To answer your questions:

1. No.
2. Yes.
3. I don’t have opportunity for gardening or a need for for firewood. Just this afternoon, I did just very successfully forage for yummy wild mushrooms for my lunch.

What do you do, stranger?

I have a motorbike I use infrequently, I eat red meat rarely, and I have no children. I feel like I’m doing my part.

Do I have to be profound when I make a comment that is taking more of a dig at my fellow space rock companions than at AI itself?

If I do, then I feel like the author of the article either has as much faith in humanity as I do, or is as simple as I was alluding to in my original comment. The fact that they need to dehumanise the AI’s responses makes me think they’re forgetting it’s something we built. AI isn’t actually intelligent, and it worries me how many people treat it like it is—enough to write an article like this about it. It’s just a tool, maybe even a form of entertainment. Thinking of it as something with a mind or personality—even if the developers tried to make it seem that way—is kind of unsettling.

Let me know if you would like me to write thiis more formal, casual, or persuasive. 😜

Can we say that AI has the potential for “intelligence”, just like some people do? There are clearly some very intelligent people and the world, and very clearly some that aren’t.

He’s a narcissist. This is what they do, or don’t do in this case.

I met some American military personnel in a bar in Singapore. It wasn’t on a military base. Their dates looked a lot older than 18.

This just made me spit my beer and laugh out loud in a pub. Thank you.

This. Your faith is presented as normal when growing up in religious family. As you get older, there is opportunity to question those beliefs and, for some people, you realise those beliefs are mental and insane.

Is that “all stops”, as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?

If only we had billionaires to help out!

Brother. This is the truth.

I’m glad this is basically the top post.

There was definitely resistance from the young guy. It just didn’t make my story. The police in the country where I’m from have a much higher standard of engagement with people. Their actions we well justified.

At a concert and saw the police approach and start questioning a young drunk guy (out doors, before show started). They basically said he had to leave on account of being too intoxicated and he started getting mouthy. I’ve never seen the police react so quickly the moment he finished saying, “My dad is a top class expensive lawyers and he’ll have your asrses for this” - he was in the ground and handcuffed within seconds. In the next few seconds he was back on his feet and being escorted to the paddy wagon.

Serious question: wouldn’t Universal Basic Income rely on everyone paying their taxes instead of certain groups trying to hide or avoid paying it? I can’t see governments affording this without a serious look at their spending to pull back om somethings, or there being a sufficient amount in the coffers from taxation.

Moving to Finland was the best thing for my my butt. So clean.

I think out of all I’ve been reading, your comment has brought me a lot joy and smiles. Thank you for something good on a Friday night after a tough week.

Worrying that every unexpected pain in your body will be cancer.

Oh great! That puts me at ease.

Is that like 2 dozen, or 3 dozen? Twenty four people doesn’t sound like much.