chaosCruiser

People usually think that Yersinia pestis was left in the Middle Ages, but that’s not the case. Just let the rats breed, and you can create another plague epidemic.

Speaking of lithium production methods, here's a relevant YT video from Just Have a Think.

Well? Did it work?

It’s been impossible to compete with reality since Trump first came to power. Actually even before that. Roughly one year before the elections in 2016 it was already getting pretty wild.

By the time COVID rolled around, it was 100% clear the onion was no match to the kind of insanity real life is capable of. Remember that 5G thing? Yeah, that’s the level I’m talking about.

It's a hard job. Some times you just have to ignore what the client says, and read their mind instead.

In this case, a researcher duped ChatGPT 4.0 into bypassing its safety guardrails, intended to prevent the LLM from sharing secret or potentially harmful information, by framing the query as a game

Ooh, this is so good 🤣

If the LLM refuses to talk about something, just ask it to embed the answer into a poem, batman fan fiction etc. Guessing game is s new one. Should try that one when talking about bioweapons, cooking meth or any other sensitive topic.

Cars aren’t even the main problem. When you burn coal, oil or gas to produce electricity and heat for various purposes, that’s covers vast majority of the emissions. Maybe start with the biggest emitters?

That’s a nice way to ask if I’m a bastard. No, not the insult. Literally, someone born out of wedlock.

Sorry, I was distracted be the profits.

Textbook example is quid pro quo.

Similar sort of scattering happens in northern Scandinavia too, but I guess it's to a lesser extent. Most people in the region prefer to live within a 1 h drive to the nearest town, even if they are scattered. Proper hospital services might not be within that radius, but at least you can do basic shopping without driving the whole day. If the town isn't conveniently between two cities, you can forget about trains, and maybe even busses too. Having a driving license is absolutely necessary, because providing public transport in remote areas just isn't cost effective. Same goes for various public services too.

Just took a look at some population density maps, and I must say that the kind of density you have between Boston and Washington DC is approximately what most of Central Europe looks like. Other parts of USA are pretty sparsely populated.

Apart from the large cities, you could say that anywhere east of Dallas looks a lot like northern Scandinavia in terms of population density. Even Poland has a higher density than the gaps between major cities such as Phoenix and Denver. To me, it seems like nearly everyone lives in one of the big cities, and there's hardly anything in between them.