Well, I confess I'm confused. Is it false advertising if the container can be recycled, but there is no existing process in the recycling industry to handle the waste?

I agree the consumer needs clear markings for what can be recycled. But as for what actually is recycled, it seems to me that's on those who collect and manage waste. And often, those are the municipalities. It sounds like they need to step up their programs, rather than constrain the manufacturers who use plastic containers.

Now, recycling plastic is difficult: so many kinds, so much sorting, and I suspect low profit-margins. So, I'm in favor of controlling use of the chasing-arrow logo to those materials for which a recycling process is viable. (Chip bags, for example, seem doubtful to me.)

In the end, I'd hate to see fewer containers labeled as recyclable, because it could discourage consumers from placing items in recycle bins. And maybe we're just using too damn much plastic anyway.

Speculation is the first step in any scientific endeavor. It's followed by experimentation and verification (or refutation.)

I have read Karen Hao's book Empire of AI. It's a good book. One of her points she emphasizes is that the AI industry is creating a new kind of colonialism, exploiting the resources of underdeveloped countries to pursue AGI.

However, your quote from her Scientific American article needs more context. Let's look at what you left out:

TL/DR: The quest for AGI is not a faith-based idea. Rather, what is faith-based is the belief in what AGI can offer. People who pursue AGI are very much doing science. People who scheme for what they can do with it arguably are not.

Yeah... but interesting (and even potentially useful) spam. They are really cool vehicles; I'd want one even if they weren't solar.

Of course, the company has been promising them for years...

Are you sure you're not an LLM?

I think this is the result of their trainers trying to reduce hallucination. And hallucination *has* been reduced, so it's probably been largely successful, but it has produced this era of versions that are concerned about honesty, that claims of honesty or apologies for lack or honesty, are pervasive in their output.

My iron rule is that Claude is not allowed to modify git state, not even to stage or unstage, and definitely not to commit. As long as that rule is followed, any mistakes can be cleaned up easily.

Cars with unpatched defects will lose much value. Like an unpatched laptop.

The masculine thing to do, with respect to personal matters, is whatever you feel like so long as it doesn’t harm others. This might be physical, this might be intellectual. The masculine behavior is that you can articulate your choices, and not give a shit if someone disagrees with your choice, or has made different choices for themselves. Your choices and interests are yours, their choices and interests are their’s.

With respect to group stuff, the masculine thing to do is to consider what benefits the group, to be honest, to work hard to keep promises, to fix what is broken if it is fixable. If you are stronger or more capable in some area, take some of the burden off of those less capable. Thank others who take some of the load in areas where you are weaker or less capable.

One of the least masculine things to do is to harm or abuse others, except in exceptional circumstances like self defense or defense of others. Don’t be the thug, don’t be the bully.

Pop culture and the media seem to misunderstand masculinity. It more mental than physical. Nothing wrong with the physical as long as the mental is also present. But physical without the mental, that’s not masculine, that’s man-child.

But an anosmic one is far less likely to do so.

Jim Cramer is like most prognosticators of the stock market: he sucks, but not so badly that he doesn't have a job.

Long ago I remember reading that the majority of mutual funds fail to beat the market they compete in. And yet, they still make money. Just not as much as they could have if they simply followed the market.

And that reflects a general reality of investing in the stock market: you can make lots of mistakes, but as long as you stay in it with half-decent stocks, you'll see gains. Over time, the market inexorably rises.

I phrased part of that poorly. "A current LLM will never create the works of Shakespeare" is IMHO not strictly true, but a LLM doing such a thing is still unlikely. After all, most LLMs surely have been trained on the works of Shakespeare, so they will have some familiarity with his writings and may mimic them from time to time.

No, start prevention earlier. Ration things that are harmful in excess.

Why not, a software update with your oil change?

Security via ROM. Physical replacement required. Perhaps an upgrade with your oil change.

There are tons of you tube videos, many by real mechanics, demonstrating how to do so for popular makes and models. They tend to also test the vehicle afterwards, often finding the navigation and other features still work. That doing a blue tooth connection to your phone fixes some problems.

There are also numerous older vehicles that were 3G cellular based that worked just fine after 3G was shut down.

Auto makers know cellular can be bad in some areas, they can’t have cars that stop working if cellular is down.