DaveZale

like ultraprocessed food for the brain! addictive, masochistic consumption?

Blondi will do as she's told, right? Didn't she previously say, months ago, that she had the files on her desk, ready for release.

Of course, any video evidence should be redacted. Seeing that could cause lifelong psychological scars, and in the shorter term, loss of apetite and extreme repeated bouts of nausea.

they're saying...

"silly humans!"

As a veteran of the pharma industry, I've studied some old school medications from the Soviet era. Many are still available from eastern European countries. It's fascinating reading to see the "non-Western" (and far cheaper) approaches. Some probably work in significant performance-enhancing ways, judging from the occasional Olympic athlete disqualification that pops up in the news

maybe the AI data centers should be financed through klarna. Would that help? I mean, if the AI is superintelligent, figuring out how to pay the loan shark should be easy peasy. Maybe build a Superportfolio of undervalued stocks to finance its continued existence.

We get serious grasshopper damage around here, esp the last two years. It's cyclical, but not all crops are seriously affected. Root crops are usually very robust.

I tried neem and diatomaceous earth against the hoppers. Different mechanisms of action, not total control but good enough for root crops like potatoes. The pumpkins and other squashes also hold up well.

did you ever hear the story about the Russian researcher who bred foxes into domestic pets within only about a dozen and a half dozen rounds of keeping only the "cutest" pups?

". Within just 15 generations of selective breeding, the experiment had yielded foxes that could live with people."

they want to keep their jobs?

Yes. Popular opinion is not above the "knee jerk reaction" we get at the doctor's office (does anyone alive, not paralyzed, ever fail that test?) ... but in this case, the "gut feeling" is also hunger for many who make less than six figures.

Piled higher and Deeper?

Those who have been buying food at supermarkets likely strongly disagree lately. Demand at food banks is 3x higher locally this year. So where is the Q&A section for PhD Fed economists?

it's called "saddleback" and is the icon for the Sierra club 100 peaks section, which I've known and loved (if you live in So Cal, and love peakbagging, check it out).

what kind of pests? Sure, I have field mice here but between the owls and snakes, they disappear.

Moles also burrow everywhere around here but they just eat insects and their eggs afaik.

I've been having excellent results in the home garden using the hugelkultur approach. Just bury logs and vegetative waste beneath a foot or two of topsoil. Adding some fungi spawn to the organic matter speeds up the process. The rotting organic matter acts like a big sponge to keep soil moisture high. Mycelia act to swap plant sugars from above, with nutrients from below. From a small plot, I was able to donate about 250 pounds of gourmet blue potatoes to local food banks this year.

Other than a little cow manure added to help feed the fungi and plant roots, no other fertilization was required. There are so many great low-tech approaches to get great yields of delicious produce, but it takes some extra initial labor inputs. Maybe when the AIpocolypse hits the labor market, this approach will be economical on larger scales.

it's so true, and most won't learn until their first visit to a fertility clinic with the spouse who wants to enjoy a few more years of independence from having a child... the truth can be very painful.

Homo economicus...

stage left exit homo economicus

stage right enter homo paganicus, accompanied by those twins homo philosiphus and homo philobaccus

pass the wine around.

True story, I took a course in environmental microbiology, and at a certain point, the instructor had a slide titled, "Ideal Conditions for Reproduction" and below that the words, "A Swiss Chalet on a cold night, a bottle of wine, and a warm fireplace"

Supposedly, Taiwan based TSMC employees are always on call, and they'll get out of bed during the night to answer the call and go to work. I read that a while back... but it makes sense. Extreme work ethic and extreme competence.

oh my! I can guess who you work for!

they're everywhere. even here

What Hinton suggests the power and danger in AI systems will arise when they can talk to each other. Are we seeing thay yet?

Don't get me wrong: I know this is not a simple question. But data in some "vectorized" form may be swappable between systems that have some requirements regarding NDAs. Invoke Murphy's laws

Rivian R2 arrives in a just a few months. My next vehicle.

I am not seeing the predicted, "AI will actually create more jobs than it eliminates" thesis play out. Is it wise to be rushing into this "full speed ahead and damn Putin's nuclear powered torpedos"? And does Putin even need a new torpedo? We seem to be doing it to ourselves without outside intervention.

I am not getting this at all. Why? If the AI he is producing is so good, why bother with what humans think?

Some of these "smartest guys in the room" can't smell their own brain feces. It reeks of Enron and the days prior to the 2009 meltdown.

automated confirmation bias?

the short version (at least to my eyes): " Agüera y Arcas goes even further. He argues that prediction is intelligence: “Is the emergence of intelligence merely a side effect of ‘solving’ prediction, or are prediction and intelligence actually equivalent?” He favors the latter. Not only is an internal model of the world or others good, he argues, when it effectively predicts the future—it is also good merely because it can, and does: “In fact, evolutionarily speaking, only creatures with models that successfully predict their own future even have a future!”

But I cannot agree with the remarks about evolution. Genetic changes don't anticipate anything. Random mutations occur always, and the result is that rare mutations provide unanticipated advantages in unanticipated future circumstances. I can't imagine any other long-term advantages. Sure, we can direct "evolution" in the short term, say, the way dog breeders do, but long-term survival is subject to randomness. Or is this view oversimplistic?

i'm like, so sure, that's like spot on!

try the nyt connections puzzle for a couple of weeks. When you get better at it, you're associating sets of words without thinking in words. The answers just pop up.

that depends on the intellectual depth of the work. In true research, just a few hours or even days can be pivotal. Good mgmt helps set up conditions for that to happen more often.

give elon a tweet and cc: the tesla investor forums. That seems scandalous

So is a good philosophical foundation effective for resilience to cognitive dissonance discomforts?

This all looks great on paper or a screen, but in the workplace, it's often about going with the herd, even as a manager.

“I see no change in anyone’s lifestyle. No one’s taking a holiday…. People don’t have time for their friends, for their hobbies,” or for the “people they love,” Sewak said. “All they do is work,” she said.

Is this intelligence at work?