That looks like a number that should represented by the median, not the mean.

Ah, from the PDF, page 27, the median is 3. Graphs on page 29, figure 12.

This terrifying uptick from years prior resulted in the FAA and NTSB convening safety summits in March and May, respectively. Whether they dared to discuss root causes seems unlikely.

Take it from me: the “aviation safety” “people” would rather disown their family than restore flight to the exclusive province of high-IQ young and youngish white men.

That is not hyperbole—read it literally.

Oh for an editing function.

[Fortunately we have a Natural General Intelligence editor.]

We have entered a new Dark Age of illiteracy and superstition. Slavery and tyranny will soon follow.

And there is probably something genuinely irreducible about organic existence that will require the superintelligent silicon layer to be grafted on top of a carbon-and-water foundation.

Plus, organic beings have a temporal gravity that cannot be simulated. Large language models are created by a Darwinian process that is a pale shadow of billions of years of the real one.

Three decades ago a famous study of Danish twins found that our genes “only moderately” influence how long we’re likely to live. Longevity, the authors estimated, was about 25 percent heritable, meaning the remaining three quarters was determined by environmental factors and lifestyle choices, such as diet and exercise. Most subsequent studies found heritability to be somewhere in the 20 to 25 percent range, and 25 percent is now widely accepted. But a new study more than doubles it, suggesting lifespan may be more genetically fixed than we thought.

The study, which was published today in Science, arrives at this dramatic increase by reframing how scientists think about longevity. Rather than lumping all deaths together, the researchers distinguish between two kinds: “intrinsic mortality” comes from built-in biological aging processes and genetic mutations, whereas “extrinsic mortality” comes from outside causes, such as accidents and infection. Early longevity studies analyzed groups of people who were born in a time of widespread extrinsic mortality. That skewed previous estimates of heritability, says Uri Alon, a systems biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and senior author of the new paper.

To sort out the effects of intrinsic versus extrinsic deaths on longevity heritability, he and his colleagues ran computer simulations of human mortality, calibrated using data from those previous twin studies. When they dialed extrinsic mortality down to zero, leaving only deaths caused by intrinsic aging processes, lifespan heritability roughly doubled.

Do Americans have a right to step outside without being subjected to obscene sci-fi surveillance?

Flock is not the only offender. There are also:

* Traffic cameras
* ALPRs (automated license plate readers)
* Store surveillance cameras
* Doorbell cameras
* BWCs (police body cameras)
* Innumerable data vendors that trade in your personal information
* Etc. and so forth, virtually without end

If Americans have no right to privacy, then there is no prima facie reason why every Federal agency, State department, municipal corporation, and commercial corporation with a bank account and a U.S. address shouldn’t have a permanently archived video feed of every square inch of space outside of your doorstep, up to and including thermographic footage enabling estimation of the precise length, girth, and total volume of your dick, to the nearest millimeter or milliliter, at any given Unix timestamp.

In reality, the only solution is to deport the cops and lawyers along with the rest of the immoral aliens.