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@cremieuxrecueil @watch_rome_burn If you're taking odds, as you would be here, "the spirit of the bet" is defined by the counterparty.

@watch_rome_burn It's not in the spirit of the bet for it to require stealing/trespassing/etc., and it can't be underground.

@cremieuxrecueil Sure you might figure out it’s in the basement of the Lubyanka, what are you going to do then

@ThunderCJackson @planefag The main issue isn't the toxin filtration*; it is the role in macronutrient processing. Cattle are not meant to run on high-carb diets, so grain-finished beef liver tends to have cirrhosis and/or fibrosis. (Chickens' less-so) *toxin destruct unit; "filter" is more like kidneys.

@planefag never had any liver. is it comparable to anything? is there an easy description? know it's good for you but y'know, i've an aversion to eating the organ that filters toxins out of another organism's blood

Japan bros, is it true you can go to a family-owned business in Tokyo and buy chicken livers? I have to drive 30 damned minutes to reach the closest chicken place that sells chicken livers. I have to make a pilgrimage to heaven every time I want that ambrosia. is it like that!?

@liamsLCjourney @DisabledDoctor No physical experiment, no lamp. They looked up physical properties and multiplied them together. Not a bad way to do things, so long as your sources are correct and your math is appropriate. (I think the math is here, but gosh the vibes are bad.)

So the paper models a base case of 1.4 ppb additional indoor ozone in a 300m³ classroom at 1 μW/cm², that's a modest increment on top of a typical indoor baseline of 10 ppb. It doesn't say what lamp they were using. What is the fluence rate of a Nukit or similar for an average living room? Also, the paper's own sensitivity analysis shows the ozone concern is mitigated by activated carbon air filtration, which they explicitly recommend pairing with 222nm devices. Whatever the numbers, remember the tradeoff for an individual is a small ozone increment vs potential meaningful reduction in long COVID risk. Which means a lot.

👀 Oh look! A study that was just published found that far-UVC (222nm) air-pollution risks are AT LEAST 20x larger than risks for GUV (254nm), largely due to ozone production and cascading effects producing particulate matter. Wonder who could have predicted this? (Me… I did 🫠). Genuinely excited to see how the people selling these devices, doing their own tests on their ozone production and harm (I.e., biased) are going to spin this to continue to get you to buy them while completely disregarding their potential to harm you. And don’t get me started on the crappy eye health research with these devices which was only done on rodents and non-disabled people with healthy eyes for a short period. Please stop using these devices in enclosed spaces with poor ventilation. I’m begging you all. Air quality is a life or death issue, and it goes beyond covid and viruses. Ozone is dangerous, particularly in indoor environments where it interacts with household products and chemicals. And the people profiting from these devices being sold are NOT the ones you should be listening to in terms of their safety. They want you to buy them, they don’t care if they are safe, and the fact that they profit creates a bias that even the best human in the world would struggle to recognize. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

@DisabledDoctor @open_erv Their 222:254 nm risk delta is almost entirely due to 'direct impacts' of O3; their O3→mortality slope is ~0.4%/ppb. Not sure if that's too high, or just means the 222 nm installation is about equal to 5 CFM/person of ventilation. (indoor O3 ≈ outdoor_O3*(ACH/(~2.7+ACH)))

The research suggesting it was safe was largely conducted by the guy who founded the technology (clear bias) with poor designs that confounded results and neglected to evaluate ozone appropriately as it failed to consider it’s conversion into PM along with the chemical cascades that occur when it enters a typical indoor environment and interacts with what is present. Jimenez has been a vocal voice pointing out the potential harms of far UVC, along with a number of experts in chemistry and IAQ. A handful I’ve spoken with have reported feeling uncomfortable publishing on the subject of far UVC harms because they get harassed and threatened by people and companies selling the devices. Jimenez is one of the only ones who persists with sharing accurate data despite harassment

@TorsoReaper @peteoxenham Saving money is always great, but that doesn't always mean selecting "cheap" for a process input. Say, if there's a critical widget in your multibillion dollar plant that fails: "bad" might increase cost, in risk of future failure; "slow" might increase cost, in lost production.

