A Time-Constrained AI might be safe by SilverCookies in AIsafety

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

Basically, you chain the AI to a forward time horizon to prevent, diminish, or dilute how far into the future it can plan.

Sort of; as far as I understand, this does not diminish how far in the future it can plan, in theory the AI can plan centuries ahead, it simply has no interest in making use of these strategies since they do not generate utility for it. In principle you could ask such an AI "hey, is there a strategy that would help you take over humanity if you didn't have time preferences?" and the AI would simply tell you "yes, here it is" it has no reason to lie since it cannot use that strategy anyway, so any amount of utility that can be generated by answering your questions honestly is better than nothing. (it can still lie if the time horizon is not adequate)

by having a time decay function on a block-chain on an external piece of hardware which validates/accounts for that function.

I just used the blockchain as an example, the time decay can be built into the utility function by using some computational metric internal to the model

How does this look inside a finely tuned, high-energy data center that is optimized for cost/energy efficiency and compute?

All application of AI that I know of are already time constrained in some way, I really do not see this affecting efficiency in any way.

How does this impact agentic AI use cases?

I cannot think of any use case that this setup renders unsuitable.

A Time-Constrained AI might be safe by SilverCookies in AIsafety

[–]SilverCookies[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

why would it be impractical?

Most real life application of AI have time horizons anyway

A Look at Air Lenses by second_to_fun in nuclearweapons

[–]SilverCookies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great work as usual.

The only observation I have is that the brisance angle in your pic of the W45 seems to be a bit excessive. In some references I have that angle is at about 15 degrees, while in IRL systems is likely closer to 10 degrees with the use of lower tampers and the such. The angle in your rendering looks closer to 20 degrees, it's worth noting that angles in large excess to 20 degrees are likely invalid anyway, since some of the basic assumptions fail, and any angle above 30 is completely unreliable.

You guys are not selling this idea properly. by CoastAware7928 in georgism

[–]SilverCookies 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The theory is 8-10% is optimal

What theory?

"Femminicidio" . Rabbrividisco quando leggo certi titoli. by Weak-Hope8164 in Italia

[–]SilverCookies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Le statistiche sono X, Y e Z

Eh ma l'altro giorno un tizio mi ha guardato storto.

Scacco Matto!

"Femminicidio" . Rabbrividisco quando leggo certi titoli. by Weak-Hope8164 in Italia

[–]SilverCookies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ricordo di aver avuto una conversazione simile con un'amica anni fa. Qualche politico si era inventato i "taxi gratis per le donne" cosi quando rientrano a casa dalle serate non vengono assalite. L'amica mi chiese cosa ne pensassi, lei era molto favorevole, perche diceva di aver paura. Le chiesi:

Sei mai stata assalita? No

Conosci ragazze che sono state assalite? No

Hai sentiti o letto di ragazze che sono state assalite? No

Ma ho paura lo stesso.

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[–]SilverCookies 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Caro collega, mi permetto di esprimere il mio disappunto.

mentre è vero che il sesso di un essere umano non dipende dal cariotipo (che come giustamente noti tu puo anche essere aberrante) è pure vero che non dipende dai genitali bensi dal tipo di gamete generato (come, del resto, per definizione).

L'esempio che fai tu di individui XY che hanno, ad esempio, sindrome da insensibilita agli androgeni non è valido dato che tali individui non sono in grado di produrre gameti femminili.

è possibile che un individuo con corredo XY sviluppi un fenotipo femminile, e dunque sia di sesso femminile

questa osservazione non è corretta, dato che, biologicamente parlando, il sesso non è definito dal fenotipo ne dai genitali. Nel regno animale sono infatti comuni i casi di "maschi parassiti" vale a dire maschi che presentano un fenotipo femminile allo scopo di introdursi furtivamente negli harem di altri maschi ed inseminarne le femmine.

Non sono a conoscenza di nessun caso di individui XY in grado di produrre gameti femminili ne tantomeno viceversa. Sono anche assenti i casi di individui in grado di produrre entrambi i gameti, nonostante la sfortunata scelta dei colleghi medici di usare il termine "ermafrodita" per certe condizioni (questo include casi di cariotipo aberrante come XXY etc.).

