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Is the size of the effect in any of these studies stated in your comments? I skimmed them but didn't see what I was looking for.

Or via non-paywalled links?

Thanks.

"Sledge designed the humanoids to help humanity and be invulnerable to human exploitation. However, he eventually realized that they had instead taken control of humanity, in the name of their Prime Directive, to make humans happy

...

No humans may engage in any behavior that might endanger them, and every human action is carefully scrutinized. Suicide is prohibited. Humans who resist the Prime Directive are taken away and lobotomized, so that they may live happily under the direction of the humanoids."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands

I assumed it's more or less what they call a "thrift store" in the US.

Presumably it was meant literally, but the term "charity shop collector" seems to have some other meanings as well which are interesting to me as a non-UKian speaker:

   - A provider of "a charity shop back-end as a service", which disposes of donations 
     received by charity shops.

     e.g. https://live.ctrgroup.co.uk/third-sector/textiles-collection/ 

   - A person who collects things purchased from charity shops.
     
     e.g. "Harding is an avid charity shop collector, especially of sad and neglected 
     ceramic animals".

They seem to be losing money.

On the one hand, if they are incinerating millions of dollars every month, that's an argument that they could easily afford a few more - after all, they are getting cash from somewhere.

On the other hand, if they are losing money, in a certain sense they have not got even $1 to spare.

I don't understand what you mean, or why you wrote it.

Their revenue was $804 million. It's not a huge amount for them.

They made $804M after all expenses? Or before?

Decades before I had to deal with my mom dying, I read "Grave Angels" by Richard Kearns, and I don't know what more you can say on the topic of accepting death.

The "right now" whereof I spoke is basically any crisis during a quickly progressing terminal cancer after the oxycontin starts and before the morphine.

When a person can speak, and change their mind, and everyone involved in care isn't present at a particular instant or on the same page with what to do.

If that clarifies.

Plenty of people recognize when it's time.

Thank you for being relatively polite.

All of the replies to my original comment have veered off from what I tried to express with the phrase "right now".

I was alluding to a situation with rapid terminal cancer much later than diagnosis, but earlier than morphine + the end of communication. The fentanyl or oxycontin stage, as I recall it.

I think most likely if you are ever so slightly insulated from such a situation, you might not realize it.

Having a parent die of cancer when you are ~7 may not prepare you for having a parent die of cancer when you are ~37. That is how I see it now.

It was a much better death than having a lot of futile last-minute interventions.

It's easy to say that sort of thing, so everyone does. It makes plenty of sense.

People don't want to die in the hospital or go through hell in their last days or weeks.

But nobody wants to die right now, ever. No matter what they said before or what papers they signed.

The standard picture, the logic, makes perfect crystalline sense up until there is a choice between going to the hospital right now and living an undefined amount of time, maybe only a day or a week, but longer than the next few minutes.

"Overtake" doesn't imply "becomes superior to in intelligence"...Maybe he does mean it that way, but still.

Was the Terminator superior to all humans in intelligence? Either in the original or the first sequel? It didn't seem like it to me. It was just good enough to infiltrate and destroy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_game

I am now learning that:

"A famous person known to have fallen victim of the scheme was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Reynolds_affa...

that requires capital - more than the average owner really has access too

It sounds odd to my ear to matter-of-factly state that the US is deprived due to being capital-poor.

I mean, I'm not disputing anything specific, but where do middle-class people have better access to consumer finance than the US?

If you'd asked me what single fact represents American homeowners to people interested in economics around the world, I would've guessed it's the access to 30-year fixed rate mortgages.

As far as I know this is a deliberate policy in the US, that has not been emulated by those envious of the American economy, but why I haven't a clue.

That sounds very nice. What would a competitive rent for your house be? Is it near London?

For Americans who don't know anything about housing in the UK, there is an interesting article at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_house

Being Wikipedia in 2024, I wouldn't assume it's not all AI hallucinated references, but still, it's interesting.

It was stated that aftershocks are a concern.

I guess the idea is if you didn't notice the initial quake then you should be warned there might be a follow up.

Does Tesla have a dealer system like Toyota and Ford?

"when examining only those who passed the exam (i.e. licensed or license-pending attorneys), GPT-4’s performance is estimated to drop to 48th percentile overall, and 15th percentile on essays."

What do they call a lawyer who passed the bar exam at the 15th percentile?

The article never really compares the MiG-31 with the F-16 - it has almost nothing to say about the missiles and electronics of the latter.

It reminds me of a time I went to a Honda dealer and started listing the reasons why Toyotas had better engineering.

The salesman appeared to take it very personally, but I was thinking "duh, can't you see I want a Honda because I know all about their competition and yet I'm here?". Maybe he thought I worked for Toyota.

Comments are always wrong...but some of them are useful.

How about a third eye?

"The parietal eye is found in the tuatara, most lizards, frogs, salamanders, certain bony fish, sharks, and lampreys...It is absent in mammals, but was present in their closest extinct relatives, the therapsids"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye

You may wish to consult your pineal gland.

"Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘worth basically zero’ if it cannot make its cars self-driving"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-tesla-worth-14...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cardboard

You misunderstood my comment, if you think I was asking for a reference for 1 euro/km.

The question is whether 20 euros per liter is obviously looney tunes to any HN passers-by. Or if "everyone" knows it is in fact what gasoline should cost.

[Edited for clarity]

Thank you for all those links. I trust you that they support the "€1 / km" figure.

Could it be the training data contained a large trove of generic essays used by college students to cheat on writing assignments?

I mean, maybe it's already been suggested, but I haven't seen anyone come right out and say it.

the cost to society of trips by car is close to one euro per kilometre

I would like to understand what this means.

I don't have any idea if it's accurate or not but the implications make me think it requires some explanation.

If the true cost of travel by car is about one euro (currently $1.08?) per km, then - using ~4.7L / 100 km mileage of my car - by my arithmetic gas should cost on the order of 20 euros per liter to internalize the costs to society.

Some very brief research indicates to me that Danes price gas in DKK, but converted it's around 2 euros a liter.

So is Danish gas underpriced by as much as 10 times?

I think "higher education is broken" means something different to some people than it does to you.

Specifically, someone in Mulvey's position may, I speculate, be interpreting it as "not worth saving or reforming", and when she denies it is "broken" is affirming reform as worthwhile and giving up as wrong.

That could be a biased perspective! It might be objectively wrong if we could survey alternate universes to determine the outcome of policy changes for sure. But not stupid or obviously false with our limited knowledge.

There seems to be good reason to think that most aliens inhabit eternal darkness in a ocean underneath a global ice cap.

"New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that orbit stars."

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/new-stud...

my impression is that many see some good in organized religion for the community aspects and historical continuity, but all that despite being quite certain that no god actually exists

Americans don't have a lot of respect for, for example, Jehovah's Witnesses - just look at all the jokes about them knocking on doors.