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They are programmatically token predictors. It will never be “closer” to intelligence for that very reason. The broader question should be, “can a token predictor simulate intelligence?”

Moats. I was kidding at first, but I’m now thinking lazy rivers are modern moats.

That sounds like an adult with a social and/or psychological issue.

US Olympics is probably being overly cautious ever since Taliyah Brooks collapsed from exhaustion when they refused to delay a US Olympic trials a couple years back due to extreme heat.

Taliyah was on pace to make it to the Olympics until that happened.

People play too many games with their lives. If a government is telling me not to go to their country, I interpret that as a threat.

I liked Devs. It had a dope concept. That show didn’t get much buzz.

If your list is too long you should care even more in the event that something bad happens.

Also, it’s incredibly low effort to cover it. There’s no subscription plan for covering a webcam.

Absolutely. Nowadays you could afford an external hard drive to store such a small amount of videos. Plus, it gives you the benefit of having fewer eyes on your data. The notion of storing data on the cloud turns me off of having certain indoor cameras.

MARS isn’t doing a good job of proving you wrong.

According to Invenda’s website, the Smart Vending Machines can detect the presence of a person, their estimated age and gender.

I’m confident I don’t need a vending machine to know any of that.

Technology does way more than what some consumers want without adding enough value. Ring doorbell just grossly increased their ring protect plan cost and I’m starting to wonder:

“Why are we paying monthly subscriptions for them to just store two months of snapshots with a few videos?”

And it’s upvoted

Biden lifted some restrictions, but otherwise yes. I had forgotten that Bob Menendez was opposed to this before I read this article. He doesn’t exactly have political capital to make statements anymore.

The Trump admin, not Biden’s did that according to your link.

In 2008 a man decapitated someone on a Greyhound, he taunted the other bus riders by showing them the severed head, and he ate some of the body in front of the other passengers. His lawyers used the insanity plea. He served his time and was let out in 2017.

If he didn’t plead insanity, I’d be extremely surprised if he weren’t still in jail.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

No, I actually thought you were joking. I think people are pretty ordinary and can’t telepathically tell that stuff in text. I bet you can’t deduce my gender, orientation, race, hair color, and name. I assume this because I didn’t tell you any of these things.

You can’t be serious.

You never mentioned you were nonbinary. Isn’t it possible that people were being contrarian without being transphobic?

I’ll reword then. If an organism has 70% DNA similarity to humans, the simplest and most reasonable explanation is that they’re evolutionarily related to us.

If that’s not the conclusion you draw, then you could just as easily say that an organism whose DNA was 99% similar to yours (me, for example) isn’t evolutionarily related to humans.

He asserted the claim of them not being evolutionarily related to us, but gave us evidence that would make it easier to assume the opposite. He gave us no DNA evidence that they’re truly alien. And this all presupposes that what he said was accurate.

I read that second paragraph you quoted before and so many things seemed so wrong, but I just assumed it was a bunch of translation errors. How does knowing how old something is give you evidence of its DNA?

“[DNA] comparisons” to other samples? What other samples? Human? If it’s human (or another known organism) and only about 30% of it is unknown, then the organism has an evolutionary relationship to organisms in earth.

But they claim it has no evolutionary relationship to organisms on earth.

The story doesn’t really make sense to me.