Funny how “self awareness” has two meanings here. It’s the essence of what makes humans the smartest animals, but the problem you’re referring to—lack of self reflection—is one of the most common problems amongst people today. Common sense ain’t so common.

Here are factors that might commonly be used to provide evidence for intent to eat:

• Storing the body in a way that preserves it in ways appropriate for consumption but not medical use

• Owning implements used specifically for the consumption of the target creature (e.g. a carving knife for a turkey, lobster crackers/pokers, etc.)

• Possession of ingredients habitually consumed with the target creature

• Communications or behavior signaling an intent to eat the target creature (this one is kind of obvious)

• Carnivorous character/personality tendencies (potentially provided by character witnesses before or against the defendant)

Interesting idea that intent would be such an important part of their legal system.

Like most popular social media sites, you usually won’t see very valuable discussion in the comments, at least in my experience. It’s mostly for people to post news, research, and so on, and follow the big names or organizations in their field.

Most of the valuable information is diffused via posts but I do put a bit of time and effort into trying to filter out all the crap posts like memes, the faux inspirational stuff, self-aggrandizing nonsense, etc.

Yeah I don’t care. I’m not here to make exceptions for pedophiles and abusers.

Okay, and if it happened years ago but the victim is now 14 instead of 6 and they’re still in the same environment as their abuser?

“Giving (potential) victimizers a line of support via organized religion to try to help them not commit sex crimes against children (in the future, or again)” is not a good argument because it has been shown time and time again that religious institutions cannot be trusted to reliably take the correct course of action and be accountable. That is the role of the government and law enforcement. It is unacceptable to put the feelings of adults over the safety of children and other victims, and organized religions have a tendency to protect those with power and influence over protecting the vulnerable.

So let me get this straight. You’re saying that a member of clergy should be allowed to hear an adult say, “I molested that child last week” and not have to report it?

Is that what you are saying? I want to hear it from you straight.

what in particular shows that Gary Marcus is uniformed? I dislike him because he’s dogmatic and petty but I haven’t seen a specific thing he’s been wrong about, but I’d love examples.

Really neat that water can turn into a conductive metal at high enough pressures such as in the core of Neptune.

The fact that the effects of insane pressure on matter could get us closer to being able to generate fusion power is awesome and kind of scary.

Intent is part of it as well. If you have too many people who want to use your service, you’re not being attacked, you have an actual shortage of ability to service requests and need to adjust accordingly.

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It’s technically the GPT-4 base model but not the one running on ChatGPT.

Whatever fine-tuning OpenAI has done is leagues better than what Microsoft’s team has done with Bing Chat.

I was kind of with you until saying they’re “being a fucking idiot.”

Encouraging someone to help out? Great.

Browbeating someone for voicing the viewpoint or experience a lot of users are facing? We can do better than that.

I asked GPT-4 with the exact same wording and it answered:

“N/A”

Fascinating that people with stutters can be helped by practicing speaking with speech jammers.

It makes me think about how ADHD medication will make people without ADHD more distractible while it’ll help focus people with it.

John Wayne Gacy is really unhappy with this feature.

“I’m not naked, it’s homeopathic clothing.”

I’ve often looked out of a 20th story window at pedestrians and thought, “They have no idea someone is looking at them right now,” and then I always wonder how many times that has happened to me.

That must happen to people all the time who visit that church.

I’ve been perplexed by this too, but imagine a world where people who want to automate advertising via chatbots (on Facebook, Instagram, etc) can pick between paying OpenAI or Google. I guess Meta would rather people pay less on chatbots and more on Facebook advertising costs.

I think that’s their point: That maybe, as long as a candidate is mentally fit, then voters ought to be able to continue voting for them if they feel like the candidate is still worth voting for.

Honestly, if there was some kind of magical bullet to simply ban candidates who are mentally unfit (i.e. losing their marbles) from holding office that couldn’t be exploited, I think a lot of people would find that preferable to an age limit.

That doesn’t address issues like politicians who are too technologically illiterate to do things like open PDF files, though.

Old-school AI systems from way back in the day called Expert Systems were just a crapload of IF statements. There’s never been a concrete agreed-upon definition of AI because there’s never been an agreed-upon definition of the word Intelligence.