I live in Boston, where it gets considerably colder than NYC and have no issues charging outside /w an outdoor L2 device mounted to the side of my house. I also spend most weekends in the winter in the mountains in Maine, where it gets very cold. Also no issues with outdoor L2 charging.

New math is back. They just call it "common core" now. The problem with it "working itself out over time" is that yeah it's fine for society as a whole in the long run, but my kid in particular only gets one shot at a primary education. It doesn't really matter much to her if they get it right 5 years from now.

My conclusion about that thought experiment is that it is trivially obvious that the system of books+human agent speaks Chinese even if the components do not. That's tautologically true. I think whether it understands Chinese is unanswerable at the moment. With our current level of understanding of intelligence, it quickly devolves into metaphysics.

Like you said, no individual neuron or even collection of 100K neurons in my brain can be said to really comprehend English, and yet the emergent entity that is me somehow does.

I think the only real conclusion is that until we really understand what intelligence is, to a better level than "I know it when I see it", then we don't really have any business dissembling about what entities are intelligent. Turing said as much when he defined his imitation game.

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

You've proven you don't understand what you read, so whatever. ~ shrugs ~

Here's your Internet point, little troll.

That AI slop article forgot to provide the "free fall" part: "Compared with 2000, in 2024 Japan is ranked 4th out of 182 by GDP (down from 2nd), 35th by GDP per capita (down from 4th), and 37th by GDP per capita PPP (down from 24th)."

Sorry, but your trolling doesn't work. There was no "-ism" based on "races" as you and I understand this word before this understanding existed. Be as it may, that link is my final contribution on this subtopic with you. It's on you whether you stick with fantasy or learn reality.

That's what Japan is doing. It isn't working well. The main reason is that the people with decision making power in this scenario are all elders, meaning they share a pro-stagnation sociological profile. Fear of changes, basically. But changes keep happening regardless, which fragilizes the whole thing.

Because he's 10 and he wanted to try it out and it has a nice GUI for a lot of the tasks that Godot doesn't. He also wants to check out the thing that he sees in the splash screen for the games he plays. I don't want to discourage his interest by redirecting to something he might not understand and can't find as many video tutorials on.

He's learning C# in parallel, but in the meantime, until he learns to code, you can write an entire game loop in Unreal without writing any code at all, and that means he can see something and get feedback without wrestling with a compiler.

My son is trying to learn video game development, but you have to be 18 to download unreal engine, apparently, with no option to have a parent approve for you, d of course I helped him bypass it.

The linked article itself refers to the discussions about this. The academic consensus is that it definitely influenced the later development of racism proper as modernly understood, but saying it was racism doesn't fit, since it's based on Christian-based considerations about how (presumed) original sin interacts with the (presumed) deicide curse, these two with the (presumed) cleansing brought about by baptism, these three seen through the lens of a (presumed) propensity or lack thereof to political treason, and other similar nonsense, all linked a lot of other stuff mixing religon and politics. So it qualifies at best as pre-racism, and is within the scope of my first paragraph.

$10-$20 is still bargain basement rates to create a novel exploit.You only have to find it once to attack thousands of targets. For 1-off tasks like this where the baseline cost is so low and the payoffs so high, prices almost doesn't matter, within reason. It's daily coding use that a 10x price hike might crush.

Quantity vs quality, in this case, is a false dichotomy. Curves of scientific-technological developments measured by, for example, patent filings over the centuries, track global population size. The reason for this is that the larger the population, the more people with talent for scientific and technological research are born, the more means they have to dedicate themselves to such pursuits due to economies of scale, and the larger the pool of extremely high-IQ individuals within this subset of the population who're responsible for the discoveries with the highest impact, all due to the long tails of the different normal distributions associated with these traits. Any downward change to these parameters will result in a slowdown of discoveries, which will in turn will result in a reduction in technological development, which in turn will result in economic stagnation, producing a vicious spiral.

There are, evidently, other factors involved, such as political and economic models that favor or hinder such developments. But these, too, are a factor of population size. A shrinking population results in disproportionately large pressure, by those who want to maintain their standard of living, in favor of strong policies enforcing the short-term status quo for themselves, with disregard for long-term effects, see e.g. Japan and South Korea. This kind of status quo-maintaining effort is almost invariably detrimental to novel scientific research, since it favors, at best, iterative improvement of what's already well-known, not actual novelty. So the problem is compounded.

The world may still manage to find an alternative model for producing a long tail of high-IQ individuals with the means to continue generating exponentially growing novelty research, but, right now, no such model exists, and expecting one to arise just because, out of the blue, over the next few decades, is part of the wishful thinking mentality I referred to before.

But the online reseller can be fined for selling an illegal product in your state.