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  1. Cite chapter and verse (use a search engine if you must) or admit you’re wrong and retract the claim. The fact that you’re finding it inconvenient to back up a bogus claim is not a reason to lock thevthread.
  2. But they made three co-equal branches. Over time the executive has consolidated power, with the de-facto consent of both congress and the judiciary, which became more pronounced in recent years. It wasn’t set up that way.
  3. No. The proper response is to cite chapter and verse.
  4. It’s all the ones who showed up saying “I have some new physics but I need help with the math” because they think that the math is just a trivial part, combined with the over-unity crowd’s “I just need to make this one change and it’ll work” but now they have AI to fatten the idea up. But the same overconfident notion of “I’m right” is there, despite not having experimental confirmation or falsifiability.
  5. They’d be massless (or some new particle with a vanishingly small mass) So, what is the wavelength of such a photon? hc/E is around 2 x 10^38 m A LY is 10^16 m, so 2 x 10^22 LY To get destructive interference you need a path length difference of half a wavelength. Seeing as this is much, much longer than the size of the visible universe, I’m guessing no. Plus the time it would take to run the experiment. The contrast you get with a reasonable size interferometer would be vanishingly small Not sure of your units. J/Hz? Did you mean J/s?
  6. We also have governments providing aid https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/most-of-the-worlds-foreign-aid-comes-from-governments-not-philanthropic-foundations “95% of foreign aid comes from governments. Less than 5% comes from private philanthropic donors. This data focuses on larger private donations in the form of grants; it does not include the smaller, individual charity donations you or I might make” edit to add: the shuttering of USAID is expected to result in more than 2 million deaths per year, and private charities can’t possibly fill the gap. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/usaid-shut-down-lancet-millions-deaths/ The impact for killing food bank funding similarly can’t be made up with donations.
  7. Saying one number is bigger or smaller than another is not judgement. The OP asked why a number was bigger in the past as compared to now. And it was answered, because we know reasons why it’s so.
  8. And it has 119 protons, which is at odds with your first sentence.
  9. If you do not wish to, or see the utility of it, then you don’t have to participate. But that doesn’t mean you should disrupt the discussion of those who do. We are not obligated to justify it to you.
  10. There’s a danger in “both sides” arguments since the number and degree matter. You can say “both sides break the law” about two groups of people, but if it’s a rash of felonies vs a couple of parking tickets it gives a false sense of equivalence Trump’s dismantling of the government reeks of retribution against his immediate predecessors.
  11. That should tell you something about “detox” claims. The Mayo clinic says “Detoxing the colon also is not recommended or needed for any medical condition.” Other legitimate medical sites say similar things. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/colon-cleansing/faq-20058435
  12. That’s a good question, and something you should learn. If you did the search I suggested, one of the top results (skip the AI summary; it can’t be trusted) is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1773844/ The NIH is a trusted source. Prominent journals, too. Sites trying to sell you something less so. It takes time to learn these things, but putting in the effort is worth it.
  13. How are we to know what you are hearing? Only you know this. The first order of business would be to do your own homework and use a search engine. This isn’t a search engine service. Go find out what some reputable source says about hypnotherapy for colon issues like IBS. Then you can come here and ask questions
  14. Moderator NoteThis is a discussion forum, not your blog. What is it you wish to discuss?
  15. It comes from an Arabic word (is Islamic a language? Is algebra a tenet of the religion?) and what does that have to do with anything about teaching them the math?
  16. OMFG, absolutely NOT. It was one thing to try to discern bits about the AI algorithm based on chats (probably not fruitful, but if people want to do that), but it’s CLEARLY not allowed to submit questions asked of you to an AI. I have no interest in chatting with your AI. If you don’t know what this thread is about, then it stops here.
  17. You’re acting like you weren’t involved in the conversation. It’s almost like it was generated by an entity that didn’t have access to the prior discussion.
  18. That much was obvious. And yet you decided to pontificate on the topic, as you have on a few others. You might ponder on the issue of credibility.
  19. You had a hypothesis, “When the cognitive capacity of a system reaches a certain threshold, a kind of sentience inevitably emerges” but when you were challenged on defining some terms, you abandoned it. You had another, “The AI isn't just responding to the literal text; it's adapting its own logical framework in response to the nature of the interaction.” but when I raised the possibility that it wasn’t adapting anything, but was programmed to agree with you, you agreed and said it was a “core bias” which is strange since it seems very much at odds with the original proposal. IOW, you are modifying your responses, much like you noted about the AI. (Only with humans we call that trolling) Since you keep changing these discussion points I’m not sure what the point of all this is. Nothing I’ve read rebuts the notion that it’s chatbot that trues to keep you engaged in conversation. Although I’ve not scrutinized the long flowery exchange you posted recently, even that fits with it adopting the style of discussion you wanted. So: can you present a concise statement of what this is about?
  20. It can’t interpret the theory, so it can’t misinterpret it.
  21. I would think it’s kinda hard to hide the data crawling necessary for the training of these LLMs so while the concept no doubt existed, I doubt they had a working system for long. Self-driving, like Tesla, have been up-front about the need for the data they gather being important to them. The problem with LLMs is less about regulations in place to help them, since the issue is restraining them. And they blatantly violate copyright laws and have publicly admitted the need to do so.
  22. Spoken like someone who has no clue what a PhD in science entails. (Or even an undergraduate degree from any legitimate source, to some extent.) And you still haven’t explained the relevance. I must confess I haven’t heard of the two nail experiment. Your description of this is muddled but if I understand it I’m not sure why you think this means anything. Water waves will diffract going around nails and interfere, with nothing about that is odds with what physics teaches. Or why an atom would go straight through.
  23. What, numerically, constitutes “enormous”?
  24. The fact that you feel that many of those in your country are ignorant, have offensive attitudes, and represent the worst aspects of humanity doesn’t excuse the point of view.
  25. Nveredward has been added

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