It’s on my old netbook, it will never leave.

That thing is nearing 20 now I think!

Shit, I’m old…

Solid six - I’ve picked up something nasty and it’s giving me a horrific headache!

Ah! Now I know this one, it usually happens a few months after you shuffle off the mortal coil. Nothing to worry about, it’s a problem that solves itself!

Other than that, I’m afraid you’re stuck with it - a bit like marriage “till death do us part”.

I saw xchat and felt hope…

https://github.com/probonopd/XChat

Hey… Wanna go down the geometry rabbithole?

https://archive.org/details/introductiontono031680mbp/page/n76/mode/1up

It has points at infinity, area as a function of angle defect, a triangle whose angles sum to 0…

The big issues with age gaps is mostly down to protective probability. By 30 most folks are experienced enough at life to make up their own mind.

Hope it goes well for you both!

Fishing boat where it shouldn’t be - prosecute and fine.

Addressing the migrant comment - if you catch a small boat, your government gets to pay to settle or remove the occupants; if it sneaks through your government has to pay nothing. The game theory says “I saw no boat”. Shift the reward mechanism, have the boat’s departure nation pay half the costs, suddenly the reward mechanism says “boat spotted”.

Sounds like a good set of laws to me - especially registration (mostly to help drive down bike theft rates).

Uno reverse: Invite him to your country and play videos about the horrific human rights violations in the USA.

Depends what you want kids to learn.

Propaganda, yes; everything else, no…

That’s the real joke behind it all, the use of AI is such a problem because we’re turning education into a stamp dispenser - everyone needs an A* to get anywhere.

AI has given every student a path to this - however if industry stopped demanding that universities train their damn staff for them, and instead insist we teach their future staff how to be trained (as well as giving them subject specific knowledge), then we’d see the misalignment vanish. Once the need for an A* to land a good job is gone, then so is the misalignment.

Ah yes, goal misalignment at its finest.

The students need high grades to get a job, so they focus on ensuring that happens (AI use being the easy path).

The teachers have progression targets to meet, so they focus on ensuring this happens (keep the AI vulnerable assessments).

If you want to change a module as a teacher, good luck getting that work loaded when you should be implementing AI in your curriculum ^_^

Truth is proof - I can neither prove the number of gods is >0, nor prove it is =0.

Thus cautious agnosticism (since the evidence suggests, if there is at least one god, then they really hate us).

The forehead wrinkles say “nope”.

Microcosmic example. Take 3 people - a newborn (A), a professor of biology (B) and a professor in philosophy ©.

You’re easily able to argue that both professors are more intelligent than the newborn (A<B and A<C). However, you’re unable to establish (in any meaningful way) whether B<C, or C<B; even B=C is out. This is because both professors have knowledge the other does not, so trying to meaningfully equate or order them in relation to one another is an act of futility.

This is a fun example of a partial order that most of us see every day (in a less extreme form).

Shh! Quiet everyone!

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I can almost make out the words…

Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.

Gaming, reading, and (rarely, when folks visit) drinking!

"You’re not just a regular moron, you were DESIGNED to be a moron. " - Portal 2

Probably the darkest truth - modern moronity is generally by design, not by misfortune.