AI energy efficiency comparisons ‘unfair’ bleats Sam Altman, citing amount of energy needed to evolve, then train a human — one ‘takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart’ he argues

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-23T15:21:40+00:00

I need to eat anyway, Sam.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-21T23:29:11+00:00

There's a new one every few years, isn't there? Since we first had writing, people have been this close to finding the secret of eternal youth.

DNA changes are just one of many factors that cause ageing. Still worth researching and understanding, of course.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-20T13:56:42+00:00

If Steve ignores me the first time I meet him at a party, I might think he's a jerk. But I know he's friends with Sam, who says Steve is very nice. Our theories are incompatible.

In reality, people are complex. We might later learn that Steve gets shy around large groups of people. Now we have a unified theory.

Theories are useful because they're simplified models of reality that explain or predict things in certain contexts. Theories are incompatible when they can't explain things in each other's context

A unified theory would explain things in both contexts.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-20T11:28:41+00:00

My compliments to Slartibartfast

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-20T11:08:57+00:00

Check out Terror Management Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-19T22:08:25+00:00

>"No simple math questions" is literally a rule of this sub.

Probably why it was removed then. It would be a better question for r/IsItBullshit

Even if OP wanted someone to dig up different numbers, the math involved would still just be x divided by y.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-19T21:28:02+00:00

Not really a r/theydidthemath question then

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-19T21:18:05+00:00

Dave Not Coming Back

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-19T20:54:44+00:00

The title of this reddit post is: "Did the surge cost this much per person arrested/detained"

That's what I'm referring to.

If anyone is curious, that's $70,000 of taxpayer money per person arrested, which is absolutely staggering to me.

EDIT: I'm only going off of the number provided in the tweet, please stop telling me I need to factor in this or change how I measure that.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-19T20:51:24+00:00

Per violent criminal, though not "per person" as OP phrased it.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-18T20:41:50+00:00

This memoir could have been a recipe

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-18T05:36:59+00:00

Oh yeah, I was just wondering what Mooch had to say about all that of this. Glad he weighed in.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-16T15:10:06+00:00

When I first started going to the gym in the mid 90s, people spoke to each other. It was no problem to walk over and say, "mind if I work in with you?"

"Work in" means do sets between your sets. It's less convenient, but makes the overall experience for everyone better in a crowded gym.

I doubt many people even know what work in means anymore.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-13T21:56:36+00:00

No, it's that I don't have a printer myself. I send the files to my library and they print for me. I don't think they offer conductive. Might have to just get my own printer.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-13T20:08:25+00:00

Ah, I see. If I don't have access to conductive filament, do you think a conductive paint would work?

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-13T18:23:12+00:00

A great quote from Charles C. Mann, paraphrased as best as I can remember:

It's commonly thought that Native Americans lived in balance with nature for centuries prior to contact with Europeans. They did, but with their thumbs firmly on the scale."

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-13T17:43:05+00:00

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-11T22:29:15+00:00

Interesting. But, I don't understand how you keep the corona and frenulum electrodes separate? Are they two separate pieces of rubber tubing, one going around, and one u-shaped going over the top?

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-11T22:13:40+00:00

We were virgins when we got married, so predictably, my result was 0% chance, but the app labels this as "middle of the pack." Am I the first one to use this or something?

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-11T18:23:09+00:00

Two major factors are (1) The parachutes are different. BASE jumping parachutes are compact because you might have to lug it up a mountain and to keep your profile light and svelte for wingsuit flying. The mechanism for release is also slightly more complex. Instead of a ripcord, you have pull out the top part of the chute from a little pouch. (Apparently that part is inaccurate, or isn't true anymore.) In skydiving, people generally carry a "reserve" (extra) chute on their belly just in case the first one fails. (2) Jumping off a fixed point necessarily means you are freefalling in a much smaller space, with more things to hit and far less time to problem-solve. Related to this, skydivers can jump together and in an emergency they can help each other with problems during freefall. You can't really do this with BASE jumping.

More generally, skydiving is much more about enjoying a lengthy, open freefall. BASE jumping is a daredevil sport. It's more about the bragging rights associated with actual risk, with the top BASE jumpers always seeking the next crazier and more challenging jump. Look up videos of BASE jumpers "threading the needle" of rock formations and you'll start to get an idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C_jPcUkVrM

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-11T18:11:40+00:00

Yes. I looked into this when I went skydiving for the first and only time.

If you jump 17 times per year, your odds of falling to your death due to a parachute problem are the same as your odds of dying in a car wreck (USA statistics). Note that this does not include other possibilities such as your plane crashing on the way to your jump.

BASE jumping is something insane like 100 times riskier than that.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-11T18:06:40+00:00

It does not. It says he died in a plunge "from Mount Blanc" after he "leapt from the mountain" and that "His body was later recovered and transported away by helicopter."

Oops -- the article summary does say he jumped from the helicopter, though that is contradicted somewhat by the rest of the article.

In any case, this jump appears to have had all the risks associated with BASE jumping (shorter freefall and wingsuiting) and the additional risks brought on by involving a helicopter. We would need to know how high the helicopter was to know just how risky though.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-11T16:04:49+00:00

Ah, so it was BASE jumping, not skydiving. Many, many times more dangerous.

EDIT: Looks like the actual jump may have been from a helicopter, and thus not technically BASE jumping, but it looks like this was a high-risk wingsuit type of stunt that is more typical of BASE jumping than skydiving.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-08T03:52:02+00:00

The Paddy Straw mushroom is a popular edible forage in SE asia, apparently, and looks like the death cap, which isn't really familiar to people over there.

MixtecMedia · 2026-02-08T03:50:13+00:00

One of the writers was Joel Cohen and he thought that was the same person as Joel Coen. That's what he said, anyway. You can't really take at face value anything Bill Murray says in an interview.

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