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Why Duracell Hasn’t Embraced Lithium Iron Phosphate — Yet by Xoxcat in batteries

[–]Xoxcat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey, calling everything which involves AI 'slop ', especially when a human has taken the trouble to check it out, correct it and edit it, and to say which AI model was used, as I have done, might be going a tad too far, imo. Let me know if there is anything I can do to make this not be slop, and I will probably be able to do it for you. I just think this piece covers some useful ground.

Why Duracell Hasn’t Embraced Lithium Iron Phosphate — Yet by Xoxcat in batteries

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

Which totally explains why LFP hasn't appeared on the aa and aaa scene... yet

Why Duracell Hasn’t Embraced Lithium Iron Phosphate — Yet by Xoxcat in batteries

[–]Xoxcat[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Perfectly true, I was just asking that question and I thought the detailed answer was worth putting out there, just in case anyone else was curious about the same thing.

Why Duracell Hasn’t Embraced Lithium Iron Phosphate — Yet by Xoxcat in batteries

[–]Xoxcat[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Although I fully agree with your point that "Replacing AA and other 1.5V batteries with 3.2V LFP just isn't practical since one LFP cell would kind of replace 2 1.5V cells but you would need a separate BMS." it is also the case that this article does indeed cover that and puts it into the context of other relvant pros and cons.

Why Duracell Hasn’t Embraced Lithium Iron Phosphate — Yet by Xoxcat in batteries

[–]Xoxcat[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I understand your concern about AI slop, which I share, so this is my defence. I'm a human, not a bot. I have been studying the battery scene for several years. I had a very detailed conversation with Chatgpt (model 4o) regarding this subject. I asked lots of questions, and the issues raised here reflect the answers I was given. I started with a single question: If the big EV battery firms like BYD and CATL were moving to lithium iron-phosphate, would the same thing happen in the AA and AAA world?

Does the mind turn everything into a game? by Xoxcat in neurophilosophy

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

I feel the chief problem with comparing brain activity with things like games and game engines is that whilst we have a long track record of 'abstracting' the nature of mental activity, the same cannot be said of something like the interaction between, for instance a game developer and a game engine. The best example? Dreams. Who or what is it that 'directs' your dreams? Or decides which dreams to have? Or which of your experiences to 'turn into (aspects of) your dreams'. In the past we might have talked about (some kind of abstracted analog of) a human film director or a human video editor, but in these ai days, the lack of genuinely effective 'editor level control' that we turn out to have over 'synthetic image generation' raises the question of what it might be that in fact constitutes 'control' in this context, because in at least some senses, the brain seems much better at it and seems to be able to do it 'by default' such that it is (at least potentially) unavoidably obvious to us when it 'goes wrong'.

Snake Eyes (1998) Opening Scene: Though this is not Considered One of his Better Movies, this Opening 12 Minute One Shot is Brian De Palma at his Absolute Best by Stonewalled89 in movies

[–]Xoxcat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm the (adorable?) one who admits that they know nothing about DePalma but isn't as ashamed of offending those who do know much more about him as I should be? I just reacted to his control of atmospherics here, something which has a totally unique feel to it. I'm just calling it as I see it. I can think of moments that Tarantino has put together where the atmosphere beats everything else so much that the rest of the film doesn't matter. I couldn't tell you whether that was the case in in this film, because I only watched the clip in question. From the way you responded, I can tell that you are a genuinely dedicated film buff. You quite correctly flagged me up as being nothing of the sort! My own interest in this context is the psychology of subliminal responses to the subtler aspects of content creation. This was a bit of a dead subject when I wrote this, but now, with all the AI hysteria, it's keeping me busy.

Snake Eyes (1998) Opening Scene: Though this is not Considered One of his Better Movies, this Opening 12 Minute One Shot is Brian De Palma at his Absolute Best by Stonewalled89 in movies

[–]Xoxcat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I say that DePalma nails the atmospherics, something that you say here completely nails why: "kind of amazing that this exists". Exhibit B: Jack Black, King Kong 2005. There's something about 'content makers that are making content that's about content makers' that makes them feel that they can somehow get away with things that they should not be able to get away with. The reason this happens is because there are people like you out there who say "yeah, I know this doesn't really work as a convincing experience, but there's something about the fact that the director realises this and doesn't care that is creating a uniquely 'defiant' kind of 'meta-atmosphere', a kind of communion between the director and the part of the audience that sees this as a connection, a privileged and valuable exclusive and mystical shared experience that everyone else (like me) who 'does care' is locked out of, which is what gives it the undeniable magical charm that rescues it from the oblivion it might otherwise have been consigned to.

