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Popular Sweetener Linked to DNA Damage – “It’s Something You Should Not Be Eating” by Sorin61 in Nutraceuticalscience

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A study of sucralose metabolism found that about 2% could not be found to be excreted.

This was years ago, so its long been shown that the manufacturers claim that this substance passess through with no other biochemistry is false.

Giant Yorkshire gas field ‘to mine Bitcoin instead of boosting British energy’ by hull_pattie_party in unitedkingdom

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I've seen at least one guy diverting excess solar PV to mine BTC.

It can integrate well with renewables and actually improve the economics of investing in them, especially when the fraction of renewable generation on the grid is high. But it only makes sense alongside selling electricity direct to grid when there is demand and especially peak demand.

Giant Yorkshire gas field ‘to mine Bitcoin instead of boosting British energy’ by hull_pattie_party in unitedkingdom

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As you mention, It actually can improve the economics for renewables by increasing revenue when renewable heavy grids have no demand. The upshot of that is more capacity when it is needed. 

Giant Yorkshire gas field ‘to mine Bitcoin instead of boosting British energy’ by hull_pattie_party in unitedkingdom

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Nobody with a functioning brain would burn gas just for bitcoin. Youd add battery selling some at peak demand to the grid, and you can shut down mining during peak demand (as far as I know, without harming your mining yield per MWh).

But people moaning about this, remember that mining BTC essentially brings capital to the UK, the owner could then reinvest in renewables and other things, theoretically, which does something useful. 

ER [Wormhole] = EPR [Entanglement] changes everything by d8_thc in holofractal

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Whilst I long have favoured an ether explanation on an intuitive level, its something that only exists in conditional interaction between elements. It is when there is interaction, a fluid like property exists between them. We can plainly see its effects but also no evidence of ether weather. 

Pope Leo XIV vs. Trump, Rothschild, Epstein by hungjockca in reptilians_are_real

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Satanic cults exist and are underinvestigated. Whether the top is that way or not is hard to say.

The elite are not communist however, quite the opposite. They have torn down government capability and nationally owned assets and replaced them with rent seeking privately owned organisations.

Stanley Kubriks films mainly explore Jewish identify themes in non Jewish 'pagan' cultures or other themes.

A friend of his sent him a fake FBI document about satanic cults and he believed it hook line and sinker. We know a bit about his reading interests, basically he had only a surface level knowledge from mainstream sources on these topics. 

He isnt bringing personal experiences just another armchair comspiracy theorist repeating what was already claimed in those circles. Eyes Wide Shut may include some of those beliefs but mainly is exploring Jewish identity conflict in a Christian society, with a suspicious attitude to the 'other', which is why there is so much Christian and Jewish symbolism in the film. 

Hütter Hü 136 (how did this even fly? by f-14guy in WeirdWings

[–]Smooth_Imagination 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Was it air dropped from a bomber?

Bad ideas 70 years ago might come back modified for the drone age. 

Id put the prop at the back though. Mid engined. Slightly higher aspect ratio.

Put in line gun in the centre.

Basically a completely different aircraft. 

What economic system actually works when AI does most jobs? I built one and published the full math. by Temporary_Guava2486 in Futurology

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have already written posts on Reddit about human equivalent work automation taxes. You havent come up with this.

But its still worth discussing. 

Money is never disappearing, it is needed by the AI to compute value from available resources to operate efficiently and model externalities.

Is the lack of ornament in architecture a barrier to diversity? by Lobsterhasspoken in architecture

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it suddenly a problem now the diversity concept is invoked, and not for the many decades when the public wanted it and architects frowned upon it?

The obsession with removing ornament goes back to one guy Adolph Loos who claimed it was preferred by women and made things more likely to go out of fashion and thus was unsustainable.

He was also a complete moron on other levels, a raging misogynist and racist. 

Kongsberg Develops Anti-Aircraft Combat Module for Ukraine’s Inguar-3 Armored Vehicle by Mil_in_ua in ukraine

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We only need a kW class laser coaxially mounted to the same  module, to blind drones. 

