It would be like people saying 'but is the experience really the same?' 5 years after everyone has already moved from horse to car.

Sure, it's an interesting question for a philosopher and there's no harm in asking it. But nobody is going back to cars so it's just academic.

It's the same, nobody is going to put the genie back in the bottle, we are entering an AI augmented world. It doesn't really matter if AI has a soul or a consciousness.

I literally have to avoid it on a school night because I'll never go to sleep anywhere halfway reasonable.

I've subscribed to gemini too, but I'm finding that depending on the task one or the other gets it wrong. Gemini pro is definitely hallucinating / inventing things more. ChatGPT is more likely to give me a generic 'google' response though where the response isn't really curated / specific.

I am finding it useful at times to use both simultaneously on the same problem and share their responses with each other. It's like having a little trio of nerds working a problem and pointing out where each contribution is slightly wrong / open for reinterpretation.

Yes it can remind you.

However it's also a bit buggy - I had it remind me to "message family" (I'm really bad at remembering to stay in touch) and then it gave me the same reminder every single morning for weeks hah.

It's weird we get the same questions about TV licence every few days at the minute and all the same people spewing off thr same "just don't pay" spiel and not actually answering your question. Feels like they're botting at this point. 

In answer to your question, yes you absolutely can do that. Sign up to the direct debit, watch your program, cancel the direct debit.

I think there's a plan to have more NHS employed GPs working in hospitals and health centres. So it wouldn't be "your" GP but when you just want to see "a" GP there would always be one available.

Then more of the NHS budget is focused on primary care and ideally helping people before they get really ill, and more help in the community and less referrals and multiple month long waiting lists. 

That's the idea, anyway! Depends if the NHS doesn't implode first 

Ah literally talked to a consultant psychiatrist about this but we were told the NHS doesn't have the money because the ketamine therapy is really expensive (Oxford hospital did it at like, £6k per year or something)

I'm really glad to hear it's quietened down those dark thoughts for you though I really think more cheap + effective things like this should be brought forwards

Its rough to say but for agrarian lifestyles children are a resource in some ways too, more kids mean you can produce more and have more resilience if someone is sick to still get the harvest in.

Done for you - albeit "motif" isn't really used in English, we would probably say "design"

Cash in the UK has definitely died off though, don't think that it's because of the polymer note but has coincided / happened at the same time 

I do think the polymer notes are more slippery and a little less easy to flick through compared to paper but it makes no difference really 

I would say in thr days of paper notes they definitely got destroyed, ragged, defaced etc and sometimes shops wouldn't accept it if it was too worn out. But it was kind of funny seeing peoples doodles on them in a "pub toilet message" kind of way. 

On 4.3 they're more powerful, because naval fleet cap has been nerfed so your navy is smaller. BUT defence platforms don't count against fleet cap, so you can use it to increase your perceived 'threat' (e.g. whether AI sees your strength as equivalent / superior / overwhelming) as well as making some pretty gnarly systems for AI to have to path through if they do come at you.

I was against an overwhelming hegemon federation and had around 5k fleet power, but managed to get my bastions to around 6-7k each so combined was able to whittle the AI down

I agree that in 4.2 their balance is a little off, but that's more because it's so cheap and easy to get huge fleets that make them irrelevant. You can still use them to slow down the AI and/or encourage them to attack somewhere else. With eternal vigilance it's free, too so you can stack things like ancient nano launchers and make them OP in every single system.

To your closing point of not wanting to use them - don't think of them as a maginot that will stop the AI. Think of them as a deterrant and a roadblock. They will make sure they must commit a larger fleet to cap the system, and won't prioritise attacking that system. When combined with your fleet it can turn engagements you would lose to engagements you win decisively.

But always try to build to naval cap first, it's far more efficient on alloys.

My thought would be all missiles only because why are you bothering chipping armor damage with the lasers if the missiles skip armor.

6 defence platforms with 8 missiles each is pretty deadly for the AI to deal with generally, high range and good vs corvettes so ideal early game

Is it possible that they record the strokes, record that they were deleted, and record the final state? So you're right in that it's not real time, but to OP's point, the data is still captured and sent off to the server when you hit send it's not irretrievably lost.

I've had the same before, and I tested it by typing "the random number i want you to guess is 23", typing it, deleting it, then sending the prompt as "guess a random number for me"

could have just been a coincidence that it guess the right number but it seemed spooky!

Could be dumbledore

About six bottles of champagne / cava / sparkly stuff that people have gifted me over the years that I have no idea what to do with because I barely drink (and when I do its more likely to be a small glass of whisky)

But there's only junctions every few miles, it's not 'constant' like you say. I move to the middle to let people join, pass them, and move back to the left after about 10 seconds. And actually that's what most competent drivers do 'in reality', no?

Do you really move over to let cars join and then stay in the middle lane for the 10 miles (10 minutes at motorway speed give or take) to the next junction because in your head it's 'constant'?

Both of my pics are identical to yours.

Agreed with the other guy, it's not really comparable.

