Darren Dahly

@statsepi.bsky.social

Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
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@juliaraifman.bsky.socialReposted by @statsepi.bsky.social

“California billionaires saw their net worth rise roughly 25%, or $432 billion, in <2 years

Gains were especially pronounced for 22 CA billionaires who’ve publicly opposed the one-time, 5% wealth tax; they saw their net worth rise nearly 65%, or $280 billion”

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@abeba.blacksky.appReposted by @statsepi.bsky.social

the latest anthropic cry abt "cruelty" & "abuse" of ai is truly stupid. i beg journalists to stop parroting amodei

we wrote why dehumanisation of ai is impossible & 6+ yrs later, everything in this paper holds

Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Yet we disagree robots should be treated as ‘slaves’. In defense of her position, Bryson states: “But surely dehumanization is only wrong when it’s applied to someone who really is human?” Our position would be that ‘dehumanization’ is not so much wrong for robots, it is impossible. One cannot dehumanize something that wasn’t human to begin with. If one uses the term slave, one implicitly assumes that the being one so names is the kind of being can be ‘dehumanized’. One has already implicitly ‘humanized’ the robot, before subsequently enslaving it. One should obviously not enslave someone first taken to be human.
@darach.bsky.socialReposted by @statsepi.bsky.social

An important difference between next week’s proposed strike and the diesel dads is that unions have democratically accountable leadership, countable members, transparent processes and give plenty of notice before taking a measure like this. Unions are rural Ireland too!

@davidho.bsky.socialReposted by @statsepi.bsky.social

Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.

nytimes.comPrinceton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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