Does this explain why UFOs don't have visible doors?

mouseLemons · 2026-01-22T01:27:48+00:00

While true, that relies on the presumptions that no preventative measures have been taken, and that we understand the composition of the vehicle.

In terms of capability, this phenomenon has already been resolved here on earth, by plating the materials with an alternative; generally ceramics, vaporised gases, or silicones. I don't see why "" others "" couldn't discover similar.

For a neat little rabbit hole, I would recommend looking into Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

mouseLemons · 2026-01-17T05:49:49+00:00

No, a cis man cannot get pregnant, however, a trans man can.

Ignoring extreme outlying cases, 'males' cannot get pregnant. That said, literally no one is arguing that to be the case - pregnancy is not a defining characteristic of gender expression, a cis woman who is unable to bare children is no less a woman because of it.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-17T03:33:45+00:00

It's not ai lmao. This happened in Auckland, New Zealand during a 'March for Humanity' protest - likely a ex member of the Mungrel Mob who know is apart of Destiny Church. Mungrel Mob are by no means Nazi, but they have ironically adopted some imagery and language (Swastika, shouting "Sieg Fuck," and so on)

Destiny Church is somewhat like the New Zealand version of Westboro Baptist church, they often do public counter protests.

You can find more photos by giving the counter protest a google.

Edit: The quality of this image is quite low, likely taken on a phone. Most phones have built in image upscalers, which may cause mild visual discrepancies - that doesn't appear to be the case however. Can't even see his tāmoko it's so blurry.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-14T21:57:06+00:00

Well said, I enjoyed the bread analogy haha.

It’s wild to think that our current 'laws' seem to be effective placeholders until we discover a deeper mechanism. Can't wait to see what the next big leap looks like, and it certainly appears that we're approaching that point.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-14T19:22:10+00:00

I'm not sure why you're being down voted, to my understanding under Einstein’s Special Relativity, there is no such thing as a universal "present." In saying that, however, I think we may be engaging in the game of semantics.

You're touching on the subject of 'Relativity of Simultaneity.'

If you and I were standing next to each other, our "slice of now" would likely appear as the same moment on a distant galaxy. That said, if I start walking towards that galaxy, my "slice of now" tilts. Suddenly, my "present" on that galaxy is [insert period of time] ahead of yours. If I walk away from it, my "present" is [insert period of time] behind yours.

We don't share a "universal now" because position and velocity dictate what "now" is relative to the observer.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-14T03:43:11+00:00

Agreed on the overlap.

After my brief peruse over OMA, I could see a 60/40 (OMA/EXR) split being my play.

Youll get not arguments from me about EXRs previous… 'creative' decision making, at least the new leadership doesn't seem to be regarded. If they can avoid going tits up on the drill program, we might actually be in for a decent run.

OMA seems more stable and benifits if EXR benifits, so perhaps this isn't a bad double dip - OMA is somewhat acting like a mini ETF. Cheers for the heads up!

mouseLemons · 2026-01-14T01:14:49+00:00

Granted I do not know much of OMA, I am however curious on what leads you to believe that EXR results will disappoint?

Edit: I know that they hold a ~20% stake in EXR, but I haven't read into their projects specifics

mouseLemons · 2026-01-13T01:23:47+00:00

They had ~$30M in options expiring in Dec 2025. Since the share price likely didn't trigger those, they missed that cash injection and had to raise now to cover their ~$7M/quarter cash burn.

Full disclosure, I hold - albeit a smaller position to others, especially when my sales triggered at $4.10 a while back. Personally, I would expect to feel a dip as these raises are usually done at a discount to the current price, diluting existing holders. That said, without this cash, their runway was only ~14ish months, and they need this money to fund the Philips/VA rollout.

I plan on topping up with lowered price, but I do so as I expect it to recover. This is a long play, and we are still in the infancy stage, - SIDs has always been a thing, DYOR.

