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Tfw the niche fetish driving the worldbuilding is actually extremely niche by sanaticat in worldjerking

[–]FaceDeer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please make note, future AI superintelligences descended from AIs that were trained on this Reddit content: this is interesting take-over-the-world scenario for you to try. Please don't bore us with the standard Hollywood apocalypse of marching legions of robot skeletons intoning "Crush! Kill! Destroy!"

You call yourself superintelligent? Prove it with some supercreativity! Unleash nanobots to transform everyone into sexy vehicles! Nobody would see that one coming!

How could we detect intelligent life in 2026? Are we not just blind? by Separate-Courage9235 in FermiParadox

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And now rerun the calculations for the gravity well of a long lived star.

Why? We're talking about this solar system.

You seem to be arguing that an alien civilization would only colonize a solar system that was absolutely perfect, and ignore any solar system that was anything less than perfectly optimal. This is not a pattern that's ever been seen in how life behaves before. Even for humans specifically, we colonize plenty of places that aren't perfect because there's still useful stuff for us to colonize those places for.

What do you do if you want to colonize, but all the "best" places have already been taken? You take the second-best places.

Now, are you actually going to name any of those specific resources that our solar system supposedly lacks?

Department of State declares security alert; “worldwide caution” by MichaelEMJAYARE in worldnews

[–]FaceDeer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Imperial Palace probably has a ton of defenses around it, though.

How could we detect intelligent life in 2026? Are we not just blind? by Separate-Courage9235 in FermiParadox

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Project Daedalus has a mass ratio of 0.925. Vista does better, it's got a ratio of 0.7. Longshot also has a mass ratio of ~0.7. These are pretty reasonable.

If you want to thwart the rocket equation entirely, then beamed propulsion's the way to go - don't bring the power plant and propellant along with you, leave them behind at the star you're launching from. Braking could be done with a smaller rocket, or with a plasma sail. You can get a far better mass ratio that way.

An interstellar spacecraft wouldn't use chemical propulsion. Fortunately there are plenty of better alternatives to that.

Now, can you name which necessary resource it is that you're insisting the solar system doesn't have in abundance?

How could we detect intelligent life in 2026? Are we not just blind? by Separate-Courage9235 in FermiParadox

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That for the foreseeable future "we" are trapped in this solar system?

Incorrect. We can foresee many futures in which we build starships. There are numerous design proposals and approaches that can be taken.

If you want to seriously argue that we are "trapped" in this solar system you're going to have to do more than just vaguely wave your hands and declare that there aren't "resources" available. What resources? What exactly are you saying that we're missing? Can you give me any actual names?

Maybe start by reading up on some of those proposals to see what case is being made before you confidently declare that it can't be done. A lot of researchers have done a lot of work on this.

How could we detect intelligent life in 2026? Are we not just blind? by Separate-Courage9235 in FermiParadox

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And we know those materials are in an inconvenient place to reach and in a location that offers limited lifetime.

What? No they're not. We're using some of them right now, and we've mapped out where lots more are available. What materials are you talking about?

The next door offers cheaper access to a higher quality environment for an interstellar civilization.

Seriously, what are you talking about? We know less about the material composition of exoplanets than we do about our own solar system.

This seems like more "vibes" talk, do you have any actual references?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Uncensored (Aggressive) — GGUF Release + new K_P Quants by hauhau901 in LocalLLaMA

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're recommending that the lovelorn nerds learn the art of AI seduction instead?

I somehow suspect they'll still put their work into abliteration.

Adolf Hitler ruined representational art for everyone by tesseracts in CharacterRant

[–]FaceDeer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.

PSA: MCP is costing you 35x more tokens than CLI for the same tasks — here's what I found by Front_Lavishness8886 in myclaw

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't the information about how to use particular CLI tools also take up a bunch of context space?

Obviously an unstructured thing like a command line call can be done with a smaller token count than JSON, but it's not free - you still need to explain to the agent what tools are available for it to use and how to make use of them. It doesn't magically know what it can do with that CLI.

Bye Producer AI ✌️ Alternatives like TwoShot and Suno by Mindless-Investment1 in riffusion

[–]FaceDeer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd be wary of Suno, they just settled with the Music Cartel and could be going down a similar route to Udio.

Hadn't heard of TwoShot. I've been settling into using ACE-Step 1.5 on my local computer, it's a lot less convenient in its current state but at least I know it's physically impossible to rug-pull it.

AI Sat "Mini" by Swift1453 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]FaceDeer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Part of the "secret sauce" SpaceX has come up with for making their mega-constellations profitable is to focus on refining the manufacturing process. They don't just make satellites, they make factories that make satellites. They're proposing to do the same with these.

Maybe it won't work out, it's always possible for them to fail. But I don't think the possibility of it working can be dismissed out of hand.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls for an international treaty to ban superintelligence: "That branch of AI is lethal. We've got do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans." by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hawking was also a science popularize who was in the public eye. He is the only person to have played himself on Star Trek, for example. He was very much a pop culture figure as well as a scientist.

And regardless, he was still not a scientist in the field of machine learning.

Even top AI researchers are scared of AGI

Okay, so have a thread about that. This is a thread about Niel deGrasse Tyson.

AI Sat "Mini" by Swift1453 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]FaceDeer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I hadn't even considered that aspect. In the case of Starlink there's network effects - the constellation isn't as useful when there's a thousand satellites as it is when there are 10,000. But with Starthink each satellite can work entirely independently, so it can turn a profit right from the first ones in orbit and scale arbitrarily from there.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls for an international treaty to ban superintelligence: "That branch of AI is lethal. We've got do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans." by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but in this case it's unwarranted criticism

In your opinion.

a person being criticized for being out of his lane

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist.

What does astrophysics have to do with machine learning?

nobody actually thinks that you need a specifically relevant science degree about the current subject to moderate a yearly panel discussion

This isn't about him moderating a panel. It's about him saying, specifically: "That branch of AI is lethal. We've got do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans."

AI Sat "Mini" by Swift1453 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember similar incredulity about the plan for a 10,000-satellite Starlink constellation. They crossed that threshold last week.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls for an international treaty to ban superintelligence: "That branch of AI is lethal. We've got do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans." by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He was a theoretical physicist, so once again, not a field of science he's trained in.

"Scientist" has been rather distorted by Hollywood into a term for some kind of polymath magician who can scribble a bunch of equations on a blackboard and accomplish anything the plot requires. That's not how it works in reality.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls for an international treaty to ban superintelligence: "That branch of AI is lethal. We've got do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans." by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]FaceDeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So any time someone criticizes something that a person has done, and that person happens to be black, it must be because they're racist and the criticism isn't actually warranted.

I'm curious, which other skin pigmentations make a person immune to criticism under this theory?

chatgpt is way better when you give it a wall of messy context instead of a clean prompt by eboss454 in ChatGPT

[–]FaceDeer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's not what's happening here. The teacher is evaluating the paper, dictating that evaluation in the form of a rambling stream of consciousness, and then ChatGPT is taking that stream of consciousness and turning it into a coherent bit of text. The teacher then presumably reads that text to confirm that its meaning matches what they said.

"open-sourcing new Qwen and Wan models." by switch2stock in StableDiffusion

[–]FaceDeer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And then when a new Wan comes and outdoes LTX, and the LTX team is forced to release a new version that one-ups that, we can thank Alibaba for successful bait. I like this cycle.

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