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- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 days ago:
fuckin’ just tell me im living in Interesting Times why doncha
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 days ago:
shredded cheese
- Comment on New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
2 weeks ago:
It’s almost like basing your whole program on black box genetic algorithms and statistics yields unintended results
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 weeks ago:
And this is why I do the captchas wrong.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
It’s not strength, but rotation. Shoot a photon at the cube at a certain spot, you get data out of it. Hit the same spot in the cube with light that is polarized perpendicular to the first, and you get different data out of it.
Er… that’s what it sounds like, anyway…
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
those are the places that most need it though
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
See, now this is the tech I would understand pouring billions into. Give every nation on earth a durable copy of the last 100 years of medicine, physics, biology. That’s what a reasonable ruling class ought to do.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 5 weeks ago:
Nah, science has always worked like that. This is what peer review is for.
What’s better than finding evidence that proves your own preconceived notions? Finding evidence that contradicts someone else’s. Schadenfreude is the great engine of scientific progress.
- Comment on Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, that was just the Dean of Unseen University again.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
glowing?
- Comment on Amazing 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 5 weeks ago:
is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”
Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 5 weeks ago:
Except everyone hates on the politician instead.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 month ago:
State terrorism is a contradiction in terms. Legally, terrorism is violence carried out by a group that is not recognized as a state internationally. States cannot do terrorism, the term exists to protect their monopoly on legal violence. George Washington was a terrorist until the British empire recognized and began doing business with the constitutional United States. We see a similar change occurring with Taliban members and the present government of Afghanistan.
More importantly, though. You claim liberal democracy is fundamentally incompatible with authoritarianism, yet if we dig into the present and recent past of the United States, we find policies that match the list you have provided.
The Lavender Scare and Hoover’s FBI, the Red Scare and COINTELPRO, the police response to Kent State anti-war protests in 1970, the police response Columbia’s anti-genocide protests last year, the ongoing existence of privately run labor camps and prison farms.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 month ago:
Ok, but R&D on a given product eventually stops. Over the lifetime of a good, it becomes a smaller and smaller proportion of overall costs.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 month ago:
everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years
a bit out from the cutting edge, sure, but obsolete? This aint the 90s or the Aughts any more.
A machine put together 10 years ago will still run most things fine. Not at the fanciest settings, but fine. This is essentially the same criticism PC gaming has been lobbing at consoles for years, and now we have essentially a PC masquerading it’s way into the console wing of the market – of course the same criticism still apply! It’s not incredibly beefy because it doesn’t need to be. Different audience, different requirements.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don’t debate God, you don’t test God, and you definitely don’t force God’s hand.
Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Part of the reason the show works is that we never really see Federation life outside of Starfleet. Mostly this is for practical budget reasons; what does a post-scarcity egalitarian society actually look like? That’s difficult to depict in a show designed to recycle the same set every episode and only very occasionally go outside to film.
So what little we see of the civilian federation looks… a lot like the US. There’s a president. Member
statesplanets. Constant references to US history. A military that operates how Americans like to think their military works, rather than what it actually historically has done.Newer shows take this even further. Section 31, as it was first introduced, was supposed to be a highly illegal, unsanctioned conspiracy acting in the shadow of the proper Federation. Now they’re presented as the ultra official, coolest badasses who are the only reason any of the egalitarian principals are able to survive.
- Comment on Relatable. 2 months ago:
Homestuck
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 months ago:
I feel like if I was gonna put a computer attached to a motor & heater inside a bed, the very first step would be making sure that if the software goes wrong, it always defaults to staying bed shaped and not catching fire.
I know I know hindsight is 20/20, I’m sure I’m just missing something. Venture capitalists would just give their money to any random idiot with a pitch, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 2 months ago:
Some answers may literally beyond our comprehension.
Sure that may definitely be the case. But in practice, that means we should be exhausting the comprehensible possibilities first. Many Worlds is an explanation of last resort.
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 2 months ago:
The point of the thought experiment is that a cat that is both alive and dead is absurd and clearly not what actually is happening. Schrödinger intended it to demonstrate that quantum mechanics was not a complete description of the universe, we’re still missing something(s).
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 months ago:
You know Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, right? How early roman christians viewed and treated Jewish people is reasonable context to include in a conversation about the history.
- Comment on Just in time 2 months ago:
Life has a tendency to spread when new environments are available, yes.
But beyond this planet, there are no other environments. You might say the rest of the universe is antivironment. There is a wide range of possible conditions, of radiation and tempurature, gravity and molecular composition. Life requires a very very narrow and specific set of those conditions to continue.
Going from one continent to another, within the same atmosphere, with the same underlying set of conditions, is not all that much of a change. Actually leaving the planet? Permanently? And without just dying in the attempt? That would require a level of organization, long term planning (like, centuries long term), and resource management that we as a species have yet to demonstrate.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 months ago:
Settling mars is a centuries long undertaking. You basically have to nurture a whole ecosystem from scratch… that would be a brutally difficult and lengthy process in the best of conditions. But of course, these aren’t the best conditions. We aren’t doing particularly well with the ecosystem we’ve already got.
If you want a historical project, then look to balancing modern industry within the planet’s biosphere. It’s a prerequisite to anything happening on mars.
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 2 months ago:
you may or may not recognize the artist
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 2 months ago:
xcancel.com/alharry/status/1450288983745785862
I guess this is a phishing attempt? Would have worked on me because I immediately needed more context and had to track down the post
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Would Oganesson even last long enough to lick? Let me look this up…
…0.7 millisecond half-life. A fraction of a
millionththousandth of a second. So you really only have to worry about all the things it decays into, and not the element itself.