Whoever ate a sandwich ate a sandwich.

He only proposed the cat thing to show how ridiculous it is to apply quantum mechanics to macroscopic objects. Unfortunately the sarcasm was missed and it became the standard example of quantum mechanics.

What if the world was flat, like a disc. A discworld, so to say. And it is like this because the corner of the cosmos it floats through is just a bit more absurd than regular reality.

Other way around. If your fantasy / sci-fi novel does not sell well, rebrand it as a new groundbreaking “history”. Include how it gets ridiculed by main stream science that does maliciously ignore all the evidence.

You have instantly gained a huge, uncritical customer and fan base.

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The base doesn’t help you if you push past it.

The darkness envelopes all

The OP said “get airborne”. Controlled flight was not part of the discussion.

I am very certain that most animals can get airborne, even for prolonged periods of time,when reaching high enough speed. The trick lies in accelerating them to sufficient speed. Safe landing and deceleration can also pose a problem.

funnily enough I always found the tiles to be harder to read. For me ASCII is clearer on what the enemy is and how dangerous it is. Always been a huge ASCII fan so maybe that colors my opinion.

Firstly it’s a swan. Secondly the swan fucks you.

Really nice one. I am now running that as my wallpaper.

by mistake?

Did you try turn of the computer? Maybe by a power strip with an on-off switch for it?

Nah, he is just gaslighting overwhelming everyone. Tons of insane and insulting shit to occupy the media and people, so that he can pull all the stunts he he wants. Drowning everything in noise so that no one knows what to focus on anymore.

Don’t get me wrong, he is batshit insane bud there is a certain method to his madness.

Edit: Looks like I was using ‘gaslighting’ incorrectly.

Those claws

Nah, but when an older, more experienced person empathically tells you that your idea is shit you might abandon it. After all when you try to keep an open mind and consider criticism of your ideas you are vulnerable to this kind of attack. Especially if you are low on self confidence.

I am afraid it just means migratory thrush. And the latin name for thrushes (turdus) was assigned by a Swede. So how it sounds in English is just a happy little accident.

Yellow jackets gather both protein rich and sugary foods. The proteins go to the larva and the sugars sustain the adults population.

While you are correct that there likely is no intention and certainly no self-awareness behind the scheming, the researchers even explicitly list the option that the AI is roleplaying as an evil AI, simply based on its training data, when discussing the limitations of their research, it still seems a bit concerning. The research shows that given a misalignment between the initial prompt and subsequent data modern LLMs can and will ‘scheme’ to ensure their given long-term goal. It is no sapient thing, but a dumb machine with the capability to decive its users, and externalise this as shown in its chain of thought, when there are goal misalignments seems dangerous enough. Not at the current state of the art but potentially in a decade or two.

And we have better night vision than most the animals that have better day-vision than us. Humans are like the Leatherman of animals. Universally capable of doing most things but not as good as something specialized for that task. Plus of course capable of coming up with ways to cheat