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Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
  • humans just put certain expectations into the word.

    ... which is entirely the way words work to convey ideas. If a word is being used to mean something other than the audience understands it to mean, communication has failed.

    By the common definition, it's not "intelligence". If some specialized definition is being used, then that needs to be established and generally agreed upon.

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    How about we play, "Never have I ever"?
  • Jam is made with pureed fruit, while jelly is made from fruit juice. Colloquially, though, people use the terms interchangeably constantly.

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    How about we play, "Never have I ever"?
  • I always hated the advice to make an L with your hands to see which one was Left. No one ever specified whether you're supposed to have your palms facing you or facing away, so it's ambiguous.

    When I was a kid, I would picture a dining place setting because I knew the fork was on the left.

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    Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?
  • I have it on pretty good authority that everyone

    That's where your comment went wrong. Just about everything that anyone claims "everyone" does is false. Maybe "lots of people," "most people," or even "by far, most people" do a thing, but literally "everyone"? BS.

    I don't like looking at breasts, and I have absolutely no interest in them.

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    Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important
  • 5 years: pay what it costs now

    It doesn't cost anything to copyright something. You just automatically own the copyright to something you create.

    (This may vary outside the US; I'm not familiar with international copyright law.)

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    The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords
  • Only a 2% yearly increase?!? Are you serious? I lived in an apartment for 8 years, and my ending rent was 70% higher than my starting rent. By your number, it should have ended up only about 15% higher.

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    to those of you of either sex who wear thongs or strings, doesn't the back side get in direct contact with your anus?
  • "Thong" can mean a type of sandal, also known as flip-flops, but it's also the name of a type of underwear or swimsuit bottom that's basically a string in the back.

    I grew up calling flip flops "thongs", but as I got older, people were almost exclusively using that term for the underwear, so I switched terms to avoid confusion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong

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    Why don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people?
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that a medical intervention justified by observational data must be in want of verification through a randomised controlled trial.

    This was a great read. Thanks.

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    Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available?
  • That depends on how you define breasts. From Wikipedia:

    The platypus' mammary glands lack teats, with milk released through pores in the skin. The milk pools in grooves on the mother's abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

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    Why do people hate TV shows like The Biggest Loser and My 600-lb Life?
  • Because eating less doesn't require any effort.

    Eating less takes a lot of effort for me because if I eat until I feel reasonably full, it's actually too much food, and I gain weight. If I'm maintaining my weight, then I'm constantly hungry. If I'm losing weight, I feel like I'm starving.

    I used to be pretty thin, even slightly underweight. Then I went on a medicine for a few months, and it completely ruined my appetite. I'm currently on a medicine for something unrelated that happens to curb my appetite, and it's the only reason I'm not severely overweight.

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