I’m sorry that you seem to have given up on people. I still think discussing things is worthwhile but from your text I get the impression that you don’t believe in social discourse.

I think it’s a fact that people learn through and with language and that the symbols we humans use are what constructs our reality. So it’s very important what kind of language we use, how we use it and to be precise in our terms and vocabulary.

People are not readymade, everybody has to learn and learning never stops and people are not all on the same level. So no: not everyone knows the same, as you seem to assume.

It’s not semantic – it’s completely different things happening if there’s real consciousness and compassion present based on lifeforms on one hand or a mere simulation of that in form of a text output on the other hand that only superficially looks like there’s something intelligent.

People regularly fall for the illusion and project their own feelings into the machine while reading the text output of an LLM. Many are not capable of differentiating and the chatbots are designed in a way to make it more and more difficult to recognize synthetic output.

Humans are good in projecting their own feelings into things they see, just look at all the cat or dog owners who believe they can read the thoughts of their “babies” from their facial expressions.

LLMs/Chatbots confabulate statistically probable texts, there’s no compassion possible.

Don’t fall into the AI-marketing trap of “we don’t know what’s happening in the black box, so we have to assume there’s consciousness in there”. The systems produce convincing deceptive language, but all signs of intelligence or compassion anyone sees in them is just an anthropomorphic projection.

Prora is active today with hotels and restaurants.

Played stupid game, won stupid prize.

No one here has suggested banning everything that costs the public money.

Smokers, on the other hand, are a minority in society. And in a democratic society, majorities can form to create laws.

Obesity is a little different issue since nutrition is not optional; smoking, on the other hand, is quite non-essential.

There are also programs that address the problem of obesity. The regulation of sugar use as an ingredient in food, for example. But laws in this field are subject to greater influence from the food manufacturers’ lobby. The tobacco lobby, on the other hand, no longer wields as much power, as the majority of people are non-smokers.

We see who decides: the government. In Britain they are elected to do so. That’s democracy. The majority of people are non-smokers, and the tobacco lobby no longer has the power it used to.

They don’t die cheap if they’re treated for cancer several years before the final breath. Billions are lost to society annually as a result. Cancer treatment is largely futile, yet it’s overly expensive. The revenue from tobacco tax is far from sufficient to cover that.

Even if they’re smoking at home, the enormous costs to the healthcare system caused by smokers every year are a burden on the shoulders of everyone in society.

I need some scotch to feel comfortable.

Same here, never used LinkedIn and don’t see any reason for that. LinkedIn is full of self-promoters, none of whom I want to become.

Open job opportunities are posted everywhere on specialized job platforms. Just subscribe to job postings in your own field and then apply directly.

IRENA chart of worldwide renewable energy additions in the last years.

Share of renewable energies in the expansion by 2025: almost 86%

Lungs are simply not made for absorption of substances of the vapor. The lung tissues are very delicate and are there for the exchange of gases. Everything else is a pollution and causes irritation.

The ballroom is just a superstructure for deception, it’s an underground data center which will be built there:

https://youtu.be/VbJ4ilDvGyc

Grabbing countries by the pussy.

You started the war on your own, now deal with the consequences and stop whining that nobody wants to join your stupid endeavour.

We’ve already seen in ‘Collateral Murder’ several wars ago how these things happen.

And are there apps for normal desktop office work?

I’m surely not gonna use Google docs or Microsoft’s cloud clobber.

I can’t note anything sound ‘stupid’ there.

Experiences AND memories do vanish. That’s a fact, it’s completely natural and fine and it’s not a general necessity to fight against that. I found that it is possible to accept transience.

Guess what, we can have new experiences any moment.

Spending much time and money to preserve all the present experiences without gaps and to combat the fleeting nature of all things and to capture every moment of my life for the future seems wasteful. I did this too in the past but the older I get the more I find that I’d rather spend my time in the present moment than in the archive.

Not having so much, being more. The more we collect and accumulate, the more that holds us back.

But hey, I don’t want to discourage anyone and I can understand the approach.