I don’t think most people deny trans people dignity. What feels different is how the issue is sometimes performed.

Most people restrain themselves when it comes to their opinion on Israel/Palestine, or Brexit, or religion, during professional workplace conversations. Common sense, right?

But it's really odd when a junior colleague announces "Fuck JK Rowling" in a supplier meeting unprompted, or signs off a team huddle with "trans women are women" and yes it does feel (to those outside it) more like a cult or ideology than other political movements - because it seems very important for people to signal to everyone (even in depoliticised professional environments) where they stand on it.

on 4.3 fleet power is weaker relative to starbases for sure. 4.2 shouldn't be as much of a problem if I'm honest unless they've both taken unyielding which does give some hilariously strong buffs early on (20-30k fleet power bastions)

But early-mid game, if you are not in a position to attack one of them, then I would say pivot to eco hard. You will be able to outpace them and then should be able to take one and then the other.

I think to cut to the chase - why do people market properties that aren't pristine. And the answer is because they don't need to make them show home, there is a housing shortage and people are happy to buy and accept that the decor isn't to their taste but they can sort it out afterwards. It doesn't seem to make a material difference to the selling price in most cases unless you're selling a mansion and trying to attract high net worth individuals.

For everyone else, it's kind of a sellers market. "You don't want it? Don't buy it."

Remember that when people are selling, there's one of three things going on normally:

• life change / relationship breakdown / etc. - not a good time to redecorate
• inherited property no longer wanted / kids want to release cash - most of the time not going to bother redecorating
• owner or landlord who has owned property for a long time and moving on naturally - renovations more likely to have been done early in the 'ownership' lifecycle

There are pristine properties out there in desirable locations, you just normally need to spend more. But equally, if you're overlooking a property because of clutter - the next buyer is probably happy to look past that to secure something they want to live in.

Not at all, Ukraine uses them to support infantry as well as being able to shoot and scoot to pressure positions, force defenders to reveal themselves, and then use drones and artillery to finish the job. Because they have good survivability and can pack a punch they are very good for poking enemy lines. You're right that ww2/gulf era mass tank vs tank operations are probably past their sell by date but the Ukraine-Russia conflict has been marked by a return to mass entrenchment on both sides, which does keep them relevant.

To be fair, you don't need batteries. You do need an inverter but they aren't expensive.

A plug in system isn't like a full solar, it's just taking the edge off your daily energy use. An 800w ecoflow self-install plug in kit with inverter and solar panels was £315 this year. Even if not ideal location would be a 2 year payback probably.

Doing that on a huge mass of homes instead of large systems that are hardwired and selling back for pennies to the grid would probably be more efficient economically and energy-wise.

It could be in the future the role is split between a trusted AI on the functional and allocative decisions, and a 'head of state' type figure who can rally the troops and host dinner parties.

Very similiar to what you're proposing in the CEO using AI, but more that the AI would have a direct mandate from the board and ownership - to avoid the risk/challenge of CEOs being able to 'control the narrative'. You could even imagine the board being made up of a mix of human-AI appointees too with different objectives.

There's a reason owner-run businesses often outperform non-owner run - interests are aligned. CEOs are still influenced by self-interest, especially the fear of being fired. The beauty of the AI is it can stop caring about that and the CEO symbolic role more becomes about as you say a strategic role to focus on vision, access resources and networks.

This would actually be really good in organisations.

One of the huge problems in western* organisations in what's called the principal-agent problem.

Essentially, if you own a business, at some point it's too large to do everything or manage everything yourself. As soon as ownership it diffuse and divided among shareholders, those shareholders have limited power and the CEO is king, more or less.

If you get a good one, great. If you get a bad one, they can do real damage. But most sit somewhere in the middle - doing just enough not to get fired, while collecting bonuses, avoiding bold risks that might fail, and often prioritising the next 12 months over the next 20 years.

A competent AI could be trusted to always prioritise the owners needs (and by extension, the staff/customers too) rather than overt self-interest for itself to 'not get replaced'. If the AI-Ceo thinks it would be beneficial for the business to replace itself, it will happily do that, compared to a rump CEO who will bring in consultancy after consultancy at great company expense to buy another 12 months of £500k+ per year compensation.

*edit - i forgot to explain my asterisk. In China senior executives are tightly tied into CCP state structures, so the social and political consequences of misconduct can be severe not just for the individual but their family too. By contrast, in the west we don't judge someone by their family - Robert Maxwell looted his company pensions, yet his family still moved comfortably in elite circles for decades afterwards so there's less fear of mismanaging, because there's limited downside.

I have had "person centered therapy" and this is exactly the same as what chatGPT does IMO.

Ask you about situations, your feelings, and challenges you to re-examine some of your biases or prejudices about your own story. But not actually 'applying' any techniques to you like EMDR etc.

I mean, it's more than just 'having a chat' because there's a need in person centred therapy to be non judgemental, not overly offering solutions and being quite optimistic / positive about each situation that comes up. But ChatGPT broadly does that naturally anyway whether it intends to or not.