JackGreenEarth

Air because 100% of them are benders. You don’t get that guarantee in the other nations. If bending wasn’t a factor, probably either water or air, as they both seem chill. As a vegetarian though, air would probably align more with my values anyway.

Whenever any advance is made in AI, AI critics redefine AI so its not achieved yet according to their definition. Deep Blue Chess was an AI, an artificial intelligence. If you mean human or beyond level general intelligence, you’re probably talking about AGI or ASI (general or super intelligence, respectively).

And the second comment about LLMs being parrots arises from a misunderstanding of how LLMs work. The early chatbots were actual parrots, saying prewritten sentences that they had either been preprogrammed with or got from their users. LLMs work differently, statistically predicting the next token (roughly equivalent to a word) based on all those that came before it, and parameters finetuned during training. Their temperature can be changed to give more or less predictable output, and as such, they have the potential for actually original output, unlike their parrot predecessors.

The Crusades, the Inquisition, the war in the middle east - all Abrahamic-religiously motivated murderous activities.

Definitely not as sex slaves, as a certain religious person I know argues, as apparently that would be intermarriage and forbidden! They just have to live with the trauma of having their entire family brutally murdered before them, and then being enslaved to the murderers for the rest of their lives. So much better!

No, because it’s circular logic. There’s no reason for a necessary being to exist before it does, and no evidence that one does in the real world.

Proper screen sharing and xclicker is Why I occasionally switch back to X

Not related to your main point, but Apples to Apples is my favourite card game, and I’ve never heard of Cards Against Humanity

Firstly, way to assume their beliefs.

Secondly, what beliefs do you hold that definitely make you not part of a cult?

Are those Android or Linux tools?

You really think when we actually have the power to automate all labour the 1% are still going to be able to hoard all the resources? Now, when people have to work to live, it dissuades them from protesting the system. But once all labour is actually automated, there would be nothing to prevent the 99% from rightfully rising up against the 1% trying to hoard all the resources (which the 1% generated without any effort) and forcing societal/structural change.

I want - and think will happen - 95% of jobs to be automated eventually. But even in the transition period, where some jobs are automated and some aren’t, universal basic income can be a tool to make it livable for all in the transition period.

I want to be made obsolete, so none of us have to have jobs and we can spend all our time doing what we like. It won’t happen without a massive social systemic change, but it should be the goal. Wanting others to have to suffer because you think you should get rewarded for working hard is very selfish and the fallacy of investment, that you feel you should continue a bad investment even if you know it’s harmful or it would be quicker to start over, because you feel you don’t want your earlier effort to go to waste.

To me they just say ‘I have stuff to hide from you, not from Google, Facebook, or the government.’

I agree with the first part of your comment, I don’t understand the second. Some sort of pedophilophobic rant?

I don’t ‘have’ Netflix either, but I can watch things from it…

It’s good at what it does, but what it does doesn’t seem very useful. If it added NFC payments, now that would be useful.

Peaches for me

Just in case anyone actually wants to know: fire is not plasma, which is ionised (electrons not bound to the nucleus) matter, but simply smoke particles hot enough to glow.

It doesn’t lose its punch, because he’s described all through Prelude To Foundation, it’s still a big reveal. And then you read the later books in that context.

I read Isaac Asimov in chronological order, including the robot books first, before foundation. Why woe to me?