In theory? Yes. That’s the point. All I’m saying is that it’s not literally impossible, why is it so hard to understand?

Well, here we need to specify what “artificial” in this equation means. Because to me it just means “created by humans” (so, not natural processes). It doesn’t say anything about it not being able to be near-identical to natural brains

Yes, absolutely. Because at a minimum we can recreate the human brain, as we know the human brain can exist.

The question wasn’t whether it’s inevitable, but whether it’s possible

And the answer to whether it’s possible is a clear: Yes, because we already have general intelligence

But it’s very much not an inevitability, no. Civilization could always collapse before we get to that point, after all

That the human brain exists is enough evidence that intelligence is possible. An AGI similar to the human brain is then possible at a minimum

Can’t say much more than that for sure, but you have a starting point.

It’s in closed beta right now

We evolved to seek out sugar because it is energy dense in a time when food wasn’t plentiful

Today we have more food than we know what to do with

You definitively can fix many things at the product level

Food in Europe is generally less bad for you due to regulations

Really proving the point of “if there really was a big conspiracy and attempted coverup, someone will eventually leak it”

Flat earth fake moon landing, alien pyramids, got nothing, despite people super actively looking for evidence, but the republicans, NSA, and the shit CIA did (and the myriad other proven conspiracies)? Yeah, those did not stay secret. A lot of them are quite in the open too, people just don’t tend to be too interested

Assuming that people are biologically different enough between these two areas that is, or some other localized cause of aging at these years. Which I don’t find particularly likely, but yes, it is an assumption

As always, bigger studies are desirable, but idk if it’s much of a criticism of studies. These are for a scientific audience, after all

Again, proving the point

I don’t have the time or energy to do a full statistic course, but there’s the whole thing of sampling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)

For a very basic example, say you have 1 million people, 200 000 prefers burgers, and 800 000 prefers pizza, then say out you pick people out randomly from the group of 1 million people

How many do you need to pick out to have a 95% certainty that the ratio falls within 95% of the general distribution in the population? The answer is: 246. 246 is a big enough sample size for a 95% confidence that you are within 95% of the range of the general population distribution in this specific example

There’s a lot more to this, of course, but hopefully this is sufficient to showcase that you do not need large amounts of data to derive conclusive results

Usually in a scientific context you go more the route of calculating the confidence percentage that the data you got is random, also known as null-hypothesis testing, where the confidence percentage is the p-value. So the inverse of that is the confidence that it’s not random

But, again, there’s so much more to statistics than this, this is just the very basics.

On the other hand, ACs are heat pumps, which are generally efficient for transferring heat energy (both to warm and cool)

If you can rally a local community behind you, it’s better to look beyond the limitations and negative influences of money

Yes, sometimes it is good to evade the law, because the law might be immoral, for one reason or another, and ranging in severity from not being able to buy weed that helps you, to not being able to flee from a country that might kill you

So there is some legit and morally acceptable use-cases for crypto, but still, it’s not much

Crypto actually is really useful for evading the law, yes, and so it’s good for donating to underground organizations (or to buy drugs or illegal services)

But that’s about the only real use-case as far as I can tell

Why would you think that sysadmins and application devs wouldn’t want to use JPEG XL?

I’m a developer and I like the format

Well, a browser is a massive piece of software, especially if you include the development of a render engine as Firefox does

Web standards evolve constantly, you need to keep up somehow, together with optimizations, bug fixing, patching of security vulnerabilities, etc

The alternative is to never have anything better, which is not realistic

Yes, it means more code, but that’s an inevitability. We already have lots of legacy stuff, like, say, floppy disk drivers

People don’t need to give a shit, you just need websites and servers and applications to produce and convert images to the new format and the rest will happen "by itself’

It should be pretty much invisible to the users themselvea

Maybe the Dems will finally learn that listening to their base helps