It’s so weird to me that a diamond can possibly go for that much. I understand that this one was probably made a long time ago based on the way it was cut, but it’s not like we don’t have the means to create an exact replica of it. This thing is pure carbon. There aren’t even impurities to make it interesting.

Yeah, but the last one you ordered is your last until you order another.

To me that means an autonomous being that understands what it is.

A little thought experiment: How would you determine whether another human being understands what it is? What would that look like in a machine?

As far as I’m concerned, “intelligence” in the context of AI basically just means the ability to do things that we consider to be difficult. It’s both very hand-wavy and a constantly moving goalpost. So a hypothetical pacman ghost is intelligent before we’ve figured out how to do it. After it’s been figured out and implemented, it ceases to be intelligent but we continue to call it intelligent for historical reasons.

Japanese has cute curvy symbols interleaved with some BIG scary symbols.

It would suck extra hard to lie in bed planning out the nice breakfast you’re going to make for your partner and learn afterwards that they’ll never get to enjoy it.

The kid actually answered the question. The teacher’s expected response is basically “no, your question is wrong and I refuse to answer it.”

Often also in /etc/

Conversely, if the conclusion was wrong but it added value to the discussion, then it’s still a good post.

Life is more expensive when you’re disabled. That’s not news. But why should you be mad about changes that help other people save money? What you should be mad about is that the savings are turned into extra profits instead of going towards making your tickets cheaper.

For many people, being imprisoned in one of these places would grant them a lot more freedom than they currently have.

I do not have ADHD.

I do not do this.

I keep everything open as live tabs.

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Remember when we had mailing lists that basically acted like forums and group chats with your various friend groups that consisted of these long email chains?

Changing the voting system involves changing the law, doesn’t it? Can’t you just revert the ban in that very same bill?

Edit: Ah, I just saw in another comment that this affects lower levels of government that wouldn’t have the power to make this change.

They should’ve made a fifth-pounder and sold it for more.

Burgers should neither be taller nor wider. Just give me two normal sized burgers.

In what sense “don’t understand”?

In any of the senses you’ve listed or haven’t listed. My point was that the outcome of the situation doesn’t change regardless of the cause of the ignorance. What it does affect is how you address the problem.

Ok, and what should be done about it?

A start would be acknowledging the existence of a problem so that we can start looking for a solution. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and what I think would be nice is if we had something akin to a direct democracy where people could vote on the areas where they are experts. For most people, that would be their own lives and the problems they face, so they essentially vote on what problems to fix rather than how to fix them. Let the experts take care of figuring out how to do the fixing. There’s still the problem of how to find good subject experts in domains where you’re not an expert yourself and keeping them accountable. I don’t have a good answer for those right now.

If the specialist cannot explain to the common population in a concise way the implications of carrying out a project of that size so that they can make a sensible choice in a vote,

There’s no concise way to explain something complicated to a layperson that doesn’t end with “trust me, I’m the expert”.

then the problem lies with the specialist, not the population. Giving that kind of explanation is education.

Shifting the blame doesn’t make the problem disappear. Whether the population is uneducated because of a lack of qualified specialists, or simply due to being incapable of understanding the information, the outcome is the same. You still have uninformed people making decisions.

Same. And in the past decade plus of using smartphones, I’ve never had to open the slot except to install the SIM card for the first time. Why do I even keep it around?