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idiotsecant··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
It's amazing how comparing 1kw of power to vastly more than 1kw of power results in skewed results!
idiotsecant··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
Great, sounds like youve planned for the 1/3 of the electrical load that residential usage represents.
idiotsecant··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
This will in fact not happen. There are no models that result in 90% population depletion in less than 100 years
idiotsecant··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Darmok and Jalad, at Tanagra
idiotsecant··on First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
I guess that is technically correct, but I'm not sure that's a weakness of the underlying protocol
idiotsecant··on First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
I think ENS basically solved this already. Turns out nobody really cares about the problem much.
idiotsecant··on U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982
SPR cannot meaningfully lower prices at the pump. It's simply not big enough. The only thing that does that is an end to the war.
idiotsecant··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
its a small club, and you ain't in it friend. No matter how many boots you lick.
idiotsecant··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
high functioning sociopaths are still sociopaths. The domination and power are the point, not just something they are doing to make some cash.
idiotsecant··on AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
It's becoming increasingly clear that AGI is what you call a thing until you understand enough about it to see why it isn't AGI. I think AGI will always recede the closer we get to it.
idiotsecant··on Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page
That's a neat project and cool hardware but it's almost effectively paper, right? Slightly harder to use paper?
idiotsecant··on Cambrian Explosion of AI
Not sure if woosh or meta-meta-meta troll...
idiotsecant··on Cambrian Explosion of AI
And was famously the only person to use the phrase Cambrian explosion, ever
idiotsecant··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
This policy only makes sense if legislative action is effective against orgs outside the US. Otherwise it's not even worthless, it's worse. It moved more development outside the grasp of regulation.
idiotsecant··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Yes, those dirty foreigners are clearly causing all of Europes problems.

The irony of this in a post about how nonsensical this policy is in Japan is stunning.

idiotsecant··on Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons
And the first most hated man made some really cool rockets too and was a great innovator in the realm of tiny little moustaches.

People can simultaneously be terrible humans and accomplish positive things while doing it.

It doesn't make them a better human.

idiotsecant··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
Oh boy 1.5 billion, that is almost as much as the cost of the cardboard boxes that their GPUs ship in!! Surely this will make a substantial difference and prevent any future occurrence of this crime.

It would be shocking and outrageous if this was a case of this being 'the cost of doing business' for the big guy and a life-ending judgement for the little guy. Luckily our justice system is clearly allowing individual citizens the pleasure and honor of eating cake.

idiotsecant··on "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
It's also entirely possible that by telling the model it's a human you are instilling human motivations like self preservation, which could be just as bad.
idiotsecant··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
Classical understanding, yes. Black holes have no 'hair'. You can measure charge spin mass that's it
idiotsecant··on New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
An Alcubierre drive is not a new idea either, but if someone demonstrated one I would be mightily impressed.

That is an extreme example for multiple reasons, of course, but the point is that the gulf between idea and working thing is often monstrous. Ideas are cheap, implementation is hard.

idiotsecant··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
In my area of the country there is one very simple modification manufacturers could make to ensure their vehicles are wildly more useful: add diesel heaters. Heat the batteries and the people during the winters rather than using onboard power to do it. It would sip diesel and contribute hugely to utility. I am in the process of building my own because nobody makes one
idiotsecant··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
I'm not sure if you think the two are equivalent ...
idiotsecant··on Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
You're arguing against a point literally nobody is making. You're inventing imaginary viewpoints to be mad at. Nobody is saying it's not necessary to secure your services. They're saying the organization responsible for the hacks (the owner of the LLM) is responsible for damages.
idiotsecant··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
The power trading market in the US and the markets in Russia and particularly China are not the same, at all.They are rife with tarrif pricing, state-set prices, and state-owned players. The whole idea of profit is only tangentially applicable.

In any case, your premise doesn't hold. China is hugely invested in nuke and continues to build as fast as they can. Theyve got 58 reactors operating (about 56 GW) and 33 more (over 35 GW) under construction. Theyve consistently been approving at least 10 new units a year. It's literally in the current 5 year plan.

idiotsecant··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
'She was asking for it' isn't a valid defense and this isn't either.
idiotsecant··on Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Oh, sure. Let the tests take place, just require openAI it whoever to put up a bond equal to the total damage they could do if the agents were to escape.

I think security will suddenly become much more important.

idiotsecant··on Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons
It might not be a problem in our lifetime (or maybe it will, who knows) but at some point we are going to find ourselves in this morally uncomfortable territory as these models get more sophisticated.
idiotsecant··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
What exactly does it mean for a powerplan in china or russia to be profitable?
idiotsecant··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
I guess I should feel bad about wanting to listen to audiobooks of novels that don't have audio while I drive
idiotsecant··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
Don't give me ideas
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