That might actually be the problem. Like how people who are too similar can’t stand each other.

I’ve never particularly enjoyed southpark. not my cuppa.

but i wouldn’t say it ruined anything and it’s frequently poignant in it’s evisceration of certain people or groups of people. maybe they’re part of those groups?

So how did they know you were you?

They allowed you to update the signature. They may have been oddly fixated on the signatures matching, but they still verified your identity in some other way.

Or they’re idiots who shouldn’t be in control of other people’s money,

It’s all just chemistry. Many compounds/molecules/whatever basically self-assemble and then from there the kinds of reactions are limited by chemistry.

From there evolution took over and found ways of doing things. Once it found those ways, it got past to everything that came after. Melatonin originally evolved in bacteria as an antioxidant.

From there it became useful for other things like regulating growth and as stress response as well as managing circadian rhythms and such like.

Basically any moral plugged into hallmark movie channel or similarly designed crap. Things rarely “just”work out, and certainly never because of love, god, or good vibes.

Nobody has relied only on signatures to verify that a person signed it, since forever. Especially because forgery was always a thing.

This is why documents that are important aren’t just signed by one person; they’re signed by witnesses who presumably will vouch for it. (Like notary public’s are a thing.)

For lesser contracts they first verify you are in fact you.

There’s no functional difference online- to within a reasonable standard.

Naw. You just gotta poop quick.

The metal latrine seats are a bad idea in winter, though.

physical signatures are just asking you to write your name in a box…

Not a huge difference.

You already got your answer, so I’m gonna be sarcastic… sorry.

It’s a skill issue, stop playing the brown notes.

There’s a lot broader sorts of AI’s than just LLMs. People are doing all sorts of incredible things with them.

I don’t know why people think LLMs are the most advanced AI we have- very far from it, actually.

Right now most of them are fairly narrow in scope, but they’re still far more complex than LLMs.

Consciousness or whatever we want to call “it” doesn’t have a a threshold. It’s not like there’s an easy answer for it. It’s not a “you’re outside, step though the door, now you’re inside” kind of thing.

It’s a spectrum. So yeah. That tapeworm is on the spectrum, but very low down. (Probably consistent with artificial narrow intelligence, maybe,)

Short answer? Yes.

Consciousness arises out of complexity. The awareness that we have is Jill derived from chemical reactions in our brains triggering things in response to stimuli.

Our responses are complex because the system that generates them is complex.

It’s an arrogant assumption that humans are special, that there’s something that makes us more than just animals, that a machine whose systems are complex enough could never be like us.

That said…. As they stand now, LLMs will never be Artificial General Intelligence.They barely rate Artificial Narrow Intelligence. (They’re pattern recognition systems with a huge hash of data to draw on. It’s not particularly complex as far as AGI goes.)

Find some relevant XKCD, and drop that on a 404 page

You did say you want to troll people

*Hojack Borschtman has entered the chat

You know that everyone’s likeness is usually protected under (us) state law. it’s technically called the right of publicity; so usually you can’t use that other person’s face either without their consent.

Oh you’d think.

But I doubt that Dawkins is the only creep with ai girlfriend.

• some people have hste symbols tsttooed, which don’t hold much meaning IMO.

Uh. Yeah they do. Normally tattoos of that nature are used to signal being part of that group. Same as with gang tats. You see a dude with a swastika, he’s letting you know he’s a Nazis.

A rude idiot!

Shrinkage is no joke!

First, if the road floods, that would push drain clogging debris into the road, not away from it, and while many roads can operate a slight clog at the side, it becomes more problematic at the center.

Secondly, if it does clog, regardless if it was from a flood or just litter flowing into it with normal rain, some one has to go unclog it.

That someone would then either have to shut down both directions or be at risk of being hit from both directions.

Third, with the way roads are constructed, it would be a lot more expensive to design the sewers to either tolerate the loads (imagine a big heavy truck,) or burry it deep enough that the load is distributed around it anyways.

Fourth, maintenance. If something happens where you need to dig up your sewer, putting it to the side means you’re not also digging up the road. The reverse is also true.

Fifth, in freezing conditions, you don’t really want the water pooling in the center… you want it to the side, at least before it freeze back into ice.