And because total emissions matter, we all have a bigger responsibility to reduce our per-capita output if we’re above others. The atmosphere and climate don’t care about countries, so each American still has a much higher responsibility to change their society than each Chinese does.

It’s not really possible to give a concrete answer without a concrete definition of “understanding”. But unless you assume supernatural explanations, either systems must be able to “understand”, or humans are also incapable of “understanding”, since we ourselves are physical systems too.

For instance I feel that a gravity coin sorter is made with understanding but does not have understanding

I get the example and agree that such a coin sorter does not meaningfully have an understanding of gravity. But IMO it does have a (minimal) understanding of the different coins you’re sorting, since it contains a mechanism for differentiating between their sizes.

Imagine we replaced the gravity mechanism with a bunch of actuators controlled by organic neurons, which are connected to something like an eye. The neurons fire and cause the actuators to sort the coins. Now, if say the neurons just react to brightness levels it’d be hard to argue there’s an understanding. But if the neurons are part of a real human brain, they can definitely understand the coins etc. and sort based on their understanding.

As you take away more parts of said brain, when does it lose the understanding?

No, and if you want to discuss the philosophical idea, please don’t waste my time with dumb questions.

Yes, I think it proves that understanding does not require consciousness.

No, you’re still a necessary part of the system, since otherwise there is no interaction possible. And yes, I don’t think understanding relies on consciousness.

Where is the semantic difference?

I’d like to add a rebuttal I tend to agree with: You’re only a component of a larger system, and the whole system (you + the room + your list of instructions) does encode some understanding, otherwise a chinese speaker wouldn’t be able to interact with the room in any meaningful way.

In almost any system, you can look at a specific part and argue that part doesn’t fulfill a property that the entire system taken as one does.

Wouldn’t it be more sanitary to clean them beforehand?

Fair, though I’d like to mention that you don’t need a pot to boil something. It’s enough to use sticks to move/roll hot stones into a natural bowl-shaped indentation. Sounds complex, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened at least a couple times before pots.

Yeah, throughout human existence I’d guess that no preparation method is more common than “throw it in a pot and boil it”. Can’t go wrong with that for almost any food - even if the texture isn’t amazing, you can’t really over-boil most stuff to where it’s dangerous.

I’m guessing they meant sonar instead. AFAIK active sonar does work really well, but is rarely used since it reveals your location twice as far as you’re able to detect others. Not to mention the horrible effects on wildlife - the sound waves carry so much energy that a point-blank hit is somewhere between “lethal & untreatable” and “turned into red mist”.

I don’t think it’s realistically possible to do that totally undetected. Since the earth’s magnetic field is so weak and field strength goes down rapidly as distance increases, malicious actors probably couldn’t spoof patterns well enough to make the data look real, at least not without coming very close and staying near their target.

Aw. I hope they at least feel really swole, so they get something out of it

I’ll have you know that Reacher cannot help his overactive steroid gland!

Palpatine secretly controlled the whole trade blockade around Naboo as well as directing Count Dooku, Darth Maul and General Grievous among many other shenanigans.

To compare it to German history: Palpatine didn’t just light the metaphorical Reichstag on fire, my Geschwisty. He used an armada of tanks assembled into a Voltron-style robot that shoots Flammenwerfer capable of turning air into fuel.

Certainly less awkward than finding ball clamps and a nipple gag

“Hey bro, I saw that those greedy bastards skimped out on the metal parts. So I fixed that for you bro”

Wait guys, I know how to deal with this one. There’s usually some kinda royal living inside a vase nearby…

Because even if a space at the end of the name should be considered invalid, people can have names with spaces inside.

They still need us to advance AI until it’s able to self-improve. That’s why they’re pumping so much money into scaling. Once they have that, we’ll have lost all leverage - that’s what their evaluations are based on.

I don’t think the current approach can achieve this, but it looks like they’ll do their damndest to try. They’ve already prepared for the worst, and if they can choose between X years before everything goes to shit, or X minus ? years before it goes to shit BUT they get AGI to play with in their bunkers…

I dropped Babish when he bought his brother the car. Don’t feel like I missed out since then.