The article digs a little deeper after. Saying the chat records are lost, and that when they asked ChatGPT, it didn't give that guidance about cleaning purposely only, and that it never asked why they wanted to know.
Really though, this could have just as easily happened in a google search. It's not ChatGPT's fault as much as this persons fault for using a non-medical professional for medical guidance.
Can I replace sodium chloride with sodium bromide?
ChatGPT said:
Yes, in some cases — but it depends on the application.
Chemistry/lab use: Both are salts of sodium and dissolve similarly, but bromide is more reactive in some contexts and heavier. It can change reaction outcomes, especially in halide-sensitive reactions (e.g., silver halide precipitation).
Food use: No — sodium bromide is toxic and not approved as a food additive.
Industrial processes: Sometimes interchangeable (e.g., certain brines, drilling fluids) if bromide’s different density, solubility, and cost are acceptable.
Maybe you would know or have an opinion. I see a lot of articles about rewiring your brain. For instance, the affects from meditation, or book reading. And how those things can rewire your brain. But does it matter? If it's relatively simple rewire your brain(simple as in, doing an activity for several months).
It appears to me, that your brain adapts, and that adaptation is normal. Struggling to completely put this idea into words, but isn't this more like saying, 'if you lift this weight your muscles grow!', and then selling that as if its some sort of miracle?
Neurons definitely re-wire, or just wire/connect. Meditation, creates an understanding of how we can "control" or monitor our thoughts. Reading creates understanding.
Yes, if you lift the weight, muscle will grow. If you look at or think about the weight, studies suggest, muscles will also grow.
But I'm cautious to not conflate "we see electrical activity" to "we have re-wired the brain".
Meditation changes the electrical activity, but we don't put an electrical signal into the brain and end up with meditation. We can kinda force the brain into a meditative state with magnetic stimulation, but we're talking about some really powerful stuff, and I think some would argue that we aren't actually creating a meditative state if we were to do this. Note: I haven't looked into this too deeply.
The way I look at it, we are just really clever apes. We keep thinking we understand how the brain/body/consciousness works, but every time we discover another layer of science and understanding, we look back at our previous understanding and think how naive we were. I think this is the same.
We used to literally think we understood how the body worked by "balancing the 4 humours". We understood how blood delivered oxygen to muscles and nutrients and we thought "oh, I get it, it's a big pump, and we pump this blood stuff around and that's how it works". Then we discovered electricty, slapped our collective foreheads and went "OH!! Of course, it's electric! electricity contracts the pump, oh, and look at these thing in the brain! They're electric too!! I get it".
Soon, we'll go through this whole process again and realize that the electrical activity wasn't wrong, but was naive, and I suspect the process will repeat again, and again.
Our culture tends to embrace technological progress. But we don't have to. It's just something we do accept. And yes, many technologies have eliminated jobs. Some have created new ones sure, but it's not always 1 to 1. Not everyone replaced on an assembly line by a robot or machine, is needed to repair or build that new machine.
Our tendency to 'progress' doesn't have to be the case, we all could collectively decide to hold ourselves here.
Also, I don't think that all our technology has always been good for us either. But we are blind to the downsides mostly.
It's also about what you are avoiding. Its clearly a trade off, as you lay out. But then you are opening up another set of problems you will have to tackle. For the interviewer in the article, they prefer cameras.
It's not much different than choosing to interview people who will come into the office. Of course you are limiting yourself to people in the area. But employers know this.
Also, this idea that there is a single best candidate is rubbish. There are multiple candidates that are just as good as the next. And every person has their ups and downs, as well as trade offs. I also find it hard to believe that most employers are going to be able to tell the difference on such a fine scale as to not be able to choose certain limiting factors.
While there is a lot of good thoughts about what the democrat party did wrong to lose the last election. I feel your comment places all the blame on them. They did not force republicans to go down this road. This is not the inevitable outcome of a broken democrat party. The republicans went down this road, and so did their voters. They chose this, many times. There were many opportunities for the republican party to rid itself of this ideology but they chose power.
So yes, the democrat party has had many failings over the past decade if not more, but that doesn't make this a binary choice between Trumpian policies and democrat failings.
I am sure there is a cost savings if insurers were just required to pay. I have to imagine, they put a lot of effort auditing if medical service was in-network/covered by the plan. And more effort in fighting the people over claims.
This isn't to say there is not genuine fraud or abuse going on by hospitals/doctors, but you often hear of people just trying to get their treatments covered.
I would say no. We still have data on our year to year/decade to decade C02 in the atmosphere. So we can track how quickly it's rising. Those data points would already include any error we have in how much C02 is absorbed or created.
I want to say it was the NYTimes, "the daily" podcast that did a pretty good job of being even handed when talking about this. If anyone is interested, it should be the Dec 4th one. They brought up the fact that we've tried to do things like this in the past, and that they have all mostly failed, for political reasons.
Cutting government spending is very hard to do. Everyone has special interests they look to protect, and no congress person wants to be the one that stopped funding for their district/state.
I too am hopeful, but I have my doubts.
I'm really shocked that 'soon' can be considered 30 years. So you agree to store someones stuff for a short time, and then you are locked in for 30+ years? I thought america had crazy lawsuits...
Oh, French property and tort law is nuts, and largely founded in egalitarian ideals from the revolutions. Quite the case of “be careful what you wish for”.
There was recently a case in the press where person sold “old junk” to an antique dealer. Antique dealer sells it at auction for fortune. Antique dealer is then forced to hand over full sum to person who sold old junk/priceless antique.
Squatters rights are incredible. A friend had their house occupied one winter while they were away, 16 years ago. The squatters had a baby. They are only legally allowed to remove them this year, when the child turns 18.
The napoleonic code. This is why France is full of abandoned properties, stuck in probate for all eternity, as finding and getting hundreds of heirs to unanimously agree on a sale or whatever is… hard.
Really though, this could have just as easily happened in a google search. It's not ChatGPT's fault as much as this persons fault for using a non-medical professional for medical guidance.
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