The awful infrastructure (poorly considered bike lanes, at best) doesn't make it easy to co-exist, either.

1. The previous paragraph establishes a metaphor between furniture and memories. So you can take that sentence to also be metaphor, not literally about furniture.

2. A sentient animated luggage is a main character in the first two Discworld novels.

I think you're not being pedantic enough here. "Probable" is doing some heavy lifting. And the phrasing is "derive the input," which I think is fair to say. The best you can do with a proper hash is discover one or more possible inputs, but you're not deriving them from the output; the output is just used to check the result. The many-to-one nature of a hash precludes determining the exact input.

Do you mean that you're setting up SAML/OpenID for every service you use?

> Does not matter what IDP you use to “sign in with”.

I don't understand. The service provider needs to check the identity of the IdP, or IdP-B could impersonate user alice@foo belonging to IdP-A

But yeah, maybe I'm pushing a distinction that doesn't exist, and it's all just forms of trading cards (which themselves were popularized by tobacco companies).

I suppose, yeah, some things would be a lot worse without Steam, so there's that.

> Or, thirdly, are there two ways of being competent, the conscious way and the unconscious (or zombie) way? Could it be that some life forms on Earth have evolved competence via the consciousness trick — while life on some alien planet has evolved an equivalent competence via the unconscious, zombie trick?

But the problem is that Dawkins displays lack of understanding about what LLMs are, so it's hard to tell what he's thinking. He also says things like this:

> Could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious?

Dawkins has some stinkers when he steps outside of biology, so it's not surprising people aren't giving him the benefit of the doubt.

But that's all just sci-fi worldbuilding.

I, of course, pretend I'm Zero Cool.