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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 molds are heterotrophic too -- mirror molds would starve to death unless they found mirror carbs or mirror proteins to eat, right?

BTW FWIW mirror viruses wouldn't be all that harmful to humans, as they cannot replicate or do much of anything else except if they infect mirror cells

some kind of magical ritual, like signs against the evil eye or something

What's wrong with those? FWIW the only reason I didn't perform my country's favorite apotropaic gesture upon reading this story is that it didn't occurr to me

A1987dM2-1

200-person scam center

The content of the article at the other end of that link is the kind of stuff I would dislike in a work of fiction for being too on the nose 

Well, it is extremely unlikely to actually help, but it's not like it will hurt either, and it doesn't cost anything, so why not?  Even if it's just the literary analog of knocking on wood or whatever, what's wrong with that?  At least, unlike literally knocking on wood, this does have at least a notional action mechanism...

(well, I guess knocking on wood must have had a notional action mechanism at first, but I can't be bothered to look that up)

A1987dM50

In Richard Owen's place I would have called them "dragons" rather than "dinosaurs".  I mean, we didn't rename atoms once we found out they didn't look much like Democritus or Dalton imagined them and the etymological meaning of their name doesn't actually apply to them...

A1987dM30

Yes (though OTOH conversely there are also things that many Europeans struggle to afford but Americans take for granted, e.g. air conditioning)

A1987dM63

Note that there are plenty of things that count as "working hours" when white-collar workers do them but not when blue-collar workers do them.

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