I'm getting the feeling you don't politic. That's fine, really... But you're probably not the right person to judge what a person is and isn't qualified for - unless you've got some qualifications you're not mentioning?

I'm certainly not qualified.

I don't think he went there without prior authorization from the president. Maybe he knows someone. Maybe he's looking into war crimes.

So normal stuff, then?

I argue that by the time an extinguisher was used, the burns are fatal. Indeed, a standard chemical extinguisher could kill him all by itself.

I wonder how long the response from a fire truck may be?

I realize it's mind boggling to realize that people suck, but most of the time it just doesn't matter. Sure, it absolutely can, sometimes, but how often do people even realize that the thing they're witnessing isn't just an act?

Is the first thing you think of when you stumble upon a burning human "oh, that dude is in need of assistance", or more like "what the fuck is this"?

I don't know what I would do, personally, having never been in the situation, but I'm not at all surprised that normal people behave like normal people.

You carry around an extinguisher?

Sometimes being a great witness is the best you can do.

Bats are mammals, we are mammals. Bats come into contact with other vectors, such as mosquitos. They sleep in huge dog piles with barely an inch or two ever separating one bat from its neighbor.

Plus they poop, a lot, all over the place. If we were closer to birds, evolutionarily speaking, we'd get even more diseases.

Twist: the emus trained them

Hey, it's great that you want to be like your hero, really great stuff...

But don't try to emulate a god. We can put aside the whole "it's made up" argument for this... A god has certain advantages over mortals. Namely immortality.

It's lovely, but lonely.

No. Exodus has no archaeological evidence at all. Not even the existence of Hebrew people within the nation living in slavery.

No pottery, nothing at all. No way for a million people to pour out of a busy nation in a few days and find nothing. It appears as though it was an adaptation of a Persian story. Same general theme, made for the Hebrew people after the fall of Israel during the Persian invasion. The religion was very different at that time.

This is during the Greek occupation, not the pharo rule. Thousands of years after they ruled.

Still super interesting, though.

Edit: it could be Babylon. 🤷

I'm in general agreement.

I like you. Let's make a religion together

You'd think so, but for every objection raised they have an answer that is plausible to anyone who might believe in God (and already believe what they do).

I had to already be on my way out to even be able to hear the problems. It's pretty much this way in all religions, too.

If you are thinking "I don't suffer from this", whether that's because you're religious or not, you do. Nobody is immune to errors in thinking.

We all know things that are simply wrong.

I had just accepted it, as well. I suppose one should wonder why the suspect wasn't already dead, if it were the case that casually touching it would be likely to cause investigate od.

While they do that, this isn't that.

You can also invest, get some money out of it, assuming your income isn't entirely required to survive.

I've been noticing a trend of eliminating compressed cans lately... I wonder if someone finally decided to care a bit about the consequences.

I really like my fabreeze spray bottle,

It could just go straight to voice synthesis if they really wanted it to. With modern deep fake tech, it would even sound like him.

Title capitalization is common... Maybe pasé, but common.

Fyi, I have no idea if my spelling is correct and I don't care. 😝

Not merely lying, but performing fake medical procedures. That's ill-informed consent

But that's not natural selection, it's guided. You get an entirely different evolutionary product with guided evolution.

You get a god.

I see your point. Yes, selection pressures will exist, but I don't think that they'll work in the same way as life vs death, where fight vs flight is the main solution.

It'll just try to improve the code to solve the problem. It's not terribly hard to ensure the basic "don't harm people" imperative remains enshrined. Either way, though, a "wild" AI isn't likely to reproduce.

I expect they could leave the planet easily enough, but flesh is somewhat fragile. They could take the materials necessary to set up shop elsewhere, they don't need a specific atmosphere, just the right planet with the right gravity.

Well, I'm not using it in the literal sense. The sun will swallow the Earth eventually.

I kind of want to become immortal, in suffering, feel like I'm 20 forever.

You know, I think overall they're harder to trick. We're all a bit more aware of it than before, so it looks like it's worse.

Kind of like an inverse ... Crap. What's that term for people being too stupid to know they're stupid? Words.

You might be right on that, but I'm not overly concerned. Like, sure, but I think my point still stands.

Either way, we're close and it's just not as big a deal as it's made it to be - although it might be pretty cool.

Or our doom.

I keep telling people that. A screwdriver doesn't murder you just because it becomes the best screwdriver ever...

AI is just a tool. It has no mechanism to evolve into true life. No need to change its nature to continue existing. No survival pressures at all.