The “reasoning” which is displayed, such as step-by-step explanations or chain-of-thought responses, is only a simulation of reasoning, generated as text based on patterns. It’s in the same form of any text production an LLM is capable of. When an LLM mimics “reasoning,” it is generating text that looks like reasoning because it has seen similar patterns in its training data.

It is NOT solidarity with the workers if I allow myself to be exploited by the employer in addition to them.

If a place is overpriced, I don’t buy there. If there is an option to pay more voluntarily to express satisfaction, I regularly do so with an amount of tip that seems appropriate to me in that moment.

However, it is not my job to pay the workers or to champion their rights while I am on vacation; that is nonsense. Either their salary is included in the price of the product or not, that’s definitely NOT my business to care for that because I don’t run their business. I’m a customer and guest and I pay for all the service. But the price has to be quoted in advance, I don’t accept hidden costs.

And if I get the answer then that it’s customary here to pay 20% more than the amount on the bill, then I say “no thanks” and leave - because I have to assume then that wages aren’t at a decent, humane level? That doesn’t work for me, would be rude.

I just want to go out for a meal. When I’m a guest somewhere in a foreign country, it’s certainly not my place to get involved in such sensitive issues. I expect the local residents and politicians to handle those matters. As a guest, I wouldn’t interfere in political issues like that; it would be completely inappropriate.

With any reputable business where I make a purchase, I expect to be quoted a reasonable price with no hidden extra costs. This applies to museums and shops, as well as restaurants. I don’t want to spend my vacation conducting extensive investigations and research every time I spend money to see if the company pays its employees fairly.

And as a tourist, how do I find out if a place pays their workers? Talk to the manager before I enter a restaurant?

That’s none of my business.

Basick

Most games are not lasting longer than 5 years anyway, then the userbase is getting so small that the revenue isn’t attractive anymore.

Also makes a difference if you publish those pictures or videos.

Read the article: You do not need to ask consent from everyone in a city square for personal, non-processing use of recordings, but if you intend to share, publish, or process the footage (especially if it includes identifiable individuals), you must obtain consent under EU laws. Especially covert or non-transparent recording is illegal under GDPR.

I’m sorry that you seem to have given up on people. I still think discussing things is worthwhile but from your text I get the impression that you don’t believe in social discourse.

I think it’s a fact that people learn through and with language and that the symbols we humans use are what constructs our reality. So it’s very important what kind of language we use, how we use it and to be precise in our terms and vocabulary.

People are not readymade, everybody has to learn and learning never stops and people are not all on the same level. So no: not everyone knows the same, as you seem to assume.

It’s not semantic – it’s completely different things happening if there’s real consciousness and compassion present based on lifeforms on one hand or a mere simulation of that in form of a text output on the other hand that only superficially looks like there’s something intelligent.

People regularly fall for the illusion and project their own feelings into the machine while reading the text output of an LLM. Many are not capable of differentiating and the chatbots are designed in a way to make it more and more difficult to recognize synthetic output.

Humans are good in projecting their own feelings into things they see, just look at all the cat or dog owners who believe they can read the thoughts of their “babies” from their facial expressions.

LLMs/Chatbots confabulate statistically probable texts, there’s no compassion possible.

Don’t fall into the AI-marketing trap of “we don’t know what’s happening in the black box, so we have to assume there’s consciousness in there”. The systems produce convincing deceptive language, but all signs of intelligence or compassion anyone sees in them is just an anthropomorphic projection.

Prora is active today with hotels and restaurants.

Played stupid game, won stupid prize.

No one here has suggested banning everything that costs the public money.

Smokers, on the other hand, are a minority in society. And in a democratic society, majorities can form to create laws.

Obesity is a little different issue since nutrition is not optional; smoking, on the other hand, is quite non-essential.

There are also programs that address the problem of obesity. The regulation of sugar use as an ingredient in food, for example. But laws in this field are subject to greater influence from the food manufacturers’ lobby. The tobacco lobby, on the other hand, no longer wields as much power, as the majority of people are non-smokers.

We see who decides: the government. In Britain they are elected to do so. That’s democracy. The majority of people are non-smokers, and the tobacco lobby no longer has the power it used to.

They don’t die cheap if they’re treated for cancer several years before the final breath. Billions are lost to society annually as a result. Cancer treatment is largely futile, yet it’s overly expensive. The revenue from tobacco tax is far from sufficient to cover that.

Even if they’re smoking at home, the enormous costs to the healthcare system caused by smokers every year are a burden on the shoulders of everyone in society.

I need some scotch to feel comfortable.

There’s nothing more to come. Nuclear power is slow and uneconomical.

Joe Kaeser, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens Energy: “There isn’t a single nuclear power plant in the world that makes economic sense,” he said on the ARD program Maischberger on November 27, 2024.

https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/farbebekennen-weidel-faktencheck-100.html?at_medium=mastodon

A fact check by the Fraunhofer Institute on nuclear energy states: “For example, around €2.5 billion would have to be raised to cover the nuclear waste generated. Overall, considerable short-term investments would be required.” (for the construction of a new power plant)

https://www.ikts.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ikts/abteilungen/umwelt_und_verfahrenstechnik/technologieoekonomik_nachhaltigkeitsanalyse/oekonomische_analyse_nachhaltigkeit/241030_Fraunhofer-Faktencheck_Kernenergie.pdf