The world did end in 2011. Or, rather, it began to end in 2011. Turns out, the end of the world is a very gradual, painful process. Probably got almost a hundred more years left before the end of the world finishes happening. But they’re all going to be progressively shittier years.

Yeah, but IMO, chocolate is hard to screw up. Even very shitty chocolate ice cream is still pretty good.

If you find yourself in a situation where you only have shitty ice cream available, always go for the chocolate.

And I have a hard time believing that there isn’t some solid or liquid (or maybe some other exotic state of matter, due to the heat and pressure) inner core way down in there, even if it’s relatively tiny compared to the size of the planet.

Even if it was entirely made of gas when it formed, surely some materials would have fallen in over the eons that could stay solid/liquid at the pressure/temperature of a gas giant’s core?

Ah, but what if you brought a large balloon, inflated it, and flew a helicopter inside the balloon?

Sure. 25% --> 37% … as long as you (for some arbitrary reason) only consider 8 “places” in the solar system.

7 of those are planets, but Titan is a moon. If we’re going to include moons, then there’s going to be a whole lot more than 8 “places” in the solar system, so the percentage of places where helicopters can work is going to be greatly reduced. If we get really pedantic and consider any orbiting body in the solar system to be a “place”, then there will be hundreds, thousands of them where helicopters can’t possibly work, once you start tallying up asteroids and comets.

Also, why does the list include 7 planets, not 8? What? Are you not interested in trying to make a helicopter work on Mercury? That’s quitter talk!

They’re only starting now?

I just hate always being rushed rushed rushed. Always have to go faster. Click faster, move faster, make decisions faster. Faster faster faster.

I want to play a strategy game, but at competitive levels, it’s less about strategic thinking and more about just memorizing what the ‘meta’ is, and then being able to execute that meta faster than the other guy. And all this rush and hurry all the time is just too much strain. I want to play games to relax, not to add stress. I get plenty of stress from real life.

That’s really a flawed analogy, though. In this analogy, the man isn’t passing the Chinese Turing Test – the program is passing the Turing Test. The man is just the hardware that the program is running on.

It’s not a question of whether the man (the hardware) has any understanding. What you want to know is if the program has any understanding. Honestly, it seems like deliberately muddying the issue by proposing this hypothetical ‘intelligent hardware’ and using it to distract from the actual question about the software’s intelligence.

If I’m running a supposedly ‘intelligent’ AI on my 3090, you can’t refute that by pointing out that the 3090 is not intelligent on its own, without software.

You gotta send separate emails with only one point/question in each email. Leave them nothing else to respond to.

Gotta burn up the token quota somehow, or the boss will be mad again.

Catapult ammo.

For self defense, of course.

Depending on the humidity in the pit, it could be very dehydrating and cause them to basically mummify.