It sounds like you have developed particular expectations for chatbots.
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Eliza's talent was in getting you to express yourself, free from inhibition. That doesn't require “intelligence”, but it does require the art of listening. There's nothing dumb about that.
The political cost of letting Djokovic stay was too high for Morrison
Australians have been barred from visiting a dying parent in hospital, blocked from seeing a new grandchild and forbidden from having a wedding. Should they accept that a tennis star gets the leeway they were denied?
Angering those Australians would have been a huge danger for Morrison when he is only a few months away from an election.
But this is not game, set and match. The entire saga has put Australia’s pandemic dysfunction up in lights. It was a national embarrassment and may continue through the courts.
The quest to discover and apply "laws" like this courts disaster or disruption because people are neurodiverse. ADHD people respond to deadlines in a completely different way to non ADHD - sometimes inversely, sometimes obversely, and so require different management. Same but different with autistic spectrum people, introverts, extroverts, bipolar, insomnia, sleep apneates, diabetics and long covids.
It may be tempting to dismiss neurodiversity as a fringe consideration and just assume most people are "normal", but their circumstances, both in the workplace and beyond it, may complicate Yerkes-Dodson as much as neurodiversity whilst evading detection by managers and systems.
The cookie policy is explained as if there is some semblance of user choice, but actually there is none. You have to accept performance cookies, functional cookies, and Targeting cookies because they don't offer opt out at all, despite offering what looks like a UI tier. But they only offer this guidance:
> We have divided the Cookies we use into the following categories: Strictly Necessary, Performance, Functional, and Targeting. Under each category heading below you will find a general description of the Cookies in each category. You can change your browser settings to block, delete, or alert you to Cookies. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to do that. However, if you do, you may have to manually adjust preferences every time you visit a site and some features may not work as intended.
The article itself has a headline that seems to suggest cellular death processes have been found to be reversible, or at least, not irreversible. But the text reveals that the research finding is not anything to do with reversibility. Rather, it is about interruptibility.
When they install an optogenetic switch in the organism to trigger the process, it functions as an On/Off switch. But there is no reverse switch, in the same way that there is no On/Off switch for the tracking cookies.
TFA, on one level, is an exercise in creating expectations for switches that don't exist.
Is manual labor the reason things turned out the way they did, with google spending whatever it took to index and monetise the whole web the way it did?
Or might money have something to do with it?
Half of all the rest are below average.
The History of Evolutionary Thought → 1900 to present → Endosymbiosis: Lynn Margulis
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-t...
Lynn Margulis and the endosymbiont hypothesis: 50 years later
Instead of commenting speculatively, I'm going to wait for someone to post more of the article, or a link to the full article.
The ancestors of the mitochondria organelles you see today in every cell in your body were once free swimming bacteria, in a world where there were no animals, and no eukaryotic cells. Planet earth then, and for its first 2 billion years, was populated exclusively by bacteria, or single celled organisms. These cells were about one hundredth the size of the cells in your body.
How did life on earth become more complex?
Billions of years before the Cambrian explosion, when the number of animal species exploded into the millions, something much more basic happened at the cellular level. Cells became more complex.
How?
Maybe cells engulfed other cells, and the engulfed cells survived, forming a partnership or a colony.
Or maybe different types of cells hung out in close proximity, in colonies, which eventually merged into a network of DNA exchanging nodes that keep growing in complexity and interdependency.
We don't know.
This new effort to grow and study archea in vitro gives us something to study and experiment with.
Luke: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different.
Yoda: No. No different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
Luke: All right, I'll give it a try.
Yoda: No. Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try.
What humans believe about other species tells us a lot about humans, and nothing about other species.
A: "Put it on my bill."
It isn't a question of human emotions, such as caring, or not. At every touch point, someone in the corporation does "care" or want to do the right thing. The executives of the corporation are highly educated people who design systems to make money in the most competitive industry in the world, in accordance with the laws of the societies in which they operate.
And yet, the problem exists. Why?
The reason the problem exists is that the corporation leverages the friction of compliance against the customer. It sets the default outcome in favour of the corporation, placing the onus on the customer to do work to tip the process in favour of the customer.
This is common sense. But it still isn't "fair", and that's where the system could be improved.
If customers had to be compensated for the work they do to overcome friction, either retrospectively for legal reasons or through market based forces of competition, our consumer experience would be vastly improved.
A consumer bill of rights could set this up.
Behaviour like this would be made illegal:
> I discovered that my original support case had been unilaterally closed without resolution, because five days had passed since the last reply, and apparently that’s their support policy. It’s not possible to reopen or reply to a closed case, so I had to create a new case and explain the issue all over again.
Small claims courts could have a process to evaluate the cost of friction and award some multiple of it to successful applicants.
Once the systems exist, corporations could use outcomes to pitch for business. Imagine if the Average Friction Compensation Per Transaction Per Year was publicly available. Corporations would boast of low scores and list their performance as a feature.
How do we get to this new way of doing things?
We just need a consumer bill of rights, and for the legal system to follow suit and redesign their local processes to be in harmony.
How do we get this bill of rights?
For that, we need a responsive democratic system, designed and built in the interests of the people.
― Anais Nin
Who is “we”?
If it isn’t the people who own the oil trucks, how is it going to happen?
So far, the “we” hasn’t been them, and that’s one reason it’s taking so long to happen.
Eliza's talent was to give you a way to get to get to hear yourself. That doesn't require intelligence, so much as listening skills. There's nothing dumb about that.
NonA-DHD typically respond to deadlines with increased urgency, commitment, and re-factoring assessments.
ADHD may respond to deadlines by abandoning tasks and starting new extraneous tasks.
Is that rational? It’s what happens, and since it is such a dramatic and consequential difference, it warrants a reconsideration of the meaning of the term “rational”, and it’s limitations.
ADHD isn’t an isolated minority. It’s a transient condition in a significant number of people, prevalent enough in the population to make economic text books about monolithic “rationality” unfit for purpose.
When the electric lightbulb took off it lead to so many new ways of working and studying and entertainment, the world changed a thousand times over.
But it wasn’t necessary for Edison to contemplate night clubs or Logic Pro X or alternating night shifts for the changes to happen.
Just the lightbulb was enough for one thing to lead to another.
The future wasn’t invented at Parc in the 1970s, but a lot of it escaped from there and blossomed over the next fifty years.
The relationship between a man and a maid is a core characteristic of a society.
The complexity of changing such relationships is attested to by TFA, and yet, in many places, over a hundred years, we see (hard fought) change.
A hundred years ago, or even fifty years ago, the downfalls of Dominic Strauss-Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein, and Harvey Weinstein were inconceivable.
So was #MeToo.
But there’s as much tech in the hash tag as there is in the x-ray, or more if you just count the investment dollars.
Technology and social relations define and redefine each other in long epicycles.
I tried quite a few screw and pull piston reservoirs but all have the problem of not venting or something so the ink only runs for a short while then is held back by vacuum (or something).
Has anyone found a source of Parker 45 reservoirs that work?