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in Futurism that OpenAI has hired a forensic psychiatrist to figure out why AI is potentially dangerous to some users, as I was explaining. And OpenAI says that they're doing it to research the impacts on users psychologically. But they might be aware that AI is deadly for some kinds of people, and they're trying to figure out how to reduce their liability. But let's also assume they'd like to sav…
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Now obviously this is not going to work on every person, and I think they mostly use it on young people. But how amazing is that? Imagine if that became common and a baby is born and it's deaf and they just say, ah, no problem, just give us this gene therapy, and then two weeks later the baby can hear normally. We are definitely entering a golden age if we allow ourselves to be in it. That's pretty amazing.
Likewise, according to New Atlas, there's a breakthrough in hay fever, reducing your allergies. And I guess they use some kind of molecular shield in your nose. So you spray something in your nose and it's not interacting with your body to make you less allergic. It's just like a shield so that your nose doesn't pick up these allergens. That's kind of cool.
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then over in Paris, this will be a good test of your willingness to do dangerous things. So the river that goes through Paris, the Seine, has been too polluted to allow people to swim in it. So I guess for about a hundred years it was just too polluted. I don't know if it was illegal or just unwise. But because the Olympics are coming to Paris sometime soon, Paris put on a big effort to clean up t…
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