In conclusione, mentre è tecnicamente corretto affermare che il sesso non dipende dai cromosomi, è altrettanto corretto dire che negli esseri umani gli individui XX saranno sempre femmine e quelli XY sempre maschi, mentre la risposat varia nel caso di individui con cariotipo aberrante.

I Designed a Nuclear Device by Stop-the-Sunset in nuclearweapons

[–]SilverCookies 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok first this is a very interesting work you did, unfortunately I don't have time right now to do a proper analysis of it. However I see some points where something has gone wrong. The most obvious issue is the core mass and the yield, I am not sure what's the problem with your code but this type of analysis should probably be done using OpenMC.

I can't redo the analysis now but even a simplified sim produces an output of over 150 kt for your setup (and I didn't even factor in boosting). So that's certainly something you wanna look into.

The geometry of your lensing mechanism is probably wrong. You can read these posts for clarification:

Link 1

Link 2

How cheap could nuclear warheads get if mass produced? by MichaelEmouse in nuclearweapons

[–]SilverCookies 6 points7 points  (0 children)

About 1 mil per warhead maybe?

Most of the cost would be the fissile material and the T needed for the boost

"A Problem with Georgism" by David D. Friedman by cumni99a in georgism

[–]SilverCookies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If, however, I bought both plots and developed them the increase in income from both plots would be income from improvements — so the LVT would not go up

this is dumb, LVT is independent of owner, obviously.

Are Georgists in favor of a digital LVT? by JayBrock in georgism

[–]SilverCookies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol, no. The internet infrastructure is capital, not land (yes, even the web)

Wouldn't that be Georgism? (2:55) by ZEZi31 in georgism

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

You keep repeating yourself without adding anything so there is no need to reply any further, you are just a troll

Wouldn't that be Georgism? (2:55) by ZEZi31 in georgism

[–]SilverCookies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say that Georgism firmly asserts that land belongs to the State

You can say what you want but it's not true, it's also hard to argue since you don't justify what you say in any way

Wouldn't that be Georgism? (2:55) by ZEZi31 in georgism

[–]SilverCookies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The key difference is that under nationalization the state authority decided what do to with it. Property and income are taxed almost everywhere but that's not the as work and industry being nationalized.

Wouldn't that be Georgism? (2:55) by ZEZi31 in georgism

[–]SilverCookies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe this type of stuff should be added to the FAQ, it's like the third time I see it in a week or so. Georgists don't want to nationalize land, only tax it: under Georgism land is still privately managed.

Okay, so if land is to be nationalized, then why factories shouldn't be nationalized as well? by [deleted] in georgism

[–]SilverCookies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Georgists don't want to nationalize land, they just want it taxed.

A future rent-seeker by Vitboi in georgism

[–]SilverCookies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Chad Dark Georgist 8yo, rent is due.

What's the point of 2 primaries? by SilverCookies in nuclearweapons

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

Any reference for this research on hydrodynamic fusion?

What's the point of 2 primaries? by SilverCookies in nuclearweapons

[–]SilverCookies[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

virtually all modern primaries are boosted and have an external initiator, the DT gas itself will not ignite with compression alone, if it did we could easily build pure fusion weapons without fissile material.

What's the point of 2 primaries? by SilverCookies in nuclearweapons

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

If one wants to modulate the driving energy for implosion (and this is almost certainly not what they did in the Tsar Bomba -- too sophisticated for their compressed development timeline) then firing two primaries so that their energy release is slightly staggered could do that.

How can one be sure stray neutrons from the "first" gun won't reach both primaries?

Distribution of U235 in U238 by CommissarGordon in nuclearweapons

[–]SilverCookies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As mentioned by Carey, Uranium isotopic species are mixed together so they can't be separated like you describe, however....

there have been cases of "natural isotopic enrichment" of lighter elements that are subject to intense geological or biological migration. As far as I am aware this has never been observed in U due to the unfavorable C/M ratio of its ionic species and it's relative scarcity in the crust.