@peteoxenham Honestly this thing should always just be stuck in cheap mode. Unless you're at an AI company right now, cheap is always going to be one of the pushes.

unsurprisingly, 3d printer bros lack a basic understanding of how the fast/cheap/good tradeoff works

@konradk @Gaurab It is perhaps in the right ballpark if they were running the exposed dies themselves as a heat-transfer surface? Then the ~1 MW/m² power density of the chips produces a rise of ~10K over 5µm of 0.6 w/m*k insulation. (Plus if it's fuzzy that'd probably damp turbulent mixing.)

@Gaurab This is bullshit "A layer 5 microns thick, invisible to the naked eye, cuts heat transfer by over 65%."

You could take down a data center with the chemicals already inside. A hyperscale facility runs sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, and biocides through its cooling system around the clock. Stop the biocide and bacterial biofilm starts forming on heat exchanger surfaces within 24 hours. A layer 5 microns thick, invisible to the naked eye, cuts heat transfer by over 65%. Servers start throttling and GPUs go dark. No one's blowing anything up. Temperature just drifts a fraction of a degree per day instead of 3.5 degrees per minute. No alarm. Until the damage is irreversible. In 2020 Iranian hackers accessed six Israeli water plants and altered chemical dosing remotely before being detected. Data center cooling uses the same SCADA architecture and the same vendor-managed remote access. No major cybersecurity framework covers cooling water chemistry as an attack surface. I manufacture chemicals. A data center is a chemical plant.

@Raemon777 Genocide Man (2010-2016) has 'the useful period of AI uptime is very limited' plus (IIRC) 'so all practical use includes a directive given at boot' as a key plot point.

I'm a bit retroactively surprised that, before LLMs, I... don't recall any sci-fi stories where the AIs operated in short bursts of thinking, each mediated by a human. Or, where the AI is in a "memento" situation where it keeps getting reset. The story I recall that at least touches on this is some novel in the Star Wars extended universe, where it's remarked that droids are supposed to get "reset" periodically so they don't get wonky. Luke hasn't reset C3PO, which is part of why 3PO has acquired such a personality, and has maybe become sentient (which apparently isn't normal). Accelerando's early chapters has the main character send little AI agents off to do stuff, which seem like they could at least in principle be something like an OpenClaw instance, but it's not super specified. It is interesting that this feels like a relatively obvious story concept (in retrospect) but it didn't come up.

@Valuable Self-tuning PID loops have the sort of emotions you're concerned about?

I don’t want my tools to have emotions…

@entirelyuseles @lumpenspace Aren't (at the very least, non-reasoning models implementing somewhat poorly tuned next-token prediction) actually pretty bad at predicting if they can answer a question correctly? IE, the entire saga of confident made-up answers vs. refusals to do something they 100% can do.

@lumpenspace People also model themselves in this way, and it affects what they do and say. However, the difference is that there for the AI model, there is no difference between modelling itself as being likely to act irritated, and being in fact likely to act irritated. Those are not 100%

now do people

@Gundermgg Medium-warm take from over a decade ago, if Wikipedia is to be believed. ("Overview effect", search Bimm) Easy to believe, given the correlation of verbosity / intensity with date, in the example astronaut accounts they give. (Same article; but could be selection effects.)

My hot take is I don't think the "overview effect" is real

@edtarnowski "Please show me the version of this document which would exist, had *this* edit not been made 14 years ago, please."

My latest ✍🏻: The UK’s OSA is a war on free information. Wikipedia, reliant on anon editors, will be compelled to allow users to filter out content from “unverified” editors. This puts dissidents at risk, becoming less likely/unable to challenge autocratic propaganda spectator.com/article/age-ve…

@j_g_allen Caring very much about firearm mfg. liability for end-user actions; and also thinking that consumer electronics are likely to persist as a military technology on par with nuclear deterrence, is a kindof funny combination of positions. x.com/j_g_allen/stat…

You doing this for gun manufacturers, too, right?

@visakanv Sounds like you actually read them, but to me it kindof looks like at least 12% is hobbies / nerd stuff, even if we declare that 'monitoring the situation' is not a real hobby. (12, 32, 34, 36, 37, 48) And one could probably make a case for at least some of (21, 41, 44).

