Would you spill your failed hopes, unfulfilled dreams and mental health challenges to a robot? How about a mental health chatbot? That’s not as strange as it sounds. Reporter Shirley Wang at The Wall Street Journal debates the value of mental health chatbots that use artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Why Processed Foods Matter
[Researchers] raised a group of rats in a cage and gave them an abundant supply of healthy, balanced rat chow made out of the kind of food rats had been eating for a very long time. The rats would eat it when they were hungry, and then they seemed to feel sated and stopped. They did not become fat.
Monday Links
- The U.S. military now estimates that the cartels directly control around 30-35% of Mexican territory. Over eighty politicians or candidates for political office were killed in Mexico during the country’s 2021 midterm elections. (HT: Tyler)
- Does living around people with a college degree lengthen your life expectancy? Apparently.
- Reasons to doubt the USDA report on the prevalence of food insecurity.
- Why the Biden/Harris claim that they have legalized marijuana is mostly false.
- What explains the slowdown in Medicare spending? A major reason is pharmaceuticals.
Saturday Links
- W & M: How the Trump tax cuts were good for the economy and why allowing some provisions to expire would be bad.
- How much would you pay per year to combat global warming? R: $134 D: $633 All: $371
- Percent who would pay nothing: R: 53% D: 17% All: 35%
- At a New York City fast food restaurant, the cashier is 8,000 miles away in the Philippines and costs $1 an hour.
- Over the last 13 months, more than 20 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid. So, what happened to the uninsured rate? It hasn’t budged. Explanations.
- Milei is succeeding in Argentina.