He only proposed the cat thing to show how ridiculous it is to apply quantum mechanics to macroscopic objects. Unfortunately the sarcasm was missed and it became the standard example of quantum mechanics.

What if the world was flat, like a disc. A discworld, so to say. And it is like this because the corner of the cosmos it floats through is just a bit more absurd than regular reality.

Other way around. If your fantasy / sci-fi novel does not sell well, rebrand it as a new groundbreaking “history”. Include how it gets ridiculed by main stream science that does maliciously ignore all the evidence.

You have instantly gained a huge, uncritical customer and fan base.

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The OP said “get airborne”. Controlled flight was not part of the discussion.

I am very certain that most animals can get airborne, even for prolonged periods of time,when reaching high enough speed. The trick lies in accelerating them to sufficient speed. Safe landing and deceleration can also pose a problem.

Really nice one. I am now running that as my wallpaper.

by mistake?

Saturday is for the chores that I didn’t do during the week, but Sunday I do absolutely nothing that even looks like chores, except cooking and cleaning up afterwards. One day per week is just free time and no one should feel bad about that.

Grafiti can be art, but even when skillfully executed it is still vandalism if the owner of the facade did not aquiesce.

Great situation with the rising cost of food. Now we can just start cooking those giant rats.

Nah, but when an older, more experienced person empathically tells you that your idea is shit you might abandon it. After all when you try to keep an open mind and consider criticism of your ideas you are vulnerable to this kind of attack. Especially if you are low on self confidence.

I am afraid it just means migratory thrush. And the latin name for thrushes (turdus) was assigned by a Swede. So how it sounds in English is just a happy little accident.

Yellow jackets gather both protein rich and sugary foods. The proteins go to the larva and the sugars sustain the adults population.

While you are correct that there likely is no intention and certainly no self-awareness behind the scheming, the researchers even explicitly list the option that the AI is roleplaying as an evil AI, simply based on its training data, when discussing the limitations of their research, it still seems a bit concerning. The research shows that given a misalignment between the initial prompt and subsequent data modern LLMs can and will ‘scheme’ to ensure their given long-term goal. It is no sapient thing, but a dumb machine with the capability to decive its users, and externalise this as shown in its chain of thought, when there are goal misalignments seems dangerous enough. Not at the current state of the art but potentially in a decade or two.

Und wo gehts hin?

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WTF is helix?

So, first of all a bee-ologist can only help you marginally, as bees are in the same order as wasps, hornets and ants but relatively far removed from them. Hornets (genus vespa) and classic wasps (genus vespula) on the other hand share the same subfamily vespinae and are both considered wasps. This was a nice short dive into wikipedia. As I am a crystallographer any real entomologist can feel free to correct me.

Nice story. Were those just plain zombies, or some other kind of intelligent undead? Because necromancers can raise both types in a fight and this cloud sounds like a raising/converting effect some of those intelligent undead can do. I have absolutely no idea why they were friendly, because they usually are either loyal to the necromancer or just plain agressive against the living.

Also nice that you stayed stubborn on these useless bugbats.