Animal emotions are much easier to understand and emulate than rational thought. It's literally insect-tier level of difficulty vs something only humans can do.

Journalists have been converting news into nonsense for a long time. It's gotten so bad people get their news from comedians, or from random strangers on social media. I'd say LLMs have some very good theoretical potential as a news aggregator, once they and their training set are open source.

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We already have a good substitute for underwater living: being able to commute to the ocean and access its resources. There is no such substitute for celestial objects, because the commute time is too long or uses too much fuel. Earth is not limited by inability to build housing, but by resource limitations and conflicts with other humans.

They should rename it to "LeopardsAteTheirFaces", 99% of the sub is all "well they might be celebrating but they ought to be regretting". And you know when they stop celebrating they won't have regrets, they'll say it's all Obama's fault and they need to vote Republican harder.

The probability that Russia will launch nukes does not correlate with Putin threatening to launch nukes.

They're not wrong that nuclear power plants could be used to make nuclear weapons. Of course that risk can be negated by having an untrickable unbribable inspector make sure they're not using the reactor to make plutonium nor the centrifuges to make weapons-grade uranium. But opposition to nuclear may have been a mistake -- it may be the fact that we didn't switch from coal to nuclear 50 years ago that might cause the next global war.

As for the Doomsday Clock, the planet has been closer to the next thousand years having a nuclear war than is has for the last billion years, so having the clock steady at milliseconds to midnight would make the most sense. Also, I'm not sure why a bunch of slashdotters are complaining that "How soon is the next big war?" is treated as a political question rather than one about nuclear physics.

Also, I think people don't understand how important it was that after WW2 we decided that nations shouldn't be allowed to violently annex territory (as is happening now in Ukraine and maybe Palestine) -- to the extent that no one would acknowledge territorial annexation, including that the US wouldn't acknowledge and was sanctioning Israel in regards to Palestine territory (yes, while sending them weapons).

And it's not just computers and robots, those in leadership roles often qualify as inhuman.

Sorry but it doesn't say it eventually produces, it says "produces" and it says "at the moment of conception". The result depends on the future environment of the cell, thus at the moment of conception it is indeterminate.

You need only look at how rape works in various species to see that it can affect evolution. Most lady animals are on hormonal-based birth control at all times except when they want to get pregnant, and rape is very uncommon in those species. The more likely rape is to result in pregnancy, the more common rape is in that species.

On an unrelated note, did you know that Trump has recently passed a bill requiring the government to consider you genderless? (Ie you are not male and not female, unless your very first cell was a spermatocyte or oocyte) This is due to his failure to understand biology and thus adding "at conception" where it doesn't belong, presumably in preparation for adding "at conception" to other places it doesn't belong, but presumably only for ways that restrict women, excluding anything that might help (eg dependents on tax return).

... otherwise known as the whole globe over most of human history, yes. If you want to look into how rape can affect a species' evolution, look at ducks.

People are getting divorced from reality, and are about to find out who gets the house.

And I don't just mean the Republicans who are leading the war on reality, the Democrats also have their heads up their asses (eg the Dem primary, or fire insurance rates in California), and don't forget the largest and stupidest faction: those who couldn't be arsed to vote. Election was 32% to 32% to 36% with the winner being "didn't even vote".

I think the Democrats would have won if they had put the winner of the primary on the ballot.

Of course, we start with Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. But certain people progress to Do unto others lest they do unto yourself or others. Vengeance is a form of altruism (self-sacrifice for the greater good, without which society might not exist, the eg it's the reason humans do well at the Ultimatum Game). For some reason Americans love throwing decades in jail levels of vengeance against people who grew the wrong plant or whatever, but we shouldn't even be upset at the assholes who violate others in ways which other assholes decided are legal. This story sounds suspiciously like when someone pretends to play along with a scammer to slightly protect others by wasting their time.

They warned me Americans would soon be learning Chinese; but I didn't realize it would be to learn a user interface so China can protect their free speech* from America.

*aka cat videos