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researchers found that people did appear to have a degree of control over what happened. The genetic risk of a shorter lifespan or premature death may be offset by a favourable lifestyle by about 62%, they found. They wrote: “Participants with high genetic risk could prolong approximately 5.22 years of life expectancy at age 40…

the study looked at more than 1,000 pairs of relatives to establish how likely children are to inherit what psychologists call the “big five” or “Ocean” personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. — Read on www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/27/like-father-like-son-the-complex-factors-that-shape-a-parents-influence-on-their-child

Among the other ideas and movements that have emerged from the FHI are longtermism – the notion that humanity should prioritise the needs of the distant future because it theoretically contains hugely more lives than the present – and effective altruism (EA), a utilitarian approach to maximising global good. — Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/nick-bostrom-controversial-future-of-humanity-institute-closure-longtermism-affective-altruism

To the extent this is an analogy to AI, large language models are intelligent, but they do not have goals or values or drive. They are tools to be used by, well, anyone who is willing and able to take the initiative to use them. — Read on stratechery.com/2024/mkbhds-for-everything/

Life-Ruining Mistakes? — Read on kottke.org/24/04/life-ruining-mistakes

Tess Owen on X: “my therapist just told me that the NYT word games app is becoming a problem for many of her patients, including me” / X — Read on twitter.com/misstessowen/status/1780608134026817918

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Most people would have given up, but Saunders was not most people. “Anyone can do it,” he was fond of saying to sceptics. “It’s really quite simple.” https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food