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This thread appears to be a back door attempt to reintroduce the topic

Neither. I recommend poetry, instead

What metrics will you measure to confirm AGI has been achieved? Are you already leveraging any of the countless many free Jarvis style agents out there, the ones with hundreds of billions of investor dollars funding them?

Adding another giant vote here for Merlin. Was sitting on my deck day before yesterday and it recognized 8 different bird songs playing at the same time. It’s really helped me to train my ear for what I’m hearing. If that type of app is of interest, then my nature buddy who lives eats and breathes this stuff and has for decades turned me on a while back to iNaturalist. I’ve had some really good luck identifying things and impressing the kids with that. You’d probably dig it. https://www.inaturalist.org

The electoral college is more of a root cause for that than democracy, IMO Also, gerrymandering and a lack of ranked choice voting FWIW

What process are you using to take samples and confirm the increased adrenaline in a lab? My intuition is this would be better described as a subtle form of anxiety attack

Agreed, though more immediate procreation I would be welcome

What you call a dream sounds more like a hallucination or delusion

It’s extremely expensive still and requires extreme cooling, so is only in use in a tiny handful of research and intelligence applications, but it allows for a massive capacity for computation at speeds previously unachievable. Your question is super broad, and you may need to be more specific to get better answers. If you just need a lay persons intro, perhaps this will help:

*her / them check your bias

Adventure

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You’re not wrong. I, in fact, paused with a similar self-critique when typing it. I think where maybe I landed after chewing upon it momentarily was how assigning capitalism as a root cause for our mediocre milquetoast attempts at mitigating climate change thus far is both a) too simplistic, and b) too convenient a scapegoat to emotionally let ourselves as individuals off the hook. Perhaps a better root cause of our Fiddling_Nero-level lethargy on climate gets framed as a sort of selfish shortsightedness; a desire for relief in the present moment at the expense of some still unrealized potential future narrative. At the risk of being reductive: Capitalism isn’t the root cause of anything, really. Dopamine and how we each act to spike it is. That won’t change by switching the social order to a more socialistic or even communistic one, though would certainly be helpful if we could all just be a little less horrible to each other and think a bit more about what’s left when we’re gone.

Capitalism isn’t necessarily to blame, at least not as much as our failure to include negative externalities into the costs paid by producers and consumers of goods and services. Manufacturer doesn’t get fined for poisoning the water. Consumer doesn’t get taxed for continuing to buy goods from that manufacturer. The cycle of water poisoning persists while healthcare needs skyrocket and economic burdens get shifted (shafted?) to everyone downstream who weren’t ever even involved in the transaction. Carbon taxes were an attempt to address this and it want capitalism that made it fail. It was politics and short term self-interest among plutocrats.

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Breathing

Update your approach. Communicate clearly. Provide evidence. Support your stance on the merits. Address criticisms clearly and specifically without hand-waving. Whining like an infant or claiming discrimination / free speech issues on a private internet site like SFN, a site with rules to which you agreed when registering for membership, will get you nowhere other than maybe banned when we get bored of you. Welcome to the NFL. Nobody is forcing you play. Nobody is forcing you to carry the football live on the field. Everyone else here meanwhile will keep playing without you until you figure out how to properly defend your ideas when challenged. Step up or step out, cowboy.

Because humans are weird mostly hairless apes who exist in groups and are wired accordingly

That study, it should be noted, is already 15 years old and the number of atheists/agnosticists (aka atheists who lack the courage of their conviction) have only further grown since then across the general population. Religiosity seems to shrink further every year, seemingly to be replaced by nationalism and various other forms of tribal grouping.

One can only hope

Stunningly filmed thus far.

Thx for the rec

Propaganda and active disinformation campaigns. The bigger the lie, the more people believe it.

Especially if you do so with some fava beans and a nice chianti Tell me, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming? /ot

It suggests to me that character and principle are not something genetic nor chiseled in stone, but a plastic malleable part of how we plug into the society around us. We are shaped by what we ingest, both our bodies and our minds