Most criticisms of the tobacco industry arguably focus on their marketing of addictive, killer products, but there is so much more about them that is unjust, starting, perhaps, with the fact that their tax contributions dont cover the healthcare costs that arise from smoking
WATCH: JAY LENO SAYS HES VERY LUCKY IN LIFE AS HE CARES FOR HIS WIFE WITH DEMENTIA I wanted people to know John the John I knew, the retired businessman explained
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'Golden season' for tobacco farmers expected this year Tobacco farmers are expected to earn more this year since current buying prices are much higher than the floor prices, according to the National Tobacco Administration (NTA)
-- scientists ran an experiment which, they say, let them see a color no one has seen before (via SCM) Do you think it is philosophically justifiable to outsource the discussion of ethics to a chatbot? -- one of the questions a reporter for The Guardian asked the Peter Singer AI Overall, Im fairly blown away -- Hazem Zohny on the capabilities of Gemini 2.5 (Google's LLM) to provide an ethical analysis of a current event Its a problem that AI models sometimes give unethical advice, but it is challenging to encode the full scope of ethics into them -- so a team of researchers taught them an operationalized version of reflective equilibrium (via Nick Byrd) The problems we as faculty are facing are, in my view, deep, systemic, and entrenched before we ever see a freshman
