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Is the size of the effect in any of these studies stated in your comments? I skimmed them but didn't see what I was looking for. Or via non-paywalled links? Thanks.

"Sledge designed the humanoids to help humanity and be invulnerable to human exploitation. However, he eventually realized that they had instead taken control of humanity, in the n…

I assumed it's more or less what they call a "thrift store" in the US.

Presumably it was meant literally, but the term "charity shop collector" seems to have some other meanings as well which are interesting to me as a non-UKian speaker: - A provider …

They seem to be losing money. On the one hand, if they are incinerating millions of dollars every month, that's an argument that they could easily afford a few more - after all, th…

I don't understand what you mean, or why you wrote it.

>Their revenue was $804 million. It's not a huge amount for them. They made $804M after all expenses? Or before?

Decades before I had to deal with my mom dying, I read "Grave Angels" by Richard Kearns, and I don't know what more you can say on the topic of accepting death.

The "right now" whereof I spoke is basically any crisis during a quickly progressing terminal cancer after the oxycontin starts and before the morphine. When a person can speak, an…

>Plenty of people recognize when it's time. Thank you for being relatively polite. All of the replies to my original comment have veered off from what I tried to express with the p…

>It was a much better death than having a lot of futile last-minute interventions. It's easy to say that sort of thing, so everyone does. It makes plenty of sense. People don't wan…

"Overtake" doesn't imply "becomes superior to in intelligence"...Maybe he does mean it that way, but still. Was the Terminator superior to all humans in intelligence? Either in the…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_game I am now learning that: "A famous person known to have fallen victim of the scheme was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, …

>that requires capital - more than the average owner really has access too It sounds odd to my ear to matter-of-factly state that the US is deprived due to being capital-poor. I me…

That sounds very nice. What would a competitive rent for your house be? Is it near London? For Americans who don't know anything about housing in the UK, there is an interesting ar…

It was stated that aftershocks are a concern. I guess the idea is if you didn't notice the initial quake then you should be warned there might be a follow up.

Does Tesla have a dealer system like Toyota and Ford?

"when examining only those who passed the exam (i.e. licensed or license-pending attorneys), GPT-4’s performance is estimated to drop to 48th percentile overall, and 15th percentil…