Part4

Paid for: full self driving

Got: a chatbot that styles itself on Hitler

Earth system scientists put the kind of society complex enough for hospitals and higher education require an energy returned on energy invested in the teens. 'Renewables' (let's call them low carbon, there isn't anything very renewable about the blade of a wind turbine) barely touch that and often don't get near.

• The picture is so varied that one can find statistics to counter this 'barely touches the teens' claim. Look at the totality of the picture and draw your own conclusions. I am just presenting some reasoning to justify a claim that we are heading towards a much lower energy future, maybe next century or something (which doesn't have to be bad, provided everybody isn't slaving for a class of energy-obese billionaires protected by a fascist police state).

• I looked into this a lot about 15 years ago, when it seemed that we were still in the last chance saloon on avoiding catastrophic climate change. The science might have moved on. I don't have current sources anybody interested in the concept of eroei and the complexity it creates will have to look themselves.

It occurs to me that they must all do each other's hair (and makeup) which is quite nice of them.

Carney is and always was a neo-liberal banker. :It seems inevitable, all things considered, that the fossil-fuel powered neo-liberal capitalism the West (maybe English speaking countries) has experienced since Reagan (and Thatcher) will only set the stage for fascism.

A choice between right or hard right is a choice between the length of fuse you want on the bomb. Unfortunately, the longer the fuse the bigger the bomb - because of the problem-multiplying impacts of things like climate change and poverty/reduction in education etc etc etc.

Oh look, it's vice.com, so presumably these 'scientists' are from the University of Joe Rogan or U of Y(outube) or something.

There is literally zero chance of the British accepting the Euro. It has disaster baked into it.

The Maastricht treaty defined that you lose the right to 1. run budsget deficits in periods of economic contraction. 2. Set interest rates. 3. Devalu your currency when necessary.

Greece got to borrow at rates Germany enjoy - for a while. Germany gets a hugely devalued currency which actually allows it to be a great exporter (well that and the US post WW2 investment).

This inequality in peripheral countries absolutely drives the rise of the far right.

Other than that |the British people don't want to be in the EU. Being forced into it will put Reform UK into power. They are as Russia aligned as Trump.

He made it clear pre-election that that was his intention.

Are we still pretending that voter sentiment is a concern?

Can't see themselves in a mirror but Dracula always had a perfect parting (from Karl Pilkington of course).

If they kill someone once a day to feed and turn them into a vampire in about a month everyone on Earth today would be a vampire, so the maths said they can't be real.

I would describe myself as close to the person you replied to in terms of skill level, and have been using llm's in a similar fashion to the one they described, and get great results. I think the key thing is to know enough to understand what is happening, and see where the llm's limitations are, and use it as a learning resource to actively improve while using it. Then be as specific as possible when asking questions.

Not only is it great in terms of getting working code, I have found chatgpt to be the best teacher I have ever had! (Because of availability etc). I think they must have trained the llm's I have used on a lot of computer and coding sources.

I think the key is to learn at least the basics of coding first.There are scores of 5 to 25 hour long courses on most major programming languages on sites like udemy. Coding can definitely be hard to get your head around at first, but stick with it and do as many of those as it takes, or a night class or something.

If someone isn't prepared to invest a week or two (in truth I spent a lot longer than that studying coding but I wan't particularly time-efficient in my prior learning), then treat the llm as a learning resource, then good luck! I would guess the llm will be able to come up with any idea they can anyway soon enough!