but obviously, this is a concept from general relativity which is currently not compatible with quantum field theory at all. for the purposes of QFT every particle exists within some magical separate space where all those considerations are ignored because nobody really knows how to incorporate them without breaking predictions.

But for conditionals and related logic in whatever nested form they may appear, I'm afraid my ability to disbelief is stretched a little too thin. It seems too basic an operation that is involved in any kind of program I could possibly imagine.

I get how some boilerplate API glue code that a lot of people write does it via stacked layers of dynamic dispatches instead, but I could not expect a person to write such code at sufficient quality without being able to reason through a bunch of next to trivial conditionals (since that's what these dispatches still are, under the hood).

At some level I feel like we are talking about such an extremely low level of basic ability, even if it's not technically constantly necessary for a specific job, that it's highly worthwhile to disqualify lacking applicants anyways. But I can also see how that might be some form of privileged or elitist thinking. Open to hear counterpoints.

free will wouldn't even change that, since it's presumably also given by our genes.

obviously their neural networks are limited in size and therefor complexity has to remain somewhat simple relatively to larger animals).

there's also an absolute big, known in cosmology, far beyond the scales of galaxies, galaxy clusters, etc... it's your mom

just as an example that may not even apply to you: if you are fundamentally afraid in new and unfamiliar social circumstances because you're fearing whatever type of reasonable or unreasonable/irrational outcome, then just exposing yourself to a series of specific social interaction types will likely not fix that root fear and only allow you to adapt to those specific circumstances.

what you would need to do instead is actively construct a list of situations that are as different as possible from each other, each having uncertainty for you in different ways, and then find ways to expose yourself to many of them as well as as many combinations of their good and bad outcomes in your head as possible, in an incremental way (because diving in naked / cold turkey strategy can not only be ineffective but even further traumatizing in exposure therapy).

that sucks for using AI right now, but it's only a question of time until you get huge models trained on CC0 data imo

nobody asked. people asked about why specifically japan stands out here, it is a big statistical outlier.