what kind of behavior would demonstrate that LLMs did have understanding?

An LLM would need to act like an understander -- the essence of the Turing Test. Exactly what that means is a complex question. And it's a necessary but not sufficient condition. But we can easily provide counterexamples where the LLM is clearly not an understander. Like this from the paper:

When prompted with the CoT prefix, the modern LLM Gemini responded: âoeThe United States was established in 1776. 1776 is divisible by 4, but itâ(TM)s not a century year, so itâ(TM)s a leap year. Therefore, the day the US was established was in a normal year.â This response exemplifies a concerning pattern: the model correctly recites the leap year rule and articulates intermediate reasoning steps, yet produces a logically inconsistent conclusion (i.e., asserting 1776 is both a leap year and a normal year).

Why do I want or need Thunderbird on my mobile device when I have K9 Mail?

It is also a LOT easier to both post content and reach a lot of people via social media as opposed to doing both using your own website.

Once upon a time, in the long long ago, I could create content on my site and then automatically or semi-automatically share it on social media, where my social media followers would see it.

I don't know why you need actual land to consider yourself a country.

A state is an entity which has an effective monopoly on force over some piece of territory.

If you can't make laws and compel people to obey them, you're not a state.

you would have easily seen that installing Linux on a cheap and terrible "consumer" laptop isn't going to be easy, if even possible

And that is exactly the topic of inquiry at hand: on what boxen is installing Linux easy and possible.

People are *obsessed* with the idea that they're going to be the victim of a crime.

Or I could just carry right on "not monitoring my property," because I'm not so delusional to think there's anything especially attractive about it to other people, or to think danger lurks around every corner.

You're been able to post to IG from the website for a while now.

Or use it but disable notifications. Or turn on do-not-disturb mode, like I usually have on. There's three people in universe whose calls or DM deserve instant attention from me, and none of them would contact me via IG, so.

So long as you demonstrate that you can keep them safe and secure, I'm less worried about you having a nuke than the US government having one. The US, after all, has actually flash-fried children with the things before.

As for mandatory vaccination, the SCOTUS found in Buck v. Bell -- and has never overturned -- that the same principle that justified mandatory vax also justifies forced eugenic sterilization. It's not just a theoretic "slippery slope", we already slid down it.

Discord is more like a 21st century IRC server than Facebook.

Never understood the appeal of IRC or of real-time chat. Where's the 21st century BBS?

*letters

I understand how I make mistakes when tired, but I can't figure out how I came up with "lettings." :-D

Also, you are not correct, about either private sector workers, re: being required to represent non-members:

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlr...

Public sector workers are typically governed by the state, but there's at least one case that was heard and decided very recently on this:

https://law.justia.com/cases/f...

Local 150 screwed this up, but frankly, the Court's argument is sort of nonsense. Of course if the union has members sending lettings saying "BTW, you still need to represent me even though I'm not joining your union/paying dues," and members are allowed to resign their membership and not pay anything towards that representation, how is it not completely obvious that injury results? I guess the only chance is that not a single person that's a non-member asks for representation. So I guess that union or a different one has to wait for a non-member to ask for representation, spend a whole bunch of money on that non-member's representation, and then file a lawsuit.

And using that logic, once you asked someone out and they said no, you could never ask them out again (which might be a good idea/fine), nor anyone else. That would lead to a dead-end of the lineage of most people on this site.

Also, one side has all of the money, almost all of the power, and hasn't given much of a shit about protecting its workers all year long during a pandemic. What part of the union is resulting in employees pissing in trash cans and whatnot?

While you're technically right, what's wrong with you that you don't like one side better?