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@Mayabotics
Very frustrating :(
Social problems as well. The atomization of society is at least partly about lots more work and less free time than we once had. And that excessive focus on productivity, production (often of stuff that breaks far too fast), and consumption keeps all those cars and trucks on the road. And there's a very concerted effort to keep people from really being able to grasp the interconnections, presumably because they might do something about all of it.
@Mayabotics
Oh no. I hope they manage to do a better job with wildlife corridors. We need to do a much better job of that all over. And cutting down on car and truck traffic wouldn't hurt either. Certainly that would keep more humans alive, and shifting people to transition and more freight to rail (and/or having less freight) would help with CO2 emissions.
Oh no. I hope they manage to do a better job with wildlife corridors. We need to do a much better job of that all over. And cutting down on car and truck traffic wouldn't hurt either. Certainly that would keep more humans alive, and shifting people to transition and more freight to rail (and/or having less freight) would help with CO2 emissions.
@Mayabotics
It would be. It'll be interesting to see what happens. The population is up from 10 to 230 since 1967, but I don't think they've spread a ton at this point. I don't know if they're hemmed into southern Florida by development or they be able to spread north to where there's a lot more habitat.
It would be. It'll be interesting to see what happens. The population is up from 10 to 230 since 1967, but I don't think they've spread a ton at this point. I don't know if they're hemmed into southern Florida by development or they be able to spread north to where there's a lot more habitat.
@Mayabotics
Florida did successfully bring eight in from Texas to interbreed and improve the genetic diversity of Florida panthers (a subspecies) but that's the only thing close to reintroduction I've heard of. I think they're considering bringing more in, it's kind of a balance between diluting the gene pool and keeping the Panthers genetically viable. If they do well the population may go up and spread out of Florida, they used to live in seven states in the southeast.
Florida did successfully bring eight in from Texas to interbreed and improve the genetic diversity of Florida panthers (a subspecies) but that's the only thing close to reintroduction I've heard of. I think they're considering bringing more in, it's kind of a balance between diluting the gene pool and keeping the Panthers genetically viable. If they do well the population may go up and spread out of Florida, they used to live in seven states in the southeast.
@Mayabotics
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I don't think intentional reintroduction is really being seriously considered, they're more reintroducing themselves. Of course that might be why intentional reintroduction isn't being considered.
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I don't think intentional reintroduction is really being seriously considered, they're more reintroducing themselves. Of course that might be why intentional reintroduction isn't being considered.
@Mayabotics
Wolves actually have a similar effect on deer to cougars but people tend to get freaked about predators if they aren't used to them. I don't know though, cougars have been tolerated here, maybe they'll get along in the east. They're certainly less likely to get involved with people than bears.
Wolves actually have a similar effect on deer to cougars but people tend to get freaked about predators if they aren't used to them. I don't know though, cougars have been tolerated here, maybe they'll get along in the east. They're certainly less likely to get involved with people than bears.
@Mayabotics I think they call them mountain lions everywhere in the US :)
I expect they'll move in for real unless humans start killing them, which wouldn't shock me. If there is ever an incident people can get pretty nuts, even if all the research shows they extremely rarely hurt humans and reduce fatalities from cars hitting deer by quite a lot (they both reduce deer populations and make deer warier of roads).
I expect they'll move in for real unless humans start killing them, which wouldn't shock me. If there is ever an incident people can get pretty nuts, even if all the research shows they extremely rarely hurt humans and reduce fatalities from cars hitting deer by quite a lot (they both reduce deer populations and make deer warier of roads).
Corey S PowellPeople project intelligence onto AI chatbots, which makes them seem more credible than they are. That's a big misinformation challenge.
All those clever journalists talking about how ChatGPT "lies" or "hallucinates" are only making things worse by making it seem like LLMs are sentient beings with personal agency.
Maybe someone will figure out how to actually get past security and get specific LLMs into some kind of debugging mode or something by typing specific prompts, but I imagine that's something there's been a lot of effort put into preventing, and you can trust it until the method has been demonstrated reproducibly and has been thoroughly verified to be providing accurate information. And even then the output could be switched by the owner to generated BS any time without you necessarily knowing.
And when I say I see people who should know better I mean experienced professional software engineers and PhDs in computer science or closely related fields. I don't think that's something that most people should necessarily understand.