Start by learning to crawl. Learning to understand English (or whatever language you grow up with. Learning to speak. Learning to stand upright. Learning to walk. Learning to read. Learning to write. Learning all the thousands of rules of society. Learning arithmetic, history, all the stuff you learn in first grade.

These take literally YEARS.

10,000 hours to master something? That's about a year and a half of waking life. Call it two years, since one year old babies sleep a lot. Show me a two year old who's mastered anything.

of course we do. Humans need about 100,000 hours of training cycles before they're really useful. Heck, they need something like 10,000 hours of training cycles before they can even confidently master bipedal locomotion.

We just think of it as "growing up".

We are talking about different things.

I am talking about things like the press release we're talking about here saying that the planet LHS 1140 b is "a rocky, Earth-like planet in the habitable zone."

You seem to be talking about whether the galaxy has earthlike planets somewhere.

But you need to edit their edits. They will make stuff up and slide it in when editing, not just when writing stuff.

From the article https://e360.yale.edu/digest/b... "“The fishermen’s boats are not used to going that far offshore, so it was risky for everyone,” said Zinzindohoué, whose team battled repeated engine failures and months of nausea-filled fieldwork before finally locating two strong sonar echoes pinging from the depths below."

so it sounds like it wasn't actually a fishing site, although apparently the local fishers knew what kinds of fish were in the area.

Probably very few. I know a lot of authors, and they pretty much all vigorously detest large language models and refuse to use them.

The next generation of authors, though... I expect they'll all be using LLMs.

Not in civil lawsuits, no.

Right now, we don't know enough to say.

We have found hundreds of exoplanets, but so far we have not found any that we know are actually "earthlike." The popular press is fond of throwing that term around, but at best, right now about all we can say is "we don't know that it isn't earthlike." Often the term "earthlike" means "like Earth in one particular parameter, although completely different in other ways." This particular one isn't earthlike; it's a close-in planet of a red dwarf, a star nothing like the sun.

--to be fair, the ways we have of detecting exoplanets hundreds of light years distant is very biased in terms of what we're able to see, and what are easiest to see are planets that aren't Earthlike.

Yes, the meaning of "liberal" in economics is different from the meaning of "liberal" in politics.

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

In response to your question 'Did nobody do the math at FCC?", the summary says that FCC specifically pointed out that their authority was only over the RF communications of the satellite. They had no authority to analyze or critique reflected light or to calculate whether it's a useful investment. FCC is the communications commission.

Second, obviously the final product, if it were to be implemented, would not be a single 60 foot mirror. Pointing out that a single small mirror produces an amount of power that's not economically useful is irrelevant, since producing an amount of power that's economically useful is not the point of the test. Deployment, tracking and pointing control of a flexible structure-- these are non-trivial, and would benefit from a test in orbit.

Got it. You mean "I heard it on the internet somewhere, not sure where."

Yes, that's what I am coming to understand.

In my experience, when a person asks for a citation to some purported fact somebody posted and the guy posting it responds "Google it", this almost always means "I don't have a citation", which usually translates "I heard it on the internet somewhere, not sure where."

Oddly, I was prepared to believe you right up to the moment you posted this.

Then all the average humans are out of work. And there probably isn't enough need for above-average intelligence humans to keep all that many working.

The economy, as we currently run it, ceases to function when unemployment exceeds 50%.

It was 57 years from Eliza to ChatGPT.