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🚨 BREAKING The International Maritime Organization says 3,200 merchant vessels carrying nearly 20,000 sailors are trapped in the Persian Gulf west of the Strait of Hormuz. Several ships are running out of drinking water and have been denied port access. The Strait has been effectively closed since February 28.

We need to eradicate the ticks Not enough people are talking about this It’s becoming an epidemic

Human-level general intelligence is achieved when an AI system can approach a new task and figure it out, without human intervention, *with the same learning efficiency as humans*. If every new task requires human intervention, it's not general. If every new task requires brute-forcing, it's not human-level.

Maybe I'm just ignorant, but despite looking, I've still never found a true example of a word/idea that cannot be translated into English. The English version may take multiple words, or even a sentence. It may lose its poetry. But it can be translated all the same.

I wish this was contextualized with something like "At each 10%ile of reading ability, here's a test question we'd expect half of respondents to get wrong." Apparently average reading ability is 7th-8th grade, but more than half of of adults have attended college?

A few notes on the TotalEnergies buyout. TL;DR it's a bad deal for taxpayers but it's not (quite) permitting abuse. 1. In 2022 TotalEnergies overpaid for their offshore wind lease (~$955M) and they hinted they wanted to get out of it. 2. This is because the economics of offshore wind have taken a downturn and the IRA tax credits are getting phased out. 3. The Trump admin is likely blocking/not reviewing approval of TotalEnergies' offshore projects projects. But TotalEnergies even signaled they would pause their applications before Trump came into office. 4. This story isn't a new instance of permitting abuse (blocking permits is abuse, but this isn't a new instance of blocking a permit). 5. TotalEnergies also clearly wanted to invest more in LNG, they already started last Fall. 6. Cancelling offshore leases requires the gov to pay companies back for the cost of the lease. But the gov can get around this by indefinitely *suspending* the lease instead. So effectively they don't have to pay them. 7. What DOI is here doing is saying "you can have your money back if you agree to cancel your lease and invest in LNG instead." --> TotalEnergies will get up to $928M for investing in LNG. 8. The premise of this deal is partially based in government abuse: DOI is implicitly threatening to withhold the needed offshore permits and also threatening to force TotalEnergies to wait years to get their lease money back (if ever). 9. Withholding the permits is misuse of the law but TotalEnergies probably wanted to get out of building offshore wind anyway. The "suspending" instead of "cancelling" trick is also misuse but (unfortunately) it's been common for decades. 10. What's weird is there was likely no reason for DOI to give TotalEnergies the money through this cancellation strategy. If TotalEnergies already wanted to invest in LNG over offshore wind then why did DOI need to give them a billion dollars of taxpayer money?