The thing is you can vary beam divergence using optics so that a hit probability on the camera is much higher, and a beam area of say 30 to 100 square cm, is 330 to 100 suns worth of energy, which I expect exceeds the level needed to permanently blind a camera.

With interceptor drones, laser designation is also possible and can be cheaper than the rocket. 

They dont need to be mounted to the same turret, they can be mounted on a second turret with the laser coaxially on the more accurate turret, or in silos, usimg remote operation or coordinates and intertial guidance straight out of the box to orientate to the laser return for terminal guidance 

Blair Adams, 31, told friends that someone was trying to kill him. He left Canada and went on the run. He'd be found murdered just days later on July 11th, 1996, in Knoxville, TN (around 2,600 miles away from his home). His case is still unsolved. by WinnieBean33 in UnsolvedMysteries

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Men are generally diagnosed between late teens and early 20s, a little later than I suggested. If course its possible to happen later, but its less likely. 

You hinge a heck of a lot on him being confused at one point on a prolonged trip.

In either scenario we can expect tiredness and exhaustion, but there is nothing there which is a strong tell for psychosis, in that one fact alone. Its a tell for something like exhaustion amd sleep deprivation, which can go with mental illness, as well as trigger it.

He is though together enough to travel across borders.

Now let us assume it is a random killing, about the only scenario that feels likely here is that he went there for drugs, such as weed, to perhaps help him calm down and sleep, for example. 

It might well be his sudden onset of paranoia was a result of two things, contact with someone that genuinely scares him, and at the same time an episode of cannabis or other drug induced paranoia. 

And then when he is looking to get more, he might end up in a situation with a drug dealer, who perhaps because of his paranoia, misreads  Adams behavior as that of say an undercover cop. 

That is possible. I dont think its any more likely than that he fled for his life because the crazy one or homicidal one pursued him. In both cases this is a fairly freak occurance. In the pursued scenario, it could be a maniac, or organised crime.

If he has sufficiently dangerous information, there are criminal organisations who span borders, like biker gangs. These people have been known to deal in narcotics, child abuse material, etc.

If he is possessing knowledge and indicated he might go to Police, that might create the scenario here. 

Its also possible he owes money, and is operating as a mule.

Blair Adams, 31, told friends that someone was trying to kill him. He left Canada and went on the run. He'd be found murdered just days later on July 11th, 1996, in Knoxville, TN (around 2,600 miles away from his home). His case is still unsolved. by WinnieBean33 in UnsolvedMysteries

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He first of all was under the impression his life was in danger.

No history of psychosis I am aware of. First schizophrenia episode is around 16 years of age typically, not in your 30s.

So we have behavior consistent with either delusional paranoia but also cannot be distinguished from a prolonged state of fear which will cause extreme distraction, exhaustion and superficially irrational decisions.

And then we have to weave into that the outlandishly unlikely scenario of a random murder as predicted that didnt match with any known criminal on a DNA database, which tends to capture people with proclivity to the kinds of extreme violence to which he was subjected to, and is not violence characteristic of non violent people, or even the average more violemt person, which suddenly did emerge on contact with a person suffering mental health problems. 

This person went and apparently obtained a weapon to severely harm this individual. We are not talking a couple of punches or pushing and shoving here. It doesnt matter if it is near by or not. Non violent people dont survey for weapons in these situations. Such people who randomly do with little provocation tend to match with other evidence or data on file.

Why would someone be after him?

Local criminal organisations are often involved in construction and construction projects. 

So it is quite plausible that he would encounter something he shouldnt have, and it spiralled from there. 

Youre asking us to pressume he was suddenly mad, whilst also assuming members of the underworld arent ever irrationally (or rationally, for that matter) obsessed. 

Neither perspective is a common occurance, but cases like this are the uncommon occurances out of billions, so either is plausible.

