Ours doesn't like being picked up either, although he is slowly coming around to it. Something traumatic happened to him, and I wonder if it involved being picked up.

It will bring about the perfect world! I can't wait for this Brave New World!

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Jeffery Epstein Memorial Island dedicated a national landmark.
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Yes. For drinking the telecoms KoolAide in the first place. Unfortunately, nobody could have foreseen cellular networks "going dark" in rural areas upon the cutover to 4/5G. Right where the utility would most depend on wireless meter reading.

You numbers do not mean what you think they mean.

... is always lying to me. In that sense, it's not much different than my wife. So I don't really see a problem with such relationships.

We think ours did formerly belong to someone, but was in a poor state when he came to us. No microchip and nobody recognized him on the local noticeboards. He's very shy around people, but was definitely house trained before we got him. Over time he is getting a little better with people, but it's a very slow process.

This will probably provide the first systematic data on use by regular people for everyday things. If it works and if there is somebody willing to bid.

You clearly haven't met my cat. We rescued him and he's not very cuddly. I suppose he is kinda cute sometimes.

That's the problem, in my experience those chatbots can't resist telling you how great you are. I had to ask Google Gemini to tone it down a bit.

It probably is. Now the question is where that "dominant paradigm of not questioning authority" comes from. No argument from me that it is real. But we do not know what would happen if we could do away with it. It seems to have basically been there all throughout human history and in basically all places with more than a hundred people or so, hence we have no data. Obviously, said "authorities" have no interest in having their "authority" questioned, and hence we are unlikely to see any larger experiments.

I do have one data-point. People that realize what they are in at some point, when they were born into a cult. These people are independent thinkers under very adverse conditions. So the skill can be found in some people without them ever having been taught. I am not aware on any research that quantifies how many people born into a cult can get out of it on their own because they realize what it is. Would be interesting to know.
 

... my local utility doesn't make me suffer through a major inclement weather event in order to experience an outage.

Just a few extra people plugging in their Teslas is all it takes.

Funny that there are always some clueless people with mod-points ready to confirm my statements about clueless people.

... it resembles a cat.

You fail. If you have "personal axioms", you already are just looking to confirm you preconceptions, not trying to find out what actual reality is. Don't worry, you are the same as around 80% of the human race in that.

That sort of misses the whole "involuntary" part of the definition.