My favorite is offering up your daughters to be raped instead of visitors by your neighbors. In the first chapter!

My aunt was a hardcore Christian who thought trump was literally the antichrist. But she loved him for that and voted for him every time. The antichrist is supposed to bring about the end times and she wanted that to happen. These people shouldn't be allowed out of their houses, let alone allowed to vote.

Saudi Arabia. They have a history of being a retirement home for corrupt and morally depraved former national leaders (e.g. Idi Amin), and they already own whatever part of trump Putin doesn't own.

Not far at all from Major Grey's chutney, which goes great with steak.

Do the Tates next!

Let's have Jon Stewart as Speaker of the House.

Honest question. Why would you want “true AI”?

I always viewed it as an engineering challenge, without really seeing or caring about the literally existential threat that it represents. At this point in my life, however, I would not want true AI, as I mentioned in my comment.

Jordan’s pitch will be that new blood is needed and that he specializes in investigations

Yeah, of his own belly button.

Ha ha I loved LSD back in the day, but I know I couldn't handle it now.

No, can't even smoke on my day off. They randomly drug test and if you're positive for THC you're gone. Even a medical marijuana card can't help you, it's DOT shit because you need a CDL to drive a school bus. It's for the best in my case -- I smoked many lifetimes worth of weed.

the people ordering it used are mostly very stupid

We met with my mom's tax preparer a couple of months ago. He wasn't able to get anybody's taxes done on time because his super-expensive tax prep software crashed and burned on him. I told him it was possible (if not probable) that the software had become vibe-coded and his problem was AI. He surprised me by going into raptures of joy over how great AI was. He then told me that he had invested tens of thousands of dollars in some dude who was developing a "reactionless space drive", and that this guy had solved all the problems he was having with it by using ChatGPT. I asked him if the dude had a working prototype and he said no, but it was sure to work now that ChatGPT had fixed it.

I considered explaining to him how LLMs work and what "confidently wrong" meant, but I thought better of it. Now I have to find a new tax preparer for next year.

I really don’t understand this perspective

This is honestly a strange thing to say. The only examples we have on the planet today of what we consider true intelligence are living animals. Why wouldn't it at least be possible that the properties of the signaling units that comprise these existing, observed intelligences (i.e. neurons) are fundamental to the task of replicating these intelligences? It seems to me it's the "statistical methods" that have yet to prove they're capable of producing true intelligence.

I will retreat to the fact that I said "true AI can be achieved by more accurate simulation of how real neurons and real neural networks function" and not "can only be achieved". Time will tell which approach works better.

I don't know who Chollet is but I'll look him up. Thanks for the reference.

Edit: the downvote was predictable. Nice job.

I'm no lady! It's a Kids in the Hall reference. And I can't smoke any more because I'm now a school bus driver.