> “a árvore”

I'm glad that Portuguese doesn't try to trip up foreigners on purpose here, like Spanish does with "el agua" (which is still a feminine word, but takes the masculine article because "la agua" is too hard to pronounce).

French does this too: "mon" is masculine, "ma" is feminine, "ami" is masculine (so "mon ami" is correct), "amie" is feminine, but you have to say "mon amie". Some things contract (like "n'est", "c'est", "l'homme"), but not "ma."

Is AI advancing humanity, though? Or is it only advancing technology while divorcing it from the human?

Define, "advancing humanity."

Are we talking about turning everyone into philosophers and somehow ascending to a higher plane of existence? Yeah, AI isn't going to help with that (probably).

Or are we talking about useful, positive benefits to every day people like better speech recognition, tools for the visually impaired, disease research, physics research, science in general, and loads of other areas where AI is improving things?

I'm not sure how to square

> It's hard for me to imagine a profession that should exist in a utopian society

with

> People should have instant access to food when they're hungry and housing when the weather gets bad

You don't think that farming, baking, and building are professions?

I assume they mean that it is all already automated in the utopian society. And I would kinda agree that that would be utopian. But sadly we live in the real world where greed rules pretty much everything, meaning that it will remain an unobtainable dream for (most likely) ever.

There's unfortunately a huge contingent of people who would strongly oppose a utopia where we all could live as equals in comfortable, luxurious lifestyles, where robotics, replicators, AI, and automation took care of everyone's needs and wants.

They oppose the "live as equals" part.

Farming and baking are already very thoroughly automated and their labor force completely proletarianized.

That has not been decided. The only thing that's been decided is that the LLM itself does not have copyright on its output.

Combining info from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740907 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740901, it seems that they're relying on TSMC for the first batch and are planning to move production to JASM once that's ready?

It's also only true when compared against a no-frills intersection. A two-lane roundabout has better overall throughput than a two-lane intersection with traffic lights. To increase throughput, they usually add turn lanes to avoid cars having to stop in the through lanes -- but the turn lanes require more road surface than the roundabout would have.

But then, how come you blame this on the existence of roundabouts and not on the lawlessness of drivers?

Because driver compliance with red traffic lights is far, far higher than compliance with pedestrian right-of-way rules.

And the reason is obvious: when the driver runs the law of the red light, they run into a law of physics (cross traffic).

Yes and no. "rede" is a noun and has two syllables (ray-də) and means address (as in Gettysburg address). It's an archaic word, nowadays we would use "toespraak" (speech) or "lezing" (lecture). The word does share its origin with the modern English "to read", but no Dutch speaker would interpret "rede" to mean the same as a parent reading a child a bedtime story.

And troon == throne, obviously.

How does this proposal affect the employers you mention?

What are the odds of this regime ceding power willingly in 2028?