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Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:12PM (#50063791)
Yeah sure whatever
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:34PM (#50062670)
None of them are true. They might be almost true in little bubbles of the West. Will those bubbles expand and encompass the world? Personally I doubt it.
Re:Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:01AM (#49826103)
Am I supposed to not like that?
Buy signal
Re:Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:39AM (#49707775)
It's $(a lot) because only a tiny fraction of the population can live without goods delivered and produced by diesel fuel.
Re:Aphantasia Beginner's Guide on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:50PM (#49473451)
I don't consider self-reported nonsense to be empirical confirmation. There can be correlations between different self-reports, that doesn't mean that our idea of why those correlations exist is correct.
Re:$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on Friday July 17, 2026 @03:18AM (#48944270)
It remains godawful slop in every instance I've seen, no matter how expensive it would be to produce without AI.
Some data centers, sure. 23% of the country's energy worth? I don't think so. Training LLMs is not critical digital infrastructure.
I agree with your analysis, but doesn't that make this blogpost by google a bit overoptimistic, or even disingenuous?
Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics on Friday June 19, 2026 @05:20PM (#48603371)
Marketing
Re:Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:43PM (#48535018)
proompt didn't work
I do know their names. However I'm not in the field and there are many cases in recent years of high-profile scientists putting their weight behind highly dubious claims. Thanks for the advice, by the way.

Note that I'm not disputing the validity of the counterexample itself.

Do you have enough knowledge? I laugh at everyone who accepts these claims in the light they're presented despite knowing so little.
I don't have enough information about the announcement for it to mean much to me. I don't know much about this field of maths. I don't know how many mathematicians were actively working on this problem. It could be zero, which would indicate it's not really that interesting. The article gushes about how it's a Very Important Problem, but it's not even mentioned on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjectures_by_Paul_Er.... I'm sure the busy folk at openAI will fix that soon however. Furthermore the extensive dishonesty of companies like openAI makes me suspicious of just how this was achieved. Overall the announcement is of little interest to my "priors", although I don't typically think in such terms.
I still laugh.
Re:Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @09:48PM (#47698427)
I agree polymarket is "bad", but it's also highly relevant and should absolutely be included in this web page.
Re:Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:14AM (#47611918)
The problem here is the word "will". Because they don't exist.
Re:Quartz Crystals on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:33PM (#46940941)
The account of the youtube video linked in the article has been terminated apparently. Anyone know why or if there's an alternate link?
Re:Data centers in space makes no sense on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:28PM (#46881470)
"Planning" is a strong word..
Re:The $100B Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:18AM (#46833980)
Just print so much money that people (yes, banks are people!) have nothing better to do than buy stonks. Problem solved!
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:38AM (#46630268)
Damn that's a considerable body of work.
Re:Iran Protest Map on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:00PM (#46548277)
It would be cool to have protest maps in another politically unstable middle eastern country too.
I still don't understand how it's world-changing apart from considerably degrading the internet. It's laughable to compare it to railroads.
Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:38PM (#46319144)
Are you actually making that article, or just "quoting" it as some kind of hypothetical? Regardless, without mentioning heat capacity, I don't see any point to your quotation in this context.
This is because peer review has become a bullshit mill and AI is good at churning through/out bullshit.
Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:20PM (#46293866)
I think otherwise.
Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @02:03AM (#46285634)
A perfect vacuum might have no temperature, but space is not a perfect vacuum, and has a well-defined temperature. More insight would be found in thinking about what temperature precisely means, and the difference between it and heat capacity.
HAMAS? We're talking about an attack in Lebanon my friend, not Palestine.
Yes, since conveniently the attacker also gets to define who is a civilian.

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