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iNow

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  1. Duly noted Please substantiate this statement, especially given how many thousands of new LLMs are being deployed each week.
  2. I heard the cells in Petri dish #7 are planning to unionize.
  3. And the wolfram link you shared, the one I directly quoted you mentioning, was shared a year ago… and is already badly outdated. Anything from 7 years ago may as well have been typed on a GameBoy
  4. That was a year ago. May as well be describing mainframes. Or vacuum tubes. Or horses and buggies.
  5. You just keep copy pasting this across forums and across years.
  6. Q* (pronounced Q-star) may be changing this soon-ish. TBD ATM An entirely fair and valid point. Thank you for amplifying it as a relevant correction of my own.
  7. One of the best things congress could do would be to accelerate processing of asylum claims and worker permits instead of making people who cross wait 5-9 years just for a hearing, but that’s for another thread.
  8. Tens of thousands of people die from flu and Covid before having offspring. Every year.
  9. What specifically do you propose? He presented his plan to congress that would’ve expanded personnel and enhanced technology and improved efficiency, but they refuse to even bring it up for a vote. Without congressional sign off, the best he can do is deprioritize existing resources and work with border nations… which he’s also doing. Facts matter not to voters in the same way vibes do. Nobody grasps that congress is the bottleneck and wouldn’t give Biden credit even if immigration were magically made perfect. Education and critical thinking are the only ways to neutralize what’s happening. Nobody cares about policy right now. It’s totally tribal and you aren’t 100% in lockstep with the tribe you get death threats. They’d keep calling him open borders Biden even if he closed them completely.
  10. Too bad it's not in all submitted posts.
  11. Perhaps you don’t realize it, but your argument is circular. You say intelligence is required for evolution and then also say that evolution created intelligence. They cannot both be true. You need to seriously rethink your position.
  12. If intelligence is required for evolution then how did intelligence itself evolve?
  13. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/
  14. Some of them are interacting with you here. Some are being born anew each day. Depends on the parent, but I’d wager not yours. Beautiful, isn’t it? Profound and awe inspiring, even.
  15. All generalizations are wrong all the time, so I really should be cautious here, but the concepts coming from the literature I engage most with focus on activity in certain regions, saturation of various chemicals, spikes in oxygen uptake, neural conductance and the like. I suspect the term unconscious is still used as a shorthand for laypeople even in clinical settings like therapy sessions and Vogue articles, but it’s not very useful because it’s not very descriptive and you likely wouldn’t see those same clinicians using it at conference talks or in brief hallway watercooler problem solving sessions. When you’re sitting at a table that wobbles, me telling you that it’s wobbling because “there’s a gap between the floor and the table leg” isn’t exactly useful information. My stance is that calling parts of the mind “unconscious” is similarly lacking in value. However, saying the length of Leg3 is 1/8” longer than the length of Legs 1,2,&4… all of which are equally long… IS useful. It’s more precise and specific like when we speak of oxygen uptake spikes in the parietal lobe or nerve conductance rates up the spine and feedback signals from the gut. IMO, ”unconscious” is a remnant of times past when our understanding was more tightly constrained. It’s a dying term used more for poetry than precision.
  16. No. It’s largely a relic term absent in peer reviewed literature and used only to discuss topics with lay people and bait clicks.
  17. Define: Living Define: Intelligence Explain: How they’re measured objectively, and whether it’s binary or exists along a spectrum Do so: Elsewhere, as it’s off topic here
  18. You assume I’m unfamiliar. You know what they say about people who assume, right? Stop acting like an ass. You said being removed from a ballot doesn’t matter. It very clearly does to anyone seeking to win. This is remedially true and self-evident. Move along. There’s a separate issue about whether he’ll stay removed from said ballot or get removed from others. Maybe try focusing there instead of speculating about what me and other posters here understand about US presidential election processes and primaries.
  19. My money is on all this being moot anyway. Roberts is likely calling every legal contact in his Rolodex trying to conceive of a legitimate way to punt
  20. Exactly correct. Let’s use this opportunity now to review these exchanges with this in mind: YOU: I don’t see why getting kicked off a ballot in certain states is a big deal. The major parties go to court all the time to remove lesser known candidates from ballots. ZAP: Winning is impossible if you’re not on the ballot, so it actually is a big deal if you have any desire to actually win. YOU: Ah… so you’re saying 3rd parties aren’t trying to win? EVERYONE ELSE: What the AF are you talking about?!?? YOU: It’s happened before. ZAP: Yep, but precedence doesn’t mean it’s somehow not a big deal. How is this not self-evident? YOU: More moot blather and blunder…
  21. Basic reading skills and comprehension mostly
  22. You seem to be suggesting that 3rd parties… go to court in attempt to… kick themselves off the ballot… in the elections they mean to win? I’m not the driest sandwich in the ice cooler, but I’m fairly certain that ain’t how it’s works. Technically, Trump didn’t have much of a chance in either Colorado or Maine, so even if they do remove him it’s likely moot. The election will likely come down to a few hundred people in a tiny bumfuck nowhere county of a state like Wisconsin simply deciding to stay home that day.

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