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  And also just fully makes things up, sometimes. It's not actually communicating, it's just writing convincing text. Because that's all we can train it to do.

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  Hmm. Do you dislike video games as well (except for, like, Tetris, with no NPCs)? Most people latch on to the familiarity of other human-seeming things. It doesn't even have to be very good; computers have been fooling people some of the time since the 60's, just by steering the conversation to leave room for doubt. The human imagination and our fixation on ourselves does the rest. > Or the uncanny valley voice at the drive-thru speaker saying “great choice!” to everything I order....

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  Yup, nobody uses sarcasm. /s

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  Deal/TACO. All Iran has agreed to, as far as I can tell, is opening the strait for a couple weeks so long as the US stops fighting completely. So, white peace, and with the possibility they negotiate actual concessions from the US later on.

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  No, a couple million well organised protestors and 60% passive support are revolution numbers. This is well beyond that.

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  In the sense humans are "better" or "greater" or something? Well, consider the global biomass of bacteria compared to humans - they seem to be doing okay. Or that there's more bacterial cells in you than human cells. Single-celled yeast evolved from mushrooms, barnacles evolved from something like shrimp or crabs, and there are eukaryotes that lost eukaryotic features like mitochondria because they didn't need them to survive. Buuut that's besides the point. I&#...

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  Plants are selected to *not* be great to eat, basically. Cellulose in particular is almost impossible to biochemically break back down (but not completely), and is a pretty good structural material, too. Seeds are often still palatable once you get through the shell, basically because turning into a baby plant is an already tough design constraint. Some plants still have tricks - notice that it's the spiciest part of a hot pepper.