Comment Re:Productive compute (Score 1, Interesting) 76
The difference is that presumably AI is productive compute. While 99.99% of bitcoin compute is guessing numbers. Its purposefully unproductive.
Exactly what do LLMs "produce"?
The difference is that presumably AI is productive compute. While 99.99% of bitcoin compute is guessing numbers. Its purposefully unproductive.
Exactly what do LLMs "produce"?
"The world faces an 80% probability of breaking another annual temperature record within the next five years, according to a forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the UK Meteorological Office".
The Met Office has zero credibility, as it has been discovered that it posts invented temperature readings at 103 non-existent weather stations. If you don't like the sound of that, then move on. If you want to know the facts, read at least one of the following articles.
Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is “Inventing” Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailysceptic.org%2F2024%2F...
Inept ‘Fact Check’ by Science Feedback Shines Further Light on U.K. Met Office’s Junk and Fabricated Temperature Measurements
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailysceptic.org%2F2025%2F...
The Met Office is Unable to Name the Sites Providing ‘Estimated’ Temperature Data For its 103 Non-Existent Stations
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailysceptic.org%2F2025%2F...
"Problem is ICE users are forcing their fumes and brake dust on everyone".
Electric vehicles don't have brakes? That's exciting news.
Easily explained. Americans are among the world's most gullible people, many of them love virtue-signalling, and quite a few of them still have more money than sense.
I think it has more to do with George Carlin's observation:
"Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"
Not really. But "the mean" is an abstraction - it is very useful for some purposes, but only if it is clearly understood.
I remember that the psychologist and statistician Kahneman had a story about how the Israeli air force decided to design a new "one size fits all" seat for its jet fighters. After many complaints and some injuries, a survey was done and it was discovered that this seat - painstakingly designed to fit the average pilot - did not in fact fit perfectly any one pilot in the whole air force. It was a perfect fit for the average pilot, but not for any real pilot.
I couldn't locate a reference, as the Web is chock full of the Kahneman and Tversky lesson about regression to the mean.
"Ironically, Muhlheim seemed to suggest that could cement the very market dominance the court seeks to remedy".
Ironic, yes. Surprising, no. Yet again, government accomplishes exactly the opposite of what it aims to do.
An intelligent, educated, engaged population is the key to civilisation and democracy.
At present the USA and most of the West are on 0/3, which, I believe, is called striking out.
"Astrophysicist Professor Valentina Zharkova explains that instead of CO2, it is the Sun that drives the climate change and because of its decreasing activity we should be ready for a colder period".
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freedom-research.o...
"Project To Suck Carbon Out of Sea Begins in UK (bbc.com)"
Where else would such an imbecilic and wasteful idea even be proposed?
And who else but the BBC would talk it up?
"In a recent interview with Wired, Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan discusses his book Why We Die, in which he argues that death is not genetically programmed but rather a consequence of evolution favoring reproduction over longevity".
Yes - through genes that program death.
Yeah, but they aren't obligatory. You can live your life without going there.
This is different, they're telling you you either accept whatever shit they throw at you or you can't travel.
The US, most of the soviet block and the middle east are out.
Did you remember the Roman and Aztec Empires? The "Soviet bloc" came to a decisive end a third of a century ago. (If you ignore small parts of the UK).
It's a moral trend. Many people are eager to find clever shortcuts to wealth and fame.
"This one simple trick..."
"The Computer made me do it."