that sounds similar to the traditional steady-state model. personally i would love for lambdaCDM to lose out to steady-state, but i think there is some inconvenient evidence against it.

previously you mocked me by implying that the bot-forum activity would start once the game started, duh. but now the game is nearly over and there are still only 45 total posts, and you seem to be suggesting that the activity on this thread is somehow relevant. got it. i'm done replying to you.

well, it's now halftime and there are eleven additional posts.

currently there is a grand total of 30 posts.
not sure how this is news-worthy.

C is always so high in these ranking things.
what am i missing ? loads of driver work ? embedded systems ? why would you use C when there's Rust ?

the number of humans is not a function of the "need" for them.

IDK,
i bumped in to the occasional overly-rigid process hiccup at SO but by and large i found it to be a tremendously effective tool, both for asking and answering Qs. imo, the last fifteen years or so of software development owe an awful lot to SO. the rigid rules people are complaining about here (eg closing questions as dupes) definitely contributed to SO's effectiveness.

that said, i'm using past-tense for SO. as much as i owe SO, the many AI helpers are easier and usually better.

it does beg the obvious question of how the AIs are going to get training material for future technologies.

.. looks like a histogram to me. what am i missing ?

https://live.staticflickr.com/...

"1. A vertical bar chart that fails to convey the test score distribution that a histogram would have"

i checked with someone who knows,
and yeah, nautical miles are an uncommon unit in spaceflight.

> "They're going at least 5,000 nautical miles past the Moon"

that's a surprising choice of unit.
1. it's not an SI unit
2. it seems most relevant when talking about distances w/r/t earth's Lat/Long scheme.

presumably the person has a reason, i wonder what it is

interesting, thanks.
i have more questions but i should read the details myself. and i guess polystyrene is different than all plastics, so my wondering was a little off.

love it.
i do wonder if there's a risk/boon of those grub-gastro-bacteria evolving their way out of the grub-gastro's and becoming viable in the world at large and chomping on all the awesome plastics we have around.

(i can no longer find/see the post i was replying to. i swear it was just here!)

> In fact, LLMs present no danger at all, it's only what an LLM can control that presents a danger.

ime, the presence of "in fact ..." or "the truth is ..." as part of rhetoric is a strong signal that the author wants to bolster their argument with generic symbols of value.

that aside,
you are crazy if you think AIs pose no danger. it's like saying drunks trying to get home from the bar pose no threat, it's just the cars they pilot which do.

AIs are going to play the role of wardens of life-impacting functionality and decisions. for example health-care decisions. financial capabilities. insurance claim investigation. hiring. firing. driving. flying. emergency vehicle dispatch. etc.

so vulnerabilities in AIs are definitely dangerous.

i think it's good to question whether reality is even understandable in the QM regime, but i think you weaken your point by appealing to survival value. there's loads of things which had no survival value back when we were hunter-gatherers but which we're pretty good at. driving cars, for example. understanding electromagnetics. playing piano.