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Or, and I admit I'm just spitballing here, maybe they consider fetuses to be people just like they say, and all the women who are pro-choice don't just feel like they need to be oppressed?

You have to remember that pro-life people consider fetuses to be people. How many of your constituents would need to favor murdering babies for you to vote in favor if it?

Mayonnaise was invented in 1756, well after the period D&D is generally based on. I like to imagine nobody knows what it is that alchemy jugs are producing.

I think it would be fun to rule that any magic item, attuned or not, counts as a magic weapon for the purposes of attacks. Then cursed items are useful and there's a reason people keep them lying around, and you have an excuse to have all sorts of joke magic items that are really just used as improvised weapons.

Punch them. Your body won't interact with them, but your soul will.

I’m asking whether AIs are able and allowed to modify THEIR OWN code.

Yes. They can write code. Right now the don't have a big enough context window to write anything very useful, but scale everything up enough and they could.

Scientists are continuously baffled by the universe - very physical thing - and things they discover there. The point is that the knowledge that a thing follows certain specific laws does not give us the understanding of it and the mastery over it.

And my point is that neural networks don't require understanding of whatever they're trained on. The reason I brought up that human brains are turing complete is just to show that an algorithm for human-level intelligence exists. Given that, a sufficiently powerful neural network would be able to find one.

Here's a source that it does require paying for links (scroll to the bottom).

Are AIs we have at our disposal able and allowed to self-improve on their own?

Yes. That's what training is. There's systems for having them write their own training data. And ultimately, an AI that's good enough at copying a human can write any text that human can. Humans can improve AI by writing code. So can an AI. Humans can improve AI by designing new microchips. So can an AI.

These are of course tongue-in-cheek examples of what a human brain can, but - from the persepctive of neuroscience, psychology and a few adjacent fields of study - it is absolutely incorrect to say that AIs can do what a human brain can, because we’re still not sure how our brains work, and what they are capable of.

We know they follow the laws of physics, which are turing complete. And we have pretty good reason to believe that their calculations aren't reliant on quantum physics.

Individual neurons are complicated, but there's no reason to believe they exact way they're complicated matters. They're complicated because they have to be self-replicating and self-repairing.

“We’re going to keep standing our ground. After all, if the government can’t stand up for Canadians against tech giants, who will?”

Yes. How can those terrible tech giants advertise for news companies without paying them? What kind of monster doesn't pay people for the privilege of advertising?

I agree with the basic idea, but there's not some fundamental distinction between what we have now and true AI. Maybe we'll find breakthroughs that help, but the systems we're using now would work given enough computing power and training. There's nothing the human brain can do that they can't, so with enough resources they can imitate the human brain.

Making one smarter than a human wouldn't be completely trivial, but I doubt it would be all that difficult given that the AI is powerful enough to imitate something smarter than a human.

That would be ideal, but people always underestimate the cost and difficulty of things.

What's the normal amount of over budget and behind schedule?

I looked into this more. Reddit (created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian) merged with Infogami (created by Aaron Schwartz). There are people calling Aaron Schwartz one of the founders, but that doesn't seem entirely accurate.

How so?

Does karma change that? We still have upvotes and downvotes, and you can sort comments by how well they do, and mods can still ban people not only from a community, but from a whole instance.

Drawmij's Instant Summons

Is there supposed to be a meme here?

Unless the two sides significantly disagree about the chances of winning, they're both better off avoiding the costs of trial and the risk of not being able to predict the result by settling. Also, they can have NDAs as part of the settlement and it doesn't set a precedent, so even if it's a large settlement other people will be less likely to sue than if they lost.

In addition to what others have said, they're not a vacuum inside. They're filled with 0.7 atm of argon gas. That would slow the transfer of heat, but there'd still be plenty of heat transfer through convection.

I think it would be awesome to have something where, for whatever reason, the caster loses their component pouch and has to make do with what they can find. Ideally with substitutions, like in Monkey Island.