> the denominations I can get from the ATM

Is this for real? We can request 5s and 10s from the atm, along with 20s and 50s.

Many ATMs in the US just spit out 20s, though there are some where you can specify your bills.

> But if you can’t, I could see it being professionally embarrassing

I had a boss that typed with one finger on each hand, it was laughable, but he was an incredible programmer, so it didn't affect him at all.

> and this all sounds exactly like how reusability might not work out at all for the Falcon 9 from 10 years ago

I think a lot of it depends on whether they can make the reuse of the second stage work without having to redo stuff constantly like the shuttle. Reusing the booster will obviously save tons of money and make launches cheaper, but they're competing with themselves here. How big is the launch market with cheaper launches? We don't actually know.

why would they do that when they want to sell you a new phone?

With AI you can do that, or smaller companies can do that. It levels the field.

Didn't they famously help both the Nazis and Apartheid South Africa?

Yes. Leased IBM equipment was a critical infrastructure component of the holocaust.

I think this is why Kurt Cobain famously kept his turtles in his bathtub.

I thought that was Hemingway specifically?

The middle class is poor now.

Yep. The middle class is quickly disappearing.

He lost the vote the first time. He lost to a corpse the second time he ran, it was like Weekend at Bernie's.

A superpower run by geriatrics.

Future historians are going to laugh at us- provided there will be any.

> Do the same with a 30-year old immigrant who has never heard of Santa, and I suspect you'll have a harder time.

There's a plethora of people who convert to religion at an older age, and that seems far more far fetched than Santa.

> There's a plethora of people who convert to religion at an older age, and that seems far more far fetched than Santa.

Being in a religion doesn’t imply belief in deities; it only implies people want social connection. This is clearly visible in global religion statistics; there are countries where the majority of people identify as belonging to a religion, and at the same time only a small minority state they believe in a “God”. Norway is a decent example that I bumped into just yesterday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Norway

Sure.

But I bet you'd have a significantly easier time converting a child rather than a 30/40/50-yr old to a religion.

My point is that LLMs are suggestible, perhaps more so than the average adult, but less so than I child I suspect. I don't think suggestibility really solves the problem of whether something has AGI or not. To me, on the contrary, it seems like to be intelligent and adaptable you need to be able to modify your world model. How easily you are fooled is a function of how mature / data-rich your existing world model is.