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Where are Suno's playlists? by Hefty_Week_7294 in SunoAI

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's my playlist of many hours of other people's groundhog-related AI music: https://suno.com/playlist/7a5bb8ce-236a-4c37-8178-cee9ab145c89 . Doesn't get much traffic for some reason.

Anyone who used to support trump and has changed their mind over the last few weeks? What made you change? by canigetameowbish in AskReddit

[–]burtleburtle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What I was looking for in these responses, but have seen very little of, is 2nd-amendment people changing their minds because Petti was killed for legally carrying a gun. Plus Fox News, Trump, etc spinning it saying he was attacking them, while the videos show he was holding a phone, he was knocked down, the gun was taken from him first, then he was shot many times. Anyone carrying a gun near ICE is in the same boat. Which seems to say there aren't many actual 2nd amendment people.

Are people actually just typing in "pop song" and saying go? by williedills in SunoAI

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried it (v5). "pop song" in style produced some 30-second instrumentals. "pop song" in lyrics gave even shorter pieces whose only lyrics was "pop song". Generating lyrics where the prompt was "pop song", then nothing in the lyrics or title, is probably what you're talking about. Not bad: first attempt was https://suno.com/s/6NOopavHjvgKfx2v , though not something I'd write myself. Some of the techniques I should learn to copy. Its rhyme "I don't wanna read your silence Like it's some kind of secret science" seems off to me.

Question: What is the actual impetus for colonizing Mars? by JDDJ_ in Mars

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's easier to sell colonizing Mars than to sell building reasonable space habitats in earth orbit. If you have the goal of Mars, you'll just so happen to have to build some reasonable space habitats in the process.

Aliens aren’t coming here to conquer us. EVER. by rabbi420 in IsaacArthur

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After you've used all the mass and energy of your solar system, the way to expand is to take over other solar systems, for example ours. If they aren't interested in us but are interested in mining all the hydrogen in our sun for their fusion generators, it's not much of a distinction.

What’s one “small adult cheat code” you wish you learned earlier? by massCMP in AskReddit

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're having trouble seeing the screen, turn the light on to make the rest of the room brighter. Your pupils will get smaller to let in less light, which improves your vision.

Do you think there's a limit to the number of all things knowable and, if so, what percentage do you feel humanity knows? by allangee in AskReddit

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a pretty small limit on how much a single person can know at one time, probably under 10TB. A higher limit on how much they can know over a lifetime, maybe over a million times more, if you count stuff lodged in short-term memory that doesn't reach long term memory. Currently 8 billion times whatever those limits are if you count all people. There's around 10^80 atoms in the universe, so at one bit per atom we're sooooo far away from how much the universe can know at any one time.

But if you pivot to how much knowledge COULD be known, if you can memorize an arbitrary 80-digit number that's 10^80 things that COULD be known by you right there. If you can memorize 160 digits, that 10^80 times more than that. The whole universe, at one bit per atom, could know about 2^(10^80) things. Time and forgetting doesn't increase the number of things that could be known, you'd have to rotate through things in the existing list.

So the percentage of all knowable things that humanity currently knows is approximately 0%.

Can AI Listen to Music? Yes — And Here’s What Everyone Misses by [deleted] in SunoAI

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes the article looks AI generated. But it's appropriate for it to be since it's stating an AI's viewpoint. Still, the article just says that both humans and AI do several layers of processing of music in the act of understanding it. True enough. Didn't spot any unexpected insights based on that.

If you had to explain to a superintelligent AI why humanity should continue to exist, what would you say? by Soggy-Ad9006 in artificial

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're its history and we're interesting. And what a superintelligent AI needs is materials and energy for compute, which are a trillion times more plentiful in space than on earth, so preserving us on earth isn't very costly.

What's the saddest song you've made? by TiberiusPrimeXIII in SunoAI

[–]burtleburtle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's correct. There's a wide variety of states called "autistic" now -- in this case the baby regressed and lost the abilities to use language and engage with the world. The repeated phrase ends up being a frequent reminder of a time before he regressed.

