is extincting mosquitoes?

all we need to do is get the poorest to sell their vital organs and they stop being problems.

tablespoons of ddos?

sorry, I meant sole proprieter which is typically considered to be a form of unincorporated buisness.

there are so many birds and so much environment I don’t think a cat occasionally escaping from my house will do much harm.

if they are technically independent businesses (contractors) that would not be unionized labor but instead two business colluding.

oh say can you see…

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birds are annoying and eat herbs in my garden, my cat eats slightly less of the garden and provides me with entertainment and bird removal.

so… cats are the most effective way to combat birds?

diagonals

phonics are only remotely useful between kindergarten and second grade, after that they are a hindrance as the child should be actually learning how to read. Phonics is bullshit and trying to reuse hearing for reading instead of treating reading as a similar but independent idea. How many people that grew up with phonics can read and hold a conversion?

depending on what amd and Nvidia’s prices are it could still be a good product, just not a competitor to a 5080.

that was a virus killing people, the propaganda just increased the rate of spread and had idiots taking ivermectin.

I have yet to see someone directly die from online propoganda that wasn’t basically suicide.

it’s the suffering that makes them special.

Counterargument: think how many of those people could be put out of their misery if the cost of water was increased to $1k/gallon and all other sources of water were removed.

Who doesn’t want to grow rich in their sleep?

I think that the question of what “understanding” is will become important soon, if not already. Most people don’t really understand as much as you might think we do, an apple for example has properties like flavor, texture, appearance, weight and firmness it also is related to other things like trees and is in categories like food or fruit. A model can store the relationship of apple to other things and the properties of apples, the model could probably be given “personal preferences” like a preferred flavor profile and texture profile and use this to estimate if apples would be preferred by the preferences and give reasonings for it.

Unique thought is hard to define and there is probably a way to have a computer do something similar enough to be indistinguishable, probably not through simple LLMs. Maybe using a LLM as a way to convert internal “ideas” to external words and external words to internal “ideas” to be processed logically probably using massive amounts of reference materials, simulation, computer algebra, music theory, internal hypervisors or some combination of other models.

I understand it when it is specifically for large cities (>500,000 people or so) but when done at a state level it makes no sense. I understand that it is functionality not enforced in smaller communities, but I personally think any law that has poor enforcement for good reason (such as more than half of the vehicles not complying) should be removed or redefined (perhaps only require it on commercial vehicles or make it a secondary crime).