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I was issued a Brother by the US Department of Veterans Affairs and it burned through ink cartridges, I took a semester off and the ones in the printer went bad without me printing…

> But it's time for humans to quit our nonsense and give way to machines , which require universal standards. I think we should arrange our society to favor humans and program comp…

> The bottom line is, at some point in time, automation is going to reduce the amount of human work which needs to be done Jevons paradox [0] proposes that as automation reduces th…

Scrubbing Bubbles contains microplastic abrasives.

Yes to 1. and 2.

I'm not sure because I've never read anything about cartoon characters in this context but it probably has to do with whether the person recognizes that the cartoon character is an…

"process" includes storing/referencing memories etc.

>> Our brains treat on-screen faces the same as in-person faces, explains Bradley Bond. He is a communication researcher at the University of San Diego in California. “We assign pe…

The ape brain doesn't have a separate category for 'people you see on TV' and 'people you work with', celebrities are stored in the same place as your friends except the nature of …

> Housing is an asset not inflation. Inflation causes asset prices to rise. > If inflation was running hot persistently at like 6% then long term interest rates would be higher Thi…

> 85% of phone users choose Android. Indeed, seems they are not "happy" to buy Apple. > There is an alternative I mentioned this twice, it is also notoriously inadequate and user-h…

> So if Apple products are “user hostile” then why are enough users happily spending twice as much on iPhones and more on Macs They aren't all "happy" about it, but as I mentioned …

I think it is reasonable to assert both that distraction has been a problem for hundreds of years and that it is considerably worse now than it had been.

> That must be why developing iOS Apps is so unpopular with developers… Apple products are popular among consumers and developers in spite of their many user-hostile decisions prec…

In the Marine Corps, honorably separated Marines are entitled to use their rank as a courtesy title in civilian life. Wearing jewelry to celebrate and pay homage to one's service i…

I'm not aware of a military tradition against retirees wearing jewelry that is a throwback to their service, quite the contrary in fact.

I would infer that it is likely that there is a connection.

> Flesh and understanding are separate concepts. The experience of being human is a separate concepts from understanding. The experience of being human is what allows me to infer m…

'conspiracy' is a loaded way to refer to http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

> This is what the human brain does. The human brain is embodied in a human flesh and uses language to exchange models and data about the real world with other fleshy vessels. This…

> No. You're wrong. chatGPT only knows of text. It derives incomplete understanding of the world via text. It doesn't understand anything. It combines symbols according to a probab…

> But it doesn't prove that the machine does not understand everything period. It just doesn't understand the topic or query at hand. It does no say anything about whether the mach…

> The problem here is that yes the occasional errors demonstrate certain flaws in it's understanding of some topic. No, they demonstrate that the machine does not understand. > The…

> The advent of chatGPT had millions of people on the internet trying to downplay the intelligence of chatGPT by continuously trying to re-emphasize the things it gets wrong. This …