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Will Smith seems like an obvious choice having become a mega star after starting as a small rapper. More recently I’d say Ariana Grande for her roll as Glinda in Wicked, but that one is questionable given it’s still sort of a musical. But she did great in the role.

Yes, though I also read the thread which was when I posted that reply exploring a slight tangent from it. Also fair. My suggestion that crazy taxis and tut tuts in various densely packed urban centers may have been mistaken and I was perhaps over indexing on my own copious “holy shit, slow the eff down you crazy bastard!!!” experiences. I must’ve gotten into the wrong cabs each of those days when my drivers were very clearly over the line and unsafe.

I suspect the broader “be nice” social cultural expectation in Japan plays a far bigger role here, and TBH NYC wasn’t the type of urban center I had in mind. More like Mumbai and Calcutta and Lagos and Bogota or Rio, even Mexico City. All to say I wouldn’t be as quick as you to so summarily dismiss my broadly valid point based on 2 or 3 counter examples, especially when one of those examples has such a deep history of being respectful toward others and the second example has such a large mass of land / less concentrated population.

A finding which is surely regionally specific. Seems contrary to my copious anecdotal experiences with taxi drivers in other countries with more populace urban centers

I seem to recall hearing that (in context of declining rates of successful passing scores with modern attempts relative to historical rates) So good callout

Taxi drivers … prior to the introduction of Google Maps …

Maybe start there then come back with an actual request

And yet nearly all that I say remains both factual and true

How would you do that if you were the one in charge?

Human tribalism has a long history, itself extending into other primates and even mammals before that, etc. Us/Them thinking is nothing new. What is new (or returning in greater frequency) is the backdrop of global migration. People seeking to flee from physical and political violence, the issues under discussion here are amplified by droughts, floods, and similar resource constraints being made worse by human caused climate change. Zero sum thinking plus a smaller overall pie leads to higher levels of xenophobia and hoarding tendencies. /meta comment Amplifying themes from stringjunky

So fact is an objective created subjective digital analog reflection of reality, that’s your position? You said fact is truth and I simply substituted your definition of truth into that work as one would in algebra solving for X and Y. Doing so makes plain how unclear and muddy your stance is. Well, that makes one of us. 🤷‍♂️ I do not think that word means what you think it means

As models get better and more capable every day (every hour?), I lean toward yes but YMMV

Clever. I’m sure the Clay Mathematics Institute would like to know. 😂 My understanding is that this may have been tried but not yet arrived upon a successful solution (and the word Yet is doing a lot of heavy lifting there)

In just one or two sentences, please share how you define each. If you’ve already previously done so, then kindly please repeat or copy/paste it here as I may have missed it.

Yeah, bc if there’s one single word that best describes Markus it’s clearly “impolite.” 🙄

Adding this here primarily bc I feel the subject matter may be interesting to the science and math minded members. For the average cost of only $200 in tokens per problem, a not yet released model from OpenAI called Astra has solved 10 of the most complex and longstanding problems in math. Gemini summary: Here are the details:

I tend to agree with your friend that the water usage issue is overblown given the focus on closed loop installations, but I always bristle at the the framing about other industries using more water. I often hear about almond farming in California as the compared example and I hate it. Almond farming is SO bad given the water requirements and location they’ve chosen. It’s like saying your babysitter really isn’t that bad bc they’re not as horrible for your kids as Jeffrey Epstein. Understandable, though encourage you to think more about the entrepreneurial opportunities this presents. It flattens the ability for people to have a business idea and run with it despite lack of access or funding. One person companies netting several millions in revenue are rapidly growing in frequency. I think there are even a few with only 2 or 3 people netting over a billion in revenue, precisely bc they can scale operations with AI

Thanks for the correction. I didn’t read the rest

Their website very clearly lists them as a graphic artist (not the link above, but the webpage for the museum they just referenced). It’s okay that they’re passionate about their topic, but I get the very real sense that they will be impervious to reason and criticism of their view.

China stopped / drastically slowed their daily purchases and began drawing down on their strategic reserves to steady prices and buffer the impact to their customers in other countries. In parallel, the US ramped production to maximum levels as the IEA similarly released volumes in to the market from their strategic reserves. There’s also been rerouting of pipeline activity from the Saudis and Emiratis but that’s less of a factor bc pipeline values are lower there and the losses in neighboring straits are counteracting the benefit (see also my first reply)

Actually, the US falls into that list already as a few times already the Trump administration has forced OpenAI, Anthropic, and one more whose name I can’t remember right now to halt release of their models until they have a green light. That’s a fundamentally new type of federal involvement which follows on the heels of the government taking ownership stakes in companies like intel and nvidia This is the correct framing IMO. It’s a new Cold War In parallel, there’s also trillions of dollars to be made so massive market pressures get added atop. Some are calling this a new Industrial Revolution whereas others think that framing is too small and consider this like the discovery of fire.

For me it's not a lack of willingness to question it, but instead an acceptance of the fact that suggestions of turning back are unachievable and pollyanish. I acknowledge this sounds defeatist, but it's also almost certainly the most realistic stance. The toothpaste is already out of the tube. It's not going back in. Instead, the focus needs to be on regulating and updating the way power is supplied and the manner in which water is used to cool them.

An especially pertinent issue for those in the US where healthcare is largely unavailable and inaccessible to those with insufficient funds

You mean “when.” It’s already blocked, and the other nearby straights are experiencing closures now, too. Your idea is overly simplistic and myopic.