I didn’t bring up Chinese rooms because it doesn’t matter.

We know how chatGPT works on the inside. It’s not a Chinese room. Attributing intent or understanding is anthropomorphizing a machine.

You can make a basic robot that turns on its wheels when a light sensor detects a certain amount of light. The robot will look like it flees when you shine a light at it. But it does not have any capacity to know what light is or why it should flee light. It will have behavior nearly identical to a cockroach, but have no reason for acting like a cockroach.

A cockroach can adapt its behavior based on its environment, the hypothetical robot can not.

ChatGPT is much like this robot, it has no capacity to adapt in real time or learn.

You’re the one who made this philosophical.

I don’t need to know the details of engine timing, displacement, and mechanical linkages to look at a Honda civic and say “that’s a car, people use them to get from one place to another. They can be expensive to maintain and fuel, but in my country are basically required due to poor urban planning and no public transportation”

ChatGPT doesn’t know any of that about the car. All it “knows” is that when humans talked about cars, they brought up things like wheels, motors or engines, and transporting people. So when it generates its reply, those words are picked because they strongly associate with the word car in its training data.

All ChatGPT is, is really fancy predictive text. You feed it an input and it generates an output that will sound like something a human would write based on the prompt. It has no awareness of the topics it’s talking about. It has no capacity to think or ponder the questions you ask it. It’s a fancy lightbulb, instead of light, it outputs words. You flick the switch, words come out, you walk away, and it just sits there waiting for the next person to flick the switch.

If you have a modern receiver, like any smartphone from the last 10 years, gps is accurate to a couple of meters.

It’s only a couple of meters for a few of reasons: necessity, speed, and scale.

It’s not necessary for most users to have centimeter precision for gps. Most uses for GPS is for humans to find a place, most humans have eyes, or can at least read braille signs. So if you’re looking for a pizza place and your gps says you’ve arrived, you can look around and see that the pizza place is 3 meters down the road.

Speed, because you can get really accurate locations out of gps, but your receiver would need to refine your location by talking to many satellites many times, which isn’t needed for most users as just knowing if you’re on the right street and the right side of the street is enough. Many communications would mean it takes a long time for the gps device to determine a precise location, which is frustrating for your average user.

And scale, it’s a really big planet, and there’s a finite number of gps satellites. The less satellites in your network, or the less they’ll talk to your receiver, means less accurate data and a less accurate location.

TLDR: most people don’t need sub meter precision from their gps, so it’s simply not provided to most people.

My buddy from high school works with tanks for the army. I’ll be sure to let him know he needs to watch out for the new Russian technology of luring tanks under comically large blocks of steel suspended by crane.

Truly a devastating weapon

All this effort to identify a stealth aircraft first developed in 1996

I don’t know which is more impressive, the tech the US military had 28 years ago, or the amount of engineering time china had spent on spotting a jet that has seen limited use and is being replaced by an even newer stealth jet.

Several things can be true at the same time.

Starlink exists to give SpaceX nongovernment launches to boost its numbers and make it look good as a stock.

It also happens to provide a service at what is almost certainly a loss, considering each satellite only lasts a few years and thus requires a constant stream of replacements to be launched.

It also happens to fill the sky with a bunch of garbage that will inevitably hit something and lead to a spray of even more garbage.

Flirting with Kessler syndrome so you can land trick shots in Fortnight.

The only benefit starlink has over transitional satellite internet is relatively low latency, you could have gotten a different satellite provider.

Just because there hasn’t been a collision yet, doesn’t mean there won’t be. And there has been measurable damage to ground based telescope observations due to the constant stream of starlink sats overhead.

This is false advertising.

Starlink was the first company and product designed to intentionally increase space junk.

Although not needing to provide and internet connection does mean FragSat is a cheaper and more superior product.

Not if they’re made on earth and exposed to the atmosphere.

The layer of iron oxide on the outside will prevent cold welding.

Or just coat them all in grease.

Is Australia mainly contract employment?

I can’t imagine any other reason why you couldn’t just say that you shut your phone off when you get home.

If the building burnt down, I’ll find out when I get there in the morning.