, including shorter life expectancies, high suicide rates, and substantial losses due to drug overdoses and COVID-19. Despite these issues, there aren’t many public health goals that target men, and only one male-specific preventive measure is covered by the ACA. These facts underscore the need for focused attention on men’s health.

#science, #health, #men

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

#ai, #study, #philosophy

Перегибы на местах

терапевтка принимала на дому, делала записи и вышла, например, в туалет, а клиентка залезла в эти записи и получила — правильно — скандал про«нарушение границ» и чуть ли не отказ работать дальше.

Правильный терапевт, разумеется, не только знал бы, что терапия — это место, где его границы будут нарушаться (и это будет оплачиваться), но и первым делом с интересом обсудил бы мотивы и фантазии клиента, зачем он это сделал и что хотел там найти. И только потом бы с любовью и принятием говорил про нарушение границ.

#psychology, #sociology