TeknOShEeP
29d ago
animal brains in general are extraordinarily skilled at learning what's necessary for success in their environments.
Yes, animal brains are extrodinary examples of specialized, niche intelligence. What very clearly sets homo sapiens apart is general intelligence, and the ability to learn things devoid of instinctual context.
Even if you take Pascal's wager seriously, it is not actually very useful.
I find it as useful as AI safetyism- a highly uncertain system with allegedly vast consequences easily subverted by defectors. Fortunately I'm very much on Team AI Fizzle, so the fact that its clearly unworkable nonsense doesnt matter to me.
they did the math which showed that a chain reaction was impossible prior to the test.
No, they did the math to suggest that based on what they knew at the time, a chain reaction was unlikely to a fairly high, but very much not unity, degree of certainty. And as the Castle Bravo whoopsie showed a few years later, that same group of very smart people was capable of making some fundamental errors resulting in catastrophic consequences.
TeknOShEeP
29d ago
Uh, object is a singular noun. You are describing collective and/or plural nouns. It is trivially true that they are more complicated in the multiple, but in no way renders the claim incorrect.
It hasn't yet, but as recent events show, it is enforced through stealth bombers dropping 30,000 lbs bunker busters and massive air raids. Or full scale ground invasions deposing the existing governement. All of which I would classify under "Big Stick" diplomacy.
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