Not quite. Round 33 will have 2^32 people, or a bit over half the population of Earth. Remember, round 1 has one person, 2^(0), not 2^(1).

But once you get to round 33 34, everyone on earth is tied to the track, so there’s no one to pull the lever. That means that the trolley safely passes by, giving everyone ample time to free themselves. Eventually, the trolley stops due to friction with the track and air, plus brakes if it’s using them, and then we all stop getting tied to tracks.

Not a modern program, but I don’t see anything that makes me think that programs will never be capable of metacognition. LLMs won’t, but they aren’t the be-all end-all.

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You know what? I’m kind of OK with bringing anti-Catholic conspiracy theories back for a bit. Takes some heat off the Jews and Muslims, and the tradcath movement produced such wonderful people as Brett Kavanaugh. Plus, they never really answered for the whole systemic child molestation thing.

If Japan is going to catch strays, invading people is a pretty good reason.

But hey, at least it gives you a new hat.

You do have more momentum to counteract the drag, though. I wonder if the decreased mass would be offset by the decreased surface area.

No, the CCP is competent.

Well, Apple was the first company to $1T and only the third to $4T, so maybe not?

Yeah, even if they weren’t willing to take a principled stance, that’s really dangerous. Especially with how temperamental these fascists are.

Half their songs are about being from Louisiana.

https://youtu.be/3ZGJHDegPcU

Thanks for the correction, edited. How is gas not 100% efficient, though?

But yeah, heat pumps are definitely more environmentally friendly (unless you’re habitually letting the refrigerant out, o guess). The real argument is whether the extra energy is worth it for protein folding (I’d say generally no, but if you don’t have a heat pump, might as well).

Heat pumps cap out at about 250% 400% efficiency, so you’d still be spending more to run them than to burn natural gas at that ratio.

They must have overshot, then. Computers are 100% efficient space heaters that produce math as a byproduct.

They also delete the second space lol

John Quincy Adams was pretty decent, as far as I’m aware.

I definitely wouldn’t be happy about it if I were unarmed, but it’s basically a particularly ferocious goose. A baseball bat would be enough to give me a decent chance at leaving more or less unscathed.

Depends on the dinosaur. A spinosaurus would just eat me, but I could beat up a velociraptor.