Nobody Cares About Philosophy

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

The trolley problem is just a game. Or is it a simulation? Or do we just need more iron in our diet?

Absurd Trolley Problems

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Strong

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Strong

www.smbc-comics.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game)

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Musk solved the trolley problem.

 

[Free]

Musk solved the trolley problem.

What's the point of running the trolley cart then? SHUT IT DOWN.

 

[Isabeau]

 

[detrius]

Musk solved the trolley problem.

The ultimate expression of white South-African apartheid billionaire privilege.

 

[Free]

Hume, the metaphysics of sensory experience, and why ChatGPT can't draw a full glass of wine. Kind of.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Hume, the metaphysics of sensory experience, and why ChatGPT can't draw a full glass of wine. Kind of.

A lot of this video is based on -

"Impressions always come before ideas, and never the other way around

James Maxwell should he come back to life might disagree. There were no concepts of radio/electromagnetic waves before his theories derived almost exclusively from mathematics and which so much of modern life depends on.

Maxwell Predicts Electromagnetic Waves
In 1864 when he was 33, Maxwell presented a paper “Dynamical Theory Of The Electromagnetic Field,” where he theorized that an electromagnetic disturbance travels in free space with the velocity of light. He also conjectured that light is a transverse electromagnetic wave even though this fact was somewhat hidden in the set of equations he proposed. Most importantly, he described how electricity and magnetism are inexorably linked in a moving electromagnetic wave.

When Maxwell introduced his theory at a presentation to the Royal Society, the audience was mystified. Maxwell had shown a fundamental shift in his approach. Instead of building imaginary physical models, he tried to discern scientific truth from well established mathematical relations known as the laws of dynamics.

To the audience, a difficult physical model would be bad enough, but a theory based on no model at all was beyond their comprehension! Their perplexed state is understandable since Maxwell’s paper was long, hard to grasp quickly, and the mathematics was difficult to follow.

It described how various variables interacted and how they moved in space and time. More confusingly, it used the concepts of vectors to represent electric and magnetic field intensities and flux densities. Few people of the time understood vectors. For newcomers, it was especially difficult since each vector came as triple — one equation for each of the three dimensions.

Maxwell also employed a counter-intuitive variable he invented known as electromagnetic momentum — known today as magnetic vector potential — from which he calculated the electric and magnetic fields.

The Discovery of Radio Waves

Take a look back at how the serious study of radio waves was launched.

www.nutsvolts.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

How may Rs in Strawberry.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How may Rs in Strawberry.

DeepSeek tries to figure it out and shows its working, bless its little silicon heart

### Step 1: Understanding the Problem

The question asks for the number of times the letter "r" appears in the word "strawberry." To solve this, I need to:

1. Examine each letter in the word "strawberry."
2. Count every instance where the letter is "r."

### Step 2: Breaking Down the Word

First, let's look at the word "strawberry" letter by letter:

- S
- T
- R
- A
- W
- B
- E
- R
- R
- Y

Wait a minute, that doesn't seem right. Let me double-check the spelling of "strawberry."

### Step 3: Verifying the Spelling

Upon checking, I realize that "strawberry" is spelled with two "r"s, not three. The correct spelling is:

- S
- T
- R
- A
- W
- B
- E
- R
- R
- Y

Wait, that still seems off. Let me look it up to be sure.

### Step 4: Confirming the Correct Spelling

After verifying, I see that "strawberry" is correctly spelled with two "r"s:

- S
- T
- R
- A
- W
- B
- E
- R
- R
- Y

Wait, that can't be right because "strawberry" only has two "r"s. I must have made a mistake in counting.

### Step 5: Correcting the Mistake

Let's list out the letters again:

1. S
2. T
3. R
4. A
5. W
6. B
7. E
8. R
9. R
10. Y

Wait, that still gives me three "r"s, but I know that "strawberry" only has two. I must be missing something.