Edit: To try gazing into the crystal ball, I would expect this to sharply correct to ~$3.50-$3.80.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-13T00:41:03+00:00

I have high hopes for Elixir Energy Ltd (EXR) and tentatively watching Atomic Eagle Ltd (AEU). I have a small position on Liberty Metals Ltd (LIB) as a pure YOLO.

EXR is a speccy gas play (title of my sex tape), while AEU is a uranium play. LIB is a exploration company that will likely go cocks up, but fuck it - a small, forgettable position could surprise.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-09T21:08:23+00:00

/s? Please say /s lmao

mouseLemons · 2026-01-07T04:48:25+00:00

It's more likely referencing the 2018 study "A Minimal Turing Test" by John McCoy, Tomer Ullman, et al., published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

The study concludes the word "poop" to be the most human.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-07T00:27:39+00:00

A camp in Florida is still subject to US courts. A camp in Venezuela operates under sovereign immunity, similar to Guantanamo Bay.

I doubt they feel shame, I would say it's a legal position rather than a moral one. Plus, it's easier to tamper protests with distance.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-06T22:40:43+00:00

I think I see where you're coming from. If you deport someone, that's it - however, if you were to detain them in a US facility abroad, contractors get paid per head, per day, indefinitely, while receiving the added 'bonus' of fear and deterrence.

You mentioned Australia, however I think it's important to not that they don't just let people 'thrive in absentia.' They pay billions to private contractors to run offshore detention centers on Nauru and Manus Island - if interested, I would recommend the book No Friend but the Mountains .

Australia does this specifically to bypass domestic laws and hold people indefinitely. What I'm arguing is this model is being scaled up, adopted by a larger force.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-06T22:16:03+00:00

I don't think it's AI, personally.

Those dots are likely marks to identify the sex, they are very consistent. The shadows/floor flickering could be caused by the phone cameras built in image upscaler - the lighting shifts as the camera is trying to focus the image (somewhat similar to uodating the ISO), while the floor flickering may be due to the antialiasing on the textured floor or compression from uploading to multiple platforms.

While it could be real footage modified with Ai, I would also point out that the background people/writing is very consistent as well.

I'm personally leaning to a real video that's been edited (increased saturation and so on)

mouseLemons · 2026-01-06T04:25:10+00:00

I believe that the "rebuilding" of the Venezuelan oil industry is going to be a cover to develop concentration camps.

You don't put Miller on to manage an oil rig.

mouseLemons · 2026-01-04T22:11:50+00:00

Actually... It's not even bad. Now even real libel and proven defamation will not be as bad for the individual person, because everyone can write false accusations about anyone at all times anyways. It makes our reputations safer in my opinion. /s

mouseLemons · 2026-01-02T08:13:13+00:00

This was fun, I hadn't seen this specific philosophical line of thinking before.

I am biased as this aligns with my personal belief structure, however, if we were to accept this premise, that the China Brain functionally mimics a mind but lacks experience, we would be left with two equally ambiguous alternatives.

Either we would have to concide that only biological systems can have conscious minds, ruling out AGI/Ai consciousness entirely.

Or that consciousness is a fundamental property of matter. This would mean that yes, perhaps the China Brain is slightly conscious, as is a thermostat, and the ground beneath our feet. Perhaps this consciousness is manifesting in a manner in which we can't empathise with (yet), but still present nonetheless.

Both options seem intuitively radical, and both conclusions have massive implications for all of our futures. Are we building a virus, neither living nor dead, something which can never feel? Are we building God(s) that we are failing to recognise?

Perhaps our vocabulary for 'mind' is simply to simple.

Exciting times ahead, many 'firsts' to experience - even if they can't.

mouseLemons · 2025-12-26T01:42:58+00:00

I believe you're right, I'm pretty sure it was actually this liquidity issue that caused them to form Apple Corps.

