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What makes the builder think that the additional load could be safely handled by the floors (especially the upper floors) of the original structure? Did the builder of the original structure plan for this load?

Lynching from 1882 to 1968 by state. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1175147/lynching-by-race-state-and-race/?srsltid=AfmBOopB1eN218fXchNrT8v2rUrWShkbQ6zQCSRlKFzSV-lhxgJNUpbL The judicial system in the South may not have been as developed as in the Northeast. The south, being more...

And most were blacks.

Where did you get this statistic?

Not based on my experience. Two of my older grandchildren should know better. No response from my emails, texts, or snail mail since 7 th grade when helping one with programming. They engage when we initiate a conversation, but we have to keep it going. They are good kid and we still love...

Young people are avoiding interacting with adults and even directly with their peers. We all have to communicate effectively to get ahead and transmit our ideas, so don't you think that lacking this skill is of greater consequence? Regarding clockwise, point your right thumb at the clock...

You answered your own question There were very few (2?), recorded lynchings of black people in New England. As you stated, white lynchings make up about a quarter of all lynchings in the US. Most(?) lynchings occurred to put/keep black people in their place, particularly in the South.

As is said in this thread, " I used AI for this or that and got mixed results, " or I used Chat GPT for this or that and don't trust it. It seem must of this experience is in early models, which were generally LLM lacking "Chain of Thought" capability. Frontier models are a different breed. AI...

A video of the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) was captured from the SpaceX capsule Dragon.

Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, marketed its product without providing physicians with enough information about it addictivenss. AI companies are seemingly downplaying AI's untoward influence on susceptible persons. Apparently, Germany has said that whatever AI says is the same...

I posted a link to Project AI 2027, which gives a much nearer prediction for the attainment of ASI. It gives a plausible scenario for those who cannot comprehend AI's capabilities. I posted a link to an Anthropic paper stating that AI is currently working on improving itself at a step that AI...

Has anyone followed the podcast Moonshots? It often carries discussions on breakthrough technologies. The participants are pragmatic personalities, most commonly termed serial venture capitalists. They just produced a podcast in response to the aforementioned Anthropic document I posted above...

Of all the major AI companies, Anthropic seems to be the most concerned about safety and the one doing the most to study alignment issues. It released the following document discussing its apprehensiveness using AI in improving AI. It remains concerned about the speed with which AI is being...

Pope Leo in his Encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", calls for restraint in AI development. He quotes J R R Tolkien from "The Return of the King." Indeed. Considering the effort to develop AI at breakneck speed, was Leo trying to draw a parallel between the Ring and an AI to rule them all?

The AI Futures Project is a nonprofit organization that studies the development of AI and attempts to predict the consequences of AI progress through its projected scenario AI 2027, which was published last year. They assume two AI companies, which they call OpenBrain (US) and DeepCent...