Feynman answering "Why is ice slippery": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
Why are you not disturbed by the fact that when you push down on a chair it pushes you back?
Ah, you're viewing it as a timetravellers' dilemma.
My view was more that we're an observer in the lagrangian solution to the differential equation we call life. The electron, being a constant in the equation. Remove the electron, you alter the equation, therefore destroying known life.
I'm enjoying "The Overstory" by Richard Powers for my fiction fix.
Just got in the mail today, currently on chapter 3, "The art of receiving and giving" by Betty Martin. This one I'm going to have to read piecewise.
Give it a try. There's different brands. I learned that I quite prefer those with milk based protein, and dislike those with pea based protein.
The problem is that reading the justification for the new digital pound from the Bank of England, it’s very difficult to see much it offers which isn’t already offered by existing cashless payment systems. Meanwhile it offers to them a blank regulatory sheet upon which they can write any new rules they want
Thank you
Stochastic parrot is a term describing your experience with AI.
I've an aunt like that, ready to engage in every conversation despite not understanding the topic. Regugitating whatever she saw on her tv, in her own words.
So in a sense, the current large language models do mimic some human's behaviour.
I've given up and have been eating yfood (meal in powder form, EU soylent equivalent) for the last 9 months.
The better option amongst many bad options, is how I rationalize my choice.
I was playing with a magical lamp in the old volkswagen getting rusty in my grandma's yard. When, surprisingly, the whole car turned into sand and I drowned.
Had this dream when I was 6 or 7 years old. For some reason, I think about it every so often.