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Vecr··on Have you ever seen an emolument fly?
Have you ever seen an emoulument fly into a skyscraper?

How much does it cost to do a full forensic teardown of a plane's control systems, and everything attached to them?

Vecr··on Overuse of CT scans could cause 100k extra cancers in US
Standard X-rays aren't as big a dose. Totaling up all the mammograms a woman would generally get and that should still be less than a single chest CT.
Vecr··on Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety
Pedantic note: Pandora was the woman who opened the box. Pandora was not in the box. The problems of the world were, along with hope. Maybe you're mixing the story with the phrase "the cat's out of the box" ?
Vecr··on The Child and the Shadow (1975) [pdf]
Not very good. The writing is okay, but walking away isn't better than deluding yourself with justification. Yes I get it's all metaphor, but that doesn't make it better.

If you actually read the thing, within the literal story it never says there's actually anywhere better, or any better place could exist.

Vecr··on Limits of Smart: Molecules and Chaos
An IQ of 300 is impossible, because that's 13.333... standard deviations above the norm's average. Can't norm that.
Vecr··on Proof that Steins;Gate world is a running simulation
I don't see how that could provide an alternative to Novikov fixpoints. You can't control the initial conditions well enough, so the Novikov fixpoint you get is one where no observable time travel has ever occurred.

I think you're getting too attached to fixpoints and worldlines, it would be better to think through the actual computer program the simulation uses.

Vecr··on Proof that Steins;Gate world is a running simulation
It's not proof. And that's not what worldlines are. It's a story trope that that is how time travel consistency works, where "observable details" are things that the character or audience could notice, instead of being almost everything that's not microscopic.
Vecr··on Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025
If you aren't joking, that will filter most humans.
Vecr··on Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
6? That can't be right. I don't know how big a GCU is, so the scale could be up to 1 OOM off, but a full redirection of all simulation capacity should let it integrate out further than that.
Vecr··on Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’
It's a dark pool.
Vecr··on We're Charging Our Cars Wrong
You need some. Otherwise you would need to re-engineer for a different anti-knock. Tetraethyllead is unusable in modern cars.
Vecr··on Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science
An IQ of 125 isn't low by any standard.
Vecr··on When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds
Does it matter? If the system does something, the system does something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42625158

Vecr··on Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'
That's too hard. Chew on raw carrots.
Vecr··on The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI
It didn't immunize Eliezer Yudkowsky, and he wrote Markov chain fictional characters. Everyone who looked up AI enough times knew about ELIZA.
Vecr··on NASA says 'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth
That won't work. Look at planning done for city evacuation in the past.
Vecr··on NASA says 'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth
Cities on the impact path could be asked for funding.
Vecr··on NASA says 'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth
Why can't they get all that over with now and say what they think the actual chance is?
Vecr··on NASA says 'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth
If that's correct, now is the exact time you should consider relocation. If there's a rush, you will be in trouble.
Vecr··on Grok3 Launch [video]
Say hello to CelestAIa. I'm guessing it's a joke, or the use of AI will be limited.
Vecr··on JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.
"My boss wants to buy systems with the Intel i10-101010F Medium Core Platinum (with rowhammer & Sonic & Knuckles), can you buy this $20,000 box and test your program so I can write him a report?"
Vecr··on Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
The electricity is switched off. If the system is fancy, maybe it's on a lower duty cycle. The panels just sit there, rotting, wasting their embodied energy.
Vecr··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
He bought Twitter and all he got was congress, the senate, and the presidency. Trump's 2020 loss was a wakeup call for him.
Vecr··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
It's highly optimistic that you didn't mean that. Technically, according to the guidelines, I'm supposed to believe you.

Elon is overrated. If Elon disappeared, things would be very similar.

Vecr··on Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
SHA-3 has more internal state, it really is plausibly better at handling very large data. If 'unlimited' is really less than a gigabyte, there's no problem. It's mostly the preimage series of attacks and length extension at that point. SHA-3 is better on those. SHA-512 has zero length extension attack resistance.
Vecr··on Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
For 'unlimited' input size it should be SHA-3-512. Maybe too slow, but Bcrypt is slower, right? Less things to go wrong too.
Vecr··on AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
And Elon Musk moving to Mars will save him from human extinction.
Vecr··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
I assume these are US citizens. The US constitution isn't set up to protect intelligence agencies if they attempt that kind of thing on US soil.
Vecr··on Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks
> An updated version achieved similar robustness on synthetic evaluations, and did so with a 0.38% increase in refusal rates and moderate additional compute costs.

"Synthetic evaluations" aren't 70 hours of Pliny the Prompter.

Vecr··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
Was anyone else ever able to construct a mathematical model of CEV?
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