My problem with the Dark Forest theory is that forests aren’t dark, the most diverse forests on Earth rather support a widerange of brilliantly colored creatures.

I think this article misses the crucial fact that small creatures have choices, they can become poisonous and display their colors brilliantly, this author ignores the entire category of forest creatures that prey upon greedy agents that plow through an environment processing everything, it ignores the existence of carnivorous plants.

Fascism is the height of incompetence

The obvious play here is for Machado to give Trump a blatantly fake knockoff of her Nobel Prize. If Trump doesn’t immediately realize it he will be unable to admit he got duped later and double down on his prize being real.

I have been using RetroArch as my Emulator for Zohran.

Why the hell would I waste my time studying such a lame, environmentally destructive, fundamentally anti-humanist technology?

I am interested in generative potentials not dead ends.

I think I speak for all fucking idiots when I say this, thank you for not disrespecting us because WOW we are dumb but we aren’t Texas dumb!

I don’t live anywhere near Texas and I still feel embarassed for it. What a pathetic state.

Okay? So you love trump. Good for you.

Nope

Being “centrist” shouldn’t mean “I support the republicans and democrats equally” it should mean “I can see the value in social and capitalist policies and think there is a middle-ground between them”

Capitalist systems are so existentially and catastrophically broken that in order to find a middle ground you have to turn off the rational part of your brain. Centrists cannot handle the implications of this so they consciously or subconsciously thought terminate back to “I support the republicans and democrats equally”.

All of this was empty words, Biden was clearly a firm Zionist and it made him willfully blind to the Palestinian Genocide to the point that he would only scold Netanyahu, not do anything to stop it.

That’s bullshit exaggeration and you know it.

It is not a bullshit exaggeration.

I agree, what this means I think is Russia is going to fire a lot of ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles and other assets in a bigger salvo than normal. These aren’t assets anybody can stockpile that quick, so when they are used in a pulse it is noteworthy even if the use of those systems isn’t new.

Unfortunately a plausible explanation is that the US is effectively warning Ukraine there will be retaliatory strikes by Russia on Ukraine after Israel or the US strike Iran. I hope that isn’t why…

The landscape of the US is one of the most gorgeous landscapes on earth!

Yeah we have tried to destroy that beauty and overlay it with endlessly repetitive stroads…

My advice is avoid the crushing weight of places like this, go to the cities where culture is allowed to flourish and go far out into nature where the landscape hasn’t been destroyed by suburban sprawl and car brain.

If I had to give one place, I recommend the Oregon Coast!

My country is a hateful shithole.

To me this points to there being a lazy trick for AI Models that precludes a more nuanced expression of reality that the AI models all find themselves at from optimizing more revealing but potentially esoteric encodings of reality away.

Researchers began to explore representational similarity among AI models with this approach in the mid-2010s and found that different models’ representations of the same concepts were often similar, though far from identical. Intriguingly, a few studies found that more powerful models seemed to have more similarities in their representations than weaker ones. One 2021 paper dubbed this the “Anna Karenina scenario(opens a new tab),” a nod to the opening line of the classic Tolstoy novel(opens a new tab). Perhaps successful AI models are all alike, and every unsuccessful model is unsuccessful in its own way.

I think it is far more likely and logical that the more you cook an AI models the more they end up looking the same, but not in a good way, rather the more you experiment with mixing too many nice paint colors together the more you end up with the same brown muddy color.

“The endeavor of science is to find the universals,” Isola said. “We could study the ways in which models are different or disagree, but that somehow has less explanatory power than identifying the commonalities.”

This is the most revealing quote of all for me, there is nothing inherent to the pursuit of science about universals, that is something that people project onto science because it is emotionally satisfying. Yes, some scientists study universal aspects, some scientists look for large general shared similarities, but the vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of scientists study how each part of the universe is unique unto itself.

This isn’t science…

Efros noted that in the Wikipedia dataset that Huh used, the images and text contained very similar information by design. But most data we encounter in the world has features that resist translation. “There is a reason why you go to an art museum instead of just reading the catalog,” he said.

Computer/AI people really seem to have a hard time taking this lesson to heart and it undermines absolutely everything they try to do that affects the real world because of it.

I would rather describe it as polyphony breeds more diversification.

Finger guns are my only weakness, you knew that! - I gasp as I fall to the ground clutching my wounds

Who are we kidding? Geoengineering will undoubtedly be headed by people supposedly knowledgable in computers that don’t know shit about Geology or Engineering and it will be a disaster.

The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord’s IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.

That will be a glorious day!

While this is a russian ugv this is still a perfect example of why unmanned ground vehicles are a crucial battlefield innovation, when a logistics robot blows up no one dies…