It's a well known fact that advertising never works and is a waste of money. That's why the entire industry died 80 years ago, and nobody ever published an ad ever again.
Ah, I misunderstood then, sorry. But still, even with all the investment in the world, LLM is a bubble waiting to burst. I have a hunch we will see truly world-altering technology in the next ~20 years (the kind that'd put huge swathes of people out of work, as you describe), but this ain't it.
There's an upper ceiling on capability though, and we're pretty close to it with LLMs. True artificial intelligence would change the world drastically, but LLMs aren't the path to it.
In terms of boredom, it's a healthy thing! Boredom is what pushes people to learn new skills, find new hobbies, and just generally do things. I think the demonization of boredom is very bad for society.
In terms of disaster relief, that sucks. If you have to use Reddit for that, then so be it. People getting the help they need in an emergency is more important than sticking it to spez.
The complication is that he'll never spend a day in Romanian prison, the UK has requested extradition. As soon as the trial is over, he's headed to the UK. From that point, it's Britain's decision as to what happens next.
On the plus side as a Romanian, him becoming a convicted criminal here means that no matter what the UK decides, he can't come back.
It's kinda funny that the whole Vanya - Viktor trans thing in S3 Umbrella Academy had his siblings behaving pretty similarly. The vibe was pretty wholesome. Basically "I don't really understand it, but you're my bro and we're trying to save the world. On with the plot!"
The vast majority of memes like this get patched as soon as they become viral. Some developer somewhere very likely manually entered a list of fruits ending in "um" and got the LLM to refer to it when asked.
Having one line about sleeping with the captain's daughter might have been even more amusing (and thus more catchy) because of the double meaning.
Very likely, probably why the whole captain's daughter = captain's whip thing took off as sailor slang to begin with.
your average deck hand singing sea shanties isn't thinking metaphorically when he's singing about getting drunk and laid.
I never claimed it was a metaphor, it's slang. Similarly, the "gunner's daughters" were the gun barrels midships on gunships.
And insisting that the one line in the song isn't about fucking is feels like wishful thinking
I mean, no skin off my nose if you believe that, but it seems pretty clear judging from the fact that the captain's daughter is a well known slang term for a whip in a song about punishing a drunk that that is extremely likely the correct original intent. Of course anybody can interpret anything any way they want.
The "captain's daughter" was a euphemism for the cat o' nine tails. So in other words, that line meant give the drunken sailor a lashing as punishment.
Given how powerful and effective the strategy of cooperation and trust seem to be in humans, I find it extremely likely to be a common strategy.
I also don't think aliens lacking empathy would generally be capable of forming civilizations, so they'd be stuck at the hunter gatherer stage. It is almost a truism that amongst us humans, as empathy and trust in eachother breaks down, civilization stops functioning.
Gonna throw my hat into the ring here and say this kind of self-reflection and improvement is exactly how communities of any kind improve.
People have problems, stress and issues. This shit happens. The ability to say "I fucked up", then fix the fuckup and prevent similar fuckups happening in future is how we as a global society improve and become better people.
In short: everyone should attempt to be better, that's all anyone can ask.
Last year I was forced to take 2 weeks PTO just before Christmas so my company wouldn't get slapped with fines. Unexpected, but welcome. I just hadn't checked how many days were left unused.
It's a well known fact that advertising never works and is a waste of money. That's why the entire industry died 80 years ago, and nobody ever published an ad ever again.