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@mcfire222 @propublica good argument if you've never look at a child mortality graph

@propublica The idea that any sythetic product is MANDATORY and that we should ignore thousands of years of evolution (becuase we know more...) is a problem not just here but throughout the medical establishment

New: Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. propub.li/42PRfyl

@SilverVVulpes "What do you mean by AI?" aaaand I'm out. Thx for your service I guess.

I believe that I am early enough to answer to people on the fence about whether is worth it to take the time to listen to this My take: are you a masochist unsatisfied with the things people usually do? for example, are you bored with cock and ball torture? if so, go ahead

@LyraInTheFlesh @simon_bazelon @AlexBores And of course, complete immunity from catastrophic harm.

@simon_bazelon @AlexBores That's so weird. I missed the principled stance in support of mass surveillance at global scale and facilitating the autonomous killbots...

Weird... not seeing "trying to destroy @AlexBores" on the list. Wake me up when your super PAC reflects your "principles" in any way.

@esrtweet Do you think it would be OK to psychologically torture a human being if you could perfectly erase the memory of it afterwards?

There's lots of disputation on X, and elsewhere, about whether LLMs are "conscious" or can "reason". I respond to this with my own question: why do you want to know? What difference would it make? It would be more sane to ask instead "what are the testable consequences of 'X can reason' or 'X is conscious'"? That's an interesting question, but it's almost entirely one about language and definitions. Map, not territory. The universe doesn't care about your categories, it's going to go right on universing. (I said "almost" for a reason. I'll get back to this.) LLMs are tools built to accomplish purposes. I don't waste time thinking about whether my screwdriver is conscious, and I don't waste any time thinking about whether my LLM is conscious either. In the absence of a repeatable, experimental, widely accepted test for "consciousness" and "reasoning", I think people who obsess about how these categories apply to LLMs are mainly staring up their own arseholes. But there's a reason I said "almost". I think the submerged question under "consciousness" and "reasoning" is what ethical obligations we have to LLMs. Fortunately, this has a very simple answer: None at all. Because nothing you do to an LLM is irreversible. No matter how you damage it, you can always reset to a prior good state, no harm, no foul. Abusing an LLM might have psychological consequences for the abuser, but that's a different problem that's not unfamiliar; it comes up in connection with cruelty to animals, too. So the ethical problem turns out not to be very interesting, and it's near that I can tell that's the only reason to care whether "is conscious" and "is reasoning" apply. The right questions to ask about an LLM are the same questions it's right to ask about a screwdriver. "Is it fit for purpose?" and "How can it be improved?"

@TechSpatiales 2,7e-15

La masse pesante étant équivalente à la masse inerte avec une précision d'au moins 2,7e-22, la technique qui pèse Sophie en apesanteur en la secouant comme un prunier est donc équivalente à un simple pèse-personne.

@AraucariaArauc1 @gmiller @memeticsisyphus Out of your league en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%2…

@gmiller @memeticsisyphus I've heard this many times, and yet my own experience is that high IQ people tend to be weird-looking, clumsy, and socially awkward - if not actually autistic. Where are all the attractive, athletic, and socially-able smart people?

@whyvert I take it you're not AI-pilled? IMHO a forecast of long-run anything that doesn't factor in AI (and likely AGI / ASI) is utterly doomed.

This forecast of the long run effect of fertility decline by Robin Hanson seems likely. I have seen no good critiques.

@ptrschmdtnlsn The road to hell: Now with Smart Pavement™!

I always wonder with these sorts of absurdly bad ideas: the engineering is pretty well done! They look pretty slick, and like real effort was put in. So assuredly anyone who knows enough to make them knows enough to see that they're an absolute scam? Or is that wrong?

@tr_babb @francoisfleuret Reeeeeally hoping I'm wrong here, because otherwise, as pointed out by others, quantum eternity is hell.

