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Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy's parting prescription for America. Very inspirational person with good, thoughtful advice.
Full text at www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
Triangular diagram illustrating a triad of things we can do to have a fulfilling life: 1) Relationships - With whom can I connect more deeply? 2) Service - What can I do to help others? 3) Purpose - What gives my life meaning?
January 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I Did Think, Let’s Go About This Slowly
by Mary Oliver

I did think, let’s go about this slowly.
This is important. This should take
some real deep thought. We should take
small thoughtful steps.

But, bless us, we didn’t.
December 27, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Being a geologist seems to come with a Cassandra Complex (named for a Greek woman who could foretell the future, but was cursed so that no one would believe her warnings [very unfair to her!]).
As Ben Franklin said, “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...
China’s Critical Minerals Embargo Is Even Tougher Than Expected
Beijing ordered companies around the world not to allow critical minerals mined in China to reach the U.S., while deepening its efforts to replace imports with domestic products.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Will AI – a large language model – *change* language in response to how we use it. People use AI to create text with simplified prompts AND condense long text into simplified summaries to read. Will our writing style eventually shortcut intermediary AI verbosity to a hyper-concise abstracted format?
Diagram illustrating how 1) in the past, people wrote text and audience read that directly, 2) two years ago, people began using AI to produce long text and audience reads that long text, 3) today, people use AI to produce long text and the audience uses AI to summarize long text, creating an unnecessary intermediate stage, then 4) in the future, maybe human writing style will change so the primary human-written document will be concise from the beginning - changing the role of AI from being a text-generator to a contextual information research contributor so audience reads concise primary human-written document. The primary style of human writing would change to be some new hyper-efficient, less embellished/flowery style. Thus, the large language model itself (AI) would change the style of language that it models! Thank you for reading my post! I'm just a geologist who thinks about things, so this is all speculation. :-)
November 30, 2024 at 11:18 AM