DevDave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_experiment

Wu was one of the few female physicist on the Manhattan project. Absolutely amazing what she accomplished despite having the double whammy of having to overcome racism as well as sexism. Currently on my watch list is a veritasm video that talks about her experiment.

AI has already and is actively making a substantial chunk of things worse.

OpenAI has made war crimes legal

Youtube is a sea of slop

Book industry is drowning

FOSS is being openly robbed while also drowning under slop

Anti-AI paranoia is really ratcheting up and its also being exploited by AI. USAA the military savings bank has a flood of AI bots accusing humans of being bots to stifle criticism of the bank enshitifying itself. Meanwhile pre-AI video reposts have people screaming “That’s AI slop!” In other places, too thorough of a text post is probably AI but it also might just be some poor neurodivergent person who is an actual expert on the subject and is excited to share.

Then there is all the layoffs and firings.

Health insurance scams are using AI to target those who are less lightly to appeal.

Stuff like the people shut out of part of the job market because an AI decided they had been rejected from too many prior applications.

Oh and the computer electronics parts market is fucked. I have a few spare DDR5 memory sticks that would now pay for a third of what my current computer cost me! Never mind the NVME spares I have on the shelf.

Actually most of the consumer electronics market is fucked. Didn’t they postpone the next play station while Valve is trying to figure out if people will be cool donating a kidney or part of their liver for the VR goggles and the steam console box.

Only saving grace for me is my spelling and grammar skills seriously atrophied after using grammarly for a few years so most people look at my writing and never think “This sounds like AI!”

I thought Madam Wu’s experiment provided a starting point for explaining why the universe exists despite its best efforts to annihilate itself. Disclaimer, I have passing interest in physics but I have no formal education on any of it.

In a better world the people promoting this stuff would be in jail as they’re exploiting people’s fear for their own profit.

How much money did Joe Rogan get paid to guide all of these people to commit a round about way of suicide? How cheap is the price of a life going for these days? $10?

What would that do to a star’s interior?

Philly native that left in 2000, this tracks. Nothing ever changes until someone keels over.

Apologies for the vulgarity, I don’t know how to be any clearer. Somewhere in there is this voice saying “I can do better than that fing n!”

Even before then Trump had a serious racist powered grudge against President Obama but I think the 2011 White house press dinner ratcheted it up https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nykVn_XAEks

I am hard pressed to remember any other time President Obama was this eloquently vicious. https://youtu.be/-QqVyd6WMg4 (18 minutes long, but totally worth it). Kinda sad that President Obama called it with what has happened to the white house.

Side note I am skipping over using the title of president for Trump because he stated publicly they rigged the election https://youtu.be/TTHonqrM7Vc

Boeing is the poster child of what killed the USA.

Boeing went from an engineer centric company and was poisoned by a “reverse-merger” that put people who already killed one manufacturer in charge. These parasites proceeded to stick to the same playbook that drove them into the ground plus double downed on their greed. I added up all the stock buybacks which looks like legal embezzlement and it was more then the research and development costs of the 777 and the 787 combined. I didn’t bother with adjusting for inflation as the buybacks are spread over decades, so the true cost is definitely worse.

Yes there are a lot of dark sides to this but I am still somewhat hopeful for people whose body have betrayed them.

Unfortunately the unmentioned horror of this technology as it currently stands is similar to “Flowers for algernon”. The brain is extremely territorial and doesn’t like weird metallic stuff stuck in it. In response, I believe the astrocytes build encapsulating scar tissue around the probes that eventually deafen them. I have been following this tech since the early stages in the late 90’s and no one seems to have solved that. Truly bitter experience for epilepsy and near terminally depressed patients who have been given some semblance of normallacy only to have it slip away.

A currently insanely expensive probe design has something like a magnet on a mems platform so a less reactive and normally insulating material can be used to “sense” electrical impulses. Sadly it has something brutal like a sub 5% production yield and can be damaged almost anywhere along the journey from a fabrication laboratory to a operating room.

Fundamentally models based on an LLM structure are never going to be remotely performant with current technology.

Part of the problem is that as you increase parameters, in some parts of the model the amount of digital processing time is increased close to or more likely above and beyond a magnitude. Absolute best case is somewhere around N^2 per sequence of layers where N is the number of neurons.

additionally floating point multiplication is involved which is like turning two numbers into their own matrix multiplication operation.

Agentic is really more like taking a crappy slot machine that does multiple rolls in one go to improve the odds of a more desirable outcome.

So to simplify the problem, this is like a bunch of stupid monkeys rubbing two rocks together hard enough to create enough friction to make it seem like they have discovered fire.

Taking that analogy a step further, so much effort is being put into rubbing rocks together faster that other important issues like food and shelter are being ignored.

There is a line in a song “The revolution will be synthesized” has come to mind as I have noticed the same things. My partner works in FEMA and we have been debating if the agency is functionally dead or not, with me arguing it is. There is another agency I am especially worried about that was also in the DHS umbrella as their people seem to be absent.

A year ago I was on a short list of people asking about the NWS “firewall” and its status - https://www.fao.org/4/U4220T/u4220T0a.htm

Currently trying to research what happened in the last few years that the NWS could undo roughly 5 years of work in the 80’s in under a year. Anyone reading this know of a public archive of NWS surveys in Central America?

Otherwise it feels like there is a measurable movement to try and force a literal “Armageddon”. Hegseth pushed the “This is a holy war” or “final war” to the military in the early days of Operation Forgot About Epstein or the war with Iran. Add in Thiel’s fascination with the antichrist and it really feels like a death cult maybe operating inside the government.

I’ve never messed with this stuff so this video by Evan Edinger of his experience with kratom helped me understand how bad this can get - https://youtu.be/TLObpcBR2yw

Trying to remember what I can of the B-52, I would be absolutely gobsmacked if it was a fuel and or engine problem considering it has 8 turbines. Considering there doesn’t look like any secondary explosions would rule out some sort of payload shift. That seems to leave just an unintentional stall or indeed a jammed control surface. Considering the contractors, there is a non-zero chance they were instrumental in this.

Gavin lost me when he promoted the age verification law. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I can see it being implemented in ways that would negate the government needing a warrant to find the identity of someone voicing an opinion the administration doesn’t like. Additionally, imagine how disruptive it is to have a blanket ban from Google or Microsoft for whatever reason. Now expand that so that one agency can lock you out of pretty much everything.

Inversely a customer opt-in by parents to restrict their own internet connections access is targeted and empowers parents into deciding what they let their children access. Reality is that the teenagers will figure out a way around it, but that is true of a national age verification system.

Anyone know if they use chloramine for treatment? Very likely as chlorine doesn’t do well against UV. It would be funny if they somehow pumped directly from the Potomac.

Curious what it was. The silence is loud enough to fill with speculation a cheery AI said “Hey, lets drop all tables on this stupid little DB labeled ‘Master’ to regain storage space.”

A drug dealer with a heavily armed escort delivers a package of white powder. New problem: is it cocaine, cleaning detergent, anthrax, or some mixture of the former?

Definitely a few unfortunate victims to stuff like libyami if using some sort of shell autocomplete. Few others would likely catch younger people, eg the implied apk side channel deployment packages.

More terror attacks by the USA. Non-targeted bombing campaigns or operations focused on civilians has never won a war but it has spread misery far and wide. The people leading the war are either out of range or in a bunker deep enough that it might as well be on the other side of the planet. Even if you “glass” major cities, that’s not where the missiles are located.

I have no artistic skills so freebie: Arch is like Russian roulette where the odds are good but there is still a non-zero chance some update is going to shit the bed. I don’t even know how to convey that in meme form either.