ExFed

Only 1.5% of corn grown ever has been edible.

Are you talking about the difference between sweet corn and field corn? Because field corn is plenty edible... Just not for humans.

You could probably, for most regions in the world, make the reasonable assumption that, on average, the effect balances out; you might be able to drive somewhere and commit a crime, but so can someone else from somewhere else, and so on. Obviously, places which receive a lot of travel are exceptions to this rule, just like places where would-be criminal travelers reside (I'm looking at you, suburbia).

Of course, I'm just speculating in hopes someone else has some real data to back up my claims...

You've rightly pointed out how ridiculous it all is, but don't underestimate the effects of tangible consequences. Hearing about the orange man's foolish actions is much more abstract than not being able to afford your next meal. You can ignore the former, but even the most extreme ignoramus has a hard time ignoring the latter...

Being fair, they might've done it to make it a detestable as possible to force some kind of policy change... Still, it's hardly a joke anymore.

They built it. They're making money on it. Is that still satire?

Plainly: yes. Congress subpoenaed her by name, not title.

For those of us who are legit unaware ... what did he do (or didn't do) to get put on the shit list?

Fair enough; the Internet is a silly place full of distracted, armchair philosophers. However, my entire point was that an LLM doesn't rely on machinery in the same way that a human brain does. That doesn't make AI "worse" or "better" overall, but it does make it an awful replacement for humans.

Being married to a pollinator ecologist has taught me at least one thing: honeybees are overrated. Native bees are waaay cooler.

I'm glad the article said something about the impact to native bee populations, and I expect the same, but it would've been much nicer if the paper said something about them. For now we're stuck with speculation...

I understand the sentiment and don't generally disagree... But in most places around the world, Western honeybees (apis mellifera) are an introduced, agricultural livestock, like cattle, and don't really belong in the natural ecosystem. This is akin to farmers providing grain feed to their cows; they don't have to exclusively rely on pasture grass which didn't evolve to withstand hundreds of hungry herbivores mowing them to the ground every day. Also, honeybees are mediocre pollinators for most native plants. If native bees don't have to compete for resources with honeybees, that's a good thing for both the native bees and the plants that coevolved with them.

Introverts exist, and are... very often fine with solitude, prefer it generally over socializing.

Definitely! I am one :) but I still desire the presence of friends from time to time (and usually in small groups).

A person can outwardly appear to be healthy... and actually not be.

Yup! There's always a nonzero chance you're not as healthy as you think you are (let's call it the quantum theory of health: everyone is in a superposition of being both healthy and unhealthy at the same time), especially as we change due to age, making us unfamiliar with our own bodies... I'd tell you about my own challenges here, but that'd be TMI.

And, yes, that's why we go to regular checkups with someone who has a better perspective to judge "healthiness" (side note: doctors aren't perfect, so visiting them too frequently can be worse than never at all; there's a "healthy" cadence to checkups).

Therapy can give otherwise healthy people a method of exploring their inner selves more fully or more consistently...

This boils down to the definition of "healthy". It even becomes a philosophical question that's really hard to answer... Is it healthy to live a sedentary lifestyle? Is it healthy to exercise too much? Is it healthy to not know TIPP, in case you (or a loved one) gets a panic attack? Is it healthy to ignore yourself? Ignore others? Is it healthy to mention quantum superposition in a conversation about health? ;)

But, yes, I agree. Life's as messy and diverse and as hard to sum up as everybody whose ever lived, but yet we carry on ... I hope that's healthy.

Edit: typo, and missing a hint that I'm making a joke about me over-generalizing physics concepts

Hah, okay, you got me there. From my understanding, though, that's mostly because kids are still figuring out what's "normal", so their fear instinct isn't nearly as strong. I guess I should've stuck to the more instinctive sources of fear...

Regardless, that's not really my point. My point is an LLM doesn't rely on machinery in the same way that a human brain does. That doesn't make AI "worse" or "better" overall, but it does make it an awful replacement for other humans.