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it’s like if you were to find out that michio kaku has just won his fourth consecutive nobel prize in physics
hell of a stinger
L. polyphemus enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas
it’s like if you were to find out that michio kaku has just won his fourth consecutive nobel prize in physics
hell of a stinger
These bubbles seem to be inflating and popping with shorter and shorter cycle times, as if the VC-fueled bullshit economy is bumbling toward some kind of ending. It reminds me of a supermassive star burning it’s way down the periodic table until its heart is chock full of iron.
I’m probably just seeing patterns in the noise, but it’s a nice thought innit? no you’re right, it’ll probably blast the innocent bystanders, mostly.
https://lco.global/spacebook/stars/high-mass-star/
High mass stars go through a similar process to low mass stars in the beginning, except that it all happens much faster. They have a hydrogen fusion core, but much of the hydrogen fusion happens via the CNO cycle. After the hydrogen is exhausted, like low mass stars, a helium core with a hydrogen shell forms, then a carbon core, with helium and hydrogen shells. Then unlike low mass stars, they have enough mass that gravity contracts the core raising the temperature and carbon can fuse into neon, then neon into oxygen, then oxygen into silicon, then iron. Each stage of burning lasts a shorter time than the previous one. For example, in a 25 solar mass star, hydrogen burning would take about 7 × 106 years, helium burning 7 × 105 years, carbon burning 600 years, neon burning 1 year, oxygen burning 6 months and silicon burning one day. Once silicon has fused into iron, no more fusion occurs, as the fusion of iron requires more energy than it releases. The core therefore collapses and releases a huge amount of energy in an explosion called a supernova. In the centre of the debris from the explosion is an incredibly dense neutron star. If the star is massive enough, the neutron star will collapse further and form a black hole.
The Poop Stick Paradox (PSP)
I’m no lawyer, I don’t even play one on TV, so upfront apologies if I’m hanging my ass out.
That said, it sounds to me like Doctorow might have a point here. Suppose Universal et al. gets a precedent-setting ruling and slays OpenAI. LOL, LMAO even, but then what? What’s to keep the current entertainment cartels from making deals with Microsoft or the husks of the AI companies to rev up their own (now) fully legal and licensed bullshit engines? The only winning legal play is Giant Asteroid.
It’s like young-earth creationists who believe that dinosaur bones were installed as-is at the beginning of time time in order to test us, so their existence proves nothing about geology or evolution.
Really appreciate you and Amy! o7
The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Goon
Edit: I thought to myself, “deborah’s post would be a great fanfic prompt! SecUnit decides to look up the ol family history, and BOOM, it exposes itself to these TESCREAL characters. It would be appalled!”
Throwing caution to the wind, I went to look up Murderbot on AO3 and now I’m scheduled to get my No Regerts tattoo inked-over next week. It’s still a great idea, though!
1000 Years Thought Leader Jail
A masterpiece, no notes.
Also, I read this in SecUnit’s voice.
If you really wanna just throw some fucking spaghetti at the wall, YOU CAN DO THAT WITHOUT AI.
This is coming from someone who hates google, but if this person’s entire family had died, I would put a LOT of that blame on them before google.
That would really put the “uh oh” in your spaghettios
accept no substitutes!
Off topic:
Went to Bonnaroo this weekend and didn’t have to think about weird racist nerds trying to ruin everything for four whole days.
It was rad af and full of the kind of positive human interaction these people want to edit out of existence. Highly recommend.
“Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans.”
They are doing to summon a god. And we can’t do anything to stop it.
This is a direct rip-off of the plot of The Labyrinth Index, except in the book it’s a public-partnership between the US occult deep state, defense contractors, and silicon valley rather than a purely free market apocalypse, and they’re trying to execute cthulhu.exe rather than implement the Acausal Robot God.
While it’s always correct to laugh at crypto advocates, /r/buttcoin just isn’t very edifying lately. There’s no depth to the criticism. It comes across as the “anti” version of wall street bets for people who lost their shirts, especially since The Appening, when a lot of subject matter experts left town.
Sorry! I leaned too hard on the inside jokes. Oglaf is a pretty successful fantasy-themed web comic with adult humor. It’s nothing you’d need therapy to get over, though it has more nudity than you’d want your boss to notice if they walked by your desk.
“Blood and Thunder” was heavily memed around a dozen years ago.
Lawrence Lessig falls victim to the siren song of the blarney engines. Also, lol cnn
Many people refer to concerns about the technology as a question of “AI safety.” That’s a terrible term to describe the risks that many people in the field are deeply concerned about. Some of the leading AI researchers, including Turing Prize winner Yoshua Bengio and Sir Geoffrey Hinton, the computer expert and neuroscientist sometimes referred to as “the godfather of AI,” fear the possibility of runaway systems creating not just “safety risks,” but catastrophic harm.
And while the average person can’t imagine how anyone could lose control of a computer (“just unplug the damn thing!”), we should also recognize that we don’t actually understand the systems that these experts fear.
Companies operating in the field of AGI — artificial general intelligence, which broadly speaking refers to the theoretical AI research attempting to create software with human-like intelligence, including the ability to perform tasks that it is not trained or developed for — are among the least regulated, inherently dangerous companies in America today. There is no agency that has legal authority to monitor how the companies develop their technology or the precautions they are taking.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/opinions/artificial-intelligence-risks-chat-gpt-lessig/index.html
Banned users could be auto-redirected to this article
Beautiful. The papyrus font really seals the deal.
CW:
Dongs, Blood and Thunder, Victory at Sea, Child birth, Scented Candles
So yeah…remember that manly Roko post from last week where he manplained how much men don’t need women? Oglaf did it first.
This is Roko’s ideal future; Roko’s Modern Life, if you like.
(NSFW)
https://www.oglaf.com/dark-miasma/ (part 1 of 24 lol)
https://www.oglaf.com/burningjewels/
But nature finds a way:
Mozilla: Hey, we’re going to take you out to a restaurant and get you a burger, as a treat!
The restaurant: