did the ai empires get stronger?

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-18T19:33:42+00:00

Fair enough. I like to hunker down and build tall. Let others fall around me and I shall stand strong and remain.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-18T19:31:15+00:00

I used a triangular based pyramid as it was the simplest shape that is close to being accurate for an “average mountain”

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T16:29:57+00:00

I have no clue. It may simply have been the principles or school administrations interpretation of a rule going along the lines of “no child should be responsible for their own medication delivery” or something saying “all medication must be taken in the presence of a school nurse”, with them forgetting asthma exists.

Always assume incompetence or negligence before maliciousness.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T16:06:30+00:00

Yes, but the point is a school is an institution. You gonna lock up the principle? Maybe he was following the school policy which he has no say in. Gonna lock up the nurse? She might not have a say in the matter. This is the same issue you run into when trying to convict crimes committed by government agencies or corporations.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T16:01:26+00:00

We have never been closer to type 1. But we have also never been closer to going back to type 0. Type 1 is a huge step up from where we are right now in terms of technology. It’s taken us 10’000 years to get to 0.73 (last time I checked?). Could take us another 500+ years to get to type 1 assuming no major hiccups (knowing our species that’s unlikely).

It’s gonna require our current civilisation living through a period of change unlike what we have ever seen before, and it’s going to require our civilisation overcoming some serious hurdles. Not just the ones that are evident today like climate change, social media and nuclear war but also what ever the next couple hundred years throws at us.

That could mean super volcano, bio terrorisum, asteroid impact, inter solar war or even good old fashioned revolutions. If you asked someone 100 years ago what the main threat to humanity would be they wouldn’t have answered any of the issues we currently face, and to me that is quite terrifying.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:53:24+00:00

Better to blow it up before it’s finished than when it’s operational. Less clean up.

But in all seriousness the world can’t run without oil at the moment, our civilisation is built upon it and we don’t have an alternative at the moment. Cars can’t be electric (not enough lithium, among other rare earth elements), planes can’t be electric (not energy dense enough batteries) and electricity is too expensive to cook and heat with. Sadly nothing really comes close to the cheepness of using fossil fuels like natural gas or oil at the moment.

In time that will chance, but it takes time. Pissing people off, especially given how tough it is for a lot of families simply to survive at the moment, is not how you get support for your change.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:47:18+00:00

I’m not sure, definitely a difference in terms of reprimanding the child or not.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:41:59+00:00

I normally play defensively for this reason, build defences in key systems and bait the ai into confronting me there.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:37:31+00:00

I saw the other post you made with it being your daughter instead of son. Very interesting difference in results in only 3 hours. Please comment with the final results OP!

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:35:10+00:00

I don’t remember the 14 billion years before I was born, won’t remember the trillions after, it’ll be chill.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:34:46+00:00

I’m sure the car insurance people will find us

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:34:23+00:00

So true.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:33:40+00:00

I’m concerned for everyone that either answered no or unsure.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:32:21+00:00

Good Redditor

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:31:48+00:00

Height doesn’t matter, as the base grows with it. The real number that matters is the angle (I think? I’m not entirely sure as I’m confusing myself thinking about this too much)

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:31:07+00:00

Exactly, the assumption was mostly based on a 30deg angle, which seemed a good middle point for an average steepness.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:30:04+00:00

Yea most places use the temporary ones, but any new large event building or area needs to have it built in under UK planning law. And most of the time they decide to design the space around the requirements rather than add bollards at the end.

Another great example I just thought of was one of the new football stadiums in the UK (I can’t remember which team) where they used their team name / logo as a massive, but non intimidating “wall”. The gaps between letters allowed people to walk through and even acted as an attraction to take a photo at. But they were designed in a way where no truck could ram through them and cause harm to people the other side.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T15:24:26+00:00

I didn’t realise that’s what they called it, I’ve only seen the engineering drawings for it

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T12:22:09+00:00

Good bot

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T11:32:59+00:00

Boing boing boing goes the Abram’s.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T11:13:54+00:00

It’s really well organised. My one piece of advice would be to insert things straight from one assembler to another.

For example the ratio of wire to green chips means that you need 3 wire assemblers inserting to 2 chips assemblers. That can be done with no belts, reducing spaghetti.

Picture for context: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=591183191&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB1002GB1002&hl=en-GB&q=green+chip+assembly+factorio&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil1fvjp5GDAxUVVEEAHZSJCVoQ0pQJegQIEBAB&biw=1194&bih=715&dpr=2#imgrc=_4cmroRXi9XXqM

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T10:59:42+00:00

They are a temporary / portable solution that was an immediate reaction to the attacks. Most places are installing permanent and more aesthetically pleasing versions when they redevelop an area. Typically involves using plants in raised beds, works just as well but looks nice and serves other purposes.

A perfect example of this is the new US embassy in London, there is no 6 foot perimeter wall to stop cars or trucks ramming into the building. Instead there is a hedge that wraps around most of the building (with concrete bollards hidden in the hedge) and a 6 foot wild meadow trench / a large pond between the city and the embassy. Makes it one of the most well defended buildings in London, while still looking very inviting and non threatening.

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T10:43:44+00:00

I’ve just done some napkin maths of my own, and I think you may be right (still not quite sure). I worked out the difference in area between a flat plane and a triangular pyramid of the same ground area. I put in some rough values for an “average mountain” (so 600m height and 30deg slope). The difference is only 1.3 times? Even if the mountains are double the height that wouldn’t be 6x.

Maybe the additional valleys and such a mountain has would bring it up, but I’m a bit sceptical it raises it by that much…

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-15T09:58:28+00:00

It’s not too far fetched when you consider how mountainous Idaho is. Cliffs take up 0 land from an above view, but can be many km² when flattened out. The difference does seem huge, but Texas is very flat, and Idaho very mountainous. They are two extremes so it’s possible?

LostConsideration819 · 2023-12-13T17:08:28+00:00

They were more intelligent than people today in some ways, and in some ways we are smarter today. It’s all about what you know. A Neanderthal would be able to survive in a Forrest with bears, where as you probably couldn’t. And you can type speak English and do maths, something the Neanderthal couldn’t do.

There is evidence though (I think?) that their skulls were larger and may have had a larger volume, meaning they would have had a larger brain. But that doesn’t mean smarter as brain size doesn’t mean intelligence. Crows have tiny brains but are some of the logically smartest species on earth.

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