It's tautological it the number of such minors is allowed to be zero, so by the maxim of relevance he probably meant to suggest it is not negligible -- but not necessarily also that it is close to 50%, especially not 50% among the general population rather than just 50% among the children of the kind of people he is talking to and/or about.
But OP said "sufficiently talented" not "median"...
1 is irrelevant to autotrophs (e.g. cyanobacteria), who can synthesize their own food from achiral CO2 using sunlight; 2 is pretty much guaranteed if it's the only mirror life form in the ecosystem; 3 is obvious if it's the mirror image of an already existing life form; and it doesn't have to do 4 and 5 to achieve 6 (even a mirror cyanobacterium not otherwise interacting with non-mirror life would keep replicating and replicating exponentially until the biosphere runs out of CO2 or whichever other achiral nutrient turns out to be the limiting factor)
I'm awake about 17 hours a day.
Have you tried sleeping more? Ceteris paribus I tend to spend waaaay more time unproductively when I'm even mildly sleep-deprived than when I'm not.
The LLM analog of in vino veritas
True, their impact on daily life isn’t necessarily obvious if you’re living in a superpower protected by its nuclear umbrella (someone in Ukraine might feel differently).
Is nuclear deterrence actually still a thing at all? Has any conflict in the past quarter century or so played out any differently than would have if on 1 January 2000 aliens had permanently taken away humanity's ability to use nuclear weapons?
> Imprisoning someone for one year in the USA costs in the order of 100,000 dollars
There surely must be some way to decrease that by *at least* a factor of 4 or so, possibly by an order of magnitude, if we wanted to? (The poverty line for a 8-person household in the contiguous US in 2025 is $54,150.) Surely that might involve treating prisoners in rather questionable ways, but still way less questionable than f---ing killing them, IMO.
Another objection I have is that [waaay too many things are considered crimes that shouldn't be](https://archive.org/details/threefeloniesday0000silv) -- what fraction of people in prison are there for reasons comparable to any of your examples?
And then some people felt like they still wanted to do research on what the original ambition of AI had been, and wanted a term that'd distinguish them from all the other people who said they were doing "AI".
And then at some point all the latter people switched to saying "machine learning" instead.
(not necessarily -- glycerol, glycine and many fats are achiral, so the nutritional value of non-mirror food to mirror heterotrophs wouldn't be quite zero)
(and "not negligible" is not a terribly high bar: if one kid in a million is like that, you only need 20 bits of evidence to know a particular kid is one of them)