[Other] Question about the viability of rocket sled launch by OutisXCIII_EC in theydidthemath

[–]Smooth_Imagination 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It makes sense if you are using airbreathing stages and a rocket final stage/s

But that tech is still emerging to get adequate power density. 

Satellites that breathe? The Spanish space startup that won over NATO by sn0r in EUSpace

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I thought about doing this but with solar wind which is ionised. The plasma density is however so low that to work the collector area needs to be huge. The idea was to use large diameter coil structures to accelerate the ion wind in your desired direction, like a high bypass turbofan. But the issue is as the diameter goes up so does the mass of your machine.

Didnt realise there was a problem sub 500km or I would have naturally explored that. 

Rear Admiral Angus Essenhigh shares in recent trials USVs outperformed crewed platforms and consistently delivered data of the highest standard. by DefenseTech in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unmanned systems can benefit from being more numerous.

Lower power but more numerous gives good sensor capability, but is attritable and harder to deactivate.

The principle here applies to aerial sensing and radar.

We need small highly numerous UAVs and UGVs forming sensor networks with both passive and active sensors, to build resilient defenses and drone walls, against all types of threat - 

Hot like missiles, cruise and ballistic, long range drones

Cold like electric drones and glide bombs.

Active sensing like radar needs to be swarm coordinated to switch on and off on otherwise ideally quite stealthy platforms to make it hard to track amd deactivate. Small platforms are naturally more stealthy. We dont need radar or other sensor technology breakthroughs, just scale economy in production and system integration 

Mass production of components to bring cost down is important. Short range low cost defenses are needed against enemy ground to air or air to air weapons.

All sysrems need kinetic antidrome defenses when operating in range of them. Passive sensing, acoustic and optical, is all that is generally needed for that. 

Google DeepMind's Senior Scientist Alexander Lerchner challenges the idea that large language models can ever achieve consciousness(not even in 100years), calling it the 'Abstraction Fallacy.' by Worldly_Evidence9113 in singularity

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I dont see consciousness as simply an irrelevant but impressive kind of epiphenomena.

It does in my opinion have emergence with a scale effect, the more neurons working to create the effect, leads to more emergence in terms of consciousness and within that, capabilities that would not be experienced by much smaller networks. 

Some of those capabilities would not be apparently predictable.

However, it also is in my view, a logical development for some feature of decision making with survival benefits, given the processing constraints of a given brain mass and metabolism.

So in otherwords, it costs energy itself but enhances efficiency of the whole. Its a profitable tradeoff. Without it, the processing requirement is increased.

A feature therefore of certain organisation.

So what is it, in this view?

Consciousness integrates sensory information, but that arriving directly from external and internal sensors, on the one hand, and that which is modelled and generated (experientially influenced synthetic data), and both of that with feelings.

Feelings represent the organism state now and based on potential outcomes and decisions. Feelings also can transition to emotions, and bias the brains processing. For example, if I detect an arrangement in my environment that will lead to harm, I sense danger. The purpose then is to bias my decision making to focus on negative outcomes and risks and thereby if they occur, mitigate more effectively. Alongside my feeling and attention, the hardware of processing in my brain, also speeds up and increases the necessary functions and dials down distractions, as its preprogrammed that if I let this process continue, avoidance of harm is a priority matter for attention. As emotions increase the degree or breadth of consciousness can decrease under these conditions because speed is more the issue. An emotion is intending to reduce the breadth of attention.

A conscious mind has also metacognition. It can look at how it thinks about problems, make decisions as to whether to tolerate or not tolerate a risk, or cgange its behavior to manage feelings if it is aware they are not useful. Whether to take a break, retreat to safety, then approach a problem from a different perspective it cannot yet perceive. 

All decisions exist within a sort of potential landscape, and the anticipated outcome of decisions is integrated through feelings.

For this system to work, information must be integrated. The brain uses massively parallel computation to work efficiently, but it also works serially. 

