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There is no question that ChatGPT and equivalents are not sentient. Of course they aren’t.

The unfortunate realization is that often, each of us fails to embrace our sentience and think critically; instead we keep repeating the stories we were told, acting indistinguishably from any of these large language models.

There’s a need for a reverse Turing test: prove to yourself that you’re actually not acting as a large language model.

On the topic of a city divided in two, I highly recommend the novel ‘The City & The City’ by China Mieville. It’s an excelllent detective thriller that reminds you that the strongest and tallest walls are always in our minds.

Hey there! This article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696369 got me excited about the current state of generative art using neural networks, so I created this toy using some of those techniques. The site shows you generated movie posters for famous movies, and gives you a chance to guess what they are before revealing the answer. Even though the mechanic is very simple, I found it quite entertaining, and most of the generated posters are detailed and interesting. I hope you enjoy it!

They just switched cameras, and this one doesn't show parts of the craft, so my comment above won't make much sense, but the curvature I see with this camera is similar to the one I saw with the other camera which shows parts of the craft.

If the camera had a fisheye lens, it would distort the parts of the craft that are in its field of view, but those appear without fisheye distortion.

Unless I'm missing something else, the curvature you see is likely due to the spherical nature of planets.

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This will work really well. Some leaves use this same mechanism to 'self-clean', which means that now we will have the ability to add the 'lotus effect' to man-made objects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcd_4ftsNY

New York as a Microchip layout was the main theme of the intro of 'Hackers'. Check out around 0:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c4KG_8iTZM

Because Europe didn't know about America until 1492.

With more research along these lines, we may have a day when a programming job interview will consist on interacting with some codebase for 10 minutes, and the model will spit out our normalized scores on syntax comprehension, algorithmic thinking, library familiarity, etc.

Space is for all practical purposes a vacuum, thus the only cooling effect would be by radiation, given that the body wouldn't be in contact with anything around it, as opposed to what happens on the ground where it is surrounded by air or water in the sea. In these conditions, the change in temperature takes a long time.

As stated in the linked article:

"If we put a thermometer in darkest space, with absolutely nothing around, it would first have to cool off. This might take a very very long time. Once it cooled off, it would read 2.7 Kelvin."

So, the vacuum really is the main concern. You'd be long dead before you start getting cold.

"A stupid person is a person who caused losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses."

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