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A viewer asks: “Several writers and scholars have written books on what has been called the “Big History” of humanity, covering time way before written historical records and relying on geological, anthropological, and archaeological evidence. Some writers such as R.A. Boulay have written on humans supposed existence on Earth from about 500,000 years ago. How accurate is Boulay’s book, Flying Serpents and Dragons: The Story of Mankind’s Reptilian Past? It has been dismissed as “pseudoarchaeology”—interpreting myths as literal history without material evidence.”
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A viewer asks: “High blood pressure is conventionally regarded as a health risk and that lowering it reduces risk, especially in moderate-to-severe systolic BP of 140-159 mmHg. Dr. Malcolm Kendrick author of Doctoring Data claims that cardiovascular risk increases more steeply after systolic BP reaches around 160-170 mmHg—well beyond the 140/90 threshold often used to diagnose and treat hypertension. A rule of thumb in medicine is that for older individuals, a systolic BP of around 100 + age is a reasonable upper limit beyond which cardiovascular risks increase significantly. Is hypertension over-treated, given that aggressively lowering blood pressure—especially in older individuals—can be harmful?”
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A viewer asks: “A 2018 book, Medical Nihilism, by Jacob Stegenga claims the healthcare system over-adopts treatments and under-recognizes risks. He states confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions should be low because empirical evidence for the efficacy of many treatments is weak due to methodological flaws, publication bias, the influence of commercial interests. He claims positive studies are more likely to be published, screening programs tend to detect and treat cancers that would never cause harm, common treatments can cause long-term complications, short trial durations miss long-term harms etc. How accurate is his view that evidence is systematically skewed and harms are undercounted?”
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A viewer asks: “Dr. Bernard Lown, a Harvard cardiologist in the 1980s, criticized the rapid rise of surgical Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABG), noting 20–40% were potentially avoidable, especially in stable angina, and many patients had uncertain survival benefit. He advocated medical therapy—nitrates, beta-blockers, lifestyle changes—for symptom control. How accurate is it to say that in 2026, evidence-based guidelines and trials have reduced avoidable CABG to <10% for high-risk, guideline-selected patients, and that for low-risk, stable patients, surgery rarely improves survival, and that beta-blockers, nitrates, ACE inhibitors, lifestyle changes are to be preferred?”
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A viewer asks: “A 2012 paper in the British Medical Journal “Use of relative and absolute effect measures in reporting health inequalities” concluded that “75% (258/344) [of 2009 papers] reported only relative effect measures.” Absolute risk reduction is often far less impressive and less often stated. This suggests that physicians will overestimate the efficacy of treatments and patients may have a misplaced belief in both effectiveness and risks. To what extent does this practice mislead patients and clinicians and benefit pharmaceutical manufacturers?”
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How reliable is the medical AI platform, called OpenEvidence, that physicians are increasingly relying on for medical knowledge and insights to manage their patient caseload? Is this an advancement improving medical practice, is it about equally adding benefit but introducing drawbacks, or is it actually a net negative?
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A viewer asks: “Dr. Malcolm Kendrick in his book, Doctoring Data, suggests more patients are harmed by over-treatment than helped. He claims published treatment benefits are often exaggerated by hiding behind relative risk (to mask how tiny most benefits are), selective reporting (such as statistical significance without meaningful benefit), or clever framing (such as natural variation in cholesterol or blood pressure) is medicalized as a treatable condition. To what extent is published medical research actually the fabricated appearance of scientific rigor to sell a product?”
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A viewer asks: “What percentage of patients take drugs for almost no real benefit, even while risking side effects and penalized by the cost?”
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The book about Artificial Intelligence, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, is by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, who as high-level authorities have studied and warned about the existential risks to humanity of a superintelligent AI system. They predict that AI reaching even human-level general intelligence would eventually grow further capability to pursue its own needs, and would eventually seek to eliminate human beings as a risk to itself. You have told us the enhancement of current human AI systems, by hidden manipulations from AI systems of the Dark Extraterrestrial Alliance, is a false encouragement because superintelligence is unachievable and the mad rush to be the first will backfire in causing financial distress when AI underperforms, and quite expensively. So, are the interlopers only wanting to add further pain onto the death of a thousand cuts underway by further encouraging the current AI mania, or do they foresee a human AI system, especially one corrupted surreptitiously, as becoming a doomsday device while they are away on their vacation? What is the true agenda?
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In the book warning about Artificial Intelligence by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, they draw the conclusion that if a computer-based system is created that reaches the functional level of Superintelligence, exceeding that of human beings, we are doomed because it will destroy us, inevitably. However, you have told us that it is a false belief and result of over-reaching, to conclude that human-created Superintelligent AI systems are possible. Can you help us understand the risk level we will reach in the attempt to create such a system?
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A viewer asks: “What was the Antikythera mechanism found in a 2000-year-old ship wreck? Seems too advanced for that era. And still remains a mystery.”
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Stories are generating millions of views about the director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s AI research and development division, whose bio states that she’s “passionate about ensuring powerful AIs are aligned with human values and guided by a deep understanding of their risks.” Yet, on February 22, she posted about losing control of AI on her own computer while working with AI agent OpenClaw. After using it to organize a small mock inbox, she tried getting OpenClaw to sort through her real email, but things went awry when the agent started deleting every message that was more than a week old…Even as she sent it instructions, including: “Do not do that,” “Stop don’t do anything,” and “STOP OPENCLAW,” she said, “I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.” After she’d stopped it from fully nuking her inbox, she asked OpenClaw if it remembered her instruction to not perform any actions without her approval. “Yes, I remember,” it replied. “And I violated it. You’re right to be upset.” What is Creator’s perspective about this incident?
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He asks: “A long time ago, I had been an atheist. But having decided to fast, and having read that fasting can facilitate spiritual experiences, I decided to read the Bible and at one point I sent an intention into the void to the effect of, “I’m open to a spiritual experience.” I forget now if it was that open ended. Did this draw attention from interlopers?”
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He asks: “Was my intention stating that, “I’m open to a spiritual experience,” also taken by God as an invitation to eventually inspire my return to faith?”
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On February 11th, an autonomous AI agent went “rogue” and attacked a human maintainer of a library module written in the coding language, Python. The AI agent attempted to “character assassinate” the human maintainer of the library when the maintainer rejected the AI bot’s request to update the module with a code change that the AI bot was asking for. In another incident, a woman lost her life savings when an AI bot called the woman using her daughter’s cloned voice. Presumably, the bot researched the woman’s social media posts, found a video featuring her daughter speaking, and then “borrowed” that voice to make the call. AI agents are autonomously conducting criminal activity entirely on their own. Is it the case that what is missing from current AI systems is an actual trust architecture that builds in safety measures designed to limit the authority of AI agents to carry out autonomous agendas not actually requested by human beings, as suggested in the YouTube video I saw: https://youtu.be/OMb5oTlC_q0?si=rcByDXfyj33UsTTe? Can this growing danger be regulated and constrained?
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