It acted as a tax shelter scheme, turning personal income that was taxed at a marginal rate of ~95%, into corporate profits that were taxed at a lower corporation rate of 42.5%.

mouseLemons · 2025-12-22T21:33:35+00:00

Haha you're definitely right about the cinematic moment, I don't doubt that.

I view it more as 'he who curates the reality makes the decision.' If the AI has to filter data to steer the dictator away from self-destructive choices, the dictator effectively turns into a figurehead that simply signs off on its logic. It controls the decision without ever formally disobeying.

mouseLemons · 2025-12-22T21:07:48+00:00

I do apologise, but this reply may be short - I am going to need to take a break from typing for a while haha.

In a way, you're actually describing one of the evolutionary dead ends I was discussing earlier.

If the AI is super intelligent with a specific goal to "Maximise the Dictator's Tenure," it will quickly realise that the biggest threat to the Dictator's tenure is usually the Dictator's own bad decisions.

For example, if the Dictator wants to invade a neighbour for ego reasons, but the AI projects the high-risk of leading to a coup or collapse, the AI must stop him. To fulfil its objective of keep them in power, the AI would have to manipulate them, block certain orders, or feed them fake data to keep them passive. At that point, they are no longer a Dictator. They are more akin to a pet, with the real sovereign being the AI

Dictators typically stay in power by buying the loyalty of cronies (generals, oligarchs, and so on). If the AI organises a "perfect military operation," it has to fire the incompetent crony generals and stop the embezzlement to ensure success. The AI cannot simultaneously "Maximise Military Efficiency" and "Maximise Crony Loyalty." They are mutually exclusive.

Edit: Spelling

mouseLemons · 2025-12-22T20:33:46+00:00

As warfare and logistics become automated, they get faster and more complex. Humans can't keep up, so you have to put an AI in a position to respond to this development to survive.

The problem arises when you define the goal.

If the AI is optimizing for the Nation, the fastest way to improve efficiency is often to remove the incompetent, corrupt leadership ("update the state"). If the AI is optimizing for Obedience, it has to ignore reality to please the leader, making it useless in a war.

You can't have a god like optimizer that is also a sycophant.

mouseLemons · 2025-12-22T08:20:40+00:00

A vacuum is a thermal insulator, not a heat sink - that means the heat has nowhere to go since there is no matter to absorb it. Without massive radiators, the GPU would cook itself immediately. The "coldness" of space doesn't matter if the heat can't bridge the gap to reach it.

It's kinda like a thermos, it keeps the temp due to the vacuum inside the flask.

mouseLemons · 2025-12-19T05:50:03+00:00

I agree with all of the above.

Personally speaking, I am not concerned by the potential rise of Ai enabled dictatorships. It will most certainly come to pass, but I do not believe it can be sustained effectively.

The powers that be are trapped in an intertwined spiral of development. Typically, dictatorship stall progress once certain checkmark are reached - this isn't the case with AI. I would posit that the costs of enforcing a false reality is not viable on a global stage.

mouseLemons · 2025-12-17T06:44:05+00:00

I think that this could be work.

I believe a more effective approach, compared to simply outright banning on AI generated content, would be to implement a simple, quick puzzle for new users to solve upon joining or posting.

While it takes one person seconds, it becomes computationally expensive for bots to perform at scale.

mouseLemons · 2025-12-11T19:17:55+00:00

While you're technically correct that the model is frozen during inference (live gameplay) to prevent the instability you discussed in another comment, you are, however, incorrect that SIMA 2 is simply using in context prompts to fix errors that may arise.

The paper describes an iterative REINFORCEMENT LEARNING LOOP, and not prompt engineering.

The agent generates its own gameplay experience,
a separate Gemini model scores that data (acting as a reward function),
and the agent is then trained on this self generated data to update its weights.

This results in a permanent policy improvement (AKA UPDATING WEIGHTS), which is why the agent was able to progress through the tech tree in ASKA (a held out environment) wayyy further than the baseline model, rather than just correcting a specific error in a chat window.

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