It is intelligence created by design rather than by natural selection.

The limitation of your definition is that any intelligence that is untrained will have a high rate of failure.

So, an intelligence may have evolved in geological time or in laboratorical time, but the ability of the intelligence to learn to think and solve problems will distinguish it from the high rate of general failure.

LLCs limit your financial liability, but you can still work thousands of hours on a business and end up making nothing. If you work the same thousands of hours as an employee, you will make money.

There have been several attempts to make battery swapping for cars a thing. This includes Tesla's attempt and another company that went bankrupt. For some reason, it does not seem to work out and they all stop trying it.

I bet the reason it doesn't work out is greed and that everyone is doing their own incompatible system. Gas/petrol would also not work out if every car brand had their own unique & incompatible composition of fuel.

This is something that governments could solve. Commission a decent swappable battery form-factor and offer tax rebates & incentives to both buyers of compatible vehicles (thus incentivizes manufacturers to make those vehicles) as well as gas stations to adopt the system.

It doesn't have to be perfect performance-wise, if battery swaps take 5 minutes and every gas station supports it, it'll still be good even if the effective range of such battery is half of a custom proprietary one's.

Nio currently has around 2,000 battery swap stations in china. They seem much farther along than the people that gave up.

But you have to keep in mind that it's heavily subsidized by china and is more than likely just burning money

Seems like a flawed design to have the entire national flight system go down from a single point of failure. Do we not have redundancy and / or distributed systems so this sort of thing doesn't happen?

I don't understand why this would cause sadness. I found most of questions I asked it could be answered as well by using a search engine. Sure, it was more concise than searching but going through many sources may give more accuracy and perspective. Perhaps I didn't spend enough time with it but I got bored quickly.

Yes, it does write reasonably well. I asked it for a short story and a joke. The joke was funny and the short story made sense and flowed well. Are we worried comedians will be out of business? Or writers? I don't see that happening. We'll still need writers to track down sources, compile and edit. Maybe it will save writers a lot of time but we'll still need humans for the foreseeable future. It might be that one writer can churn out 10 stories a month rather than 3, but that sort of productivity happened after tools like the printing press, typewriters, etc were invented.

I only asked it one coding question related to a recursive function. The answer didn't make me worry about losing my job. I still had to check it and make sure it was right. It might make certain tasks easier but it can't replace a human yet - not even close. If someone relies on this for their coding job, it will quickly be obvious. It can save some time for people who know how to program. But for those relying on it as a crutch, it will hurt them in the long run as their codebase gets more complicated.

I've always interpreted it as meaning no patch is available yet for a vulnerability. Does not matter whether a decision to patch or not has been made. Doesn't matter if it's been exploited yet.

Yes, I used to file taxes with paper forms from the IRS years ago and this is free. There isn't even an income limit to do it this way as far as I know. But of course it's more of a hassle than doing it online as you have to buy stamps, go to the post office, etc.

What's the point of this? It's not clever or useful and could cause people to waste time and gas getting re-routed. It's no different than spamming a forum or website.

It does at least draw attention to some of the fairly flaky algorithms and assumptions that people are perhaps naively relying on. I’m not a fan of the race to the bottom to automate at the expense of accuracy that Google so often exemplifies.

Making DST permanent is essentially forcing everyone to wake up earlier in the day. All we're doing is calling 7 am, now 8 am to get people to psychologically accept this. This is a win for morning people who function better earlier... AND this is a loss for all the non-morning people who will now be forced to work, go to school, etc at a time when they don't operate optimally.

I work in another time zone and have to shift my hours pretty aggressively so I get >3 hours sunlight total, most of which happen when I'm working.

No idea why it's preferable to have the sun go down sooner... lol.

The change would only happen once, so it might take you a few days to adjust but afterwards it shouldn't matter.

The focus should be on walkable communities. Biking and transit help but they are not good solutions for elderly or people trying to commute reliably. EVs are still bad for the environment. Walking is free and simultaneously helps reduce health issues like obesity. I get irked when articles like this barely discuss walking.