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Comment Re:Facade (Score 5, Insightful) 70

The danger is that AI companies (Valley Girls) will force schools to teach with AI. Then Johnny and Sally will lose the ability to think hard, it being too easy to foist the exercise off to some bot. The current situation without AI is also not good. Too few Johnnies and Sallies can stick to a math problem longer than 5 minutes before giving up. Their parents are too "understanding" and they reflect this in their dissing their own math skills along the lines of "I was never good at math".

Composition skills similarly require a structured mind with enough grit to finish a task. Composing can be harder than math because the rules are not as clear cut and require greater nuance and discipline.

Adding AI to this mix will only make the problems worse.

Comment Re:We're so badass you need to stop us man (Score 1) 112

The power demands of data centers will increase CO2 so much that greenhouse gas warming burns us to a crisp before AI can take over. And it need not take just their CO2 emissions. All that is needed is for the Earth start melting the permafrost and all the CO2 and methane hiding down there. A nice feedforward effect that should make Silicon Valley giddy with anticipation.

Comment Re:Hey guys, I have a great idea! (Score 0) 112

Or worse, they have ingested all that marketing drivel. And there are yokels out there saying AI is sentient and writing papers about this. So the bots may not be sentient but might believe they are sentient. Add to that the notion of a hive mind (and all the research papers on that). This will end in tears.

Comment Re:Not an expert (Score 1) 88

"every galaxy has a black hole, a yet unknown material keep solar systems pushed in, and yet we are moving faster away from the source of the big bang."

These have nothing to do with the universe expanding. It is the space between galaxies that expanding, that's sort of how we measure it, i.e., by looking at near galaxies and far off galaxies (them are further back in time), and observing the differences.

" the universe could easily be like the seasons on earth, an ebb and flow of direction based on forces we dont know, or have happened over x million or billion of years ago are affecting us now."

And I could own a strawberry unicorn in my back yard. Big deal.

" Im just gleaning information and putting logic to it."

Well stop it then. I actually am a logician and you have not applied logic anywhere in your screed, nor have you applied physics or math. Logic will only help determine if a theory is consistent, or valid in some possible universe. You need physics and math to tell what is really going on. And no sneaky confusing the math with the physics.

Example of confusing math with physics: there is a mathematical duality between AdS-CFT, the duality is a correspondence allowing you to related bits and bobs of anti-de Sitter space with a conformal field theory. The former is theory of a universe with a negative cosmological constant (the universe (somewhat perversely) wants to collapse). The latter you can think of the universe as an M. C. Escher print of a circle of angels and devils where the figures get smaller as you reach the edge, but the angles remain the same. This gets popularized as the hologram effect: the bulk (anti-de Sitter space) can be represented on the boundary (the conformal limit). There is no gravity in the conformal field theory (generally).

Now some yokels take this mathematical result and conflate it with "we live in a hologram", which is nonsense. Besides, the universe is not an anti-Desitter space (although some models do have an anti deSitter space with some values of dark energy to describe an expanding universe, but the models are in no way definitive or in the mainstream, that I can tell), it is is de Sitter or at least flat. Plus there is no outside to "shine" a light on that would make it into the bulk. The boundary only exists as a mathematical abstraction.

Comment Re: Haven't seen events this size in the modern er (Score 1) 51

Shortly, we will hear about how the Big Beautiful Stupid Golden Dome (shaped like a Big Beautiful Golden Spittoon) will magically defend against this new threat to National Security. How will it do this, el Bunko was asked, "Well, the radiation just sort of goes away, just like Covid.....covfefe."

Comment Re:Totally unbiased statement (Score 1) 131

Second Coming

G-d: Hey Jesus, this is your birthday. As a present, I am going to send you down to a Christian Nation so that you can receive their love and admiration.

Jesus: Uh...okay, Einstein, but recall what happened last time I went down there. I am not sure this is a wise idea.

G-d: Oh go on, they love you there. It is a Christian Nation.

Jesus reluctantly pulls out magic wand and FOOM, he disapparates from Heaven and appears in front of a Christian Nationalist rally.

