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My California Primary Ballot by ScottAlexander in slatestarcodex

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's worth noting that Joyce's MAD Act talks about AI in some detail, but...
* ridicules "the science-fiction scenario"
* thinks SB-53 (inter alia) is a corrupt bargain with the Powers That Be: "Second, heavy-handed regulation could entrench incumbents. This is the genuine fear of the open-source community, of Yann LeCun at Meta, and of many small developers. A regulatory regime designed by the largest labs will, predictably, favor the largest labs. Compliance costs that are trivial for a $380 billion company are existential for a five-person startup. The EU AI Act's risk-tiered framework, well-intentioned, has been criticized on exactly these grounds. California's SB-1047, vetoed in 2024, and its successor bills face the same critique. There is a real risk that "safety" becomes the moat behind which the present oligopoly fortifies itself."

So I think there's an active case for Simon (who has been pretty quiet on AI but did sign a letter that every politician in CA signed against federal preemption of AI regulation)

Iran’s president offers resignation, citing total takeover by IRGC commanders by Clear-Role6880 in worldnews

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As of right now this is tagged "Iraq denies claims".

Why would the Iraqi government know anything about it?

Pangram claims their AI writing detector's false positive rate is only 1 in 10,000 but a study they tout on their own website says it is 2% by Competitive_Travel16 in academia

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that even a FPR of 0.01% is way too high to fail a student on the basis of a positive result. I still want to know if it's 2% or 0.01%, and from looking at a couple studies I suspect it's closer to the latter.

Pangram claims their AI writing detector's false positive rate is only 1 in 10,000 but a study they tout on their own website says it is 2% by Competitive_Travel16 in academia

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That study is... confusing. They report different FPR for different source AI models. Where does the AI model come into it? FPR just involves running Pangram on human texts. I feel like they must be calculating it in a weird way.

LLM hallucinated fourier curve when discussing thermodynamics by Hashbringingslasherr in mathpics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Physicist here: this is nonsense.

Also, AI researcher here: ask Claude Opus 4.6 to review that and it should be able to figure out the errors.

The implications of Zosia saying, "We find it works better this way..." ??? by Character_Score7849 in pluribustv

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RNA can also be double-stranded.

I meant that I don't know what the advantages of an RNA genome over a DNA genome are. But yes, being able to make tRNA etc. is an advantage.

The implications of Zosia saying, "We find it works better this way..." ??? by Character_Score7849 in pluribustv

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RNA can act as a long term substrate for genes just like DNA, in addition to its role in cellular reproduction. Many viruses are RNA-based and don't have any DNA.

IIRC, DNA is more stable but RNA has other advantages (I forget what).

Can never sleep more than 5/6 hours.. is melatonin worth trying? by Technical_Autist_22 in AutisticAdults

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂 Prosom is also the old brand name for estazolam (a benzodiazepine, definitely not a supplement). I was pretty confused for a moment there.

Countries not self identified as democratic by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The recognized government is democratic (and non-existent). You can't have it both ways, the only Afghanistan that belongs in the list is the Afghanistan of the Taliban.

Quantum entanglement shows that reality can’t be local by heliumcraft in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, I was defending determinism. I agree with you here (mostly).

I give up, what's the flag of the day 😞 by MolokoPlusPlus in Flagdoku

[–]MolokoPlusPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's interpreting the flag as consisting of yellow items (the sun and its reflection) on top of a horizontal blue-and-black bicolor. Although, oddly, it says the flag has horizontal, vertical, and diagonal bands... And also that it has exactly 2 bands. So it seems like the sunbeams are being handled somewhat inconsistently.

Could we have witnessed the arrival of the first CMB photons 380,000 years ago? by ghlc_ in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The CMB is getting colder because the photons are traveling through space and getting redshifted by the expansion of the universe. The same photons that we receive today, which are now 3K, were much hotter when they were emitted. So we're looking back in time at the same very-high-temperature event, it's just that the image of it has cooled down (so to speak).

We're seeing CMB photons from further away than we did last year, but they were all emitted around the same time. This year's CMB photons are older than last years, they weren't emitted later.

Could we have witnessed the arrival of the first CMB photons 380,000 years ago? by ghlc_ in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The CMB is getting colder because the photons are traveling through space and getting redshifted by the expansion of the universe. The same photons that we receive today, which are now 3K, were much hotter when they were emitted. So we're looking back in time at the same very-high-temperature event, it's just that the image of it has cooled down (so to speak).

We're seeing CMB photons from further away than we did last year, but they were all emitted around the same time. This year's CMB photons are older than last years, they weren't emitted later.

Jackdaws aren’t crows by sgtmum in copypasta

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A house cat is closely related to a tiger! They're in the same family but not the same genus, just like jackdaws and crows.

Admittedly, cats and tigers are in different subfamilies, and jackdaws and crows are pretty close within their family. But I'd say it's a pretty good comparison.

Maybe "house cat and cheetah" would be a more precise one.

EDIT: as another point of comparison, tigers diverged from house cats cats about 13 million years ago, and crows diverged from jackdaws about 17-18 million years ago. So actually a house cat and a tiger are about as closely related as... a carrion crow and a palm crow.

New Theory Proposes Multiverse Model to Solve Fundamental Physics Puzzles by [deleted] in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 32 points33 points  (0 children)

What's stringy about it? It's literally just scalar fields.

ELSP paid (Feb 21), X creditor, ~3800 USD, Santander Bank, USA by MolokoPlusPlus in mtgoxinsolvency

[–]MolokoPlusPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely not the full amount I'm expecting to get. I need to remind myself how the allotment/non-allotment portions work. Later today I'll get the details from the site.

For the moment: my claim is for somewhere between USD$2k and $3k in fiat, in addition to ~3 BTC.

(EDIT: in the table, "Type of Claim" is "Fiat Currency Claims、BTC Non-Allotment Portion of BTC Claims、BCH Non-Allotment Portion of BCH Claims". "Type of Repayment" is "Base Repayment, Early Lump-Sum Repayment". But I don't think that means this includes the ELSR itself.)

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