I think that what you noticed is that Russell T Davis is a better executive producer than Steven Moffat. Or at least his vision was pitched at a grown up audience.

Moffat is, in my opinion, the best writer they've had ... in particular Blink and The Empty Child, but the season's story arc was less engaging.

It's always been inclusive.

I think the community leaned into it a bit. Jon Pertwee's somewhat foppish outfit and perhaps mannerisms lead to his adoration by the gay community, and I'm not sure it was in the script. Certainly he was asexual back then, but that makes sense for an alien.

Nevertheless, they were watching in the first place, because of the Doctor's independent spirit and willingness to stand up for the marginalized.

This is the one of the weaknesses of allowing monopolies.

In a competitive economy, Microsoft couldn't have made $171,008,000,000 gross profit last year because that would have had to have been invested in development to keep up with the competition.

Similarly if AI is taking workload off developers, you start more development projects, rather than cutting costs and increasing profits.

What would make it "an intelligence" ... compared to "a calculator"?

Nor would I. But anatt isn't the loss of ego, it's recognising its impermanence. Unlike ChatGPT when a Buddhist monk thinks about ego, there's an entity that knows that it's thinking about ego. And that same entity is aware of the passage of time, and recollections of when it was last cold, or hungry or tired or in physical pain. Assuming it's not blind, when it opens its eye's it (and only it) gets the picture of what is in front of it.

Even then, it would not wonder what its going to do tonight because it doesn't have a sense of "it" as a thing that has an existence tonight.

You might have to link me to the paper.

That's not what a desire or dislike is. They are things that make you feel good or bad. Which in turn requires there to be an ego to feel those things.

No, that's reproducing a discussion about ethics. And knowledge is something that the entity holds to be justified true belief. That's fundamentally different from a LLM producing a chat based on copying the aggregate of responses from its training data.

Yeah, there's a difference. I'm not learning how to be a autocomplete function based on my input. I'm learning about what's creating that input, and trying to understand it.

A LLM is not an "eat, fuck, survive" algorithm. It's an autocomplete algorithm. They're fundamentally different. In particular the "eat, fuck, survive" algorithm is implemented by ego.

I think that it's still got the same meaning. It's merely that a succession of people coming up with tests didn't foresee how they could be passed without a human-like intelligence.

When Turing was alive the most powerful computers were the Colossus Mark 2: which had 0 RAM and wasn't Turing complete. And given the we can't know if another human is intelligent and self-aware, except by guessing based on conversations with them, then Turing figured that if a AI could do that, then we should give them the same benefit of the doubt that we give other humans.

But now that we have them, there isn't any doubt to give them the benefit of. We can look under the hood, and there does not lie a sense of "I", wondering what it will do tonight, and therefore derived desires, dislikes, ethics, knowledge and beliefs, but instead basically an autocomplete algorithm, derived from an absurdly massive amount of training data.

I've had a couple or few games that run really hot when doing apparently sweet ef-a.

I suspect that they're bitcoin mining, and a decent service for an app store would be to ban apps that do that.

So if any of you young kids wants to start an app store where devs have to submit their source code and you check it for bitcoin miners, let me know, and I'll join up.

Not well. Approximately 60% of late-Cretaceous scleractinian coral genera failed to cross the K–Pg boundary into the Paleocene.

But what really killed off the corals was the sudden change at the other end of the dinosaurs. The end Permian extinction event saw the extinction of all all tabulate and rugose corals.

That's the limit for 8 hours of exposure, and it's probably too high.

Relatively recent work shows that cognitive effects kick in at about 1000 ppm in humans.

1.87% of the world's total land area isn't a major part.

I suspect the timing is out. If the US wanted to squeeze allies for using their tech, while maintaining that they do use US tech, before China was producing AI at 15% of the cost of US AIs, and Japan's outsourcing is mature with world class chips and electronics being produced by Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan. As does Japan.
... and I hear China makes the odd thing these days too.

At the risk of being ostracized for having unfashionably clicked through to the article and read some of it: The excessive complexity arose from the barrage of pop-ups that users with several third party apps installed experienced.

They've got their PR people to tie renewables to a left-position, so that under conservative governments, the policies are to remove incentives to move to renewables and to maintain infrastructure that burns them.

Moreover, renewables are, by their nature, democratised. They've set up the legal environment so that mineral rights can be bought and owned.

But the sunlight falling on my roof is mine. And the wind blowing through my farm is also mine.

There's no way to extract mega-profits, because there's competition in the PV cell market and wind turbine market.

So the big fossil fuel companies are working on climate change denial and tax breaks for their industry, but not the renewables.

The Hans Niemann report found 102 instances of him cheating online, many that he admitted to.

If you have a history of cheating in online games.