As I understand from the other comments, it’s a place to put the dishes after they’ve been cleaned and ready for rinsing? The way I’ve always done it is I clean the largest vessel first, then everything goes into that vessel until it fills up, then do a round of rinsing. If I don’t have a large dirty vessel, I take out a large clean mixing bowl for this purpose.

I don’t think the Mona Lisa is a good comparison. When it comes to old paintings, there’s a lot of interesting stuff happening underneath the surface image that tell an interesting story. They can be analyzed to see all the mistakes that were corrected, or changes that were made to the painting. I believe it was also commonplace to reuse old canvases, so with the appropriate technology, you would in theory be able to look underneath and see everything that came before as well. So I can definitely see why that would be valuable.

Still don’t understand diamonds though.

Anyone want to take a capsaicin pill for science?

It’s so weird to me that a diamond can possibly go for that much. I understand that this one was probably made a long time ago based on the way it was cut, but it’s not like we don’t have the means to create an exact replica of it. This thing is pure carbon. There aren’t even impurities to make it interesting.

I think what you’re observing is the interplay between two variables with opposing correlation with respect to wealth:

1. Having empathy
2. Ability to display empathy

Poorer people might have more empathy, but their ability to show it is inhibited because of lack of resources (time/energy/material) and lots of mental health issues that are a result of being poor. Wealthier people may have all the means to display empathy, but they’re less incentivized to do so. At some point in the middle, you get a sweet spot where there’s both sufficient desire and ability to do good.

Growing up, I didn’t like water either because I didn’t like the taste. No one around me could understand how I could dislike it because water supposedly tastes like nothing. BUT IT DOESN’T. WATER HAS FLAVOUR. Anyway, I later figured out that filtered tap water tastes a lot better than the bottled kind.

I believe the main cost is in hosting all the videos. A lot of them are probably junk that were never meant to see the light of day. I certainly use it as an extra backup for many of my videos with no context and random UUID titles.

For everything else, a potential solution is to have everyone come in with their own videos hosted elsewhere and the platform just integrated with a bunch of APIs for fetching and serving those videos. For small time creators, the cost should be fairly low to none since a lot of platforms allow you to store a small number of files for free.

I see no indication that they missed the sarcasm.

I also think it’s lame

The “also” meaning that they believe you also think it’s lame.

Edit: Oh, I just realized the post-war suburbs are the walkable ones. That makes more sense.

To me that means an autonomous being that understands what it is.

A little thought experiment: How would you determine whether another human being understands what it is? What would that look like in a machine?

As far as I’m concerned, “intelligence” in the context of AI basically just means the ability to do things that we consider to be difficult. It’s both very hand-wavy and a constantly moving goalpost. So a hypothetical pacman ghost is intelligent before we’ve figured out how to do it. After it’s been figured out and implemented, it ceases to be intelligent but we continue to call it intelligent for historical reasons.