So, it doesn’t matter what the bias is. It’s still propaganda. The opposite of that would be a balanced view without any bias. So, would that also imply restricting to just factual information?

If it’s someone I haven’t seen in years, talking about the big picture should be interesting enough. You know, like where I live, what do I do for a living etc.

If it’s someone who definitely knows all that, I can mention something small but recent. Like, I just bought some weird carrot salsa, and it was surprisingly good.

It feels very springy already now that it doesn’t snow every day. Ok, it snowed just this morning, but it wasn’t a lot. Doesn’t count if you don’t have to sweep snow off your car.

Time is relative. A 5 year old piece of software is ancient. A 100 year old stone church is very recent. If you find a stone axe that isn’t at least 10 000 years old, you can toss it back where you found it.

If they live in the presence of HCl, they could also make some fun organichlorides. Those products could be simple organic solvents that damage the cell membranes. They could also be more or less toxic compounds, maybe even comparable with chemical weapons. Organic chemistry is full of options.

You could make them capable of eating plastic, but what would the byproducts be? You would need to make sure the byproducts aren’t toxic.

Wow, I’ve never had any issues with USB ports on any of my phones. Which one of us is the outlier? Do you ram the cable in too hard? Do you bend the connector in weird ways?

Our current AIs are kinda pathetic, and might realistically only replace mediocre artists. However, people who buy art, can’t tell the difference between good art and mediocre art, so the financial impact could be felt by a larger number of people.

It’s a bit like comparing factory made clothes to properly tailored ones. We still have both, but machines have clearly won this race. Besides, only very few people appreciate tailored clothes so much that they are also willing to pay for them. Most don’t, so they wear cheap lower quality clothes instead. I think the same will happen to music and paintings too.

Ok, now I’ve finally come to a conclusion about this debate. When a human learns to draw or write in a particular style, there are no copyright issues. However, when a machine does the same, you need to compensate the people who made the training data. Here’s why.

The training data is an essential component of of the model. It’s like building a house with bricks you didn’t pay for. If you’re building something like a house, ship, software or a machine learning model, you need to pay for the materials that are required to build it.

At that point, there will be no evidence of your disappearance, so legal details don’t even matter. Anyone who brings up such evidence, will also disappear.

Yes. These two are different things. Most people experience both, some only one of the two, and Jaiden experiences none of that.

You’re developing romantic attraction. It’s different from sexual attraction, but usually people think of them as one and the same.

They are shredded to small pieces. A magnet separates all ferromagnetic parts, like steel casings. There can also be other separation methods such as flotation. Various non-ferromagnetic materials such as zinc and manganese can be dissolved in sulfuric acid. In order to speed things up, leaching is done at an elevated temperature. By tweaking the leaching parameters, it’s possible to dissolve Zn and Mn selectively.

In the next stage, Mn and Zn are selectively precipitated as hydroxides using something like sodium hydroxide for example. There are other options too. You could also melt the batteries and separate the metals that way. If you use pyrometallurgy instead of hydrometallurgy, you’ll be using a lot more energy, and there can be CO2 emissions.

Ok, so what if you have basically another car battery there and discharge it at 10C or whatever? That should help with the fast charging of EVs, but it wouldn’t have a very long life span. Alternatively, you could have many batteries and discharge them at some reasonable rate. The problem is, you would need a lot of space for that. Maybe capacitors would take even more, IDK.

Interesting. Any ideas which kind of batteries they use?

What would you suggest then? Got something else in mind that can charge steadily while nobody is there, and then suddenly dump a whole lot of energy at 1 MW when someone needs it?

If 500 kW didn’t put plenty of stress on the grid, 1 MW surely will. How about you install a some capacitors in each charging station to balance the load?

Ideally, you would find a “philosopher king”, but that’s unlikely to happen. The next best option would be liquid democracy or some sort of direct democracy. If that’s not an option, you could switch to preferential voting that leads to a coalition parliament fairly often. Proportional representation works too. Basically anything other than FPTP.

You could also look back. History has many examples of people governing themselves in various ways that differ from the systems used at the moment. Even within the spectrum of contemporary democracy, there are several options to choose from. People could just look up what kinds of democracies are used in other countries and how they differ from the one used (or not used) in your home country.

I think we need a new radical philosopher who comes up with a new way of government, and starts promoting it actively. Actually, long ago, I heard a small political party do just that. They wanted to switch to the kind of direct democracy used in Switzerland, which sounded nice IMO. If people heard about someone proposing an alternative, they might at least consider it.

The way I see it, people aren’t really exposed to different ideas of this kind. They see the problems, but not the answers. People aren’t really proposing new solutions that much, now are they?

Anyone who has observed a robot vacuum struggle with minor bumps knows that even homes aren’t ideal for wheels. Some warehouse are ok though, but they were specifically designed with wheels in mind.