Some racist snowflake tried to censor my previous comment - so here it is again:

Fearmongering about immigration... ...is what sold them the Brexit.

So, when you ask "So how can this be that they are in such shambles and dire straits if unlimited immigration would make the whole UK stonk like crazy?" - go and find a mirror.
Then proceed to go fuck yourself.

Maybe everyone gets lucky and you end up bleeding to death from being literal.

...is what sold them the Brexit.

So, when you ask "So how can this be that they are in such shambles and dire straits if unlimited immigration would make the whole UK stonk like crazy?" - go and find a mirror.
Then proceed to go fuck yourself.

Maybe everyone gets lucky and you end up bleeding to death from being literal.

what kind of behavior would demonstrate that LLMs did have understanding?

An LLM would need to act like an understander -- the essence of the Turing Test. Exactly what that means is a complex question. And it's a necessary but not sufficient condition. But we can easily provide counterexamples where the LLM is clearly not an understander. Like this from the paper:

When prompted with the CoT prefix, the modern LLM Gemini responded: âoeThe United States was established in 1776. 1776 is divisible by 4, but itâ(TM)s not a century year, so itâ(TM)s a leap year. Therefore, the day the US was established was in a normal year.â This response exemplifies a concerning pattern: the model correctly recites the leap year rule and articulates intermediate reasoning steps, yet produces a logically inconsistent conclusion (i.e., asserting 1776 is both a leap year and a normal year).

Only thing doggie proved is that Peelon will roll all over the carpet after shitting it.

Like a dog.

You know... Like Russia, Hungary, Elbonia...

Carter dying just before Dumpy takes office is precisely the right kind of ominous foreshadowing for the upcoming dark ages.

Have a fun dystopia!

Otherwise I'd be having a perfect 10 out of 10 there.

Imagine how many seconds they could save if drivers were plugged into a system which would eliminate the need for bathroom breaks - both number one and two?

As a bonus, Jeff could harvest valuable trace minerals from drivers' shit and piss. Waste none want none.

But I do admire you unbridled racism. Please, do tell us more.

As for the only thing that are relevant to the discussion... "buildings/housing rebuilt with wide roads" - yeah... about that.

41% of PM2.5 air pollution in Delhi is from cars, 21.5% from dust/fire and 18% from industries.
I.e. That construction and roads you are calling for is where the air pollution is coming from.
They went from 2.5 million cars in 2000 to 10.5 million in 2018. Also, Delhi already has the highest road density in India (2103 km/100 km2).

But why stop there... Let's hear more about how your puny little racist skull is empty of facts and full of shit.

You want THE ENTIRE INDIA (not just Delhi we're talking about here) to be more like Singapore.

You may not know this but... for one Singapore is an island state. Kinda like Hawaii, but closer to the shore.
It's population is about 6 million, with the density of about 7804/km2.

Delhi, alone, is an inland, urban agglomeration of several cities, it's urban population alone being about 16.3 million (back in 2011) with population density of 11312/km2.
Metro area is about 28.5 million (2018) - second only to Tokyo.
India on the other hand is the seventh largest country by territory, on this planet, and BIGGEST by population with over 1.4 billion humans.

But wait, there is more... Besides Singapore being a tiny island - they have basically banned cars for everyone but the insanely rich and taxi companies.
For one, you are basically not allowed to own a car older than 10 years. They do that by limiting the total number of cars in Singapore.
You want a car - either get rid of the one you already have OR wait for someone else to do so and then OUTBID THEM for the "certificate of entitlement".
Which will allow you to register the car - at 100% to 240% of car's Open Market Value.
On top of that - cars there cost about FIVE TIMES what they do in the US.

Now, while I am all for reducing the number of cars... I do not think such practices would work elsewhere, not just in India.
After all, in most other places government can't administer beating people as punishment or ban them from protesting - like they do in Singapore.
Hell, you need a police permit for a family lunch - any public gathering of five or more people is illegal in Singapore without a police permit.
Remember - that's the country where chewing gum is illegal.

Why do you expect that the structures of power will collapse along with the ecosystems and the loss of coastal cities?
If anything, they will be hardened. And militarized.
Think 1984, not Mad Max.

Followed by not Soylent Green but Rollerball. But that's way out in the future.