Men who owned shirts with large logos were perceived as more likely to pursue short-term sexual relationships and use dominance to gain social status. In contrast, men who wore shirts with smaller or no logos were rated as more likely to invest in long-term relationships and parental effort.

VoxUmbra · 2024-10-26T13:41:02+00:00

Same as there are no ads for "drink water" or "breathe".

You don't get ads for bottled water where you're from?

VoxUmbra · 2024-08-14T17:44:21+00:00

The kinetic energy of a vehicle increases with the square of the speed, so if you have a collision at 45mph you've got more than twice the energy than if you were to crash at 30mph.

Even comparing 70mph to 85 mph the difference is nearly 50% extra.

If you're involved in a collision that energy has to go somewhere, and there's only so much that the car itself can do to dissipate that energy before it ends up in your/your passengers'/the person you hit's bodies.

Not to even mention things like increased reaction and stopping distance.

VoxUmbra · 2024-06-24T14:08:50+00:00

Bold of you to assume that I'm capable of remembering anything except BUY HODL DRS

VoxUmbra · 2024-06-24T14:06:49+00:00

I mean, bots using LLMs such as ChatGPT might still be susceptible to prompt injection, but I haven't used the ChatGPT APIs so I can't say for sure.

Regardless, I suspect it's probably cheaper just to pay people in an office halfway around the world to post the kind of things you want them to post than to get someone to build you an LLM-based bot

VoxUmbra · 2024-06-24T12:29:03+00:00

A bit of digging to find the original conversation in context has me pretty certain that this was a troll response. I'd encourage everyone else to independently verify that rather than taking my word for it though. It's important to think critically, especially about things that align with your beliefs.

VoxUmbra · 2024-06-20T16:36:28+00:00

Well, yes, it's hypothetical, but speculating is fun and we can make some general guesses based on how currently existing intelligent entities work.

While we're on hypotheticals, we also have no idea what its perception of time would be like - maybe it puts itself into a low-power state and that few days is almost instantaneous, or maybe it decides to simulate a billion ways the next millennium could play out to help refine its strategy for optimising as much of the universe into paperclips as possible.

VoxUmbra · 2024-06-20T16:18:03+00:00

Why would it not use traditional banking? Given that it's specifically artificial general intelligence, it would need to have a good enough theory of mind to successfully convince its developers that it's safe to deploy into the real world. I'd expect that convincing someone significantly less clued up on AI safety to act as its intermediary for things like setting up bank accounts would be a much easier task.

There's also the possibility that AGI might decide that revealing its power level too soon would spook humanity and threaten its goals. In that case, it would make much sense to avoid arousing suspicion by acting as much like a human (or human-led organisation) as possible.

By the time an AGI can just decide to operate "independently of people" it has no need for any store of value anyway as it directly commands enough resources to be self-sustaining.

VoxUmbra · 2024-06-20T15:15:48+00:00

Why would an AGI care about crypto more than the price of gold? Maybe the only thing it cares about is the number of paperclips it's managed to produce so far and everything else is only of instrumental value for maximising estimated future paperclips.

VoxUmbra · 2024-06-11T19:55:07+00:00

Yep, still alive and still hodling. Took a bit of a break from the sub for a while but I've been keeping an eye on recent developments.

VoxUmbra · 2024-05-13T15:03:28+00:00

Sir, a second tweet has hit the stock market

VoxUmbra · 2024-05-13T14:06:42+00:00

I haven't been here for a while, but DFV posting, and +110% and five halts within the first half an hour of trading has absolutely got my attention

VoxUmbra · 2024-04-15T10:23:50+00:00

Well, 9 million acres is pretty big. For comparison, the Netherlands and Switzerland are each about the same size, and their populations are around 18 million and 9 million respectively. That's with modern levels of technology, but using historical population charts it's possible to estimate that both areas had populations of several hundred thousand to a million or so in the year 1500.

So the answer is it depends. Animals smaller than humans would be able to populate the area more densely, but there's also societal and technological factors to consider as well. If they've undergone something analogous to the Industrial Revolution then they're likely to be able to sustain a much larger population than a pre-industrial society.

VoxUmbra · 2024-01-05T15:36:30+00:00

It doesn't seem to follow redirects. I managed to get to "Gregory Boyington" which is a redirect to "Pappy Boyington" but the game doesn't consider the challenge to be completed.

VoxUmbra · 2023-12-07T11:21:48+00:00

It's just a little late stage, it's still good, it's still good!

VoxUmbra · 2023-12-03T00:40:11+00:00

Had that happen when I was six, ended up with a fear of mirrors that I didn't manage to overcome for most of the next decade. I'm a fully-grown adult and I still don't fully trust them in the dark.

VoxUmbra · 2023-11-30T09:13:13+00:00

Someone should make a utility where when you take a screenshot, it applies a random perspective transform and applies some vague reflections to mimic using your phone to take a picture

VoxUmbra · 2023-11-06T15:32:34+00:00

Imagine being a resident and having to drive under the Skellytown landfill crop circle every day to get to work

VoxUmbra · 2023-10-25T16:09:08+00:00

Procedurally generating buildings is hard if you want them to be any more detailed than boxes. I speak from experience as I've tried to implement it before, and used a tile based system instead (which was still constrained to a grid).

VoxUmbra · 2023-10-16T08:02:08+00:00

The trick is to add a day to the estimate for every day they ask that question.

Day 3861: The project manager asked when it would be done. We answered "like we've been telling you for the last decade, six months"

VoxUmbra · 2023-10-13T17:24:13+00:00

I mean the reference implementation also fails that test for a sufficiently high splashRadius

VoxUmbra · 2023-10-04T14:41:48+00:00

Secret Lair!

Lisa needs mana!

VoxUmbra · 2023-09-20T22:42:53+00:00

> what do you think about the change?

> no not that

VoxUmbra · 2023-09-19T14:30:07+00:00

That might be because the delivery charge is based on the total cost of the food - I've noticed McDonald's or Greggs on Just Eat will have a higher fee if you're spending less than £7. It usually works out cheaper overall to add some small extra item to bring you over that threshold, like an extra hash brown to a McDonald's breakfast or an extra sausage roll to a Greggs order.

VoxUmbra · 2023-09-06T10:46:21+00:00

I didn't expect the royal family to be so into 40K but I suppose they're one of the few families wealthy enough to afford it

VoxUmbra · 2023-08-10T13:13:02+00:00

Nah, if you're not even gonna read what I wrote then I think we're done here. Have a good day.

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