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AI that pretends to be a human mind, or takes the place of a human mind is an abomination. [what does that mean? that's the whole ballgame. defining what this means]

AI as a tool can do impressive things.

AI usage metrics by employers is ... an interesting test case.

Braid Speedrun (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX9h_MSePcw

The first rule of success is to own your definition of success.

> I can’t believe France and Belgium suffer power losses in the 5 to 6% range.

Is the juice worth the squeeze?

For some problems, the closer you get to perfection, the harder the next step is.

Is this AI ready?

"better" is really subjective!

I can eat better than a king, every day.

Society advances at the rate of emotional validation of the median voter.

Yes, that's what makes it interesting.

Interesting discussions about energetics are best had from a distance.

It's an interesting discussion, because if you assume access to atmospheric oxygen, gasoline is MUCH more energy dense.

    TNT.....:  4 kJ/gram and  7 MJ/liter
 
    Gasoline: 43 kJ/gram and 33 MJ/liter

He was towed outside the environment. (I think he would laugh at this)

98% of any particular audience at a live event is well behaved. Unfortunately, in an audience of 1,000 people, that means 20 people are not well behaved, and if each of those 20 people ruins the event for their neighbors, that means at least 200 people had a bad time.

If 2% of your users complain and leave bad reviews, and only 1% leave good reviews...

This is load bearing guanxi

I've lost my ability to believe that things will feel 'normal' at work.

I no longer want to make connection with any coworkers.

Implemented by intention vs implemented by history

Signal and noise. Lots of noise. SO much noise.

To be clear, I don't know which part is signal and which part is noise any better than anyone else.

The work product is not the work.

I believe that LLM (and ML in general) tools really shine when they are developed and used AS tools.

Unfortunately, I also believe that market forces may push away from this direction, as LLM companies try to capture the value stream

"The Medium Is The Message" - Marshall McLuhan

People aren't nihilist - social media is.

People aren't shallow - dating apps are.

The world isn't shit - late capital is.

But of course, people are also nihilist, shallow and shit; and those same people are hopeful, complex, patient, kind and loving - but the internet rarely brings those stories to you.

Source?

Are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerogen?

At any rate, this is why I would like to see a better investigation of the subject

Better Kerogen wiki: https://wiki.aapg.org/Kerogen

Well, there are a lot of planets, and a lot of time.

So I would say yes.

On average though, I would say no.

Thank you?

Solar panels don't convert air to fuel directly, but you could use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

I'd love to see an investigation into fossil fuel accumulation over geological time scales - especially petroleum.

From what I've seen, 10,000 barrels per year is a reasonable guestimate.

If that is the case, then just the electrical energy harvested from solar panels in the UK could convert air into fuel at a faster rate than the WHOLE earth (on average over geological time scales) (as long as the fuel conversion/production was at least 1% efficient at converting electricity to fuel).

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1owp09/if_oil_t...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209624951...

Something interesting to me is that YouTube doesn't even capture the majority of the value stream. They allow content creators to use things like Patreon and their own ad reads to capture their own value.

Of course, the preceding paragraph could be re-written in many different ways.

The fun thing about learning to juggle is that no one can teach you how to juggle, but they can teach you how to teach yourself how to juggle.

If it is a part with a regular maintenance schedule, it should be designed for maintainability.

Most maintainability conflicts come from packaging and design for assembly.

Efficiency more often comes into conflict with durability, and sometimes safety.

Yes propaganda and bullshit, but by way of exaggeration and puffery, not lying.

I wouldn't expect even a lightly informed mid-wit to think that this murderbot held the ground by itself; and I don't think the author expects that either. Thus something else is probably going on. To wit - puffery.

And here I assumed they sounded like red-tailed hawks!

Compared to the cosmic spacetime scale, "snaps" fits pretty well for me =)

I read the book before watching the movie - I'd recommend the opposite.

Watching the movie first will set the stage for a lot of details that work better in a book than a movie.