There was another article on this recently[1], if I didn't know better I would suspect this narrative is being pushed by some PR firm. Maybe it's coming from AI companies trying to imply their models are so advanced…
Yeah I think there's a lot of science news about how plants are capable of more than the average person thinks, but people tend to conflate that with some kind of conscious experience.
I have a special seething hatred for leafblowers. The noise to utility ratio is so high.
Maybe I'm being dumb, but I don't understand what the innovation is here. I get that they're using liquid coolant at higher than usual temperatures, but why couldn't they do that before? Most of the comparison in the…
>Dr Floridi describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a “haemorrhaging”. I wonder if anyone who is connected with actual academic philosophy can comment on this. I'm pretty skeptical. This is a…
The comparison with meat consumption seems inapt. 70% of people report reducing meat consumption, but research has shown that these intentions have very little correlation with people's actual behavior.
I agree LLMs can be harmful and that the companies behind them should be held liable to some extent, for example the recent news with Google being held responsible for their AI's defamation.[1] This is a pretty…
>A bunch of radioactive stuff together is basically the definition of a nuclear reactor though. It really isn't. A pile of radioactive waste isn't a reactor. Marie Curie's notes are famously contaminated with…
>Of course. "tried to" being key words in the comment. Fair enough, I misread your original comment. The broader point stands that the limitation on creating nuclear weapons and reactors is not knowledge but materials.…
For an example of how closely this is monitored see the Oklo fossil reactors[1] The proportion of fissile isotopes being mined was off by a fraction of a percent, which caused the French government to launch an…
He didn't create a nuclear reactor, this is a common misconception. It even says this in the wikipedia article. He basically got a bunch of radioactive stuff and put it together. He wasn't anywhere close to making a…
>it would mean I think bats are people, just non-human ones. That's what being a person is: a subjective experiencer. Okay, I think this is part of what I found confusing about your initial comment, since "person" is…
I think he makes it pretty clear he's only talking about the second one of your two definitions >What it is like to be a bat could be rephrased as what it would be like to experience being a bat if a person were being a…
I had no idea there were 1500kW fast chargers, this is insanely high power for a car. Maybe this would be useful for long haul trucks or something where they have large battery capacities and want to save as much time…
I agree with the ruling, but this makes me wonder if it will be possible to have any AI agent at all if it's consistently applied. After all, if I can get ChatGPT or Claude to say something false that should count too,…
The title is misleading IMO. It should say "German ruling declares Google liable for libel in AI Overviews" I was prepared to say the same thing as you but after reading it seems totally fair. The key difference is that…
It's strange to me that this isn't the emphasis of the article. I assume the MRL the lowest amount which could possibly cause harm? If so then why does it matter for the rest of the products where the levels are below…
I've recently gotten into microscopy as a hobby and comparing the relative size of microbes is really interesting. There are entire animals (tardigrades for one) which can be smaller than some single celled organisms.…
It seems to me like there's a fair amount to be concerned about, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on finance by any means so if you have some explanation of why it's not that bad I'd love to hear it. Two other…
I was having a hard time pinning down what bothered me about this but I think you put it pretty well. It draws an analogy between us and the skeptical aliens in the original story which feel silly to us, so the obvious…
I'm a big fan of Star Trek but I recently rewatched this one in the context of recent AI developments and it's not as good as I remember it. They barely touch on the issues of consciousness, Picard basically says "What…
I can appreciate LLMs for some use cases, but writing emails for the user is the one that really baffles me. It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood, but the…
Worth mentioning that this is from 2021 and there are now faster speeds and more options. We have OSFP/QSFPDD with 8 lanes and lane speeds of 100Gpbs and 200Gbps for up to 1.6Tbps on a single DAC at the bleeding edge.…
No you have to get the yesses back out cat /dev/null | yes
I'm a totally biased EV owner, and I agree that it's only fair that EV owners pay for the roads they use. But it's annoying to see the US government find a new way to discourage one of the most clear cut ways to reduce…
There was another article on this recently[1], if I didn't know better I would suspect this narrative is being pushed by some PR firm. Maybe it's coming from AI companies trying to imply their models are so advanced…
Yeah I think there's a lot of science news about how plants are capable of more than the average person thinks, but people tend to conflate that with some kind of conscious experience.
