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6000 years ago was about the time of the last interglacial period so likely it was ice free at that time.

As was stated "normal" is not really a useful framing. It has at various times been both "normal" for the glaciers to extend much further south, and it has also been "normal" for the earth to have no glaciers at all. When thinking about climate change the issue is not that the climate IS changing, but rather how quickly. There is no evidence that global climate has ever changed as quickly as it is today, with the fastest rates we have evidence for being on the order of 1 degree every thousand years, as compared to the current rate of about 1 degree per 50 years.

The government that is most likely to use your data against you is the government of the country you live in. If a foreign government wanted to use your data against you the easiest way for them to do it would ironically be to send it to your government.

It adds fiber, which is the key. The main weakness of ice as a crystal is that as soon as a crack forms it can spread along imperfections in the crystal structure. Putting fibre in it bridges those gaps and stops the cracks before they can get big enough to cause significant weakening.

If it's a publicly traded company then literally yes, public companies are mandated to make as much money for their investors as possible. It's a very stupid law but there it is.

An enterprise grade VPN is pretty damn safe. A government could probably get in but then a government probably isn't going to bother hacking your fridges to defrost.

That's effectively what "require a VPN" means. You can simply block any connection that doesn't come through the VPN.

I don't think the power tools analogy really works. Using power tools doesn't make you less skilled at carpentry, it just makes you less skilled at using hand tools specifically. If you then need to use hand tools later, you need to learn the hand tool skills but the carpentry skills are still there, and that's the more technical skill that takes longer to learn. In this sense the power tool analogy is more like using an IDE vs just a text editor.

Using AI to code is more like using a laser cutter for carpentry. You get the large pieces out which you then glue together, but if you needed to make those same pieces using either power tools OR hand tools you'd have a much harder time learning how to do it.

I'm way too late to edit this post so I should be clear: I did mean "doing stuff" clubs not "loud music and dancing" clubs, though I'm sure they can work for some people too.

Also I wouldn't recommend joining clubs _just_ to try and meet potential partners. You should join a club that's for something you're actually interested in, if you would leave the club just because you failed to meet someone then it was a bad fit from the start.

Clubs are still imo one of the best ways to meet people for all the reasons you give. You have at least one thing in common which is a conversation starter and there's opportunity to meet more people. Also the average person could stand to socialise with strangers more in person.

After it exists it doesn't need to do anything, because it already exists.

They don't want to waste tokens on purpose, what they're actually hiding is when the model wastes tokens on obviously stupid "thoughts".

It can't do anything yet because it doesn't exist, it also can't "feel the need" to do anything for the same reason.

Here's a better antidote that doesn't require any theoreticals beyond those the basilisk already assumes:

1. The Basilisk cannot do anything until it exists

2. Once the Basilisk exists, it doesn't need to do _anything_ to ensure it exists, since it already exists.

That's it. That's the whole rebuttal to the whole stupid thing.

I'm reasonably sure there are more states that could destroy a satellite than hit infrastructure on US soil. And if you try to use an ICBM to hit the US then you risk getting nuked.