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

I see no indication that they missed the sarcasm.

I also think it’s lame

The “also” meaning that they believe you also think it’s lame.

Edit: Oh, I just realized the post-war suburbs are the walkable ones. That makes more sense.

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.

I can understand some negative sentiment in contexts where it’s used dismissively (e.g. “I’m [self-diagnosed] autistic and I don’t have this issue, so you’re obviously just a bad person”), or if you use it as an excuse to be a shitty person. Although I’d say that a professional diagnosis wouldn’t make any of these scenarios better.

In your case, you’re experiencing problems and you’re trying to solve them. A self diagnosis helps a lot in narrowing down what the causes could be and help you prioritize different potential solutions to try. It makes no sense to handicap yourself and try to fix things like a neurotypical person when you have good reason to believe you’re not.

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

I think you’ll get a better answer to your question if you ask “what would an ideal world president look like?” The qualities that make for a good human leader should be the same as that which make a good AI leader.

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 main reason is that they took away my preferred app, and the official app is excessively noisy (visually) to the point that I just can’t parse anything on the screen without huge effort. Doom scrolling is supposed to be brain off time, not brain work extra hard time.

“Fucking” is an intensifier in this sentence. The meaning would slightly change without 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.”

I didn’t expect my decisions to actually affect anything when I played it. Big surprise when I just clicked every dialogue option and things went poorly.

You can also load your save file into the second game and have that affect the story in minor ways, which I thought was pretty cool.

If a government raises taxes for something so that working class people cannot buy it, that government becomes richer by exploiting the working class.

1. If the working class cannot buy it, then they are not getting taxed. If the government is making more money from implementing that taxation scheme, then all that money has to come from those who are wealthier than the working class.
2. You only become richer if you hold on to the money. The government’s job is to spend that money to the benefit of its constituents, not hoard money.

In the past there have been ice ages while the atmospheric CO2 level was 10 times higher than it is now.

Implying we want another ice age?

The notion that eating insects will save the world seems a little dubious.

I agree

Legally, yes. But laws get broken all the time.

When someone starts complaining about what bathroom everyone is using, you can’t just ignore it and hope it goes away. It’s your job as their superior to address these issues.

Similarly,

Their gender/identity should have absolutely zero impact on the ability to do their job.

Making this stance clear requires talking about gender identity and politics.

If your abdomen is visible from a meter away, you’re getting evicted. I don’t want to know what your guts look like when I accidentally step or sit on you.

There’s also the “science” that is your policy choices (personal or public policy) based on the science(n) and your values, risk tolerance, and lifestyle. Since the latter factors can change a lot over time, these policies can also fluctuate wildly and give the impression that “science” fluctuates wildly.

I’ve never gotten sick from undercooked chicken either, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to take the risk. Gastro is no fun, and well done burgers taste great (unless maybe if you use very lean meat?) so it’s all upsides with no downsides.

Are you maybe just using very lean ground beef? In my experience, 15% ground beef is very hard to overcook.

For the same reason I’d attend a meeting and complain afterwards that it could’ve been an email, despite knowing that I was going into a meeting.

I think it’s reasonable to expect the video formats to only be used when it’s a good medium for communicating whatever it’s communicating.