Immoral and greedy != stupid. There are plenty of people with no morals or ethics, who can't figure out how to become President so they can enrich themselves even more. Some such people actually would like to be President. But becoming President isn't easy, and it's not something a stupid person can do.
A stupid person can't manipulate "other" stupid people. It takes someone with brains to do that.
I would agree with that.
And what makes you think he shoots himself in the foot? He made $2.5 billion in the last year by exercising his power as President. https://www.forbes.com/sites/d... I think he did just fine, from his point of view. He doesn't care about Republicans winning, or the economy, or stable government agencies, or the Constitution, or anything, other than that $2.4 billion number, and he got it.
Or perhaps, blatant greed?
I would agree with you if I thought he was *actually* ignorant. I think he doesn't care about principles, he focuses his mental energy on two things: absolute loyalty, and increasing his personal wealth. He is absolutely achieving his goals. You and I look at a politician and expect them to serve the people. Failing to serve the people is not a sign of a lack of intelligence, it's a sign of a lack of character.
You seem to think it's all a crazy coincidence. I do not. His appearance of lunacy is, I'm convinced, intentional. He has managed to set up a system that allows him to reap billions in personal profits, from a part that was longing for a strong leader. In the process, he convinced them to completely abandon their conservative principles. None of this is coincidence, in my opinion.
No, Donald Trump is not stupid. He knows *exactly* how to play to his base.
From what I just read on this, the whole "common sense" bit was the idea that wind power is not stable power.
This is nonsense. We're talking about offshore power. I don't know if you've ever been to a beach, but the wind is pretty much *always* blowing.
Further, paired with battery storage, wind farms can produce a stable source of power. That's how it's being done in, ironically, Texas.
Actually there is, that's why genetic genealogy works. You can tell what a person's ancestral lines are based on their DNA results. That wouldn't be possible if there were no difference. Nor would DNA identification work, if there was no difference. So
The point is, the difference is small. In the scheme of genetics, the difference between N1-methylpseudouridine and uridine is also tiny. And the difference between Archaea and other living things, in terms of the way DNA works, is tiny, too tiny to indicate separate genesis.
Clearly, my example was poorly chosen. It's the principle that if life really did originate independently twice, then I'd expect the structure to be different as well. A whole lot more different than N1-methylpseudouridine vs. uridine. In the scheme of NDA, that one difference is akin to the difference between the DNA of Europeans vs. Asians.
If two types of living organisms developed completely independently, what are the chances they would both share the same exact ACTG building blocks of DNA?
We know that ACTG is not the only combination of chemicals that are able to form the reproductive backbone of life. For example, when pharmaceutical companies developed MRNA COVID vaccines, they substituted natural uridine with a modified version (N1-methylpseudouridine) in the RNA strands, in order to evade the body's immune responses. The replacement molecule works just as well for purposes of reproduction, but is not in fact uridine.
If life developed truly independently at two different times, intuitively, I would expect to see many such differences, at the very least, if not an entirely different mechanism. The fact that they use identical building blocks of DNA, makes me think they didn't in fact develop independently.
Those Wuhan scientists needed something to do after COVID.
They'll get other LLMs to verify.
It's true that many of these are done by combining different AIs. But Claude actually *has* solved some old math problems on its own.
Yes, and that's exactly how the hackers got into the systems. They didn't have to hack every hotel, just those outsourced service providers that the hotels all use.
"Spock, did you see the looks on their faces?" "Yes, Captain, a sort of vacant contentment."
