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Comment Ok (Score 1) 227

The article is plausible, LLMs have indeed no semantic understanding or concept of logic.

LLMs can be very effective at spotting inconsistencies, dubious reasoning, and design flaws, but you really really have to work hard at it and do a fair amount of the heavy lifting yourself. LLMs, on their own, are worse engineers than Sinclair Research or Microsoft. And that takes some doing.

Even with significant human input, what they produce is likely to be messy and really requires heavy review before use.

Some of you will remember that I've been setting these AI LLMs a serious engineering challenge. Six months of near-constant iterations and there are still hundreds of issues and it's unclear if the design it has come up with is remotely workable. I've got the project up on github, if anyone wants to amuse themselves.

Comment Re:First act of the cold war (Score 2) 124

That version is consistent with what I know about Japanese culture and the USSR's involvement. I'm far more inclined to believe it.

Bombing civilians, even in western nations, has never been effective. In Britain, we don't talk about the Blitz Panic, if the Blitz is referred to at all, it is in the context of unifying the nation's resolve.

Why, then, in a culture that put honour above all else, the emperor above all people, and the military over all mindsets, would bombing a city have any different effect? It's obvious from the firestorms created by the US that it hadn't done, and it astonishes me to this day that the US expected any other result.

Comment "AI" not working as intended? (Score 5, Insightful) 61

I'm shocked! Shocked I say!.... well, not that shocked.

The idea that someone can just throw a crap-ton of random data into a system, have it generate a statistically connected node network, and that anything it outputs will be meaningful? Yeah, that's pretty much delusional in itself.

Comment Re:Dont' worry (Score 1) 200

" exactly like the people voted for!"

The people didn't vote FOR anything, IMO. Way too many voted against something.

People didn't like Biden *OR* Harris. They held their nose and voted AGAINST Trump. Unsuccessfully

Many Trump voters likewise didn't like Trump, but voted AGAINST Harris.

Both parties are providing crap candidates.

Comment What about other vehicles? (Score 1) 68

Hydrogen does not make a good fuel, tor a tonne of reasons, but nitrogen fuel would be less prone to nasty reactions and fewer problems. Could N6 combustion be controlled at levels suitable for heavy road vehicles or trains?

(Electric trains have their own problems, due to the fact that the junction needs to be poor and the cost of copper is so great that lines need to use far worse conductors to reduce theft.)

Comment Re:Well, test the interpretations. (Score 1) 111

You are correct. That's precisely how MWI is thought to work.

The premise of the argument is that, to conserve superposition information, you would necessarily need to prove that it would be grouped with information QM requires to be conserved, when viewed in a space that permitted it to be conserved. If it isn't, then there's no mechanism to preserve it, so no MWI.

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