(Space, Tech, AI, Astronomy, etc)
Technically-Oriented posts…
Happy Hollow-AI’een!
On this Scary Day, avoid things with FAANGs. “WE MUST PUMP UP THE STOCK TO BUILD THE EQUITY WE NEED TO BORROW THE MONEY TO BUILD MORE GPUS TO SELL TO THE AI COMPANIES SO THEY CAN BUILD THE EQUITY THEY NEED TO BORROW MORE MONEY TO BUY OUR GPUS… BECAUSE IF WE STOP, THE…
The Threat is Real… But it isn’t TECHNICAL.
Asked Google-AI “What are the first 100 prime numbers, in binary notation.” This was the reply: The Threat is Real. But it isn’t TECHNICAL. Meanwhile, They’re basically disbanded the CDC. To the point where the rank & file (recently shot at, mind you) have staged an old school walkout. in protest. “What if they staged…
The Tower of Babble [sic]…
After only a decade or so of AGI Hooplah, they’ve apparently run out of training data to steal. So they started feeding it artificially/statistically filtered (or generated) datasets, snipped from the general internet, instead. Hilarity ensues. Machines ended up training on mostly machine-generated content (since that’s the majority of the random stream, these days). The…
“Plastics!”
One word, kid… “Plastics!” Gene Wolfe in 1988, putting on his Engineer Hat with this rather prescient thought… Wolfe: There are more than two paths we can head down. I feel both optimistic and pessimistic about what we’ve been doing with technology. As you say, it has already been used to produce both wonderful and…
on twitter, and the sole proprietor…
Here’s why I stopped long-form blogging all those years ago: I didn’t see the point of it. Because, you see, No Audience. No Pushback. By 2013 the blogosphere was already in decline. Too many of us out there, no way to share ideas with Others without having to turn oneself into a Brand, to attract…
King Elmo Go Boom.
I’ve held off a bit noting the Starship Launch Failure. Wanted to give the news a little time to settle. Even with his now-weakened Reality Distortion Field, King Elmo still gets special treatment by the press. The tech aspects are covered in depth elsewhere, but so far the basic knowns are: Basically the 30+ engine…
the eagle in wonderland…
Merc, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune AND Pluto all retro, with Old Jove crossing my Sun while Kronos and the Lord of the Underworld tag-team teabag my Mars-in-Cap? Well, what better way to celebrate such Chaos… than by merging a few pre-2013 posts from the old place into this blog (backdated to the original publication dates)! I’ll pull…
on the artiface of intelligence…
Had one of those early-morning, overly vivid dreams: Two pairs of perfectly human-looking robots (they were ‘robots’ in the dream, not ‘androids’, so let’s use that word here). And these were Manichaean robots, apparently: One pair felt ‘good’– or at least I was supposed to feel more sympathetic towards them– and the other pair were ‘bad’.…
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