I did a twitter search for substack dotcom to try and take a quick dip outside my algorithm 95% of it is geopolitics slop, covid/vax paranoia, there's even biblical endtimes and alien invasion/UFO stuff

@MatjazLeonardis Whether the speaker feels it is acceptable to round down to zero. (Less likely if the capability is very high-impact or the report is long.)

What is the difference between “having an unreliable capability to do X” and “not having the capability to do X”?

@EliResurgence @BusinessNMedia @WallSTQuon @AutismCapital @nikitabier Became more *possible* to control, too. Eternal September-driven declines in independent thinking & intertemporal consistency, energy, and IQ make it harder to notice, try, and succeed in "interpret[ing] censorship as damage and rout[ing] around it", as we used to say.

@BusinessNMedia @WallSTQuon @AutismCapital @nikitabier Narrative control only came to exist on the internet in significant degree after mass access occurred. Because it was no longer a niche group of people using it, so it became more important to control.

The Internet was a mistake

@planefag The downside of psychosis is that it makes it harder to remain welcome as a member of society. (Because the metric fasteners often fill otherwise large gaps between the inch ones (or the reverse) it sometimes takes a measure of restraint not to specify a mix in the same design.)

Americans are psychotic in our tendency to use multiple measurement systems, often all at once. Olympic swimming pools, football fields and even double-decker busses don't make us flinch. The average European realizes something is wrong when they mention a "shitload" and their American friend asks "English or Imperial?"

@DefenderOfBasic I think the main thing is that the under-sink standard is just a very old one that's accumulated a bunch of small patches. A clean-sheet redesign taking advantage of modern cost structures could improve on leakage, maintainability, AND upfront cost (at least installed cost).

Like here there's an optimal amount of leaking. We can eliminate all pipe leaks in the world, we have this power. But we would do so at great expense (for example, we might have extremely strict rules of how to do this & prevent anyone except experts from doing it. Thus a pipe shortage )

Why do you think it's much more common to get a leak under the sink vs leak in the pipes inside the walls? One answer is: our society is such that things will be as cheap/low quality as they can be. And I think this is (probably) actually GOOD

@JordanWardle5 @Astra_fu @Lammjr @LundukeJournal "We don't know who gave that copy to them." At least in the US, holding a developer liable for the leak of a bit of software would take something like ITAR, and classifying as a munition what was in 2025 (and for decades before) a standard civilian OS... seems a stretch.

@BoilingPb @Astra_fu @Lammjr @LundukeJournal Now that brings in a new issue. Are stores that sell windows/laptops with windows installed providers? On top of that, if you provide a separate group the operating system to distribute, are you providing that group with an operating system These are questions to be tested

The Arch Linux Core Dev Team is asking r/ArchLinux sub-reddit mods to censor people unhappy with Age Verification in Arch. It appears that Arch Linux considers criticism of Age Verification to be a "Code of Conduct" violation. From an r/ArchLinux moderator responding to a censored user: "I got a DM from much higher up the chain asking me to remove it. Whilst I technically don't answer to them, I do respect their wishes. They don't like someone they consider as part of the core dev teams being called out like that. What you did broke the Arch Linux CoC."

@JordanWardle5 @Astra_fu @Lammjr @LundukeJournal The usual solution is to have a high-capital group to make the stuff, and a separate low-capital group do the challenged distributional leg. EG successful dyads like academia / sci-hub, Purdue / dealers, factory / bomber squadron, etc.

@Astra_fu @Lammjr @LundukeJournal Cool, then you just keep blocking and blocking until no one can access

@open_erv The H2 thing is rules, not failure to perform to a safety record. thecgo.org/benchmark/brin…

Re the helium shortage, think how this makes basically any lighter than air craft that uses it totally non viable, it always has. There are companies looking into them for cargo etc. It's probably possible to figure out hydrogen though, although the Hindenburg did no go so well, there were plenty of successful flights of such craft, and the surrounding technologies required to prevent ignition can probably be figured out pretty well. If the hydrogen is sufficiently pure it cannot combust, for instance. There is also the intriguing possibility of a gas like a halon which can interfere with the combustion process and make hydrogen a more practical lifting gas. Lots to do for everyone. Yet somehow no jobs.