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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.