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Re:The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @08:52AM (#42450406)
I conclude that if you perform horrific experiments on animals then our intelligent universe reduces the rate at which you can continue to 10bps.

This is why enlightenment cures you of your curiosity.

Re:Researchers discover new third class of magnetism on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:46AM (#42440224)
Oh, okay I think I understand.

This would have to scale down to the quantum domain to be an actual thing and scaling back up means we bring non-commutative physics into the classical world.

Re:Researchers discover new third class of magnetism on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:35AM (#42440173)
I was actually thinking of the engineering-minded people who experiment with permanent magnet electric motors out of intuition. The bit about free energy was hyperbole of mine.

From 2021:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05820 This is the numerical discovery.

I'm trying to decide if we are intentionally 'translating' these ideas from pure imagination down into technological applications through intermediate 'realms' of quasi-reality, or if building stuff with just intuition can still be accepted in the 21st century. The BS is just piled too high for me and my trust in technology is not great. Sometimes I wonder if we are just having a mass psychosis in a field of mud.

Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:19PM (#42435547)
...So I'm advanced?

This means I'm advanced.

Re:Researchers discover new third class of magnetism on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:44AM (#42428849)
It makes you question what they mean by discovery. Is it not a discovery until it is published in Nature? On Arxiv this was a discovery in 2021. We can probably find a free energy channel in the YouTube haystack from a decade ago where the guy happened to arrange magnets in this order while going through permutations. Is that discovery or are only incumbent academics allowed to canonize science?
Complex systems studies is wisdom. We know how communication on internet behaves. Conway's Law hits hard and the processes of life are not dumb.

Access to physical reality is important when negotiating with the beings that can form under this constraint. People have apparently known this instinctively for a very long time and they are not going to give in to the demands of the AI industry.

It's a great mistake to humanize everything in your consciousness.

Re:What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know on Saturday December 14, 2024 @11:32AM (#42418017)
Unless the surrounding system is already at infinite entropy.
Is this discretization of gyroscopic effects?
Re:Mozilla Firefox Removes "Do Not Track" Feature Support on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:39PM (#42381856)
It's not a very human medium, so it is not man who is implicated.
Re:Mozilla Firefox Removes "Do Not Track" Feature Support on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:22PM (#42379620)
I doubt it? Stuff only works because we can't punch each other over the internet.
Re:Mozilla Firefox Removes "Do Not Track" Feature Support on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @12:51PM (#42379233)
There are lots of entities out there that assume consent.
The price of olive oil has gone up significantly.
Re:Mapping all 13.8 gigapixels of the Caves of Qud world map on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @03:31AM (#42374952)
Zoom in.
Re:Sora is here on Monday December 09, 2024 @02:12PM (#42369400)
It is like an attempt to do psychic battle over the meaning of "disruption".
Re:See how a lab-grown diamond is made on Monday December 09, 2024 @05:36AM (#42364822)
Is it region-locked?
Re:Ask HN: Nineteen Year Old Seeking Career Advice on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:25AM (#42356064)
Chemistry is my own path-not-taken. Plenty of room at the bottom.
It's not about the money?
Re:ChatGPT Pro on Sunday December 08, 2024 @12:16AM (#42355167)
That is why we invented God.
Doubt.
Re:ChatGPT Pro on Thursday December 05, 2024 @11:49PM (#42336434)
There are people like that. We don't know what's up with them.
Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:04AM (#42325735)
We are repeating the COVID virus scare but this time with software. Most people don't know the difference so this is respectful.
Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:01AM (#42325718)
> ...this has seemingly infinite flexibility based on so little and that's just incredible.

What makes it little? This is the difference between von Neumann architecture and Harvard architecture.

Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:48AM (#42325649)
Imagine you have a past life review in a near death experience and 15% of your memories are ads.
Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:45AM (#42325638)
I'll hack mine so that when it decides if I should die in a crash or run someone over, it is biased to be 100% ageist so it avoids anyone younger than me.
Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:43AM (#42325622)
> Are there any game developers working on infinite story games?

To me this basically describes God, once you get all the mods and DLC.

Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:31AM (#42325561)
They have nowhere to go if they do so no. Realization is transcendental.
Algorithms are to Gen-Z like GMO is to Millennials.
Re:An Aperiodic Monotile on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:58AM (#42295327)
Spiral out and keep going?

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