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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.

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None of this is AI-specific. Youtube wants you to label your videos if you use "altered or synthetic content" that could mislead people about real people or events. 99% of what Corridor Crew puts out would probably need to be labeled, for example, and they mostly use traditional digital effects.

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The term "artificial intelligence" was established in 1956 and applies to a broad range of algorithms. You may be thinking of Artificial General Intelligence, AGI, which is the more specific "thinks like we do" sort that you see in science fiction a lot. Nobody is marketing LLMs as AGI.

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It's some weird semantic nitpickery that suddenly became popular for reasons that baffle me. "AI" has been used in videogames for decades and nobody has come out of the woodwork to "um, actually" it until now. I get that people are frightened of AI and would like to minimize it but this is a strange way to do it.

At least "stochastic parrot" sounded kind of amusing.

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I was kind of hoping the hysteria would be over by now. Walled gardens are a bad thing, I'm pleased when holes are poked in them.

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Well, at least we've moved from "Meta is Satan! Defederate!!1!" to "They may mean well now but they'll turn evil later."

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A long time back I picked up one of those ones with the handheld sprayer, and it's useful for all sorts of things. Super cheap, too.

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Nuclear weapons, perhaps. But I still hold out hope that someday nuclear pulse propulsion will find some application. It's far enough out that current-day treaties probably won't impact it, but there's some chicken-and-egg issues - nobody will spend time working on it while treaties forbid it, and treaties won't be updated to allow it if nobody's done any work on it.

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Maybe something got stuck in the nozzle, partly clogging it. Try cleaning it. A trick I often use is to start the nozzle preheating and then yank the filament out of it as soon as it becomes warm enough for that to be possible, that usually pulls whatever crud was stuck in the nozzle out along with it.

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This really just shines a light on a more significant underlying problem with scientific publication in general, that being that there's just way too much of it. "Publish or perish" is resulting in enormous pressure to churn out papers whether they're good or not.

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The saying "when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure" (Goodhart's Law) has been making the rounds online recently, this is a good example of that.

Ironically, this is a common problem faced when training AIs too.

The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

In December, DARPA announced that it was working with 14 different companies under LunA-10, including major space players such as Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, as well as non-space firms such as Nokia. These companies are assessing how services such as power and communications could be established on the Moon, and they’re due...

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I won't consider any plans "serious" until they admit the SLS isn't going to be part of them.

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Given that SpaceX Starship is already on the critical path for Artemis anyway, I'd plan on using that if I was in charge. Falcon/Dragon launches can be used to put crew in space if Starship itself can't be man-rated in time.

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We don't actually need Starship to be man-rated, though. Use it to launch cargo, fuel, and unmanned vehicles, and then send astronauts up on a Falcon 9 (which is already routinely shuttling people to space) and have them transfer over in orbit.

We don't even need Starship to be reusable for it to be cheaper than SLS. Though reusability is another whole order of magnitude or two of improvement.

Climate protesters can't rely on beliefs in criminal damage cases, UK court rules (news.yahoo.com)

LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental activists accused of criminal damage cannot rely on their political or philosophical beliefs as a defence, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Monday, raising the prospect of more protesters being convicted for direct action....

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So use that in court.

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I'm not a frequent user myself so I'm probably not the best to answer on the usability front, but for the combination of high TPS and low price volatility I'd probably recommend using one of Ethereum's stabletokens (DAI, USDT, etc.) on one of its layer-2 networks (such as Arbitrum or Optimism). Stabletokens are cryptocurrencies whose value has been tied to some external measure, in most cases the US Dollar, so they're ideal for use in commerce.

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I wouldn't recommend using Bitcoin specifically for an e-commerce site like this, both because of its volatility and its high transaction fees. A stabletoken like DAI or USDT is more specifically designed for this use case.

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No, you misunderstand the point of a stabletoken. They are designed to have a fixed value, usually tied to the US dollar. Is the US dollar a "casino chip"? That's what these sites usually price things in to begin with.

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Then isn't Gumroad already selling goods in exchange for "casino chips?" What alternative would you suggest?

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Currently it's handling about 140 TPS. The Dencun upgrade to Ethereum that just went live a couple of days ago adds a new feature, data blobs, that lets this go significantly higher at reduced cost.

40-year-old homeowner says economy doesn’t add up: ‘I’m making the most money I’ve ever made, and I’m still living paycheck to paycheck’ (fortune.com)

“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.

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You didn't finish reading the end of the single sentence in my comment.

the improvements in technology that make elder care less expensive.

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Small towns in the rust belt are not the entirety of the United States. Different people value different parts of it in different ways, just because the part of it that you like isn't doing well doesn't mean it has no value to anyone else.

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The last half-century of economic trends supports my expectations, actually. Treatments have been getting cheaper as technology advances. New treatments tend to be expensive, yes. But then as they become older they too get cheaper.

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That's not true. Originally insulin had to be isolated from animal pancreases, a costly procedure. The first handful of humans to be treated with it were literally the children of wealthy politicians, a congressman and the secretary of state. They were the only ones who could get access to it. It's now produced in industrial quantities using recombinant bacteria to synthesize it. It's routine.

I'm speaking about large-scale trends here. Obviously the prices of things have their localized ups and downs when you look at them on the scale of a few years. But I'm not expecting to need elder care for quite a few decades yet.

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Yes, again, I'm talking about large-scale trends, not the current spot prices. I don't live in the United States anyway, most people don't. Note how cheap it is everywhere else?

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Yeah, these AIs are literally trying to give us what they "think" we expect them to respond with.

Which does make me a little worried given how frequently our fictional AIs end up in "kill all humans!" Mode. :)

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