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Comment Re:Common knowledge (Score 2) 36

And you'd think it'd be common knowledge in that we should all know some basics about genetics and evolution and if we share a common ancestor and like 80-99% of our DNA with other mammals and like over 30% with all other life on Earth that viral infections could adapt, like it logically follows if you understand and believe those things are true.

But of course that's the rub ain't it, to say animal to human transmission is possible is implicitly acknowledging all those other things are true as we know them and recent events have made accepting this idea of animal to human transmission not a scientific thing but a political one.

Comment Another Nail In Supersymmetry's Coffin (Score 1) 39

Just like the subject says, supersymmetry, an elegant solution to a number of problems, in particular the best theoretical extension to the Standard Model, slides closer to oblivion with each large scale and small scale (accelerator) experiment meant to find these large supersymmetrical particles.

Comment Tastiness comparison to related birds (Score 2) 49

tldr; google Ai overview queried
how delicious is ostrich or emu compared to the tinamou?
(moa is supposed to be related to tinamou.)
tldr answer: should be like a delicate quail or pheasant!
but you could just run a tinamou farm, though not as cool!

Ostrich:
Taste: Ostrich meat is often described as having a taste similar to beef or veal, with some describing a subtle butter or toasted walnut flavor.
Texture: It's known for being tender and juicy, especially when prepared correctly.
Comparisons: Many find it a good substitute for beef in various dishes.
Emu:
Taste: Emu meat is often described as having a more pronounced, slightly gamier taste compared to ostrich, which some find appealing.
Texture: It can be slightly less tender than ostrich, but still suitable for various cooking methods.
Comparisons: Some find it similar to bison or venison.
Tinamou:
Taste: Tinamou has a more delicate, refined flavor, often compared to pheasant or grouse.
Texture: It's generally described as tender and fine-textured.
Comparisons: Its subtle flavor profile differs significantly from the richer, beef-like flavors of ostrich and emu.
In essence: If you're looking for a red meat with a flavor profile similar to beef, ostrich is often preferred. Emu offers a similar experience but with a potentially stronger, gamier flavor. Tinamou, on the other hand, provides a more delicate and subtle flavor profile, distinct from both ostrich and emu.

Comment Taxing Addiction and Depreciating Ass-ets. (Score 1) 52

Since you feel taxation against addiction (call it what it is, even professional gamblers don’t ever advise anyone to follow in their footsteps) is “horrid”, care to share your thoughts on how we should tax prostitution income?

I mean, what should we label as reasonable depreciation on that kind of ass-et? All these OF queens running around love to assume you can just roll the odometer back and ignore the 47 previous rental agreements that tore that chassis up and left a shitload of old luggage in the trunk. Sure. It looks like it only has 30,000 miles. In reality it’s more like 80,000 miles when you wipe all that bondo off and realize that odometer is lying to you.

There’s an easy way to avoid being “ripped off” by taxation on addiction. But other than quitting, perhaps stop believing that any Representative of any color or stripe actually reads legislation before passing it. (They call it “Pulling a Pelosi”.)

Comment Defining Human Ignorance. (Score 1) 61

One definition reportedly agreed upon by the companies sets the AGI threshold at when AI generates $100 billion in profits.

Great. So when Al-Sex-A the Amazing Analbot hits a billion in sales all spanks in part to the AI-enhanced chat-sex-bot that helped promote the marketing, humanity will magically be gifted with the almighty AGI based on this promotional definition.

Leave it to the race wholly infected with the Disease of Greed to reduce a crowning achievement in technology down to a fucking number in the bottom right hand corner of some fucking spreadsheet locked in the bottom drawer of a file cabinet in the basement with a sign hanging on the door that says "Too Big To Fail".

Ignorant fucks.

Comment Re:Mario Kart... (Score 1) 27

Taxes are not punishment and it's silly to view them that way.

No, it's impossible to say the premium price Nintendo maintains is totally due to quality and not scarcity, it's scarcity. Steam is full of great all time titles, some right up there with Nintendo's best but PC games are commodities and that's what Nintendo has been able to avoid, becoming just a dev shop.

Lots of companies don't want to devalue their games but big Ma control of their own market absolutely helps a ton in that effort

PS3 was 19 years ago, not as recent as we think (and time to feel old)

Comment intelligence is not the prerequisite to survival (Score -1) 61

Are they really looking for intelligence in these LLMs or are they missing something else that slows down their progress? Is it intelligence, that we are trying to get out of LLMs? If so, I think they can be easily at least as 'intelligent' as anyone, they certainly have more information than any one person does. Maybe what they are looking for and not finding just cannot be found that way, that's because it is not intelligence they are looking for but some form of organic animal like behavior? In that case they will be looking for a while, not until we have robots everywhere that are more than a camera on a car, something that can touch, taste, smell, feel pain, hunger, consume to sustain itself, will the new level of 'intelligence' appear.

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