NASA was literally created to give Nazis a job.

The Moon has very little in common with Mars, so there's no great reason to going there first. There's no atmosphere so landing is different, the surface dust is extremely abrasive, it's an entirely different environment for propellant production, the gravity is about half as great, etc.

About the only real benefit is that you're only a few days away if something goes wrong, rather than a few months away on Mars.

I just want it to be a bloody social network. I signed up early because my friends and family where there, and then watched in horror as it murdered myspace (horror, because as a gigging musicain myspace was the best damn thing that ever happened to independent musicians).

Then at some point it just slowly stopped showing me friends posts, stopped showing my posts to friends, and completely stonewalled any attempt to promote my band.

If Facebook can't do its only job, be a SOCIAL NETWORK, then what fucking good is it for anything?

Ah, yes. Quantum collapse, of course. What they mean is: "I think the double slit experiment changes its behavior because (ooooh) a human is looking at it, not because there's a fucking thing in the way triggering wave-to-particle transition."

THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE LEPTON OF CONSCIOUSNESS, ONE MOLECULAR ORBITAL OF SOUL. AND YET—AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME DIVINE ORDER TO THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME SPECIALNESS TO HUMANS THAT ELEVATES THEM OVER BACTERIA.

I am sick of physicists rediscovering gnosticism because they haven't read a philosophy book other than Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

Yeah theres a few of these.

Nvidia , bigger market cap than the entire combined pharma industry

Tesla, bigger market cap than the rest of the entire combined auto industry despite being 1-2% tops of that industry in terms of sales and revenue.

OpenAI looking to join that list.

These sorts of vastly illogical market valuations always get corrected eventually, and when that happens its going to have savage consequences.

The next stock market crash is gonna be a real doozy, and its coming soon...

Or.. you could read the actual paper.

Just saying......

You'd know, for instance, that it contains a rigorous proof that significant parts of the observable universe are uncomputable , that it specifically rules out cellular-automata premised ToEs and that there isn't going to be a mathematical work around to this.

And I doubt the authors need to "seek attention". Lawrence Krauss is already one of the worlds most prominent physicists.

Yeah this seems to torpedo wolframs ideas. The text of the paper does seem to focus mostly on the 'algorithmic' aspect, which is wolframs whole thing with his idea that cellular automata is at the root of everything.

We probably should have predicted this. The big labels are just as bad for musicians as the tech bros have ever been. The fact Spotify continues to massively underpay and continue to act hostile to musicians is because of the deals they have with big labels. My Itunes and CD sales where utterly tanked by spotify, almost overnight, but the big stars are making comfortable livings off it.

That they decided to partner with the AI techbros instead of destroying them like they should have is a testament to the fact the whole damn music industry is hostile to musicians.

Darwinian evolution is highly predictive. Hell, we have entire fields of science based off it. What on earth are you talking about?

As is Dark Matter, actually. Although its less a theory and more a place-holder variable.

1. I would argue that Quantum Mechanics is a pretty good argument for a simulation, because you don't have to simulate the low-level stuff unless someone's actually looking at it.
2. Any detailed simulation of this universe would have to be run in a universe that's massively more capable than this one, or run at a very slow speed in a universe which is somewhat more capable than this one. So our limits wouldn't apply.
3. As far as we can tell, 99.9999999999999% of the simulation is just barren rocks. That means it doesn't really have to simulate a lot.
4. We have no idea whether anything really existed before this instant or whether it will continue to exist. You could likely eliminate much of the work by only calculating the past when you have to.
5. There's no reliable evidence that this is an MMO rather than a single-player game. That also reduces the amount you need to imulate.

No-one cares about profits any more. They just want to IPO and exercise their stock options before the bubble bursts.

Profits are for losers.

Ukraine had no nukes. They were Soviet nukes and were returned to Russia.

Pretty much no-one wanted anyone but Russia to have Soviet nukes, and the NPT pretty much required both the US and Russia to ensure Ukraine didn't keep them. If Ukraine had kept any they would have sold them off like they did with much of the Soviet military equipment which remained there.

You can just scrap those requirements.

It will happen before long because we won't be able to build cars full of computers for much longer.

Have you ever head of an "automatic choke?" All but the very first car I owned had one.

Pre-computer cars were higher maintenance, but nowhere near as bad as you make out. And, unlike my current car, a failed transmission didn't cost $13,000 to replace because it's full of complicated computer-controlled parts and can't really be repaired.

I've been looking at new cars lately and it appears I now have to pay for the car to send data to the manufacturer all the time and for a camera which watches me while I'm driving. I'm thinking of buying a pre-computer pickup instead.