Jesus: Jesus Christ here, how y'all are?

Christian Nationalist: Look it, I don't know who you think you are but do not go blaspheming around here.

JC: No really, I'm Jesus Christ.

CN: Prove it!

JC pulls out his magic wand and turns the CN's beer into wine.

JC: See, how about that, eh?

CN: Aarrrrggghhh!! A demon!!! Somebody get a rope, we'll hang his ass.

JC, not being gormless, decides to disapparate to a more friendly part of the Christian Nation and appears at the border of Mexico.

JC: (seeing the poor huddled masses wanting to enter the Christian Nation, in a loud voice) I am Jesus Christ, let these poor people in and shelter and feed them!

Border Patrol agents with a posse of CNs: Okay, who let the Commie come to the border?

JC: I mean it, I AM Jesus Christ. These poor people are G-d's people, let them into your Christian Nation and show them the love of Jesus Christ.

Border Patrol agents cock their rifles and the posse starts looking around for razor wire. Jesus, not being gormless sees where this is headed. He pulls out his wand and disapparates to a rally of the former alleged president.

JC: Jesus Christ here!!! (No one pays him any attention)

Jesus hears the former alleged president demonizing immigrants.

JC: (now yelling) Hey, do not listen to him. His message is not Christian. I am Jesus Christ and I am telling you to welcome immigrants into your country!!

Rally Participants around Jesus: You goddamn woke, gay, liberal. Get the Hell out of here, we are listening to Our Savior!!

JC: I am your Savior and I am telling you to stop listening to that guy's unChristian message and welcome the poor people trying to get into your CHRISTIAN NATION!!

RPs: That does it, Billy Joe-Bob brought some zip ties and rope. We will teach this woke jerk what it means to be Christian!! Get him!!!

JC, not being gormless, pulls out wand and disapparates back to Heaven.

G-d: Back so soon?

JC: They wanted to hang me down there! Admittedly it is a bit better than being nailed to a cross by Romans...you know...the B.O. ... enough to knock a dead buzzard off a shit wagon at 20 paces. But I will be damned if I am going to go through the death thing again. They are not worth it.

G-d: You mean that is not a Christian Nation?

JC: Wake up Einstein!! They follow an Orange Jesus.

G-d: That's...that's Blasphemy!

G-d pulls out iPhone and dials.

Beelzebub (Want some hot stuff baby this evening, want some hot stuff baby tonight): Yo, Einstein, whatcha want?

G-d: Get up here, gotta big job for you.

Beelzebub blasts up through the floor boards with much flame and fume.

St. Peter: Hey, Beelz!! Long time no see, how are they hanging?

Beelzebub: Really well now that I have had them chromed, all nice and shiny, and the chime is to die for.

G-d dials St. Peter

St. Peter: (a dinka-dink, a-dinka-doo) Yes, Einstein?

G-d: I asked Beelz up so you two could figure out what to do with the Christian Nationalists in the Christian Nation. Get back to me with a plan (hangs up).

Beelz: Awww, shit. Not more of those assholes.

St. Pete: Beelz, old buddy old pal. Surely you have room somewhere down there for them.

Beelz: (thinks for a minute and gets an evil grin on his face) We might have room in the antechamber.

St. Pete: And we will tell them it is Heaven...but that they must all get pregnant first. Leave it to me...(pulls out iPhone and dials Einstein).

St. Pete: Yo, Einstein (St. Pete explains the plan).

Beelz: (pipes up) But would not that mean that the guys...have...to....isn't that illegal in Texas?

G-d:: Excuse me!?! G-D!!!

The dulcet sound of AC/DC slowly grows

        Concrete ... cyanide....High Emotion!!
          Dirty Deeds, done dirt cheap!!

Comment Re:A conservative nomination (Score 2) 47

So, do you fantasize about African-Americans often? Do you want help? Or are you merely looking to get connections into that community? Since you also seem to be interested one's sexual orientation, I'd advise you to reveal. yours BEFORE you try to make your connections. Errr...maybe you are under Hegseth's sway and ODing on testosterone so that anything on two legs looks yummy.

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