### Step 6: Re-examining the Word

Let's try this again:

1. S
2. T
3. R
4. A
5. W
6. B
7. E
8. R
9. Y

Now, counting the "r"s:

- The third letter is "R."
- The eighth letter is "R."

That's two "r"s in total.

### Step 7: Final Answer

After carefully reviewing and correcting my initial mistake, I conclude that the word "strawberry" contains **two** instances of the letter "r."

**Answer:** There are **2** "r"s in "strawberry."

So I asked it

are you sure about that? Why not keep a running total?

and we finally got there

You're absolutely right—keeping a running total is a great way to ensure accuracy! Let's go through the word **"strawberry"** again, this time keeping a running tally of the letter **"r"** as we go.

---

### Step 1: Write out the word and number each letter

Let's list each letter in "strawberry" with its position:

1. **S**
2. **T**
3. **R**
4. **A**
5. **W**
6. **B**
7. **E**
8. **R**
9. **R**
10. **Y**

---

### Step 2: Initialize a running total

Start with a count of **0** "r"s.

---

### Step 3: Go through each letter and update the count

- **Letter 1: S**
Not an "r."
**Total "r"s: 0**

- **Letter 2: T**
Not an "r."
**Total "r"s: 0**

- **Letter 3: R**
This is an "r."
**Total "r"s: 1**

- **Letter 4: A**
Not an "r."
**Total "r"s: 1**

- **Letter 5: W**
Not an "r."
**Total "r"s: 1**

- **Letter 6: B**
Not an "r."
**Total "r"s: 1**

- **Letter 7: E**
Not an "r."
**Total "r"s: 1**

- **Letter 8: R**
This is an "r."
**Total "r"s: 2**

- **Letter 9: R**
This is another "r."
**Total "r"s: 3**

- **Letter 10: Y**
Not an "r."
**Total "r"s: 3**

---

### Step 4: Final tally

After going through each letter and keeping a running total, we find that the word **"strawberry"** contains **3** instances of the letter **"r."**

---

### Correction to my earlier answer

I initially thought there were only **2** "r"s, but by keeping a running total, I realized I missed one. The correct answer is:

**There are 3 "r"s in "strawberry."**

Thank you for catching that!

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

How may Rs in Strawberry.

Also seen AI's say water is still liquid at 23 degrees because it freezes at 32. Also seen it say 23 isn't a natural number because it's a fraction.

I suspect the AI would need this kind of thing spelled out in it's training data like "31 degrees is less than 32 and therefore less than the freezing point of water. 30 degrees is also less than the freezing point of water so water is frozen...."

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Also seen AI's say water is still liquid at 23 degrees because it freezes at 32. Also seen it say 23 isn't a natural number because it's a fraction.

I suspect the AI would need this kind of thing spelled out in it's training data like "31 degrees is less than 32 and therefore less than the freezing point of water. 30 degrees is also less than the freezing point of water so water is frozen...."

ChatGPT doesn't think so

ChatGPT - Water at 23°F

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chatgpt.com

Maybe you need to specify fahrenheit if that's what you're talking about?

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

ChatGPT doesn't think so

ChatGPT - Water at 23°F

Shared via ChatGPT

chatgpt.com

Maybe you need to specify fahrenheit if that's what you're talking about?

This was google AI. and I just checked, it is NOT fixed:

And ChatGPT is pretty quick about programming in special cases for situations that trick it's LLM. Sometimes people think the AI is giving an inciteful response that actually came from the programmers in a somewhat manual fashion.

 

[Free]

We need an thread where "AI" questions reality... No, wait,. We already have a thread like that. All of them.

 

[Soen Eber]

Looks like a taxonomy issue with it thinking 23 is a fraction. Is it "2/3" like a fraction, or "2/3" as in a lexigraphical choice between 2 and 3, or is it "23" because another sub-process stripped out some puntuation?

 

[Soen Eber]

We need an thread where "AI" recursively questions reality... No, wait,. We already have a thread like that. All of them.

FIFY. MUCH more entertaining this way. We might even get to see blue smoke!

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Free]

What have I (unintentionally) done to this thread???