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Reminds me of Asimov’s Foundation.

That math process for adding the two numbers - there’s nothing wrong with it at all. Estimate the total and come up with a range. Determine exactly what the last digit is. In the example, there’s only one number in the range with 5 as the last digit. That must be the answer. Hell, I might even use that same method in my own head.

The poetry example, people use that one often enough, too. Come up with a couple of words you would have fun rhyming, and build the lines around those words. Nothing wrong with that, either.

These two processes are closer to “thought” than I previously imagined.

tl;dr: There are little “chimes” of different lengths that produce sound when struck. The sound is higher than what humans can hear. The four buttons on the remote lift strikers and then drop them against the chimes. It’s basically a toy piano.

We had one when I was a kid, hand-me-down from grandma. We also had a dog who wore a fairly loose stainless steel choker chain. When he’d bounce around, the chain links would clink, occasionally turning the TV on/off, changing the channel, muting the volume.

ChatGPT has always randomly made up weird bullshit.

He must have spent hours on that circuit diagram.

I recall hearing that professional poker players hate playing against novices, because novices are so unpredictable. It’s really hard to plan a defense against someone(s) who are so incompetent that you have no idea what’s going to happen.

Tongue weight and towing capacity are two different things.

Max tongue weight for a Cybertruck is 1100 lbs. They put almost ten times on it before it broke. It was fun, but it’s not a valid test.

Ow.

Taking design cues from the flying dildo, I see.

If you have a Voodoo card laying around, it might be worth some money. They were used in some coin-op arcade games.

And the article only refers to airlines in east and southeast Asia.

Oh, I definitely wouldn’t say that “no contact” should be the only option. I think McD’s has taken it a bit too far; you still can order from a person at a register, but it’s pretty much an afterthought now.

But I do think that having those no contact options available for whoever wants to use them, for whatever reason, is a positive thing. If I’m having a particularly bad bout of social anxiety, just sitting at a table and eating my cheeseburger “like a normal person” can be very grounding, but it might not be something I’m able to do if I have to talk to a person to place my order.

Culver’s has started doing tableside ordering at some stores. Go in, sit down, scan the QR at the table. Takes you to a website where you can order and pay. They bring your food to you. It’s amazing, especially for those “I need a cheeseburger without having to talk to anyone” times.

Yeah, this opinion piece reeks of “buyer’s remorse” for having paid a premium for hardware that has the Apple logo on it, and then being mad that it’s very locked down. That’s been Apple’s thing forever, you kind of can’t blame anyone else for your purchase decision at this point.

For most people, the hardware and operating system are “one thing,” inseparable. Most people are not installing a different OS on their hardware, even if it is possible and relatively simple for people who are technically inclined. Does that mean that most people are “locked in”? Not really, not from their perspective. They bought “the thing,” and “the thing” either works for them or it doesn’t.

So we have this author lamenting that “the thing” he bought doesn’t work for him the way he’d like, without recognizing that if he had specific needs from “the thing” that it doesn’t provide, he failed to sufficiently research “the thing” before purchasing it.

Careful now, spez might see this post and ban you from reddit for it.

“No biting” stood out to me, too.

And this makes sense because his brain didn’t evolve to communicate complex ideas using words.

But some of them most certainly communicate with vocalization. The fact that some birds are able to mimic the non-bird sounds they hear points to their being very good with vocalization. What’s in a word besides being a set of vocalizations that communicates some meaning to another creature?

We’re seeing them as being related, but I think we are doing a lot of the heavy lifting here assigning intelligence where there may be a lot more random noise.

Possibly, and I’m not a bird lawyer. It starts to get kind of meta from this point. What is intelligence, and are we the arbiters of its definition?

… spent his time practicing identifying objects, …

Like with “step up” and “no biting”? Don’t get me wrong, you make good and valid points. I just think it’s more of a “grey” area (pun intended).

I wouldn’t call the verbalization in that video “nonsense.” He’s choosing to say those words and phrases, and often saying them in concert with actions we can recognize as being related. Knowing the kind of memory birds have for all sorts of things, I would also not be surprised if he was thinking about something and verbalizing those thoughts - but how could we ever know that?

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