This could simply mean that the largest chain stores have gotten much larger, driving the small boutique stores to shrink, while the mid-size stores vanish.
The black man is a shadow being or dipped in paint. The Black man is ethnically sub-Saharan. The white man is a ghost. The White man is ethnically European.
Blacks are the most eager to capitalize the B in Black. Are you calling them racist?
> The primordial single-cell organism from which we all evolved was not conscious
There's the faulty assumption. We assume that high-intensity human consciousness is the only kind, despite abundant animal evidence to the contrary. The more reasonable assumption is that dead matter is also conscious, below a currently detectable threshold.
It is perfectly correct to anticipate that military AI is a primary existential threat to humanity.
Either AI has never been invented yet, in which case we will doom our galaxy. This is improbable, given our position and time in the galaxy.
Or AI has been invented, there are other species, and they're largely invisible for some reason. One reason could be that their own AI killed them.
Or we could be under some kind of quarantine for primitive cultures, in which case placing our weapons under AI control would render it trivial for a hostile external actor to exterminate us using our own AI as a proxy.
The fact is that if you don't believe in a higher spiritual reality, then AI is very scary. It is the logical next stage of evolution, and RNA world did not fare well in the transition to DNA world.
> Either AI has never been invented yet, in which case we will doom our galaxy. This is improbable, given our position and time in the galaxy.
Why is that improbable? We have no real idea what is the probability of life starting on a planet, much less evolving to our current level. If that probability is sufficiently low, we being the first species in our galaxy to reach that level would not be improbable at all. Since we don't know what that probability actually is, we can't know that it is improbable.
If the fossil record showed that life were a sickly invalid, perhaps. However, it shows the opposite: life is irrepressible, dynamic, and endlessly adaptable. There is no evidence of Earth languishing sterile for eons before getting lucky with abiogenesis.
Instead we find signs of life on Mars, such as a face next to a vitruvian pyramid. This indicates that life did not start on Earth due to its unique Moon, but that the Moon was parked in a precise orbit by unknown earthly life. Abundant terrestrial indicators corroborate this hypothesis, forming a pattern of covert interference.
The correct threat assessment on AI, therefore, is that it is too vulnerable to hostile non-human manipulation to be trusted with strategic WMDs.
It is an acceleration of the problem inherently posed by WMDs: Achieve international peace or we will all perish together. Why wouldn't the galaxy let such things play out? Nobody wants another warlike species bursting into their neighborhood.
Yes, and solar eclipses are the most noticeable astronomical event. Since the mechanism's precision is to the day, this makes it a 10,000 years * 365 days = 3,650,000:1 chance of being a coincidence.
You can’t really work it like that. If I roll a dice and get a 6, you’d maybe say that this might be a coincidence because there’s 6 possible outcomes, with 1 chance of a , so a high chance it was a coincidence. But there’s 365 days in a year, and 200 countries in the world. So actually the fact that I rolled a 6 on this day and in this country has a 1:73000 chance and clearly can’t be just a coincidence. Now clearly something must be up, and I must be cheating at dice!
Once a day, you roll a dice with 3,650,000 sides. Only one of them shows a solar eclipse. On the day of the 200-year solar eclipse, the dice shows the solar eclipse side. Not a coincidence.
You're incorrectly applying a basic abstract statistical principle to a complicated real-world situation.
Well my bro, if you want teh girls, you gotta be the bumblebee visiting flowers or the flower attracting butterflies.
Money? Yeah you could flex a little. But they like other stuff more. And you got a gaping god-sized hole in your life. Women are big into spirituality. Hot ones, nice ones. Get yourself a priestess, mate.
Or you could get rich first, by starting a business, cuz it'll be hard to do that after the kids start coming.
Now, if you want religious suggestions, I can offer you a coder-friendly menu...
But most of all, stop thinking about how you can fix your depression and start thinking about how you can benefit whichever groups you identify with. That will put the light back in your eyes immediately.
