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Dropping an alkaline battery on its base is a quick and easy way to tell wether it's full or not. Drained/old ones bounce, fresh full ones wont.

Hike for sure. Only thing a beach has going for it are the girls in bikinis.

Google Discover?

That was a rhetorical question.

Losing 250 billion in market value is not equivalent to losing 250 billion in cash. You only lose money in stock trading when you sell at a loss.

Nope. About eight years ago, I became convinced that lying is almost never justified - not even white lies. Since then, I can remember only one lie I’ve told: I reflexively told a beggar I didn’t have any cash, even though I did.

Other than that, I can’t think of a single lie. That doesn’t mean I’m brutally honest - I still might choose to not tell something - but I haven’t said anything untrue. What’s interesting is that once I committed to living by this principle, lying stopped even being an option in my mind. In everyday interactions, my default is simply to say what I actually think, not what I think people want to hear.

Another interesting thing is that once you stop lying yourself, you start noticing just how much everyone else does it. And people seem totally oblivious to it. They’ll lie to a third party right in front of you, apparently unaware they’re revealing their own character - not to the person they’re lying to, but to everyone else around them. If I see you lying to someone else, it’s safe to assume you’d lie to me too.

What baffles me is how many lies are completely unnecessary. Like when people start making excuses to a telemarketer instead of just saying they’re not interested. You’re not even sparing the other person’s feelings - you’re protecting your own.

AGI doesn't need to be consciouss to fit the criteria and even if it was we'd have no way of knowing other than what it tells us. AGI simply means it's an generally intelligent artificial system. So in other words human level (or above) intelligence but without biological wetware.

The term AGI was first used in 1997 by Mark Avrum Gubrud in an article named ‘Nanotechnology and international security’

By advanced artificial general intelligence, I mean AI systems that rival or surpass the human brain in complexity and speed, that can acquire, manipulate and reason with general knowledge, and that are usable in essentially any phase of industrial or military operations where a human intelligence would otherwise be needed. Such systems may be modeled on the human brain, but they do not necessarily have to be, and they do not have to be “conscious” or possess any other competence that is not strictly relevant to their application. What matters is that such systems can be used to replace human brains in tasks ranging from organizing and running a mine or a factory to piloting an airplane, analyzing intelligence data or planning a battle.

Yeah, the first time I tired it I got to 160kph on a -03 hatchback Corolla and it felt like the mirrors were about to fly off. The 200kph I did few years later was on a -01 Audi A6 and the ride was smooth as hell and the car felt very planted. It's just that at those speeds even low bumps feel like ramps.

Doing it on empty highway at the middle of the night was scary enough for me.

My point still stands.

There are no real alternatives to YouTube really. Their video library is orders of magnitude larger than all the competitors combined.

I'm usin Mullvad and also don't remember ever being asked to prove I'm not a robot.

Fastest I've driven was 200km/h and it felt like if I'd hit a pebble my car would've taken off. 300km/h is airplane speed.