Sure. However, if the road around the planet goes to Everest and back, the total length of travel will exceed the circumference of the planet.

I would say even one is too many.

The law was written in such a way intentionally to suppress speech. People who wrote it ain’t stupid.

Indeed. The success of even one such prosecution means that the second someone in government wants someone out of the way, they can efficiently be imprisoned for anything rising to the level of... "offensive."

"offensive" actually has a relatively solid definition based on how judges have ruled on it in the past. This includes hate-mongering against protected characteristics, which I see a lot of from the USA right now.

Can you share this definition of “offensive” you mentioned?

You're loving this.

> I would say even one is too many.

Well, is the number > 0?

> The admissions system is not effectively dealing with this type of fraud.

If I was the university I would prefer these types of disabled students. Why not:

1. They are not really disabled, so I do not have to spend a lot of many for real accommodations

2. No need to deal with a higher chance (I’m guessing here) of academic difficulties

3. Basically, I hit disability metric without paying any cost!

> I assume if their consumer facing AI is using Claude at all it would be a Sonnet or Haiku model from 1+ versions back simply due to cost.

I would assume quite the opposite: it costs more to support and run inference on the old models. Why would Anthropic make inference cheaper for others, but not for amazon?

There may well be some "interesting" financial arrangements in place between the two. After all, Claude models are available in AWS Bedrock, which means Amazon are already physically operating them for other client uses.

Not if the samples are skewed. For example, the people who get the care are from stable environments with financial means. After universal childcare is implemented, we start measuring these things in the broader population that has fewer access to resources generally.

The assumption here is that only people with means got care and were surveyed. I am not sure that this is the case. Moreover, you can correct for those factors, and, I assume, any statistician worth their salt are.

Given the reproducibility crisis, particularly in the social sciences, I wouldn’t put too much weight into the skill or honesty of the people doing that work (and statisticians they are not - more like people with a humanities background who take some statistics courses and then do numerology)

The normal human field of vision is about 190°, which mine is just about. If you don’t have a stoop that will catch the front edge of your shoulders. Fingers wiggling with your shoulders slightly overextended is just easier to see than a shoulder shrug.

It’s the amount of compute power that my brain allows for peripheral vision that’s the only unusual thing. But it makes video games feel claustrophobic to an unpleasant degree.

> I am a bit confused: you can see your shoulders while you are looking forward?

I can just about see my shoulders when i look forward, I'd probably also say my field of vision to be "the plane of view defined by my shoulders".

This is true until there is more countries that leave.

At some point Rome fell.

The ability of citizens to vote doesn’t make the country not a dictatorship. There are many examples here, e.g., Russia, multiple middle eastern countries, etc.

Are you trying to argue that elections aren't free and fair in EU countries? Or are we splitting hairs?

Your claim (as I understood it) is that if an elected person elected someone else (to be the rule), then there is not dictatorship in place.

In my opinion, elections are not the only condition to have a functional democracy. So, having elections is not enough.

> Solar energy is currently the cheapest form of energy, cheaper than coal, cheaper than natural gas.

Cheaper before the incentives?

Yes. Even if you count the fossil fuel subsidies.

Can you share the source? I’m very curious.

First search result: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind-and-solar-en...