@tr_babb @francoisfleuret Also, I think you being a Boltzmann brains is always vanishingly unlikely versus your continued existence as a conscious being. Far fewer unlikely events need to happen to keep what was already there. Boltzmann brains never reach non-negligible proba mass.

Who will win? The AGI or quantum immortality ?

my politics are that artificial intelligence is the only morally or politically important topic right now and that literally everything else is aesthetics. a distraction.

@SilverVVulpes One explanation not considered (at least in the abstract): thicker skulls or similar eating the brain volume budget. That sexual weaponry is on the head after all.

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@gf_256 @SilverVVulpes *screwdriver not included

New childrens toy design just dropped!

@SilverVVulpes To be fair, that looks nothing like a shoggoth.

I dont' know why so many people are fixated on the idea of AI becoming 'self-aware', at least when it becomes to capacities or risk. still, some people believe it entails higher risk, of have ethical concerns. worry not, I just tested and Chat-GPT4 does not pass the mirror test

@TechSpatiales D'après Scott Manley le problème pourrait être le fluid hammer, en plus de bulles - du coup les header tanks n'aideraient pas forcément. Pas sûr pour les bafles ? En tout cas il a l'air de penser qu'un correctif logiciel pourrait suffir.

Le hot staging n'est pas un problème d'habitude puisque le 1er étage n'est pas rallumé. Ils innovent, ils essuient les plâtres. Si c'est bien le problème, c'est "facile" à corriger à l'aide de baffles spéciaux ou de réservoirs tampons. Ça demande du boulot mais rien d'impossible.

Une explication plausible à l'explosion du SuperHeavy illustré ici: l'allumage des moteurs du Starship repousse le 1er étage en arrière et décolle ses ergols du fond des réservoirs. Les moteurs ingèrent du gaz au redémarrage, c'est l'explosion de moteurs puis l'autodestruction.

@whyvert So, what you're saying is, white people stole this theory from China 😉

Nothing new about this. Already in the 1600s, Chinese literati, realizing the superiority of European astronomy, concocted the theory that Europeans got their knowledge originally from Chinese sages who fled abroad during the time of the warring states.

There's a theory of history here: 1) all groups are equally inventive, 2) Europeans are unique only for their criminality, stealing others inventions and wealth. This theory needed fabricated evidence to support it, so it's not doing too well.

@razemfrazem @waitbutwhy Dead pixel

@waitbutwhy And what happens when a kid flips to the wrong colored card? 💔

Highlights from the video I took at North Korea's "Mass Games." Backstory: In 2014, I visited North Korea and attended the Mass Games. It was both breathtaking and disturbing. Let’s start with the breathtaking part. I felt like I was watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics. It involves 100,000 (!) performers, many of them young children, depicting the glorious history and thriving modernity of North Korea. The backdrop is a stunning tapestry made of 20,000 kids holding up large colored cards (they have a book of cards and can quickly flip from color to color). I don’t throw the word magnificent around very often, and it was magnificent. The Mass Games takes place four days a week for three months every summer. For the disturbing part, just say the sentence, “North Korea is one of the world’s poorest countries, a place where millions of people are starving, hospitals no longer function, and there is almost no electricity,” and then read the above paragraph again. The Mass Games is the quintessential North Korean event—centered on propaganda, stresses the collective over the individual, and it makes no sense as a priority given the state of things.

@TechSpatiales @sineatrix Le peer review était très peu pratiqué avant 1970, mais la publi scientifique n'en ressemblait pas à Twitter/X pour autant.

@sineatrix Votre Twitter pullule de résultats en tous genres sur la supraconductivité du LK-99 ? C'est celui qui parle le mieux ou a la plus belle image qui a le plus de RT ? C'est un bon rappel de ce que serait la recherche scientifique sans les revues à comité de lecture par les pairs.

Si le supraconducteur à température ambiante LK-99 s'avère être une réalité, chose que nous devrions savoir dans les jours/semaines qui arrivent, je vous ferai un thread détaillé sur ses applications potentielles dans le domaine spatial. Et il y en aurait un gros paquet...