I have a special seething hatred for leafblowers. The noise to utility ratio is so high.
Maybe I'm being dumb, but I don't understand what the innovation is here. I get that they're using liquid coolant at higher than usual temperatures, but why couldn't they do that before? Most of the comparison in the…
>Dr Floridi describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a “haemorrhaging”. I wonder if anyone who is connected with actual academic philosophy can comment on this. I'm pretty skeptical. This is a…
The comparison with meat consumption seems inapt. 70% of people report reducing meat consumption, but research has shown that these intentions have very little correlation with people's actual behavior.
I agree LLMs can be harmful and that the companies behind them should be held liable to some extent, for example the recent news with Google being held responsible for their AI's defamation.[1] This is a pretty…
>A bunch of radioactive stuff together is basically the definition of a nuclear reactor though. It really isn't. A pile of radioactive waste isn't a reactor. Marie Curie's notes are famously contaminated with…
>Of course. "tried to" being key words in the comment. Fair enough, I misread your original comment. The broader point stands that the limitation on creating nuclear weapons and reactors is not knowledge but materials.…
For an example of how closely this is monitored see the Oklo fossil reactors[1] The proportion of fissile isotopes being mined was off by a fraction of a percent, which caused the French government to launch an…
He didn't create a nuclear reactor, this is a common misconception. It even says this in the wikipedia article. He basically got a bunch of radioactive stuff and put it together. He wasn't anywhere close to making a…
>it would mean I think bats are people, just non-human ones. That's what being a person is: a subjective experiencer. Okay, I think this is part of what I found confusing about your initial comment, since "person" is…
I think he makes it pretty clear he's only talking about the second one of your two definitions >What it is like to be a bat could be rephrased as what it would be like to experience being a bat if a person were being a…
I had no idea there were 1500kW fast chargers, this is insanely high power for a car. Maybe this would be useful for long haul trucks or something where they have large battery capacities and want to save as much time…
I agree with the ruling, but this makes me wonder if it will be possible to have any AI agent at all if it's consistently applied. After all, if I can get ChatGPT or Claude to say something false that should count too,…
The title is misleading IMO. It should say "German ruling declares Google liable for libel in AI Overviews" I was prepared to say the same thing as you but after reading it seems totally fair. The key difference is that…
It's strange to me that this isn't the emphasis of the article. I assume the MRL the lowest amount which could possibly cause harm? If so then why does it matter for the rest of the products where the levels are below…
I've recently gotten into microscopy as a hobby and comparing the relative size of microbes is really interesting. There are entire animals (tardigrades for one) which can be smaller than some single celled organisms.…
It seems to me like there's a fair amount to be concerned about, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on finance by any means so if you have some explanation of why it's not that bad I'd love to hear it. Two other…
I was having a hard time pinning down what bothered me about this but I think you put it pretty well. It draws an analogy between us and the skeptical aliens in the original story which feel silly to us, so the obvious…
I'm a big fan of Star Trek but I recently rewatched this one in the context of recent AI developments and it's not as good as I remember it. They barely touch on the issues of consciousness, Picard basically says "What…
I can appreciate LLMs for some use cases, but writing emails for the user is the one that really baffles me. It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood, but the…
Worth mentioning that this is from 2021 and there are now faster speeds and more options. We have OSFP/QSFPDD with 8 lanes and lane speeds of 100Gpbs and 200Gbps for up to 1.6Tbps on a single DAC at the bleeding edge.…
No you have to get the yesses back out cat /dev/null | yes
I'm a totally biased EV owner, and I agree that it's only fair that EV owners pay for the roads they use. But it's annoying to see the US government find a new way to discourage one of the most clear cut ways to reduce…