Similarly, the bike lanes, at least compared to other U.S. cities. Still room for improvement of course, but biking is usually the quickest way to get around the city.

The music venues in DC are pretty great. Lots of variety in genres and sizes.

Protip- buy tickets in-person the box offices to avoid "service fees"

I believe DC landlords are required to accept vouchers and it would be discriminatory for them not to, so there's no need to overpay

Where would that cutoff be then? Seems like it's quite subjective and there really isn't an agreed upon point - so we'd each be using different definitions of the word if we went with that

I'd argue that intelligence is more of a spectrum than a binary and thus it's correct to say that any emergent behavior is intelligent to some extent.

> As far as I can ascertain, the swarm doesn’t understand. It merely behaves much as if it did.

How do you know it doesn't understand, even if in a more limited way? We only believe other people are conscious/understanding based on their observed behaviors