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If anything, the article demonstrates it can write code, but it can't thoroughly reason about problems it hasn't been trained on

So when saying something like "Its possible that similar problems to that have shown up in its training set." as a way to dismiss any scintilla of 'intelligence', how many of these articles reduce to a critique e.g. "Can a Middle Schooler actually understand dynamic programming?"

Like, what is the actual conclusion? That a software model with O(N) parameters isn't as good as a biological model with O(N^N) paremeters? That artisans need to understand the limits of their tools?

Is there a procedure to realistically verify that your communications are e2e and not e2mitm2e ?

Before Facebook, we had America Online, and that had vertically integrated the browser, feed readers, search, file sharing, email, async messaging, chat, social networking, and the ISP. It was so integrated with society that we used to advertise brands e.g. "Go to Keyword NBC1999" and everyone just knew that was an AOL keyword and knew how to use it.

As best as I remember, AOL failed because it only offered dial-up access for the longest time, and users jumped ship to DSL. Would something like AOL survive now?

isn't it like this for cars already?

Stuxnet is pretty famous by now, but the Darknet Diaries episode about the others might be good supplementary information for those looking to learn more about this type of malware

"The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud. All the so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted against others; who claim that if such things are to be allowed, their own rights are infringed or their own liberties threatened. This is always true, even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or association, or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often be justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty."

A lot of auto-dialers wait to hear a human, so to trigger anything listening for a response, the challenge goes "Can you hear me? This number is protected by Samaritan Call Protection" (shout-out to Person of Interest)

Then about a second later, it follows "Press 5 to be connected."

Things that dial 5 get a ring-through to my cell, things that don't get blackholed.

This presentation at 35C3 made me a believe that the original Bloomberg report is grounded in truth

Are there similar stories of lingering pain/symptoms from people who suffered traumatic injuries or survival events?

I (35M) fell ill with covid-like illness and a period of post-fatigue between feb and april and still haven't 'recovered fully'; When I test my body, it's obviously very capable and fit (more than before when I was sick, even) and so I've come to an understanding that I must approach this as something like a trauma that I'm still processing or an injury I'm slowly mending from.

If you were in a serious vehicle accident or injure a major muscle group or tear a ligament, your posture and form doesn't just return to pristine form when the body repairs itself, common wisdom would say to go to a physical therapist and practice a set of deliberate exercises designed to restore your strength and help your body re-learn what is a correct form/posture/movement/recruitment. After plenty of injuries, there's an expected "you won't be the same after this"

It makes sense to me that something similar is at work here; I wonder, how many of these people are making an unreasonable assumption that they would recover to their full capacity without trying to cultivate it? How much of the association with 'long-term symptoms' is an anxiety/panic/fear/trauma response from grappling with a novel virus which was once advertised as extremely serious and likely fatal?