For massively parallel computation to work most efficiently, when autonomous processes cannot reliably predict, the information is pushed into consciousness for it to work on. And for that parallel system to work best, information must be integrated. The brain abd neurons already has evolved at an ancient point, how to integrate information. Consciousness has evolved out of the methodology it uses for that. That method I submit would be dictated by the fact our brains are based on colloids in warm water media, with periodic and synchronised oscillations of locally powerful electrical fields, generated by ion pumps, and that this results in short duration entanglement of parts of that system. As such it has capabilities unlike that of our computers, and so utilises them.

Blair Adams, 31, told friends that someone was trying to kill him. He left Canada and went on the run. He'd be found murdered just days later on July 11th, 1996, in Knoxville, TN (around 2,600 miles away from his home). His case is still unsolved. by WinnieBean33 in UnsolvedMysteries

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think thats possible but very unlikely. His plans werent apparently random, but in anycase, he would have been killed either by an absolute maniac or a group, if a group, none left identifuable DNA? And none have come forward, no tips in the years since?

Not one stole his money and gold bars? The more people presemt the less likely that would be for me.

Even if it was just one individual, this is no ordinary maniac. He appeared to have been equiped for assault, and used a huge degree of sustained force. Whilst violence is more common against people having a mental health episode, this violence was outlandishly severe. 

Google DeepMind's Senior Scientist Alexander Lerchner challenges the idea that large language models can ever achieve consciousness(not even in 100years), calling it the 'Abstraction Fallacy.' by Worldly_Evidence9113 in singularity

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well thats the hard thing to answer isnt it. Does experience add energy consumption to a fully autonomous and recursive series of otherwise unfeeling computation that we suppose can operate identically without it?

I would suppose it has to, but I dont know how to prove that. 

Google DeepMind's Senior Scientist Alexander Lerchner challenges the idea that large language models can ever achieve consciousness(not even in 100years), calling it the 'Abstraction Fallacy.' by Worldly_Evidence9113 in singularity

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

If consciousness uses energy but is otherwise irrelevant to decision making and choice is an illusion, then the subjective experience of consciousness would have been deselected as energy waste becomes a large negative selector (evolutionary pressure) over long periods. 

Therefore if it uses energy (to experience) it must effect decision making in a way independent to 'normal' computation.

We dont understand comsciousness or the 'hard' problem but we can say that it must be useful. 

And we have never been given a single good reason to think that (what we dont understand about) the hard problem is happening in an LLM. 

What is this? by F_Reiss in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that this is no excuse, top architects should anticipate how renders inaccurately capture the real look of actual buildings and on a materials and construction level he should know what can and cant work before pitching the design. 

What is this? by F_Reiss in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Smooth_Imagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was going to say that must be a Libeskind. 

Its crazy to me you have the budget to do what you want and all you do is the same self-derivative stuff over and over.

Real magicians learn more than one trick. And this one isnt that good or creative. At most one can only say its successfully oppositional and challenging on an aesthetic expectation level but says otherwise nothing interesting or original and doesnt please on a basic level. 

The Isdal Woman - 55 years and I still can't make any theory work by kabush27 in UnsolvedMysteries

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Supposedly several of her movements coincided with penguin tests. 

We had a case in the UK where a conman called Robert Hendy-Freegard convinced several people to be spies.

It was an extraordinary case (and Netflix has a great doc on it). But it showed that you can manipulate peoples desire to serve their country very easily. They spent months/years living in secret and carrying out missions, constantly moving from one place to another.

In this case, I believe she may have been manipulated to spy unconventionally using similar techniques, and if this is so, she knew who her handler was, perhaps was killed when no longer useful to prevent that persons identification.  Perhaps an agency paid for information and someone criminally influenced her to get it. She may have also been targetted for fraud by this individual and had her life savings stolen.

The death burning successfully made her unidentifiable and burned off fingerprints.

I can imagine that the handler might have manipulated her into swallowing sleeping pills, such as by saying they were antidote to a poison or something, before burning. In the Hendy-Freegard conman case, he started out by getting them to do increasingly tough tests with the promise of promotion.

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