AI tools are actually really helpful with this kind of stuff. Not with actually resolving the conflict, but with setting things up so that you can see and reason about it.

Just use contactless to pay for your pizza pie.

I’m reminded of a certain scene from The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks.

Wait for it to cool down so you can taste it when you chug the whole thing luke warm.

Which processes? Does it wear them for me?

When you have more options to pick from, you can choose the one that most closely aligns with your views, rather than just picking the least bad one.

can’t do domestic chores

My robovac is pretty good at domestic chores, no LLM involved tho. My dish and clothes washing machines also do a better job than I could by hand, and only require me to load and unload them.

There’s a later chapter called ‘Wangs Carpets’ that was first published as a standalone short story, and goes even harder.

I think the whole book is available on the authors site, but other formats are a lot more readable.

You’re thinking of robots as specialists and humans as generalists. All it’d take is a robot generalist.

You gotta read the opening to Diaspora, by Greg Egan. https://www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html

Chicken Tikka Masala. Nuff said.

Well I think it’s nifty.

Grouse!

A “dimension” is just something that can be measured. Imagine you have a square of paper and it has 5 coins on it. It has a width, a height, a thickness, a coin count. That’s 4 dimensions already. It also has zero elephants on it, now we have 5 dimensions!

The trick is to only consider the “dimensions” you’re actually interested in.

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Can you use that for non-work travel too?

Gender reassignment surgery.

It sounds like you’re conflating legal proof with scientific proof. They’re very different concepts. All your evidence is hearsay, which is very weak as a legal proof, and completely meaningless as scientific proof.

It’s exactly as bad as you describe.

I guess it could be a burrito joint in Dotonbori.