Vance was chosen because he was Peter Thiel’s fuckboi and Thiel wanted an in on Trump’s power, while Trump wanted an in on Thiel’s money/silicon valley political connections. Vance is great because 1) he’s no threat to Trump, so Trump is happy, but 2) he’s loyal to Thiel and if Trump dies he’ll become Thiel’s pet president by default.
“Or a dish that could be afforded by all spartiates” is an absurd phrase - spartiates were rich, eating meat with every meal was a luxury, spartiates were forbidden from working their land so that food was provided by slaves.
Realistically probably this originally started as somebody being told about hydrogen fuel cells and people telephoned it into a conspiracy theory.
Realistically it probably started as a scam as, like the “this one weird trick! Doctors hate her!” thing. The premise is simple: learn how to modify your car to run on water instead of petrol (which sounds wonderful - so cheap! So convenient! Imagine if you could just fill up a bucket and dump it into your fuel tank and it’d work!). It sounds intuitively plausible - water is a liquid, petrol is a liquid, car is a machine that turns liquid into vroom - and frankly nobody in the general public knows why water-powered engines violate thermodynamics, only that they do (assuming they do).
And you really need to understand that these scams target the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. The fact that it filters out anyone who applies critical thinking and education is a feature, not a bug.
To be fair, if you go out to a loud party you’re not likely to meet many introverts there - they’ll all be at home, unless their own extravert friend dragged them out to the party.
Maybe from Saudi Arabia? No umbrella-shaking in Saudi Arabia.
You would think employees would learn to hold the handrails at all times during onboarding.
But we aren’t on a path that leads there, currently. Not with LLM.
To be clear: Yes, 100%, anyone talking about AGI in the current context is just as deranged as that guy talking about building a dyson sphere within the next 80 years. It’s just not going to happen.
I just don’t want people throwing the baby out with the bathwater and assuming that AGI is impossible just because the current grifters correctly state that AGI is possible.
I think it’s supposed to be “Bounty is hunger, reward is whopper”. Everything else is incoherent.
Note that a dead pool can also mean when the water in a dam is so low that it can’t flow downhill through the outlet (because the outlet isn’t at the exact bottom).
There’s not just one “the” gurney with a bad wheel. A good third of the gurneys will have a bad wheel, because they’re all from 1983 and haven’t been maintained since, and the wheel will sound like the screams of the damned if you try to move it forward any faster than a snail’s pace. And it’ll vibrate harder than a massage chair.
Superhuman AI is obviously possible - humans are possible, but obviously aren’t remotely optimal. We e.g. can’t at all visualize/intuit 4D space, despite handling 3D space just fine. There are so, so many things that computers already beat the best humans at, even just creating a digital analogue to the human brain design and essentially refactoring it so it’s not hardwired around human physical limits (the wattage, in particular) would make it better than every human. Or, figuring out what was so special about Einstein and reproducing it. Or just being able to run a physicist’s brain on a GPU, then getting 1 000 000 GPUs and creating the world’s largest para-university of physics.
Calvinball Court
Okay so it’s a martial art then, and killing younglings is a kata.
Just code up a lemmy plugin that lets you embed basic interaction for navigating 4D shapes, my dude. It’s just basic eigenvectors.
Possible candidate responses:
You should become a professsional assassin so you can give it to a vengeful orphan girl apprentice as a deathbed gift.
Is it a religion if it gives you the power to shoot lightning bolts? That’s like saying proper gun maintenance is a religion.
The person who wrote the screenshotted comment clearly doesn’t think too deeply about anything, let alone the specific definition of “surfing”.
If we needed 10x the concrete, we wouldn’t have built so many cheap ugly concrete buildings.
Honestly I think Pence just comes down to his refusal to break the law and support Trump’s coup on Jan 6. Trump might blame Pence for Jan 6’s failure, since the whole point of the coup was to prevent Pence from completing his legally-required ceremonial approval of Biden as new president.