The problem is, AI could go off on an infinite number of tangents that mean nothing to human brains, while we have millennia worth of cultural practices that help us harness our creativity in meaningful ways.

My point is that human creativity can result from emergent or divergent thought processes, while AI has been developed to always converge on something neat, normal and acceptable.

We can dream (like Kekulé discovering the structure of Benzene), take drugs (like Coleridge writing the Rime of the Ancient Mariner), and juxtapose unusual things together to come up with something new (like the Surrealists). AI hallucinates, but it's always in an effort to sound plausible.

The police were on the scene, and they wouldn't have known whether he was an active shooter or not. Simple self-preservation tells you to put the gun down and raise your hands.

Is it:
- the sun? No, it's not getting brighter
- the orbit? No, it's not changing
- volcanoes? No, they have a temporary cooling effect
- natural variability? No, noise can't explain a century-long trend
- cosmic rays? Are you serious
- aliens? No
- us? Yes. Believe us, we checked.

Or anyone choosing to have a baby.

Sewing makes me feel angry and irritable, but knitting or crochet on the couch with either music playing or something low effort on the TV is my favourite way to decompress.

I didn't know this was what I needed, thank you.

I grew up not far from the Parkes Radio Telescope, and I've been back there multiple times throughout my life. I took this photo when my sister and I brought our kids to see it for the first time. Last year we had a family trip to Siding Spring Observatory for the Anglo-Australian 50th birthday.

In Western Australia, you can see stromatolites that are billions of years old at Lake Thetis, on your way out to the Pinnacles - a desert full of limestone structures that formed around plant roots when the whole area was under the ocean. Try to be there at the golden hour when the sun is setting.

"And if we get separated in the crowd, let's all meet over by that purple flag. I'll wait there until 3pm and if no one comes I'll be down the pub".

I just think it's good to understand what people are saying before disagreeing with them. I agree a lot more with Coates than with Klein.

I don't think Klein wants to make Trump and MAGAism acceptable, he just doesn't want people written off as "irredeemable". He thinks many people can be persuaded to change their minds and adopt more progressive beliefs if the left engages with them in the right way.

I'm not saying that he can do this himself, and I don't think he thinks that either. I hear in his podcasts a constant theme of how we can do this as a movement. It's being widely described by people on the left as an obsession with strategy for its own sake. I just hear something different.

I think the problem he is primarily concerned with is *how* we can move the population collectively in a progressive direction. If we don't know how to do that, then any individual's beliefs are a lot less interesting, because they are just one person's beliefs.

I see a lot of people saying this, and I simply don't agree. I think he sees himself as just one person, and his beliefs as just one person's beliefs, which don't matter in a democratic society unless you can move the whole population collectively in a similar direction.

It is also being researched as an autoimmune disorder. I developed an underactive thyroid in the last decade or so, which is consistent with this paper. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27274883/