Paying for kidneys is banned in every developed country but the majority of people who need a transplant can't get one. Further, many who want to donate a kidney (even to a relative) cannot, due to incompatibility. Therefore, computer scientists have invented integer programming algorithms to replace the function of currency by facilitating complex chains and cycles of kidney swaps. It's like advanced bartering. In the most simple case, you might give your kidney to someone else's kid and then that kid's parent gives their kidney to your kid. The blue oval shows people who donate without anyone in mind: they act as seeds for the chains, and therefore the average Good Samaritan donator typically causes 5 kidneys to be donated, but this can go as high as 30+!
Neptune is the laziest theory I've ever heard of.
Your equations don't predict the orbit of Uranus, so instead of revising the equations, you say: "They will work if we believe in something we cannot see or touch."
God is a better theory than that.
@eternalism_now Yeah, it's really scary for some reason, it has some "skinwalker" taste. You recognize everything about them, but it's also all "non-human"
@avgaydashenko "no no no, you don't get it, we actually need to run a whole factory of ultra murderous raping mindless cyborg bears, since maybe one will actually, by chance, try to protect us from the horde of them"
@Trotztd What kind of glitches would you expect if there was "the Grid"? Weird moment of inertia when near perfectly aligned with grid due to near zero values of some angles? How would you detect "the Grid"?
@williawa The idea is to replicate environment where maternal instincts might develop. Maybe you can try with fixed inner objective first, as for most animals it would be in fact fixed throughout generations
@williawa I thought about this for some time. Some way to make models progress from child to adult (handicap "kids"?) and then training them to help their kids progress through their randomised(?) inner objective
@Trotztd Watching some insane asians doing the task they've "mastered for 20 years for some reason" gives a hint at how this should look like
Pair this with inhuman rate of improvement, like going from "smart adult seeing the problem first time" to "1000y Asian grandmaster" in seconds
I occasionally see engagement-baiting posts about this couple, who left unlocked bikes on their lawn, waited for thieves to show up to try to steal the bikes, beat the thieves with baseball bats, and then posted videos of the beatings on YouTube.
The viral posts always note that they were arrested for doing this, but never tell you the disposition of the case or what happened to them. I was curious whether they went to prison, so I did a little research.
It turns out, the charges were dropped and the couple was not punished at all! Prosecutors wanted to charge assault with a deadly weapon for two incidents in which this couple beat bike thieves with metal baseball bats, videotaped themselves doing it and posted the videos online.
But a trial on these charges required testimony from the victims. Both victims were convicted felons, and neither would cooperate with police or prosecutors unless they got immunity for crimes they had committed, which the prosecutors were unwilling to give them.
Prosecutors were also worried that if they took this to trial, a jury would refuse to convict regardless of the evidence.
@teortaxesTex "lmao dipshits, we have a CLEAN pile, like, super clean pile. What are you gonna do about it? Find your own? Shit in ours?? AHAHHAHA Fuck off"