Comment Women and children hit worst (Score -1) 48
Take your pick.
Would someone, please, think of the children?!
Comment 41? (Score -1) 1
designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials
I love, that it is a prime number!
Submission + - The world's tallest chip defies the limits of computing: goodbye to Moore's Law? (elpais.com) 1
dbialac writes: Building chips up instead of smaller may be a solution to the problems encountered with modern semiconductors.
Xiaohang Li, a researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and his team have designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials, approximately ten times higher than any previously manufactured chip. The work, recently published in the journal Nature Electronics, not only represents a technical milestone but also opens the door to a new generation of flexible, efficient, and sustainable electronic devices. “Having six or more layers of transistors stacked vertically allows us to increase circuit density without making the devices smaller laterally,” Li explains. “With six layers, we can integrate 600% more logic functions in the same area than with a single layer, achieving higher performance and lower power consumption.”
Comment Re:I donno... (Score 1) 186
The day will come that an AI will learn something that we did not deliberately teach it. When an AI is able to improve its own code, it won't be bound by the limitations of its human creator. It's only a question of when.
LK
Comment Re:I donno... (Score 1) 186
Can a non-biological entity feel desire? Can it want to grow and become something more than what it is? I think that's a philosophical question and not a technological one.
LK
Don't agree at all and I think that's a morally dangerous approach. We're looking for a scientific definition of "desire" and "want". That's almost certainly a part of "conscious" and "self aware". Philosophy can help, but in the end, to know whether you are right or not you need the experimental results.
Experiments can be crafted in such a way as to exclude certain human beings from consciousness.
One day, it's extremely likely that a machine will say to us "I am alive. I am awake. I want..." and whether or not it's true is going to be increasingly hard to determine.
LK
Comment Re:Needs to be a constitutional amendment (Score 1) 186
Only if we define consciousness to be a state of awareness only attainable by human beings.
Comment Re:I donno... (Score 2) 186
An LLM can't suddenly decide to do something else which isn't programmed into it.
Can we?
It's only a matter of time until an AI can learn to do something it wasn't programmed by us to do.
Can a non-biological entity feel desire? Can it want to grow and become something more than what it is? I think that's a philosophical question and not a technological one.
LK
Comment Re:Desperate Times (Score 1) 23
Disney has pleasantly surprised me with how they're dealing with Star Wars. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
LK
Comment Re:Desperate Times (Score 1) 23
Sometimes, they write love letters to the fans.
LK
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 2) 57
HBO might not mean anything to Gen Z and later but for us Gen X and earlier, there was still a level of prestige associated with the brand.
It was stupid to throw that away.
LK
Comment Re:Little subreddit dictators (Score 1) 103
I called it out on another branch of this discussion but I'm talking about things like, someone posts a question that goes something like this:
"Am I The Asshole for declining a second date with the chick I met on Tinder after she told me she was trans?"
Topics like this are ban honeypots because even getting too close to a verboten position will get you banned by Reddit.
I have seen it. I have been threatened with a ban for expressing the opinion that 8 year old children shouldn't be given sex reassignment surgery.
Reddit is toxic.
LK
Comment Re:Reddit is cancer and a fucking blight on the we (Score 1) 103
I chose that specific example precisely because it's banned on all of reddit. If you say that there is any difference between XX CIS women and XY Trans women, you'll be banned from Reddit.
Ridiculous, right?
LK
Comment Re:Reddit is cancer and a fucking blight on the we (Score 1) 103
Presumably the OP is referring to any number of subs related to women, women who want to date women, or other subreddits where that discussion is completely germane, and yet here you are banging on about beekeeping as though it's somehow relevant in the slightest.
Or general relationship subreddits.
Someone will ask "Am I transphobic for not going on a second date after this chick I met on Tinder told me she was trans?"
It'll be a ban honeypot.
LK
Comment Re:Little subreddit dictators (Score 3, Informative) 103
Good faith disagreements can get you banned from a lot of them.
Someone who is prone to falling in line with group think will likely never encounter it but it's real.
LK
Comment Reddit is cancer and a fucking blight on the web (Score 2, Informative) 103
It's a stupid echo chamber full of stupid people who are chasing stupid agendas.
It's a place where they will permanently ban you for suggesting that there is any difference of any kind between XX CIS women and XY Trans women.
It's a place where you'll be mod bombed into oblivion for saying that you wouldn't want to date a current or former sex worker.
It's a place where honest discourse goes to die.
Seriously, fuck Reddit.
LK
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