Yeah, me too, which is why I challenged OP on the claim that it's 'clearly stated'.

It’s a useful guide on how the law is likely to be interpreted, and likely influences the interpretation itself, but my inner pedant is not satisfied.

In response to OP: the question is just whether you believe LLMs can now, or will in future, be able to experience something similar to an emotion as to whether you're right or not.

I think this is minimally likely. While as individuals on the bleeding edge, we're perhaps using these tools less and less, and our echo chamber reinforces that, the penetration of AI into the normal corporate workplace is still very low - emails rewritten with ChatGPT, meeting notes summaries generated by default, etc. There are a million use cases for LLMs which are not yet built out. The tokenmaxxers will begin using AI less, but the penetration into the mass market will continue at a huge velocity.

On the other hand, property costs have definitely increased massively. Folks are having kids later and less frequently, so there's a higher percentage of dual income couples looking for houses. Lenders are prepared to offer more to dual income couples, then house prices adjust, and suddenly, you need to have two incomes to buy a house. Then when it does come time to have children, you need the second income to pay for child care, and there's not much left over afterwards.

Should USPS be required to respect that owners wishes here?

Sensible decision I think.

This is a big factor. Although the gender side of things is kind of loaded, it used to be broadly the case that a two-parent household would often have one primary breadwinner and one home-maker. Nowadays, both parents need to make money which means that the 'home-making' needs to be done after both parents have finished work. So at 6pm, you're cooking, not hanging out at soccer practice. After that, you need to do the washing up, hang out the clothes, etc. There's just less time for leisure. On top of that, there's a lot of folks (probably some of them reading this comment) paid very well to keep folks indoors consuming, instead of outside meeting people.

> After that you essentially have to chuck it as you don’t get any updates from Apple and slowly you descend into incompatibility unless you world exists in browser.

But I don't think the lines were particularly far apart.

> Not so true for Apple Silicon (Asahi are only upto M2 I think?)

M1 was six years ago, M2 was four, both within the seven years OP was talking about.

You can run Linux inside a VM on any Apple Silicon Mac already, even if there is no progress on native Linux on Apple Silicon.

As a reasonable alternative, you can stick Linux on it and it'll run nicely, although with a different set of software to what you got the laptop with. 2026 is the year of the Linux Desktop!1! (in all seriousness though, it is actually quite good by now).

But proper curial oversight stopped with the Lugovoi law in 2013, after which RKN could block directly based on orders from the General Prosecutor's office.