https://youtu.be/6cjx4gJFME0

Put together, that points to one of the small Highway 1 villages. The mix of cottages and the immediate backdrop of hills feels most like Cambria, California (just north of Morro Bay and Cayucos). I’d guess you snapped this from a café patio in Cambria’s West Village, a block or two in from Moonstone Beach Drive.

(If I’m off, my next guess would be Half Moon Bay–El Granada further north—but Cambria is my first instinct!)

I’m embarrassed that I didn’t think to check this, but it turns out o3 does have a loose model of your location made available to it now—presumably as part of its improved search feature. It knows I’m in Half Moon Bay.

I’m going to leave this here. TL;DR modern AI chatbots have learned the same cold reading techniques as fake psychics. This is almost textbook: A generic guess followed by some more specific guesses, framed up in a way that the person will automatically glom onto the most accurate of the three and conclude that the thing is a genius whichever one is correct, and happily subconsciously add things like “200 miles is not a big deal” to the model when it needs the help, and not regard it as all that big a deal if the thing is just 1,000% wrong some of the time. And also, it will not mention when it is digging through EXIF tags or its prompted location data. Of course. It’s not trained for honesty, it’s specifically trained to generate pleasingly misleading answers.

For all I know, the “chain of thought” stuff is going to evolve into AGI and this location identification is working gangbusters. I have no idea, I haven’t tried. But be careful with assigning success to this stuff.

Sounds delectable.

Are those MREs? My face literally scrunched up thinking about tearing one of those little foil pouches open and squeezing out whatever is inside to become my lunch for the day.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse, buddy. They better not try anything.

Within 70 years?

I’m not saying you are wrong or this isn’t useful data, but we would have to get extremely lucky not to feel devastating impacts before 70 more years go by.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-region

Pointing fingers isn’t helpful in getting us a solution. But it’s also not helpful to say “no sign” without qualifying it to say that the EU and US have been showing small signs, and their small steady reductions in emissions are being counterbalanced by big increases elsewhere.

Google says it went from “0” to “100”, hovering from 50 to 100 for a lot of election day. I have no idea what that means.

Not to say I completely disagree with you, but searches for “did Joe Biden drop out” spiked on Election Day. A lot of people think Trump wrote all the checks for Covid aid out of his personal checking account. A vast swath of the American people simply have no clue what’s going on, what anything is or what’s about to happen.