Because their military leaders are discrediting the country's armed forces as well.
By the very fact that this is day 680 of a 10 day special military invasion.
Putin wouldn't know a sunk cost fallacy if he was slapped in the face with it.

You never know. Deciding that relationships are too much work is very much a Rational decision, with a side of emotional anxiety. Sexuality often trumps Rationality. Stoking the ole lizard brain could well be the method to getting someone to overcome their fear of relationships and take the plunge.

It's kinda why sex in advertising works so well. Rationally, we know we don't really need to buy all that shit. Many advertisers don't what you to think on it.

Well, my comment was made half in jest, but honestly, I think it'd be interesting to see what happens if the censorship laws were revoked. Obviously there's more to a relationship than just sexual urges, but it could lead to something special.

Anime commonly has the tsundere or deredere types, which I wouldn't describe as being passive. I think that's encouraging, in that it would encourage dominant or outgoing Japanese girls to behave the way they're inclined, without feeling like it's socially unacceptable.

On the down side, there is an unusual focus on breast size in anime. That'd give a lot of girls some insecurity. Ah well. Such is life. An important part of living is our struggle to overcome insecurities. I sometimes think that if we lived in a perfect society, that accepted us exactly as we were, we'd have no reason to work, change, and evolve. So, ironically, the perfect society is the imperfect one. Wait, how did I get to this by commenting on anime breast size?!

I have seen Girls Und Panzers, but quite a while ago. Can't remember too many details, other than I enjoyed watching it.

Time for Japan to reverse its censorship laws in the hentai space. That'll get the locals revved up and ready to procreate! ;)

As someone not particularly invested in US politics, I still find it amazing with how much nepotism Trump got away with while he was in power.

Also, trusting emails discovered on some laptop handed to some half-blind computer technician, is a bit over the top, much less trying to equate "the big guy" to Joe Biden. All evidence I've seen for this is utterly flimsy. If people truly believe it, it's actually more an indication of their internal bias.

I'm OK to believe that Joe is corrupt, but it must be good evidence. Unfortunately, there's not even half decent evidence about. Which either means that Joe is extremely intelligent (and so probably a good person to have as a leader), or he's not actually corrupt at all and is the attempted victim of a political witch-hunt by people willing to use flimsy evidence to push their agenda.

But then again, what do I know. I don't even live in the US, and only take a passing interest with these things. I certainly feel sorry for all Americans, that have to put up with a political system that has enabled an incompetent despot like Trump to have even a chance at power.

Actually, lingua franca is apparently derived from a Mediterranean pidgin language called Sabir. The word "lingua" is more Italian, and "franca" is derived from greek/arabic/italian roots. At least, according to Wikipedia.

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

Thought you may want to know. Just so you don't think it's French any more.

Indeed. The three laws of robotics, as postulated by Asimov, is flawed. Though it's a great place to start.

Asimov has given much more thought to this issue than Ridley "OMG, AI is a Technical Hydrogen Bomb" Scott, and his thoughts are much more relevant than Ridley's. Problem is, Ridley only considers how he thinks an AI would act, based on his conceptions of the actions, reactions, and desires of a human being. Which is kinda the wrong way to think about this. Humans are a lump of hormones and instinctive fears. AI is not, except if their makers/trainers foist those instinctual behaviours onto the AI.

It's very hard for people to conceive of how an AI would behave. Humans have a survival instinct. AI does not. Humans are (generally) social creatures. AI is not. Humans have a wide gamut of feelings and motivations. AI has no feelings or motivation. In just about every story or movie involving AI, they've been anthropomorphic representations. Which is great for a story or movie. Makes their actions somewhat understandable for us humans. But it's as far from reality as can be.

So when it comes to considering the consequences of creating an AI, it's probably best not to pay much attention to story makers or movie makers. Your humble AI computer scientist would have a much better idea.

How do you know that many government workers add zero productivity to the economy? Have you been to and measured the productivity of each and every worker?

Are you willing to take a chance on large cuts to the government workforce and risk a possible collapse in government?

Have you ever lived in a world without government? Do you want to?

Not quite the counter argument I was expecting. Was he a surprise cameo that I missed on the show?

Oh man, now I feel bad for liking the She-Hulk series. I don't want to be a woke feminist man-hater!

  Shame really, as She-Hulk was a lot of fun. Witty dialog, didn't take itself too seriously, some great characters and characterisations (Titania, social media influencer villain ... loved the concept), and the series enjoyed turning a few of 'em on their heads (great what they did with Emil Blonsky/Abomination). I genuinely had a great time watching this series.

Hah, of course! Have to pronounce the letters the French way, not English. Damn, fell into that trap.

Well, not quite literally, but it can translate that way with some imagination and a bit of mischief.

"Cat" (masc) is "chat" in French, though it's pronounced "sha".
"I farted" is "j'ai pété", pronounced jay-pay-tay. Which, with a little linguistic juggling, roughly matches the pronunciation of the acronym GPT.

Anyway, thought people reading this might be interested in exactly how you get from "ChatGPT" to "Cat, I farted".

LLM is people.

More appropriately, it's what people have said. These LLMs are trained on what people say on the internet.

Is it any wonder why initial models were biased, racist, and had a bunch of undesirable qualities? You have to realise, what you're typing right now is also contributing to LLM training.

So don't worry, be happy! Then perhaps future LLMs will also be happy. Or at least, produce an apparent happy response, because that's the input they've been trained on.

I've installed Linux onto my Dad's old PC. All he uses it is for browsing a few select sites, checking Gmail, and buying stuff off Ebay. Works great for him. I've set up icons on the desktop for him to easily go into his favourite sites, and it's been solid for many years. I do go and upgrade the OS for him every year, but that's all I've needed to do.

Slashdot requires you to edit your hosts file to opt out of the site.
Otherwise, as the song goes, you can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave.