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For years, artificial intelligence has proven it can best humans at analytical tasks, but is less capable at skills like intuition and inference. Scientists from Stanford University investigated if neural networks like GPT-3.5 can master Theory of Mind (ToM) tests designed to analyze cognitive ability to predict the actions of others. Results show that GPT’s ToM ability arrived spontaneously in the last couple of years and the latest iteration delivered results comparable to a 9-year-old human.

For Tammy Rainey, finding a health care provider who knows about gender-affirming care has been a challenge in the rural northern Mississippi town where she lives. As a transgender woman, Rainey needs the hormone estrogen, which allows her to physically transition by developing more feminine features. But when she asked her doctor for an estrogen prescription, he said he couldn’t provide that type of care. “He’s generally a good guy and doesn’t act prejudiced. He gets my name and pronouns right,” said Rainey. “But when I asked him about hormones, he said, ‘I just don’t feel like I know enough...

Managing director calls decision 'disgusting,' claims he will appealAn unvaccinated worker was found to have been unjustifiably dismissed and was recently awarded $25,000. But one of the company’s managers called the decision by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) “disgusting” and said he will appeal, according to the New Zealand Herald. The case involved an unvaccinated worker, Paul Larsen, who worked as an installer for Coldrite Refrigeration and Air Conditioning in Hastings. And when the pandemic hit, problems arose. Work became scarce for unvaccinated staff in early 2022, and more clients began requesting vaccinated workers for safety reasons. Ultimately, just two...

Polling data reveals interesting things about U.S. public opinion and the death penalty. If you ask an open-ended question about the death penalty –- for example, “Do you feel the death penalty is appropriate for certain egregious crimes?” –- then you usually see somewhere around a 65 to 35 percent split in favor. On the other hand, if you ask which is preferred – the death penalty or life in prison without parole, the results tend to be closer to 50-50. Upon occasion, another question is asked: Do you feel an innocent person has been put to death in the...

Dr. Anthony Fauci would give Cruella De Vil a run for her money. The activist group White Coat Waste Project, or WCW, has offered its latest installment on the federal government’s Fauci-funded experiments on dogs — which ultimately led to the canines suffering and being euthanized...

Our nation is facing multiple major crises. President Joe Biden’s leadership has been a series of unmitigated disasters and failures. Each follows right on the heels of the other, with seemingly no let up. Right here at home, Americans bear the burden of the Biden Administration and Congressional Democrats' reckless spending. This fuels inflation which has hit 40 year highs. But what does this really mean? The average American is paying much more for gas and groceries. Crime is skyrocketing in our cities: from San Francisco to New York. Violent crime is spiking in those cities, and others, causing many...

Two years ago today, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh went on the air to announce that America's Anchorman, the Mayor of Realville, the Doctor of Democracy, the harmless little fuzzball, her husband, the great Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, had assumed room temperature. (That means he died, for those of you in Rio Linda.) America is worse off for his absence. Nobody will ever amass the audience, have the influence, or have as much fun doing it as Rush did. There is no one like him, though many try.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between congressional work periods. And he refused mental health treatment recommended by his doctors, worried he would be recognized in that wing of the hospital. On Thursday, the office of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat who was elected to the Senate after a bruising campaign during which he suffered a stroke, announced he had checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression. The U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, tweeted praise for Fetterman, saying he hopes his “courage...

When a COVID infection wave hit the most and least vaccinated states in 2022, the most vaccinated state had the higher COVID case rates and the higher relative death peaks. Whoops!Steve Kirsch 14 hr ago Executive summaryAccording to US News & World Report, Wyoming is the least vaccinated state (52.8%) and Rhode Island is the most vaccinated state.So just for fun, I thought I’d see how these states fared when there was a huge COVID infection outbreak at the start of 2022 that affected both these states.It turned out that the least vaccinated state had the lower rise in all-cause...

"Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry." "Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I...

The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency has said he would allow his own children to drink and bathe in public water near the site of a train derailment and chemical spill in Ohio, so long as it had been tested and deemed safe by officials. EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited the site of the East Palestine derailment on Thursday, seeking to reassure skeptical residents that the water is fit for drinking and the air is safe to breathe. Asked if he would allow his own children to drink the water, Regan said, as long as it has been...

... including over 250 nurses from Kaiser. My post on Twitter about him got over 1M views. Here's his story.Steve Kirsch 4 hr ago My Twitter post on Michael Huang generated over 1M views in just the first two days:Here’s the full 80-minute Rumble video interview of this courageous California physician: Why is he treating hundreds of Kaiser nurses for vaccine injuries? It’s because these nurses can’t get treated at Kaiser because they are gaslighted by Kaiser doctors. It’s really tragic.He remembers one day when he had 10 vax injured nurses in his office and 9 out of 10 had...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge. Over 100 straight days of racial justice protests that turned downtown Portland into a battleground. A violent breach of the state Capitol. Clashes between gun-toting right-wingers and leftist militants. The state Legislature is considering a bill that, experts say, would create the nation’s most comprehensive law against paramilitary activity. It would provide citizens and the state attorney general with civil remedies in court if armed members of a private paramilitary group interfere with, or intimidate, another person who is engaging in an activity they have a legal right...

Donald Trump: 42% Ron DeSantis: 36% Nikki Haley: 5% Mike Pence: 4% Mike Pompeo: 4%No other candidate tops 2 percent of the vote.

Amid growing criticism for the Biden administration — and specifically Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg — over the federal response (or lack thereof) to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that released toxic chemicals into the air and water, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is calling for change at the top. In a letter to President Joe Biden, Rubio calls on the chief executive to "request the immediate resignation of U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Buttigieg" for what Rubio describes as a "gross level of incompetence and apathy that is detrimental to the safety and prosperity of the American...

Vladimir Putin hosted Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at his own residence near Moscow for a meeting. However, the Russian leader's odd and fidgeting body language sparked a swirl of speculation about his health. President Putin can be seen uneasily moving his legs throughout the entire duration of the public conversation with President Lukashenko. -snip- Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, tweeted a clip of the moment: "Putin's feet during his meeting with Lukashenko. Is this Morse code?" Tendar, which regularly monitors the conflict in Ukraine, added: "Putin’s continuing problem to control his legs and...

The Justice Department found no classified documents during a search of former Vice President Mike Pence's Washington D.C. advocacy office on Friday. Pence adviser Devin O'Malley said there was a 'thorough and unrestricted search' of the office of Advancing American Freedom, the nonprofit group launched by Pence in 2021. One binder - believed to be part of Pence's 2020 debate preparations - 'with approximately three previously redacted documents' was taken by agents.

Russians left desperate for the loo as toilet exports are banned to 'punish' Putin Sinking to grimy lows, Russian troops are well-known for thieving lavatories out of Ukrainian homes to send back to their families as Western sanctions of "bidets, lavatory pans, [and] flushing cisterns" bite The EU included lavatories, bidets and flushing cisterns in its list of banned products The EU included lavatories, bidets and flushing cisterns in its list of banned products

The World Health Organisation (“WHO”), helped by the usual suspects, is building the narrative for another flu pandemic. This time it’s not a novel coronavirus but a novel bird flu virus. Because of a recent spillover of bird flu to mammals, WHO has warned that while the risk to humans currently remains low, it cannot be assumed that this will remain the case. So, WHO is working with manufacturers to ensure supplies of vaccines are available.It is claimed that in October 2022, the avian flu virus (H5N1) was detected in a mink farm outbreak in Spain’s Galicia region:A more detailed...

1,104,856 views Mar 27, 2022 Former President Nixon Predicts Modern Day Russia and Its Imperialist Behaviors towards Europe in 1994.