Self-driving in ports is a vastly simpler problem though because the environment can be closed and controlled and devoid of any UX concerns, making it basically a simple robotics problem.
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But I also don't have a strong reactionary anger to Deleuze's penchant for writing in an obscurant quasi-post-modern literary style, and I get that many do. In any case, it's not like similar ideas are not also worked through in less cryptic ways in contemporary philosophy of science journals.
Difference and multiplicity are core to empirical data and scientific & engineering modelling. To make a measurement you assume there is a scale to measure difference. To have a variable is to assume that something can vary. To be a cause is to assume something can make a difference. To have a process is to assume a system that can change and transform. There's nothing vacuous about this.
Open source would mean someone could see and run the model code locally/independently to create an instance. For an LLM, this is much less insurmountable of an issue in terms of resources needed.
The only approach we will be able to claim objectively can produce systems with human-level intelligence is procreation.
Looking at the wind chill chart[0] for frostbite times, there is nothing particularly special around the freezing point temperature, even at absurd wind speeds. Ironically, actually, the 0 point for Fahrenheit is far more relevant threshold for frostbite.
For example, a couple months ago I noticed I could take an affordable weekend trip on Wizzair to Cluj-Napoca in Romania (never heard of the place before); I booked the flight, visited, and found it a very lovely little city that was perfect for a 2 or 3 day weekend trip.
The caveat of course is that they nickel and dime everything, so if you need hand baggage or don't want flight attendants trying to shill perfume mid-flight, they are annoying to fly with, but on the other hand you pay much less so if those aren't big issues, then the deals are great.
However, even though I almost always fly with just a small bag, I still might hesitate taking the 3rd party service because they insist on doing stuff like checking in "for me", which I don't need (since that is a trivial process), and I have experienced them not sending the boarding pass in the time I arrived at the airport.
I suppose there's probably a higher mathematical representation going on here that is finitely computable though. Something like a symbolic representation of the solution functions for the wave function are calculable even if the parameter values are not.
I'm also going to assume the author is referring to the mythical Paris of the early 20th century for its artist/creative opportunities. If that's the case, a couple things:
1. None of us actually experienced early 20th century Paris, so we judge it romantically on the output (particularly in English/Spanish) of creatives living there.
2. Do we have (or the author have) evidence of a similar kind of creative output (particularly in English/Spanish) from Tokyo? My sense is no, even though I like Japanese food and Japanese punk. I don't like or follow anima/manga so maybe that is a blind side for me to see such evidence.
3. Tokyo is cheaper than Paris/NYC/London, but it's still not super cheap, and Japan is not the easiest country to move to. I'm not aware of many "creative" foreigners moving semi-permanently to Tokyo in anything comparable to Paris, 20th or 21st century.
The final two points are more plausible, although the last one is sort of tautological since any risk is by definition something we aren't certain won't happen. However part of their plausibility as risks is because the first two points are not anywhere near our current state, and therefore it's unclear to us how to clearly evaluate risks that are based on unknown and possibly fictional contexts.