Various web links I found to be of interest recently.
The review found that eating less protein, or less of certain amino acids
that make up protein, may turn on body processes linked to healthier aging,
as well as metabolism, the process by which the body turns food and drinks
into energy.
...
"There's an increase in a hormone called FGF21 that promotes energy
expenditure [when protein intake is reduced]," Lamming said.
"It essentially increases thermogenesis in your adipose tissue,
so you don't just store fat, but actually burn it as fuel."
Box breathing.
The technique consists of inhaling for four seconds, holding your breath for four seconds, exhaling for four seconds and then holding for another four seconds before inhaling again and restarting the cycle, says breathwork coach Stuart Sandeman.
Landmark independent studies challenge longstanding dogma for brain aging.
Summary via chatGPTEric Topol describes new research suggesting that brain aging is not simply a slow, steady decline. Instead, the hippocampus—the brain region important for memory—appears to undergo a major biological shift around midlife, roughly age 50.
The studies suggest that as supportive brain cells (astrocytes) gradually decline, the blood-brain barrier becomes less effective. Immune cells from the blood can then enter the brain and replace some of the brain's original immune cells (microglia), producing increased inflammation. This process may contribute to changes in memory and brain function.
Vance enthusiastically approves of the view that the government should "seize the equity of the AI companies." Government ownership of parts of, or entire, businesses - "the means of production" in Marxist and socialist economic writings - is a foundational principle of these ideologies. Government ownership means more government direction of, and control over, private economic activity and distortion of market processes that make the economy work efficiently.
He also supports the generalized use of tariffs, calling their use "the baseline position," to supposedly protect American manufacturers and American jobs.
"I think now, after they killed one Israeli, we need to kill all the people in Tal and Sarra, even Jit and Farata," he said, naming the Palestinian villages closest to the outpost.
I put it to him that he was equating one Jewish life with hundreds or even thousands of Palestinian lives.
"No," he said, "millions. One Jewish life, it's 10 million [Palestinians]."
These issues were dismissed by Shimon, who said international law was irrelevant, because the Bible gave Jews their right to West Bank land.
When people ask whether we have free will, they are usually asking one of two very different questions. The first: Can we, through our own efforts, live lives for which we are genuinely responsible - lives that have moral meaning? The second: Can we, without any prior cause, intervene in the physical world?
These are not the same question. The first is the one I care about. The second is the one Newton destabilized, and rightly so. But here is what I think Sapolsky and Harris and others miss: answering "no" to the second question does not settle the first. The questions are on different levels.
His New York City Junto was held monthly for decades until 2016. Lively discussions with mostly Ayn Rand lovers.
Proceeds do not go to Peter Thiel
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VulnCheck says fewer than 2% of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries have been weaponized, casting doubt on claims frontier models are handing attackers a major advantage