Congratulations, you’re the inaugural entry in my “people not to have over for dinner” list.

“I’ve already bought one justice system, yes. But what about second justice system?”

It’s not like he went bad as a result of serving too many terms—he was a corrupt neoliberal from day one. Term limits aren’t a cure for that.

if a living organism moves both in time and in space, the genome stays the same, while the proteins in the body might change due to different gene expression

That sounds like a reaction norm—all the various phenotypes a single genome might potentially develop into under different environmental conditions. Which doesn’t seem quite analogous to Noetherian properties like momentum and energy, which are conserved in the sense that they can change inside a system as long as there are balancing actions that preserve the property for the system as a whole.

Noether’s theorem specifically establishes a connection between conserved quantities and continuous symmetries. What’s the continuous symmetry associated with the genome—something analogous to changing time or location that can be varied continuously while leaving biology unchanged?

Strait of Iranaway.

Pope Leo leads most public figures in the US in approval ratings.

In theory, could the Pope run for president (given that he’s a U.S. citizen by birth, etc.)?

It doesn’t take much to boost the price of a stock by 400% if the stock is already practically worthless.

Now see, strokes are a different matter. Studies from China (where naturally-occurring fluoride levels in some places can range from 1.2 to 4.5 mg/L, far exceeding the U.S. recommended level of 0.7 mg/L) have indeed found a correlation between very high fluoride exposure and stroke risk.

To fight forces like big oil, we need to be able to focus our efforts appropriately. Indiscriminately attributing everything to big oil serves their purposes as much as complacency does.

Those kinds of issues would come into play if they were trying to establish a correlation between two things—it’s notoriously hard to eliminate confounding variables, spurious coincidences, etc.

But it’s far more straightforward to establish a lack of correlation, which is what this study does.

I wouldn’t say it’s not bad because of a study and “experts.”

While there are always biased studies, the data in this case comes from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a broad health and social sciences study conducted by the University of Wisconsin that’s been ongoing since 1957. You can access the data yourself here.

Everyone is dumb as shit now

That wouldn’t implicate fluoride, because not everyone was exposed to it. And the study indicates that fluoride exposure (on a community level, which would take into account soil and food) doesn’t make a difference.

The common element is that everyone adapts to society at large.

There are churches where people have had round-the-clock vigils for over a century.

Humans are to cats as cars are to humans: similar difference in weight and size, similar (if not greater) danger—but we walk around them because we’re used to them and we think we can predict them well enough. And because we’re often going to the same places.

The owners of other robots.

That’s what gives us “educated guesses”.

I would say that those are separate qualities: if someone had their memory erased, they could lose their knowledge and understanding without losing their intelligence or wisdom. (Intelligence isn’t unrelated, though—it’s what produces understanding from knowledge.)

When you understand something, you can deduce related information without having memorized it—so understanding increases your total capacity for knowledge. It’s like a knowledge compression algorithm.