I don't know Elon Musk managed to kill 9 million children without a gun so...

I don't think this is about creating useful or profitable content this is more about training their AIs and showing them off to investors.

Remember the problem AI is designed to solve is wages. Paying wages.

That said we all laughed at horse armor and they just kept cramming it down people's throats until kids grew up who were used to that crap. And yeah you might not be someone who would buy horse armor but it does fuck up the industry and the quality of your hobby is substantially lower as a result.

It probably will be the same with AI slop. You and I will hate it because we grew up in a world without it but to kids who just get that stuff blasted into their eyeballs it'll be normal and they won't have any defenses against it. It will take over the industry through the kids and we will lose access to the stuff we want.

I talked about this in a post below, about how her perspective is too narrow to look at the direct result. But to your point, let's take her assertions:

In the video linked by the GP:

3:47 - she asks where do the neutrinos come from? And then answers "we don't really know, we just know they exist, which we kind of knew that already". The implication is it didn't do anything new. This is incorrect. IceCube detects around 200M neutrinos per day. Because neutrinos travel in straight lines whereas cosmic rays can be deflected by magnetic fields, this neutrino mapping process is actually a good way to trace the locations of high energy events, and they were able to trace the neutrinos origins in high energy events. Most neutrinos they detect are low energy and form a kind of background glow across the sky; those are much harder to trace the origin. Does that mean it's not valuable? Not at all, it means those low energy neutrinos are something we just don't understand yet, but do have the data for. So suggesting IceCube only detected the presence of something we already knew and nothing else about their origin is just a total distortion; rather it created a new way of looking at the universe were just beginning to understand.

4:04 - she asks "What is it good for? nothing really. it does teach us something about neutrino sources outside our galaxy but that's pretty much it." Again this is a distortion. We have data we never had, just because today we're not ready to interpret it doesn't mean it's not useful. But it has been useful. Neutrinos are massless and have no charge, so they escape major astrologically active environments without interference. This created a whole new dimension to "Multi-messenger astronomy", as in we have another tool beyond photons, EM, and gravitational waves to explore the universe, one that has different sources of noise. Neutrinos also travel in perfectly straight lines, creating a new tool to map the galaxy and others. In fact the first neutrino map of the milky way was finished in 2023. One interesting finding from this map is the Milky Way is an order of magnitude dimmer in neutrinos than other galaxies, suggesting our central supermassive black hole as a different kind of activity going on. They are now exploring if dark matter particles when they collide might create neutrinos and see if the neutrino detector can be used to explore dark matter.

The rest of her video is just editorializing and her opinion, coming to a grand sweeping conclusion that modern physics does nothing for human kind. She's entitled to her opinion, but it's not based on the facts. As i stated in another post, the steps it took to build this highly complex device actually created useful tools that are being used in other industries to good effect. Physics is by definition fundamental and aspirational, and the benefit isn't always immediately obvious or direct, but aspirational goals can result in a cascade of new methods, technologies and capabilities just by taking the journey to that aspiration. The value of the journey is by no means discounted just because we may not know what the end of the journey looks like.

Your concept of what makes good science is ludicrous as is Sabine Hossenfelder. In that same context, the Apollo program was entirely a net loss to humanity as it brought back some rocks. But the effort to build the Apollo program invented so many new technologies, concepts, materials and other things that we use now in every day life.

Same with IceCube. Virtually nothing in astrophysics has a direct return on investment. But IceCube did detect the high energy neutrinos and created a whole new view into the universe, it added to the depth of knowledge of the Standard Model, and created whole new maps of the Milky Way. So it did directly contribute to the broader scientific view.

But it also required new forms of data analysis, such as the HTCondor Software that runs massive parallel data analysis operations on thousands of GPUs; said software is now used by financial institutions, pharmaceutical development and CGI. THe pressure domes used to house the sensors, which experience roughly 240 atmospheres of pressure, created new manufacturing techniques now used by undersea drone production. Their drilling technique in the ice created the Enhanced Hot Water Drill, which is now used to study permafrost and track climate change as well as understand glacial formation.

So, no, IceCube did quite a lot. Often times the journey to do something really hard creates meaningful value in the effort to just take some steps.

Nobels aren't awarded for ideas.

Nobels are awarded for the concept, the planning, the execution of the idea, generating data and proving a result.

Learned did good work, but his proposal and concept failed.

It's okay it's /. The editor will repost at least five times a year even without clock changes.

They've been doing this bullshit since the '70s and it always works. People hear it and think yeah fuck the manager is right?

