Reminds me of this
Using a Google image search I found that this version of the image was apparently cropped and flipped from an older one:
Then, using Tineye I found that that version of the image was posted a bunch around 2008. One of the places it appeared was this gizmodo article which is 404'd today but was saved in the internet archive:
That article says its a form of decorative interior lighting, so I would guess that this is a colored fiberglass pipe with some kind of light inside it. Given that it was 2008 it might've even been a fluorescent tube.
Specifically they are completely incapable of unifying information into a self consistent model.
To use an analogy you see a shadow and know its being cast by some object with a definite shape, even if you can't be sure what that shape is. An LLM sees a shadow and its idea of what's casting it is as fuzzy and mutable as the shadow itself.
Funnily enough old school AI from the 70s, like logic engines, possessed a super-human ability for logical self consistancy. A human can hold contradictory beliefs without realizing it, a logic engine is incapable of self-contradiction once all of the facts in its database have been collated. (This is where the SciFi idea of robots like HAL-9000 and Data from Star Trek come from.) However this perfect reasoning ability left logic engines completely unable to deal with contradictory or ambiguous information, as well as logical paradoxes. They were also severely limited by the fact that practically everything they knew had to be explicitly programmed into them. So if you wanted one to be able to hold a conversion in plain English you would have to enter all kinds of information that we know implicitly, like the fact that water makes things wet or that most, but not all, people have two legs. A basically impossible task.
With the rise of machine learning and large artificial neural networks we solved the problem of dealing with implicit, ambiguous, and paradoxical information but in the process completely removed the ability to logically reason.
Space 1889 gets its steam from solar thermal generators which power its steampunk space ships (ether vessels).
It gets its punk from it being about colonialism.
I've had my current CPU for longer than the Confederacy existed.
I am about to replace it though.
The person that made that had to know what they were doing, right?
Like, their boss told them "no, you can only refer to them as friends" and so they found the gayest screenshot they could to put on the card?
That's not just food though, that's literally everything.
A person whose spent thousands of hours making and consuming music is going to notice and value different things than someone who just listens to whatever is on the radio.
A person whose driven hundreds of cars probably has a way better idea about what they like and what they don't like in a car than someone whose driven 3.
That's what having a "developed taste" means. Yeah it's all opinions, but you can't even know what your opinion is of something unless you try it, and you can't develop an in-depth opinion of something unless you've tried a whole bunch of similar somethings.
That doesn't mean you need to do that with everything of course. Not everyone needs to cultivate an appreciation for everything, I don't know or care what good beef Wellington is like for example, but I'm also not going to get pissy with people purely because they have different interests than me.
I’m in Canada and I can never trust my doctor to have any conversation with anyone, at any time longer than five minutes at a time for anything
The best tactic I’ve found if you want to get anything done for yourself or someone close to you is for you to do the legwork and make calls, contacts and literally hound people to do their job.
This is my experience in the US as well. Also nobody knows anything about anything.
Doctor A puts you on a medication, doctor B doesn't know until you tell them and then he says "he put you on that!? You shouldn't be on that, I'm taking you off it."
You go to have a surgery and say "hey guys, did you know that I'm difficult to intubate? Because I could die if you don't take that into account", they didn't know.
"Hey guys, I have reason to believe that the insurance card I was issued in the mail isn't completely correct, can anyone help me with this?", 4 different people at the company that issued the card have no idea what's going on, don't even know about the policy tied to the card in question and think you must have accidentally called the wrong company (you didn't).
"Hey guys how much is this going to cost?" it is literally impossible to say.
That makes me imagine penguins writing Java code.
In a lot of situations I would rather cross mid block than at a corner crosswalk. The cars can't be relied on to stop anyway, and mid-block there are a lot less directions you have to worry about.
Even if the intersection is signalized given the existence of right turns on red it's still often safer to cross mid block.
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You are generally less likely to die from homicide in NYC than you are in rural areas, and the worst states in the US have rural counties with homicide rates more than 3 times greater than NYC's.
And remember, these are statistics for New York, not Vienna or Tokyo. US cities are far from the safest in the world. I used the word "inherently" above for a reason.