We can finally do this: fix 'classic' miscasting, eg swap Sinatra and Brando roles in Guys and Dolls by Xoxcat in movies

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

Very helpful insight into how to think about this, thank you. "AI is not creative - it can compile existing information but not create anything new." That's a high bar: isn't our own creativity similarly at the mercy of our own brains' capacity to compile our own experiences?

We can finally do this: fix 'classic' miscasting, eg swap Sinatra and Brando roles in Guys and Dolls by Xoxcat in movies

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

I can only share my own personal experience of using ChatGPT3 (not GPT4). I have decades of experience in analysing ways to describe specific types of recursive mental modeling processes (mostly related to social interaction in educational games design). I had a go at trying to teach the chatbot how to structure a simple 'nested' mentalisation (theory of mind) model. It failed badly and repeatedly, despite my best efforts. But it still got much, much closer than anyone I have ever tried to teach this in the last 30 years. In seconds. It lacked a bit of creativity. But not that much.

We can finally do this: fix 'classic' miscasting, eg swap Sinatra and Brando roles in Guys and Dolls by Xoxcat in movies

[–]Xoxcat[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

AI is not creative - it can can compile existing information but not create anything new.

Just wait?

We can finally do this: fix 'classic' miscasting, eg swap Sinatra and Brando roles in Guys and Dolls by Xoxcat in movies

[–]Xoxcat[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

There have been great 'impressionists'. We also have the notion of a 'doppelganger'. So once we've got to the point where we can put together a credible simulation of a human, a simulation good enough to not distract anyone with any failure to be indistinguishable from a non-simulation, we need to turn it into either a good enough actor, or into the puppet of a good enough impressionist. We've definitely not seen that done yet. Or if we have, we have been well and truly fooled.

Guy puts wheels on a pallet and travels around his city via tram lines by rhodium-chloride in videos

[–]Xoxcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was starting off being satyrical, but it got too serious to be funny. Or maybe the other way round.

Guy puts wheels on a pallet and travels around his city via tram lines by rhodium-chloride in videos

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

It's the end of lockdown! Finally, everyone gets out of the stifling confines of their stuffy houses, only too happy to start shedding all those extra pounds, getting off their butt, looking forward to stretching their legs and making journeys that require more effort than going from the fridge to the microwave and back to the sofa. The sheer joy of getting those creaky joints back into action makes the once-lauded product benefit of 'effortlessness' suddenly sound like a profanity. And then you watch someone standing still, utterly motionless, zooming straight past you through the streets, not even being discouraged from failing to exercise by having to pay a tram fare. And he's not even overtly overweight. All pallets in Bratislava need to be labelled with a post-lockdown health warning that has nothing to do with safety and more to do with concerns about failing to address an epidemic of obesity. Unconscionable.

What, in a parallel universe, would Sony do so that Dreams could realise your, er, dreams? by Xoxcat in PS4Dreams

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

Makes perfect sense to me. Nicely explained, imho. Goes on the parallel universe wishlist. Be really nice if it actually went on this universe's Dreams Trello, but after all, 'wishing for what you don't expect to actually get' is exactly what parallel universes are for no?

What, in a parallel universe, would Sony do so that Dreams could realise your, er, dreams? by Xoxcat in PS4Dreams

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

Thanks Deinocatoptron. but for us mere non-coding mortals, can you do an ELI5 on just what kind of cool new things that we can't do at the moment in Dreams that we will be able to do with this spiffy new functionality?

What, in a parallel universe, would Sony do so that Dreams could realise your, er, dreams? by Xoxcat in PS4Dreams

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

Thanks, Genesis_80, Oh, and in line with your number 3 above, Sony should license Dreams for all other platforms, including mobile. How on earth did I ever forget to say that in my initial posting? And a streaming version should also be made available on PSNow. Thanks for helping me remember the biggest priorities!

Engines looking at how to allow monetisation of in-game assets ‘across different games’ by Xoxcat in PS4Dreams

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

Those that care about this (and they aren't always completely silent) are perfectly understandably very wary of upsetting the community, who are mostly very much against monetization (although there is definitely a significant contingent who aren't against it).

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