I figured out the scam a while ago. The original purpose of management was to keep an eye on unions and prevent employees from unionizing. Seriously Google it.

America doesn't really have unions anymore so we don't really have management anymore. What you have are basically a handful of people to implement policy and then you have a shitload of line workers declared management for a variety of unpleasant reasons ranging from managers being exempt from overtime pay to using the manager title to get a lot more work out of someone for very little additional pay if any...

And every time it's layoff time they can jettison these "managers" and tell everyone they're just flattening the organization and making things more efficient so nobody starts poking around asking if the company is viable and if they should be selling off the stock.

It's also a very effective way to fire old people without getting sued for age discrimination. IBM fucking loves doing that and if you actually look at the history of their layoffs it's almost entirely age discrimination pretending to be efficiency

I am so tired of seeing the same fucking tricks work over and over and over again.

I have exclusive access to the source code capable of finding up to 400 defects in Java code, summary below.

@echo off
if "%~1"=="" (
echo Usage: %~nx0 filename
exit /b 1
)

type "%~1"

VMware didn't do this in a vacuum. If they raise the prices that much it's because they have solid numbers that clearly indicate that their customers don't have anywhere to go.

I'm not a admin so I don't actually run my own VMs but from talking to other admins there is nobody who has tools for doing the kind of deployments you need to do in a large Enterprise except for VMware. I mean the tools exist but you're going to spend so much money paying people to monkey around with them you might as well just paid VMware.

There is a video from a YouTuber called Linus tech tips. His actual tech tips tend to be pretty shit but he does have one good video where he spent a few weeks trying to get all the people in his business off Adobe software and quickly found that yes he could do it but the man hours and the pay he had to spend doing it exceeded the cost of the licenses.

That's what Big Data gets you. You know exactly how much you can screw everybody over. You leave absolutely nothing on the table. Basically a giant fuck you to Leviticus 19:10.

If we don't let the AI bros and finance Bros do whatever they want the Chinese will win! And their communists! Communists I say communists!

They won't get better deals. These data centers are basically an apocalypse. I mentioned it on another post but they completely wreck your property values, they spike your water at electricity bills and they can use so much water that they start affecting groundwater and even your foundation because they pump too much water out of the ground. They also spew fumes everywhere from diesel generators because no matter how much power they get it's never enough. Especially in a rural community that doesn't have good wiring. And nobody's going to pay for that kind of infrastructure we stopped building infrastructure in the mid 80s.

The voters are correctly assessing the threat they just can't do anything about it because like I mentioned they spent 50 years dismantling democracy to stick it to the libs. You can't really do that. You can't get rid of democracy for somebody else and keep it for yourself democracy is a All or nothing proposition

We are way past inconvenience. Electricity bills typically go up at least 15 to 20%. Air quality drops tremendously and becomes a serious health concern especially for children. Remember even though they're taking all your electricity it's never enough so they are often running gas turbines with absolutely no oversight or environmental regulations. Your probably values collapse so you can't even sell and move. The noise is also not just inconvenient it's a constant drone that you never get used to and it bores into your skull and hurts. Finally they start taking so much groundwater that your foundation starts to collapse.

It's basically the death of any community. That's why people scream at those Town Hall meetings. But they haven't figured out that they can't do anything about it as long as they keep voting Republican.

They are the party of the billionaire and the fascist. That's what you get with the Republican party. There is nothing to save there. At a certain point an institution just becomes too corrupt to be saved. That point was around 1995 when newt Gingrich and his cronies took over the party completely and started actively hurting the country so that they could blame the damage on the Democrats and leverage that into election wins.

I do not think it's unfair to call the Republican party a terrorist organization. They have repeatedly been caught blocking critical legislation or passing legislation that hurts the American people in order to blame the Democrats for the damage done. That is causing fear and pain or political benefit which is definitely terrorism.

At this point what needs to happen is the Republican party needs to be wiped clean and the Democrat party needs to split between the centrists and the progressives. Trying to reform the Republican party would be like trying to reform the national socialists if not going to happen.

I should add, it is kind of funny in a morbid way watching right wingers who have been voting to undermine democracy for 50 years in order to stick it to the libs finding out that you can't undermine democracy just for the libs.

I have watched several videos of local county level Town officials being screamed at by their constituents because they approved the data center. And they just let it wash over them because they know when election time comes it's going to be a choice between them and a Democrat and there is no way in hell those people are going to vote for a fucking Democrat.

4. Widespread voter suppression and propaganda in red districts undermines democracy to the point where they can blow off their voters even more so than they can in blue districts.