Comment Re:Excellent! Can we do this here in the uk? (Score 1) 143
Sugar is integral to ultra processed foods. In America you basically can’t find any without it.
Comment Re:Excellent! Can we do this here in the uk? (Score 2) 143
This is closer to cars having greater and greater horsepower to weight ratios in vehicles and now with electric cars you can buy entry level supercar performance for $70k. Then someone who doesn’t drive much goes to push on the accelerator naturally like they have with old models and instantly gets in a massive accident. Ultra processed foods are incredibly nutrient and calorie dense while being extremely cheap and available so if you eat them as you naturally do with regular foods and you’ll be an overweight blob with heart disease and diabetes. Humans only evolved because we process our food, first by cooking then by farming, we now basically need processed food to live. But these modern foods have gone too far, and are too easy to digest and absorb too quickly which is bad like with type 2 diabetes.
Comment Re:Excellent! Can we do this here in the uk? (Score 2) 143
UPF causing diabetes is just sugar and refined starches. The biggest health risk from UPF is its too nutrient and calorie dense while being incredibly cheap making overeating a massive problem.
Comment Re:Termination Shock (Score 2) 51
We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.
From the only matrix movie ever made.
Comment Re:This is why we use "agents" instead of "LLM's" (Score 4, Insightful) 120
The ChatGPT (or any AI product) people actually use is more than just an LLM. People get wound up over the inherent limitations of LLM's as if that's some brick wall preventing these things from ever becoming useful.
It's ludicrously simple to program a chatbot script to return the time instead of diving into the LLM if the user asks for the time. Same with mathematical operations - yes, LLM's sometimes get basic math wrong because that's not what they're designed for. But again, super simple to channel math requests to an engine that's built for that.
If they haven't fixed a particular shortcoming yet it's because they're seeking more complete solutions than picking off one tiny complaint at a time. But these are trivial to fix and smarmy posts like this will not age well.
The whole problem with this approach is a) we don’t have all the systems we need individually at a level of capability that meets the current level of hype and b) we don’t have a capable enough system management AI architecture, just using some weighted tokens is horribly deficient.
Comment Re:Algorithms (Score 1) 120
For the record, maybe we shouldn’t call it a bug because they have rudimentary sentience and thinking ability. Maybe unproductive mutation would be more apt.
Comment Re:Wrong Name (Score 1) 289
But it isn't happening. That's a bubble ripe to burst.
Oh, don’t worry. It’s only 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble and 4 times the subprime mortgage crisis. I’m sure we’ll be just fine. As long as we don’t need money or an economy.
Comment Re: CO2 is a virus? (Score 1) 49
It’s not uncommon for sensitive people to get headaches and feel like crap if they have to breathe in excess of 1000ppm CO2. Hypercapnia is excess CO2 in your bloodstream and it can definitely cause immune system suppression, over 2000ppm and its more likely to become severe. It’s really easy to get over 1000ppm in a room with lots of people, doubly so if the ventilation is poor. So good ventilation will help the attendees stay awake and mentally alert.
Comment Re:Have you noticed the latest explanation about g (Score 1) 80
You think they are using introspection and multiple source checking now? Ive had many people double and triple down that the AI slop was right and every other factual source was wrong because AI is super intelligent and can’t be wrong. They take it personally because they lack the abilities to tell crap from credible.
Comment Re:Guys! I Cured Cancer And Alzheimer's (Score 1) 80
I did it! I cured cancer and Alzheimer's. It turns out that its super simple. You just need to do a tiny DNA edit and you can do it with common kitchen chemicals.
I am the greatest. Totally amazing. My paper proves it all. Trust me, Bro.
Totally! AI regrew my severed arm, which was an advanced risk for it to even try!
Comment Re:And more AI nonsense gets exposed (Score 1) 80
And I would be highly surprised if some decent conventional web searches couldn’t do the exact same thing.
Comment Re:The song: "Our father is Bandera" (Score 4, Insightful) 139
If you want to know why a lot of Ukranians saw the Nazis as the "lesser evil", take a look at Holodomor [britannica.com], just under 4 million Ukranians died of starvation around 1931 - 1934, another million died the same way in other grain producing areas outside the Ukraine.
The interesting thing is both the regimes responsible were authoritarian dictatorships. When one party rules, unaccountable, in totalitarianism it does not really matter the entry point whether it’s left or right as the end result is nearly indistinguishable. It smacks of the Cubans voting so heavily for Trump because of an authoritarian and then the authoritarian promptly revokes their rights including citizenship and crushes them. The problem is removal of the power and accountability from the people, the people can force their hand because productivity still comes from them. In cases where a large majority of the income comes from a source largely devoid of people, like mining or fossil fuels, they have no chance and remain subjugated until that resource runs out. In the next 50 years if we archive capable AI like systems it will be forever.
Comment Re:We're in the group (Score 1, Informative) 217
In first grade we got a math book that was just problem sheets with a brief destruction page for each and so I went home and finished it. The next day I was suspended from school because it was a years worth of material. This was after the preschool incident where I was told to eat my snack of graham crackers but I have celiac disease, I refused and the teacher tried to make my by being forceful and punishing me so I called him a stupid asshole and was suspended for a week while the teacher got an apology. At least in todays schools the teacher would have been fired for attempting to poison a student.
Comment Re:Meanwhile in the USA (Score 1) 119
The biggest difference between China and the EU safety compliance are more safety systems like brakes airbags cameras headlights pedestrian crash requirements etc where as US has NHTSA and IIHS, China has C-NCAP and historically they are quite different although they are converging somewhat lately. This means the EU compliance was largely accessories while the US was more structural and accessories. Getting US compliance would be costly and increase the cost per vehicle even beyond the EU. Just as I said earlier, this wouldn’t be a big difference compared to the pricing gap that already exists and they would still be the cheapest value buy.
Comment Not what’s commonly thought (Score 1) 84
The main reason processed and ultra processed foods are bad is they are too nutrient and calorie dense and are too easy to digest. Starches and proteins are already broken down and condensed to the point it hits your digestive system very abnormally, like eating large amounts of sugar. The result is it’s extremely easy to over eat and for your body to absorb things too quickly which isn’t always good, like with type 2 diabetes. It’s likely any effects from things like additives that are harmful or poisons like lead naturally found in plants getting concentrated to harmful levels are of secondary importance given heart disease is a leading cause of death.
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