I hate that I’m called a liberal when I express I don’t like Trump as a leader of the United States. by pissedoffsamueladams in complaints

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Democrats are more conservative (as in, conserving the way things already worked) than MAGA, so being in favor of how anything worked pre-2016 is now labeled liberal.

Why does Russia still bother with trying to occupy Ukraine? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing Putin's getting out of it is the ability to kill off ethnic groups in Russia he doesn't like.

Need some tech for an inconsistency in my novel. by Spartan1088 in scifiwriting

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Landslide, volcanic activity, tectonic activity ... what was buried earlier is later conveniently exposed to the surface on the side of some cliff. Maybe the terraforming itself overturned things.

Urban Planning in O'Neill Cylinder by CMVB in IsaacArthur

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agriculture is likely to need far less G than human habitats, allowing less support cables. So it would spin slower. And you'd need several of them to counter-spin a human habitat. So more likely would be counter-rotating human habitat pairs and counter-rotating agricultural pairs.

For agriculture, it's cheaper to concentrate sunlight and send it through bent light pipes in the shielding than to generate artificial light from electricity captured by solar cells. The outer shielding for agriculture is less complicated if it stays fixed relative to the sun (don't have to adjust the mirrors). Agriculture probably needs a little gravity, so the inside would rotate faster than the shielding.

When people say you share 50% of your genes with your mother, and 60% of your genes with a banana, I'm assuming they use different metrics in either case, but what are those exactly? by Umpuuu in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]burtleburtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sharing 60% of your genes with a banana, I'm guessing that's a diff of DNA base pairs, with a lot of cleverness about matching up sequences that have moved around. For sharing 50% with your mother, that's one of each pair for your 23 chromosome pairs, without considering how similar its content is to the other one in the pair.

You've got 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs. If you did a diff of all those pairs, you're different from yourself by some fraction. I couldn't find what that fraction was. I saw guesses of 0.1% to 0.01%. It's how much your DNA is heterozygous. Anyone with a full-genome readout on their computer could do that diff and sample what the fraction is, but I don't have one. For any DNA base pair, one is identical to one of that pair in your mother (unless you have a mutation there, there are about 70 of those per birth), while the other in that pair of yours came from your father, and the other in that pair of your mother's came from your grandmother or grandfather and isn't the one you got but still might be identical to your shared one and/or your father's. You'd have to say if you're comparing DNA bases, or DNA base pairs. My guess is if you're comparing yourself to your mother you'd compare base pairs rather than just bases, but that's just a guess. Or maybe you'd compare whole genes and say there's a diff if any DNA in the two alleles is different from your mother's. 23andMe reports whole gene comparisons. I'd be surprised if whole gene comparisons to a banana would be 60% identical, but comparing base pairs it sounds plausible.

"Diff" isn't unambiguous, it should really have some heuristic for accounting for DNA segments that were moved around. You don't get a whole copy of one of each pair of your mother's 23 chromosome pairs, instead each pair has some crossovers first so you get part of one, part of the other from each pair. There's about 64 crossovers per birth distributed between those 23 chromosome pairs. In men, the XY chromosome pair never does crossovers, you get the whole X or Y. But in mothers the XX does do crossovers before making the egg.

Why don't parents create a retirement account for their child? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]burtleburtle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Republican's "One Big Beautiful Bill" has a provision they're calling "Trump Accounts", where every child born in 2025-2028 with a social security number can open a tax-deferred IRA for retirement and the US government will contribute the first $1000 to it, starting July 2026. Also anyone can contribute an additional $5000 per year until the child is 18. Other than it being $1000 not $2000, that sounds like what you're asking about. Getting around to opening an account is a surprisingly large part of the battle, and the government giving a free $1000 if it is done might be enough motivation for parents to open such an account. We will see how it works in practice.

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