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I read about an experiment with pigeons. The birds were given a target. For one iteration if a bird pecked a target it would get a piece of corn. For another it got nothing and for…

They aren't. It's still being looked into.

Sample size of 1 but I tend to think something like Prokaryotes is common. I'd bet money that it either did or does exist on Mars. Eukaryotes will be much much less common for reas…

> More productivity means less labour per productive cycle, hence less profit. Rising productivity either means more stuff or lower prices.

How would that work? I'm a generous guy, I like to help people. I'm also a psychopath who likes to kill people. Kind of like Robin Hood but slightly crazier I go around murdering p…

I mean, it's true isn't it? I guess it's the rare firefighter who unintentionally starts a fire but I guess it's a different game.

Wanna bet?

It also misunderstands that nature of Musk's fortune. He's not Scrooge McDuck and they pretend he is. Sell SpaceX at a fire sale. What's it worth? A lot less then it is now. Who wo…

You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.

Disappointing there's not a Proposal E "require use of LLM's by contributors"

No. There are questions you can ask but that's not it. Don't be political in a way that's toxic to half the country - be political in a way that's toxic to the entire country. I'll…

If prices go up there aren't lines. You get lines when demand goes up and supply doesn't or supply goes down and demand doesn't follow. Either way the "fix" is either to raise pric…

When it comes to people's take on AI it reminds me of nothing so much as the way people reacted to the introduction of computers in the 1950's and 60's. I'm not quite clear what le…

You're like a smarter more articulate version of me. I used to use Sway - switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with. Niri on the other hand is a…

This. I still think AI is at root at UI improvement for working with computers. It's an equivalent to the general move of command line interaction to WIMP. Freaking out over this s…

Hey! I think I saw you on Ars. Or maybe someone there copied and pasted this?

I dropped out of Kindergarten to make snail teeth powered AI!

So the argument is that any piece of regulation will always lead to a positive outcome? How is that possible?

Just because I'm buying something for someone other then myself it doesn't follow that I don't care how the money is spent. If my tax dollars are wasted it's no comfort to tell mys…

I don't think sovereignty works that way.

decade+ is not really that long, is it? Say you're correct in that time frame. If you put money in now to a venture that seems uncertain then in 5 years it's going to seem much les…

How does this get them a government contract?

Jesus. I had a colonoscopy. Don't tell me about drinking 2 gallons of water. I won't even get started on an ice cream cone a day.

Someone upthread mentioned that arguments can be about convincing the person you're arguing with or convincing the audience which is absolutely true. I'd suggest that arguments are…

I can't find it but my favorite Robin Hood comic strip was one where Robin Hood robs from someone rich and gives it to someone poor. I'm rich! shouts the poor person. You're what? …