All take Waymo dedicated taxi - it sucks just like cars in heavy traffic.

All take Waymo shared taxi/minibus - it is better than current mass transit and almost as good as car during low traffic.

I have opposite view - LLMs have many similarities with humans. Human, especially poorly trained one, could have made the same mistake. Human after amnesia could have found similar reasons to that LLM.

While LLM generate "plausible text" humans just generate "plausible thoughts".

Just because it sounds coherent doesn’t mean it is. You can make up false equivalence for anything if you try hard enough: A sheet of plywood also has many similarities with humans (made from carbon, contain water, break when hit hard enough), but that doesn’t mean they are even remotely equal.

I didn't write they were equal. I wrote they are similar in many ways.

Comparing LLM to humans make much more sense than comparing them to computer programs.

Only if you don’t really know anything about biology, biochemistry, psychology, or cognitive science. Transformer algorithms are amazing, but they are still algorithms running in silicon chips. We can describe them, we can debug them, hell we can model them in Excel if we so desire.

None of this is true for brains, let alone consciousness.

We are not talking about "transformer algorithms" we are talking about LLMs. And we don't know exactly why they work so well. If you do please share it with the world, lots of scientists would love to hear about it.

As for consciousness I have yet to see a definition that would describe something observable and exclude LLMs at the same time.

Who is they? Java has moved past those promise based API and avoided async/await mistake.

Privacy and freedom are not the same thing. You can have lots of freedom with low level of privacy, but it's impossible to high privacy and high freedom at the same time.

No it isn't

- Harmful effects are known, that is why those laws are created.

- How is a parent going to take phones of their kid's friends? That is the main problem - your kid is going to be pressured to have a social media account. They even can have one on some old phone from their friend.

> That is the main problem - your kid is going to be pressured to have a social media account.

Indeed, that would be the goal, kids should be able talk to other kids their age.

The problem is, I believe, in the excessive phone and screen usage, but parents are easily able to control that (as opposed to smoking or drinking for example).

Excessive phone usage is only a minor part of the problem. Toxicity of social media is the main one.

Huh? In Norway? In what way?

Social media are made addictive, they often promote negative, often fake posts to drive their engagement goals.

Your post is great example of 4D chess arguments. They seem believable at first glance but if you look deeper they either don't make sense (like vice president taking role of a clown to lower support of an ally) or are distraction (the Iran attack plans argument - lots of people predicted Hormuz problem, previous plans doesn't matter much here).

> like vice president taking role of a clown to lower support of an ally)

Your premise is that Orban is an "ally". He was an ally in the culture war distractions (anti-woke).

Hegseth told the EU to take over and pay for the Ukraine war in 2025. $90 billion supersede culture war issues. Vance already made a clown of himself by pivoting from Trump is a "moral disaster" and an "idiot" in 2016 to running with him in 2024.

Your post is a great example of sinking a post without any coherent arguments. It is impossible to discern what you even mean by the second "Iran" arguments. There are no premises and there is no logic.

First lets handle single summer day using renewables + storage (California is slowly getting there). Then we can talk about seasonal problems.

Almost nobody is using the word market as you are in your comment.

RC of course is inhibitor. It lowers value of the house, which lowers builder's profit, which lowers number of new investments.

Unless builders aren't building for profit.

Create an entity with a mandate to build and the funds to make it solvent. Basic and dignified shelter that enables all the other economic activity does not need to be a profit center.

This is possible but requires lots of money and oversight. I have never heard about scheme like that that replaced private investors. But as a way to offset some RC problems it could probably work.

A whisper on the wind, barely perceptible, it tickles your ear. "Singapore~ (also the UK before the Iron Lady messed things up)."

Of course demand is elastic.

Do you think, people will migrate to a city with an unaffordable housing (unaffordable for them)?

Unless you are living in North Korea, the competition is also there.

No, it is inelastic:

- inelastic means the demand is more or less independet of the price; you can't "just stop renting & living" if prices are going up, your options to bypass are highly limited -> therefore its called >inelastic<

You can "just stop renting" and move somewhere else.

Housing demand is less elastic than, let's say, potato demand, but it's not "absolutely inelastic" as you have said.

Good transit and road infrastructure also both make demand more elastic because the choice of where you can live without changing jobs expands.