Anyone else unable to access what I assume are supposed to links for the centred bits of text throughout that article? I had a hard time understanding parts of it...

Turns out, once I got to read it on desktop machine, they weren't links at all but captions for images that weren't showing for me on mobile.

Pretty sure your maths is off - even if it did steadily fall by 20% every 20 years, it'd still have a population of 16 to 17 million in 100 years' time. So no, not especially dire.

It was the period of the most rapid population growth globally. And the period during which antibiotics became widely available.

I don't care for the use of terms that imply appreciating the fine arts is somehow on a "higher plane" and places those who do so above those who don't, but I do think it's worth acknowledging that it takes significant time and effort to develop such appreciation, and that the rewards are subsequently substantial. Personally I've invested significantly in the study and appreciation of Western classical music and I believe what I've gained from that could not be achieved simply by listening to top 40 hits on the radio - but I don't believe those who do only the latter are in anyway "lower" on any sort of ranking system, just that their brains are wired differently, and their cultural background etc. is such that it probably wouldn't make sense for them to make the same investment into music appreciation that I have. It's almost certainly true that they've invested considerably into appreciating other worthwhile aspects of life that I haven't - we can't do it all!

Definitely not my experience - the flavour definitely deteriorates too, often becoming quite bitter.

Commercial avocado dips seem to avoid turning brown - admittedly they're usually pretty tasteless but I'd be curious what stops the discoloration.

Check the ingredients... a lot of them are heavily adulterated. Not to say they aren't tasty, but they aren't even necessarily "avocado".

I'm sure they have a step where they add an oxidation prevention molecule- I bet there's some ligand that binds to the oxidation enzyme in avocados. Or maybe high pressure? https://www.hiperbaric.com/en/the-impact-of-hpp-technology-i...

And almost all of them are too sour (imo), probably from the antioxidant.

Maybe like for other fruits ? They take them still green.

Yep, they're definitely still rising, despite a slight drop in 2020 (thanks, COVID). Not sure there's any point in talking about per-capita emissions. That US emissions have been falling since ~2007 (and China appears to be leveling off) is some reason for hope but the likes of India, Indonesia and other large developing nations are more than making up for the difference.

I haven't upgraded to ChatGPT 4 yet, but given it can now supposedly do web searches (including searching github?) I've signed up for the wait list. Is it worth it, based on feedback here? I'm particularly interested in how it might be able to help me with source code found on github. Does anyone know how much of that source code is part of ChatGPT-3's training data? I asked about it about a few slightly esoteric classes/ids etc. but it didn't know about them.

The other thing I was hoping to do be able to do is process much larger inputs - e.g. ~20k of HTML I wanted it to simplify for me. Is that realistic?

Well there's certainly a conceivable one, and it's one probably many would agree would be much nicer one to live in. But accepted, not a realistic one any time soon.

Curious, how did "received" end up with multiple spellings then?

that's one of the like 5 words I can't spell reliably, and I did do some typo fixes with my keyboard.