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Alternatively: Sluggo is a homeowner at the age of eight because capitalism has allowed him to own his own business
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Thank you. The world needed this.
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The bleakest part is the father using ChatGPT to write his son's obituary after all that. What the fuck?
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There were only six cases used in the study (unpublished but reused from previous work) and all formatted based in the style of medical exam questions. It would be interesting to see this with incomplete information or outright errors. Also I'd want a human-human collaboration included.
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Hopefully this will lead the kind of people who ask this question to realize that it is borderline meaningless.
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This is why you need to follow up with Fireball.
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The laws that allow below minimum wage for jobs with tips are objectively wage theft but RIGHT NOW I still have to tip people so they can live.
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He has two sets of eyes . . .
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Trick question. It doesn't depict an animal. It depicts a depiction of a bird!
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Are the badges/medals identifiable to her campaigns described in the story?
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Pretty sure there have been genocides in Europe.
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No. Justification: It's not.
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I love compatibilism because philosophers have decided to respect it despite how blatantly dismissive it is. Yeah free will is real if you assume that people mean "is determinism true?" whenever they ask "do we have free will?".
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I know this one! Maro!
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I wish some philosopher would just boil these kinds of arguments down to what they really want to say: "I think god exists. I'm right about that. QED: god exists."
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This is a weird argument because what people actually care about is God (and attendant things) existing in OUR world.
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Musk seems to have been in the group that thought they'd achieve actual human-like intelligence so cameras would be enough. Which is stupid coming *and* going. Having LIDAR would still be more effective since it helps human drivers.
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Has there been a recent announcement about Waymo succeeding at self driving?
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No, that's almost exactly what hedge funds do according to statistics.
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NASA doesn't have experience with the things that made SpaceX revolutionary.
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IIRC analysis of one neural network based chess engine during training found that it discovered many lines of play that humans did. From what I've heard the latest top engines play a lot like a human, just with occasional moves that no human player would take.
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They also borrow a technique from high level human play: opening books and presolved endgames.
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Reminds me of a friend who studies animal communication who told me about features of language "once you prove a non-human animal can do it then everyone changes the definition of language to not require it".
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The morality of Star Wars is truly baffling to me but I think in this case its that the Light Side is meant to benefits that are less material.
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A gentleman does not do "strenuous" gardening. That is precisely what a gardener is meant for.
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I work with very impacted autistic kids (and am autistic myself) and its amazing to find something where they show the kind of enjoyment other people can share in.
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I'd argue there's a certain kind of person who believes that capitalism is the source of all problems to such a degree they'll just declare "because capitalism" and apply no further thought and see no need for further evidence.
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AI didn't originally develop in corporations. It was developed by academics in universities.
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Wait he ate shit, too?
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Iomedae meets the Metal Men.
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What is he even trying to say?
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His supporters just think this means that "other people" will be poorer. They cannot understand the fact that Trump wants them to be poor, too.
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I predict he'll declare the midterms invalid and prevent senators and representative he doesn't like from entering the capitol building.
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There was never anything to enforce that rule beyond political consequences. Trump is openly corrupt and his base likes that so there are no consequences for him doing it.
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I wonder if this in Nancy's imagination or if they threw children in jail for walking on grass in 1949.
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Could be a reference to a book of the time where there is some elderly groundskeeper.
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Woah, never noticed this. Why is Montana sniffing Idaho like that?
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The kind of philosophy people who would do that simply aren't the ones who would claim "logic" as a part of philosophy. They're the ones who would assert that boolean logic it is a form of Western hegemony.
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They can go the other direction.
28 Seconds Later: Its a normal day in Cardiff. Radio says some people are having a dustup in London.
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I stopped taking him seriously after reading Blink which never backs up claims and frequently just contradicts them. There's a point where he presents an incorrect snap judgement people make about doctors then forgets that its wrong and proceeds as if it is a valuable insight people have.
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Wait Sluggo owns a complete house? I thought he lived in a one room shack. In 1949 I guess you could make bank shining shoes.
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Damned kid! You have to look where you're going when you run.
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He also knew dozens of variations on "Knock" apparently.
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Well there is a lot of religion there just isn't any explicit religious practice. I think this was Tolkien's ideal, though it seems very unCatholic to me. To follow the "Faith of Eru" (for lack of a name) one is expected to implicitly know their role in the world and love it and fulfill it well.
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I love Tolkien's magic system for how magical it feels, though I think it would have benefited many readers if the story more directly clued them in on it. You mention Sanderson briefly and I respect his view on magic but to me those are "power systems" meant to impinge on the plot, not quite magic.
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IIRC it was discovered after the war that enemy submarines commanders didn't think there was any effect. And modern recreations suggest that the change in apparent angle is small, much less than the errors made by an observer of any moving object on the horizon.