https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daniel+dennett+free+will

Read literally any book by Daniel Dennett if you a primer on this

The first part. That's what it is. That's all it is. But that's also all we need it to be. LLMs are just token weighting machine run on silicon. They can still output poetry. Our self-reflexive cognition is meaningfuly different but still the same kind of thing, inputs and calculation cascades which is how we decide to do A or B, which is free will.

You open an old school thermostat and you find a coil of metal that expands and contracts depending on the temp ans you say "wait, it's not really telling the temparature, it's just a piece of non-thinking non-calculating metal". But it is telling the temparature in the way we mean a thermostat tells the temparature, which is the only meaningful and important way we mean thermostats tell the temparature. You being sad their isn't a fairy in the box doesn't lessen what the metal coil is doing.

You're not actually saying anything. You're lost in a semantic hole. Neurons doing things IS what we mean by free will. You, you bundle of neurons, have agency in the world. Read some Dennett and chill

Yes, that's how it works.

Lots of people text and drive. They're busy. Driving is pretty easy and rarely do things go wrong. Sometimes it's an important text. THEY'RE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CAR CRASH!!!!

A scandal I haven't heard about yet, but it looks like one of the Board of Directors of the bank was the former Under Secretary *of Domestic Finance, in charge of the Financial Stability Oversight Council

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_J._Miller

I mean, fuck, this woman was in charge of keeping all US financial markets stable and was completely asleep watching just the one bank she was on the board of? Wild

Feels like more of a story.

Just bolster twelve husk nuts to each girldle-jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten vertically composited patch-hamplers. Then, pin flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist.

Wait till you hear about regular old fashioned capitalism

Can't tell if sarcasm

Well you got that right, lot's of people wrongfully imprisoned in Singapore.

I've never punched any taxi drivers in Singapore. We had a beer?

Yes, it is. Singapore has no natural resources, no long term benefit for trade once the Kra Canal is completed, no great tourism appeal. It's a happenstance of history that the Brits utilized Singapore as their main trading port with SEA and China and that Malaysia kicked them out allowing them to establish a corporate tax haven.

Also, only ~10% of Singapore GDP is derived from shipping.

Intl tax law is changing rapidly and the wild west situation that currently exist enabling places like Singapore and Dubai to flourish won't last long and then they'll be back to being backwaters. Every company with a headquarters building in Singapore is there as a tax dodge.

It doesn't matter if I'm wrong by a decade or 5. Singapore is a backwater that China will bypass eventually.

edit: but I'll bet there is a new deal in place in 2 years.

Of course not. I think China will have a new deal with the Thai gov in 2 years.

Ok, yep, Singapore is best greatest all time number 1. They'll never build the canal and relegate it.

RemindMe! 2 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Canal

Best way I've seen that stated.

I have a long view of history. Singapore exist as a portal for corporate access from east to west and as a tax haven. It has almost no inherent value differentiating it from Malaysia and will look like Detroit in 100 years.

The larger part is the army of low paid workers who clean from 3am to 6am every day and who go mostly unnoticed. Walk around Clark Quay or a random HDB in Bedok at 2 in the morning and there is as much litter or trash as anywhere in Queens until the cleaners come.

I wouldn't call HDBs better. They live in them because the BTOs are provided at below market rate. Kind of a Jevon's Paradox situation. Clear cutting rain forest to build massive concrete block housing using Bangladeshi slave labour and PRC companies laundering funds out of China isn't exactly a sustainable model. Did you live in an HDB? I'd take a prewar walkup in a vibrant local community any day over that again.

Were you an expat? Having your company cover many of the cost mitigates things quite a bit.

The only thing Singapore beats NYC on is public transport and Mee Goreng

His non answer is an answer. Whatever the founders' intentions, the outside capital wants a return which means they're either going to become predatory or they'll sell their platform and users to someone who is.

They don't have to "put the word out", VC firms are in the business of getting between a founder and an acquisition.

You have to get it tested by an iinspector so best bet since something like 70% of buildings in NYC have it is take some basic precautions when drilling/cutting/scraping (anything that can create small particles), wear a n95 mask and use a vacuum with a good filter to clean up dust as you make it.

You might also have asbestos. Fine as long as you don't disturb it but worth considering if you'll be doing lots of drilling.