Steam OS has kind of the same philosophy too. Normal users can treat it like a switch, only ever downloading from steam, and have a perfectly intuitive experience. But power users still have the options to run other software, customize the os, and even outright replace the os.
Same, I'm the person in the meme. I don't get useful energy from caffeine just stress. Soda and tea are fine, but I try to stay away from black coffee and energy drinks because they tend to trigger panic attacks in me.
Is this scientifically provable? I don't see how this isn't a subjective statement.
Artificial intelligence requires agency and spontaneity
Says who? Hollywood? For almost a hundred years the term has been used by computer scientists to describe computers using "fuzzy logic" and "learning programs" to solve problems that are too complicated for traditional data structures and algorithms to reasonably tackle, and it's really a very general and fluid field of computer science, as old as computer science itself. See the Wikipedia page
And finally, there is no special sauce to animal intelligence. There's no such thing as a soul. You yourself are a Rube Goldberg machine of chemistry and electricity, your only "concepts" obtained through your dozens of senses constantly collecting data 24/7 since embryo. Not that the intelligence of today's LLMs are comparable to ours, but there's no magic to us, we're Rube Goldberg machines too.
That's just kicking the can down the road, because now you have to define agency. Do you have agency? If you didn't, would you even know? Can you prove it either way? In any case, this is no longer a scientific discussion, but a philosophical one, because whether or not an entity has "intelligence" or "agency" are not testable questions.
These systems do not display intelligence any more than a Rube Goldberg machine is a thinking agent.
Well now you need to define "intelligence" and that's wandering into some thick philosophical weeds. The fact is that the term "artificial intelligence" is as old as computing itself. Go read up on Alan Turing's work.
I don't speak or read German but every once in a while a meme will have a critical mass of words I understand because of their proximity to English, and the German 100% amplifies the meme.
If anything, to me it seems more important for a slower language to be optimized. Ideally everything would be perfectly optimized, but over-optimization is a thing: making optimizations that aren't economical. Even though c is many times faster than python, for many projects it's fast enough that it makes no practical difference to the user. They're not going to bitch about a function taking 0.1 seconds to execute instead of 0.001, but they might start to care when that becomes 100 seconds vs 1. As the program becomes more time intensive to run, the python code is going to hit that threshold where the user starts to notice before c, so economically, the python would need to be optimized first.
Eh, I upvoted. Sure traveling the world is neat and all, and I would if I could, but traveling to a nearby national Park or something like that for the weekend costs nothing but gas and time and the chance to "touch grass" is worth it. I'd wager that most people have a neat spot locally that they've never visited, I have a few of those myself that I'm aware of.
This is me. I'm a pragmatic guy, don't really have serious body image issues (don't get me wrong I have notes, but I've never felt the need to look "muscly"). For those reasons I've never been great at working out just for the sake of being active. The only things that seem to motivate me are exercising via fun sports like bouldering, longboarding, or biking, or doing some calisthenics at home specifically to improve my stamina when I'm out bouldering, longboarding, or biking. So find physical hobbies!
Steam OS has kind of the same philosophy too. Normal users can treat it like a switch, only ever downloading from steam, and have a perfectly intuitive experience. But power users still have the options to run other software, customize the os, and even outright replace the os.