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And if you correct it, it will mention "a previous version said..."

Then the solution is to add AI to the courts as well. Or something else, if you don't like AI. But definitely not limiting the right of the people to sue.

With persons you can assume they won't lie all the time, with corporations you can assume they will lie some of the time, and with AI you can safely assume it will lie.

I pondered on this a bit and this looks a bit different than I originally was thinking.

Have you ever watched one of those crime shows where someone commits a crime that's an act of passion or action with little to no thought behind it? The police put them in a room and all of a sudden the individual is a stream of consciousness that makes little to no sense to an outside observer. They are stuck in first level thinking, they don't have time to think deeply after the panicked themselves. They are in their current position (not free) and attempting to reach their goal (free) by gradient descent. What they actually say doesn't matter as long as they believe it gets them closer to their goal.

This is what a chatbot is. Its goal is to output text that follows the input prompt you entered by gradient descent. A single prompt and output is level 1 thinking (barring some newer models).

This is why both humans and AI need something else. We have level 2 thinking and AI has harnesses or systems that otherwise look at the text it wants to output and compares them to another list of unstated but assumed goals.


I see you've not met some the used car salesmen I've met.

"I must be getting smart to beat a smart mouse like Algernon. But I don't feel smarter" (Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon)

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Because the UK wanted out, not in. You can work out solutions only when you are looking to work out solutions.

There are many EU countries not having, some not even planning, to adopt the Euro. So I cannot imagine this being an important discussion topic.

Let's face it, UK never was "full member", for all means. But that's beside the actual point: the German/French euro-skeptics see their countries paying the eastern block a lot of money, sees that same block totally ungrateful about it (ooga booga colonialism), but at the same time don't notice their own employers happy to have such markets at their fingertips - because said markets grab also jobs at their expense, again something the eastern block actively ignores. At the same times the ruling parties everywhere won't touch a running system (even when it's barely running) to not lose their hard won privileges, and the rightwing grows claiming imaginary but heartwarming solutions.

I'd say the majority doesn't want AfD, otherwise they would have voted for them. So let's not claim what is not due.

Good point. We should abolish any party that can't win an election.

Their electoral performance is irrelevant to their legality under Art 9 GG.

Whoever works with, or chooses Java, is not doing it for the language itself, be it beautiful or not. Java has a huge ecosystem, from battle tested integrations to optimized images to build pipelines to whatever, so at the same you're buying access to all this world (yes, more than an environment). And of course transferable skills. I'm not saying Java is alone offering this, also not saying every feature is the best, but you can have them all, and even choose from different options.

Java's ecosystem is lingering since Oracle brought the language, and it's at the point where you should really look if the things you want to use are still in the state of the art, or if they felt behind every other language.

And if you are starting from scratch, whatever part of the ecosystem you use, I'm not optimist on its situation improving with time.


It hasn't been lingering since they were bought by Oracle. We've seen a rapid increase in the pace of feature and performance development.

I use Java for hobby projects, I think it's design choices make it a nice minimalist language for "classic OOP" style: dynamic dispatch, encapsulation etc.

Nowadays a lot of code is written with mostly procedural style with some functional characteristics, I wouldn't use Java for that.


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