Sims

Hm, just a quick thought. Infant animals do get 'surprised', but just accepts their environment pretty quickly. Adult animals won't get surprised if they see themselves in the water, but they will if there's suddenly a Portal 'mirror', showing them selves, in the middle of no-where.

Exploration of 'self' only happens in safety and waterholes are not safe for predators. I don't think most animals have the opportunity/energy to diverge their attention to reflect on their own reflections, while watching for predators. Maybe Elephants and similar safe animals ?

Edit: I think the issue with shadows are the same. Kids can follow, or be scared of their own shadows, but pretty quickly habituates to it, so its brain doesn't react to it all the time and burn off energy.

Neat question/connection btw.

Absolutely. I'm not as AI-phobic, and I absolutely need both an information gathering agent that searches, follows rss/channels, explores/researches topics, summarizes swats of daily events, and I need a filter between me and corporate internet. Let the AI discard obvious slop, Ads/other propaganda and general informational noise.

However, you should think about how to share search-results so all our agents don't floor small services/commoners. We really need to get more information out of corporate silo's, and into public search/knowledge systems. Perhaps you can integrate some distributed search/knowledge properties ? (now that you have AI to help build it)

There are several solutions:

https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

https://github.com/kalavai-net/kalavai-client

https://petals.dev/

Didn't try any of them and haven't looked for 6 months, so maybe something better have arrived..

Never knew Christianity and Capitalism meant the same thing..

The Panic is rising in the West as the Economy tanks. It will get worse - likewise with privacy. Everyone; grab your popcorn and 3D glasses ! (and keep sharing)

Rarely anything. There can be some newer Bios/chip features that are not supported in the kernel yet, and a few older/quirky machines requires setting correct kernel parameters in the boot phase. But overall, you wouldn't normally do it any different from win, and a laptop from 23 should be supported with all newer kernels.

I'm sure there are Bios settings that could be changed dependent on operating system. Perhaps some internal timing works best with this and that ram clock, or whatever, but it would be a hazzle to figure out, and there may not be any gain - other than the fun of exploring oc..

Not until it explains this: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HHFuTpVvRCI

It's fine, but not all cat's like it (cough) and most owners resort to force, so for many cats/owners it can be a regular traumatic experience anyway. Cats can be trained to deal with it nicely (small calm steps + treats afterwards), but one of my cats still covers her head in my arm pit while I trim her nails. She's scared shitless of the 'crunch'..

Those bad bad ruskies ! Not at all like our truthful and non-warmongering media space, and our always truthful universities, that are not at all for hire. tsk tsk..

Not sure..

1. An AI therapist can already easily handle general good mental advice, such as reducing cognitive load, perspective shifts, alternative methodologies, education of standard mental needs, processes and whatever low-level stuff we can benefit from. 2. hooman therapists are a coin-toss. Most are completely crap and build their business from archaic and/or wrong theories and personal ideology/feelings. 3. whatever flaws AI have now, is going away really really fast.

Hooman therapists cost a lot of money, and a shitload of people won't get any help at all without AI.

So, I think it is fine. The potential damage is far less than no help at all. Just use a little common sense and don't take anything as a Gospel - just as when we see hooman therapists.

This is called 'Sinophobia', and is caused by excessive anti-china propaganda. You can get help for that.

Better than nothing I guess, but why not just skip the EU middleman and buy directly from the Chinese manufacturer. De-Westernize your-self.