I was so terribly sad to learn that gold is much more dense than a duck, and thus Scrooge would have certainly floated on top of his pool of coins. My childhood was ruined.
Now that I think about it, it would seem this may also apply to witches.
I don't think people care about press freedom when they are struggling to pay rent, buy food, get healthcare, or try to better themselves through education.
There's ~20 years of record that those believing western MSM reporting becuz muh free press on PRC are basically mouth breathing rubes at this point. There's are literally 10s of millions of PRC diaspora whose banal wisdom of crowd gossip has been more reliable signal than western reporting. Pick the most rabid PRC nationalist twitter account vs Economist and compare notes, and statistically the brain damaged nationalist would prove to be more accurate/predicative. Free press =/= accurate. There's a reason free press stans are some of the dumbest motherfuckers on PRC.
Like it's 2026, 5th estate for propaganda has been thoroughly gamed system by now. Why does PRC develop so many spies / use their diaspora for information... because they know US / western free press is compromised to make useful idiots "feel" that 5th estate reports the truth because they theoretically could (even when they don't). Not that they even could, reminder PRC gave most US reporter the reciprocal boot, no press freedom doesn't magically only hobble PRC 5th estate, though that never stopped western libtard reporters and rightoid thinktankers from making shit up - its just there's no pretense that they aren't anymore, all the while US gov allocates 100s of millions for information warfare.
> India and China share a disputed 3,440km (2,100-mile) boundary known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This de facto border runs through remote and inaccessible natural paths along the Himalayas, passing through rivers, remote mountains and forest cover. It is ill-defined and its demarcations have remained a source of contention between two neighbours who fought a major war in 1962, in which India suffered a humiliating defeat.
It's a feature of the US hatred of the homeless and lack of mental health care for the poor. The affected people end up clustered in cities because that's where the money is, and in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles because that's where they won't freeze to death in winter.
Think some of it this as we don’t have a strong safety net in the US. But also read that is because cities are just so expensive. Yeah, for people making something like $40k/yr it’s much easier to fall into major debt. Had a couple of roommates who went through this, staying financially solvent in the city was a huge deal. It seemed like they were constantly treading water.
But, agree that we as a country can strengthen to safety net, probably good for us as a whole.
What exactly is your definition of free? Do you mind explaining your thought process on that?
I am genuinely curious because I simply lack the ability to understand that meme I keep encountering; that things that cost money should be free.
Is it just that you want others to pay for things you like, do, have, or want? Or do you just not really have an idea of where things you like, want, do, or have come from and that things can't be "free" like they were when you lived with your parents?
I am genuinely baffled by this type of mentality. I actually understand my cat better than I understand this mentality, because the human is supposed to have higher order thinking skills that appear to be wholly absent.
Open immigration for rest of the country from around the world but closed for their city from rest of the country is what these “progressives” seem to want by their actions.
No no, they are fine to let just anyone come into SF, just so long as they're homeless and stay that way. Except for the token handful that win the housing lotteries each year, of course.
Brute force would choke on a measly decillion of alternatives. It corresponds to an extremely short proof. A combinatorial explosion doesn't allow to use brute force for anything slightly longer than toy problems. Swarm of 10000 agents is a massive smart force.
Neither Euler, nor Gödel had proven the Navier-Stokes blowup, though. And it took generations of mathematicians to prove the Fermat's theorem (it's a kind of a very slow swarm, isn't it?)
Have you seen my drafts? For easy task I may write the straighforward solution, but for complicated stuff it's a mix of throwing stuff to the wall and see what sticks. It's informed search by experience, but AI also use weights to pick the attempts.
And there are so many indicators that it's not currently economically viable and will only be if retail price is massively increased and strong regulatory barriers to competitors are erected. ;)
AI is not a calculator. OpenAI did not solve hundreds of open problems in math by "brute forcing the search space," there was a lot of intelligent and novel thought (gasp!) in the way AI chose the paths it did.
Yes, AI can explore thousands of ideas at once, no, that's not "brute forcing the search space" because the search space is way larger than you think it is.
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