I guess your manufacturer wasn't Mitsubishi then: https://www.mitsubishicomfort....

Speaking as someone way, way up in the northern half of the US who replaced his gas furnace with a heat pump (that's tied in to our existing heating ducts), I couldn't be happier. But you go ahead and keep trying to convince people that heat pumps don't work unless you're in the South. And as for "resistive heating strips," I don't even know what those are; we've never had a problem keeping the house warm, down into the single digits of outside temperature. What else is great about our heat pump?
- It's quieter than the old gas furnace
- It doesn't dehydrate our air as much in the Winter
- It doesn't need an exhaust vent, so it's not sucking outside air into the house which is great in the Summer if there's a lot of wildfire smoke in the air
- It cools the house in the Summer (we never had AC before)

"So suddenly the wire goes from being able to carry megawatts of power to carrying gigawatts without changing a single thing"

Except, of course, for all the copper.

Not this very happy Bolt owner.

I'm surprised no one has commented yet on the name of this new Windows app, which is... wait for it... "Windows App."

It's like they were trying to out-do themselves for "worst MS naming decision ever." And that's saying something.

This title not parse.
May I suggest "FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Tag To Neuralink's 'Blindsight' Implant."

I'm also reminded of the Frederik Pohl story "The Midas Plague." Worth a read if you're not familiar with it.

https://archive.org/details/ga...

What stuck out to me was this line: "Smith stole millions in royalties that should have been paid to musicians, songwriters, and other rights holders whose songs were legitimately streamed."

How do you figure? The bots were only ever going to stream the fake music, not other "legitimate" songs. If the bots didn't exist, the streaming service would have held onto that money, since they only pay out for songs that are streamed.

Which metal? Iron? Copper? Mercury?

I think the original poster was reacting to the fact that the quote should be "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," not "evidence of absence is not absence of evidence" (which makes no sense).

Gee, I hate to spoil a childhood memory, but it's BY YOUR COMMAND, not AYE YOUR COMMAND.

So, we're trying to emulate the least-desirable qualities of human behavior in our AI systems? I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

Hmm. You realize, of course, that if all viewers took your approach, no one would ever watch the first season of any show, thus guaranteeing that no show ever had a second season?

Meh, I think I'll wait for uuutils.

When I heard about Sapolsky's argument, I immediately thought about Transient Global Amnesia, a temporary condition where people go into a loop of repeated thoughts/behaviors that resets every 90 seconds or so.

RadioLab did a segment about it in this episode:
https://radiolab.org/podcast/r...

and here's a video of the woman from the episode in her loop state:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...