Talcosis

According to the laws of man, yes.

According to the laws of physics? Nope.

China quietly beat the USA in 2018. That was the year that China became the global leader in scientific output. Everything is downstream of scientific and technological advancement.

Scams work for a reason. More often than not, it’s a right place right time thing. I consider myself a pretty smart guy too, but I remember a few years back I gave my ssn to someone running the “you’re about to be arrested” scam. Realized it before I gave them money, and ssns are all leaked by now already (freeze your credit)…but that was a bit of a wakeup call (heh).

I was tired after a long day, I was annoyed, and I’d had a few beers at that point. I was in a susceptible mindset when the phone rang. It happens. Scams are designed to short circuit your thinking, and with some scams being “smart” makes you more susceptible. It’s a question of experience.

I know that 23 yr old cosplay models that love videogames and want me to rate their new bikini for some design aren’t adding me on discord…but if it was my first day on discord, I might think that’s normal.

Edit: actually I think this might be the approach you should take–make it very clear that you don’t think any less of him, because this happens to everyone. Falling for a scam doesn’t make you dumb, it’s a learning experience. Many people that fall for scams keep giving up cash because they feel stupid and ashamed, don’t make him feel stupid and ashamed.

Well, do you really think two would have been enough? Even three is a little short, what if one gets the sharts? Four sounds nice, until you realize they can get sick twice. Five gives you four backups, but a revolver carries six shots, so…it would be smart to have infinite IT, because infinite things can go wrong.

That’s…actually wrong for once.

The entire plot of the first Jurassic Park was caused by (a) corporate espionage and (b) lack of information about frog biology. (a) directly led to the security systems being sabotaged, and (b) led directly to dinosaurs reproducing into a population the system was not designed for.

Unless you think capitalism is the reason people don’t plan for events that cannot be reasonably expected to occur given the information at the time. Note that the paleontologist did not immediately flag the issue either during the intro presentation, so it was obscure enough that even the external experts (not the capitalists) wouldn’t have considered it. In universe.

But this particular method might get him to realize “she” wouldn’t spend a dime on him, and that might raise some doubts…

Damn near anything makes the frogs trans, that was the whole plot of the first Jurassic Park. They used frog DNA to fill in the missing bits, and accidentally added the voluntary sex change gene, allowing the dinos to propagate.

And this almost certainly affects people as well, just that the studies to prove it would also double as a textbook of ethical failures.

Time is a resource, and in the modern world where near-full time parental involvement is assumed, it would effectively limit reproduction.

Matter of fact, it is entirely possible that is a significant part of why birthrates keep declining.

I have found one specific use case where ML has helped quite a bit: finding trends in massive databases with tons of variables.

Would be nice if by that time there were still functional democracies anywhere in the world.

Pretty much everyone is a real criminal, it’s just that most crimes are so minor that they are ignored (see: jaywalking, speeding, putting ice cream in your pocket). In some cases, the laws exist to provide a fig leaf for the powers that be when they want to fuck with someone.

Imagine being able to say shit like this successfully and earn enough to call it a career.

That skill is not very common.

This is a style that I first noticed with Archer, and it is very hard to do well. I enjoyed Archer, I enjoyed some of Rick and Morty, but I also recognize that I’d refuse to engage with someone like that in real life. Iasip takes it to the extreme of being genuinely unpleasant.

Note that the premise that the general population gets stupider over time is incorrect. Flynn effect.

I have unironically tried that. They looked at me like I was in fact crazy once I clarified that I did not wish to enroll a child in their arts and crafts thing.

I’ll be honest I don’t know how much the advice will work.

The advice is simple: do social stuff, be social, and you’ll end up in a social group.

That being said, the advice is (a) mind-numbingly “have you tried putting one foot in front of the other foot” for someone that knows how to make friends, and (b) the advice is damn near useless/impossible for someone that doesn’t know how to make friends.

Personally, I’m in group B. I don’t know how to find clubs where people do stuff. I don’t know how to find a place to volunteer.

Alex Jones was partially correct, they are in fact turning the frogs gay, and this extends to people as well.

Specifically, endocrine disrupting chemicals, which are commonly used as plasticizers and flame retardants, disrupt your endocrine system. I.e. they fuck with your hormones.

Exposure to environmental stimuli, including such chemicals, can cause changes in sexual behavior and characteristics. This was the driving force of the plot of Jurassic Park.

This cannot be proven without seriously unethical human trials, but exposing a every other animal to EDCs during development can and does cause changes in sexual development.

Edit: other pollutants are causing societal effects as well, there was a study on crawfish out of NC a while back that found significant behavioral changes (less aggression, more foraging) among males that lived in a stream which was exposed to sewage, and therefore low level antidepressant medication.

Oh, don’t worry, fully autonomous AI terminators have already gotten confirmed kills in real life!

Without dogging too far, it seems like the law is broadly worded enough to open the door for all sorts of SLAPP-type takedowns, a bit like how DMCA is weaponized against people that don’t have armies of lawyers.

Also, the other source (not the bill itself, mind you, so might be wrong) says “digitally generated”, not “AI generated”, which could be stretched to apply to any image manipulation, like cropping.

Then of course there’s the question of reliably differentiating between AI and non-AI. Which basically means whoever has the biggest legal cannon to fire at the other guy wins.