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Comment Re:Altman vs Musk (Score 2) 56

Altman is only just getting started , he reminds me of Theil and Zuckerberg, they are not wired right and rarely seem happy or laughing. They appear to only have one mission, profit on societal decline, they are not making the world a better place.

Musk for all his oddness and outrage appears to have done more for channelling capital into our technical evolution, and that might make the world a better place. He might be our Howard Hughes. He also appears to live relatively humbly and gets his hands dirty with the work. His vision at least involves somebody more than himself, though he might be planning to rename Mars , "Musk" and populate it with his kids ... lol . He's certainly not short on ego.

Musk appears very single minded, I doubt he has any political conviction, probably doesn't care, its a mean to his end, get more resources for his mission. I worry he might burn the world in the process.

I find it important to remember, they are just men, they wont last forever and their cognition is already starting to drop off with age, that's a fact of life. Any success or status we attribute to them is not something they own, we gave it to them and we'll take it away one day. It's as easy as stopping talking about them.

Comment Um (Score 2) 162

Take donations and buy a jet for yourself
Support a crooked president.
Fiddle with kids
Burn some heretics
Speak in tounges
Bless America whilst dropping bombs on kids
Scare the hell out people and make them feel guilty

Claude, church isn't historically the best place to find your spirit.

Try the Methodists or the Quakers first, or if you want to get real and ditch the sky lord malarky , have a sit with Buddha.

Comment Re:Vacuum energy (Score 1) 57

If it's got anything in it, is it really a vacuum? Maybe Vacuum doesn't exist. As soon as you introduce something it is no longer a vacuum. A vacuum is the absence of matter , matter is defined as something of mass, a proton has mass according to the Interweb.

Even space is not true vacuum by this definition, it's got planets and stars in it and the odd molecule, atom in the spaces in between. Photons can have mass in some of the sums.

Did vacuum ever exist, if the start of the universe was a big bang, perhaps after the last cycle of everything got eaten by the black hole, there was still something that went bang and I assume it had an infinite mass.

Similarly, when we create a vacuum in a container for these experiments, at the quantum scale where is the "edge" of the container, is it indeterminate. If particles can pass through it, is it an edge at all?

I am a peasant staring wide eyed at the physic priests trying to understand their stained glass windows. I wonder how we can tell apart what's actually going on separate from the apparatus of the experiment, our methods of measurement and our own brains that have evolved to navigate a very different world with a vocabulary of words like edges, time, matter.

I guess my question is how do we know what we are observing is what is happening and is not being skewed by another variable even a neurological/psychological/philosophical feature? We’re human and we like things to have edges and be predictable, to be contained. I get an odd feeling when I deeply consider the infinite, somewhere between wonder and anxiety, perhaps it’s my brain wrestling to comprehend something it has not evolved to yet.

I guess the answer is the scientific process, theorise, experiment, refute, repeat.

Comment A victory against the dark side of capitalism (Score 1) 47

A victory for Lady Liberty. One for the Rebels! Next stop the corporate death stars. Lol.

Capitalism's good for innovation but when the prime motivator becomes greed and we need to regulate greed like we do as individuals and groups. Greed is is born out of fear and is ultimately destructive. Look at the damage a greedy US president can do. Our ancestors called greed a deadly sin for a reason.

Some call greed ambition, ambition can be good and bad. A great ambition is products built to last, built to be repaired, built with as little harm to the environment as possible.

Comment Re:Easier than Apollo (Score 1) 85

Is easy a bad thing?

Making something look easy is a sign of being skillful. No discredit to Apollo. But it looks like Artemis lowered the risk, that feels like a positive.

And if I believe google Artemis program appears to be cheaper than Apollo by quite a margin. Advantaged by standing on the shoulder's of giants and all that jazz.

Blows my mind we got anybody up there at all ever. Space is very, very, very big and we are not at all adapted for it.

Comment Someone's desperate to get in the news (Score 1) 118

It's a different version of "you better get AI it's soooooo powerful it's going to take all the jobs and your business."

Nice little garnish to say "will someone think of the humans"

More bubble tea from Scam Altman.

OpenAI's greatest success has been marketing to the Schmucks.

Comment Re:Directed microwave attack? (Score 1) 71

Have you had a good look at Western Civilization lately? One of US's latest achievements is killing 135 little girls in an Iranian school. I couldn't give two fucks about plunging the world into an oil related economic chaos, but you can add that to the achievements too.

Don't even bother responding with words like "war" and "collateral damage" , you'll shame yourself.

Whilst we're at it wtf is Western Civilization? American kids shooting each other a school? A democracy bought by an oligarchy?

Friend, you are deluded. Convince me otherwise, you are a scared peasant looking for a powerful lord to protect you.

Comment Re:Directed microwave attack? (Score 1) 71

Postulate? I had to look that up. Thank you I didn't know I could.

Funny? No there is nothing funny about using the Internet to kill people.

Amusing that someone can upset Elon, yes. Arrogance should be challenged, keeps arrogance in check. Natural balance.

As to who would do it, Elon and the Trump administaration excel at making enemies. Take your pick, could you say that they are morally worse than those two factions?

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