Opinionhaver

I invest to make money, not to make a statement. If you try to combine the two, you’re likely doing one at the expense of the other. People are free to invest however they want, but making investment decisions based on emotions will inevitably be reflected in their returns - or lack thereof.

Currently, about 65% of my investments are in U.S. companies, while 7.8% are in Europe (where I live).

I live in a log cabin so what would be left is a concrete foundation and a pile of tin roofing.

My tools are in a separate building so those would be left though, as well as my truck that's not parked close to the main building.

If the intention here was to show conservatives how unreasonable it is to grant legal rights to a fetus then I'd say it failed miserably and achieved the exact opposite; further evidence to spread around in the right-wing circles to demonstrate how out of touch the "libs" are. Well done - it's as if they don't even want to win elections anymore.

No, I don't think consciousness is necessary for intelligence either. I just couldn't help but comment on that because as a subject it's close to my heart.

Same with something like conscious. We do not understand it well enough for any definition to fit.

I think that a good definition for consciousness is the subjective experience of it feeling like something to be. It's the fact that there's qualia to existence. I don't see a reason for why we would need to solve the hard problem of consciousness in order to define a term we use to describe it. As far as I know we don't understand gravity either but everyone still understands that term.

According to most dictionary definitions for "intelligence" the bar is quite low for a system to be considered "intelligent"

• The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
• the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
• the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
• the act of understanding
• the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
• It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

YOLO, DeepFace, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, Tesla FSD, AlphaFold, IBM Watson, DeepStack, Midjourney ...

AI is in no way synonymous with LLMs.

I must agree with the people saying you're crazy for having that long commute. That's over a month spent getting to and from work every year. Time is the most valuable asset in the entire world. By working we're trading time for money but for the time spent commuting you're not even getting paid. I would seriously consider trying to find an alternative solution to this.

Among all my friends, there are two clear common denominators between those who rent and those who own houses. The ones renting have office jobs and live in the capital, while the ones who own houses live in smaller cities or the countryside and work in manual labor.

I’m not saying correlation is causation, but it’s an interesting observation - and so far, it applies to 100% of my friends.

This doesn't really have anything to do with facts, though. Names of people, objects and places change all the time.

I guess this is kind of like asking why don't ugly people date eachother - because they don't want to date an ugly person.

Allright. Let's revisit this in 6 months to see what happened - or didn't.