davidagain

That is stunningly beautiful. Wow.

It's the physical grain of the canvas.

An LVT discourages searching for new uses of land (eg prospecting for oil)

One, I am happy for my government to discourage fossil fuel mining and tax it heavily, but this "tax disincentivises..." is pretty bogus because the value of the land won't exceed the profits you make from it, and taxing corporations who make loss of money from natural resources that they didn't create is good, not bad.

An LVT discourages developers from building infrastructure or developing nearby plots

Which developers ever built non essential Infrastructure?

The really really simple solution to high Land Value Tax from owning the land under large developments is to sell the land along with the housing or other buildings you built; don't become a landlord. This is THE WHOLE POINT of a land value tax. Landlords use their land ownership to extract an income using an asset they refuse to sell outright from someone that needs it. House prices fall because they can't be used to extract an income, and they become worth what they are, rather than worth what value can be extracted for no benefit from tennants. This is an advantage, not disadvantage.

The article goes on to engage in more speculative FUD but I've run out of energy for this gish gallop.

The fifth Doctor knows who the Portreeve of Castrovalva really is.

Yes and no. Beliefs can definitely shape reality.

If someone believes that they can't do something difficult, they often don't attempt it, so don't acquire the skills they would need, and stay unable to do it. The converse is also true.

Children are heavily influenced by their parents' beliefs about them.

Believing something about different brands of soda doesn't change the chemical composition of them, but in a world where products are judged on their sales rather than their chemical composition, changing the perception of a product can fundamentally change its sales, making it a better product by the only objective measure that's consistently used. This is even more true in the world of fashion, for example very strongly with trainers etc.

Anything where human behaviour changes reality is a place where beliefs change reality.

Our beliefs shape the world strongly and powerfully. They change reality.

Eg. USA.

(Personally and irrelevantly to your question, think it's weird to shave your pubes, and I think that based on who started that trend, why they started it and why it became popular, but people younger than me, who don't remember any different disagree strongly.)

But the fact that your son trusts you with that question and that you calmly helped him and didn't make a big deal out of it, is an absolute parenting win. Who does your teenaged son go to when he's worried about something personal and sensitive and embarrassing? He goes to you, and you help him and he is right to trust you.

You are doing excellently as a dad.

This graph is really, really wrong. Properly messed up.

This is you

https://youtu.be/mkcKQmr7kRc

I already told you my experience of the crapness of LLMs and even explained why I can't share the prompt etc. You clearly weren't listening or are incapable of taking in information.

There's also all the testing done by the people talked about in the article we're discussing which you're also irrationally dismissing.

You have extreme confirmation bias.

Everything you hear that disagrees with your absurd faith in the accuracy of the extreme blagging of LLMs gets dismissed for any excuse you can come up with.

You're so insightful and wise. You have learned much from other viewpoints.

It's like you didn't listen to anything I ever said, or you discounted everything I said as fiction, but everything your dear LLM said is gospel truth in your eyes. It's utterly irrational. You have to be trolling me now.