The energy difference is only really relevant if the thing you’re hitting is significantly heavier or at least similarly heavy like a house or another car. For a person it’s still much worse, but that is moreso because of the high hood of the car.

I know pickup trucks are heavy, but I’m surprised they are 16 times heavier than a Honda civic. The more you learn.

Part of the probleem is how broad the term ai is, and how narrowly it is used. People just mean autoregressor llms and maybe diffusion models, while the term ai is much broader than even machine learning (for instance formal reasoning), which is again broader than backpropagation with gradient descent (for instance boosted trees) which is again broader than generative ai (for instance classifiers and deep learning). All of these are definitely useful in science and engineering and have been for decades, although llms are now beginning to find uses as well.

I’ve flown with them once, but i was very happy with the experience. That might be because I’m used to Ryanair though.

I’m skeptical of this. Life doesn’t just need a certain temperature, it needs to convert lower entropy energy to higher entropy. A uniform environment temperature does not provide any usable energy. You would still need a star or some other energy source.

There is no such thing as “now” on these scales

If you have a playlist for me it straight up doesn’t show unavailable videos. But with yt-dlp you can acquire the unrestricted list with the titles and urls, and then hopefully use wayback to get the videos.

I got sick with a 40+ degree fever. My lower voice is fine, but my higher voice has been ravaged for weeks. I also had a cough that lasted for about 3 weeks. No idea if it was covid as tests are not as easily available here anymore.

Category theorist: hold my beer.

Is this real or a joke? It reads like the “if you don’t use the turn signal the car doesn’t turn” meme.

Where is that? Is that on one of the moons of Jupiter?

I had this experience but in an airplane. I love my steam deck.

Not sure how Amsterdam is relevant in this?

It has been proven that each mathematical reasoning system* either has a statement that cannot be proven true or false, or a statement that can be proven both true or false. In simpler terms, it has been proven that we can’t prove everything.

Gödels incompleteness theorem if anyone wants to look it up.

• only holds for reasoning systems that can reason about numbers

The factorio space age dlc. Particularly track 06 from Fulgora.

There is something wrong with your unit conversion to cm there. That, or you dated a horse.

I think this might be a case of expecting a fish to climb a tree. Brains are terrible in fp32 performance, and computers are so far not great at reasoning. But that’s mostly because they are made for different things. I’m not sure of this, but i would expect a single neuron firing costing a similar amount of energy as a single transistor firing. The difference is in part that they work differently, but I think the most important part is that they are put together differently. Computers were made for arithmetic while brains evolved for socialising and survival. For most other things you are 100% correct though, we could not recreate a bee or an ant even if we wanted to.

My parents were rather strict with the music lessons, which I did sometimes resent at the time. These days I’m grateful as I couldn’t imagine not being able to just play the music that’s in my head. My parents a little less so, as they have heard “enough Prokofiev for a lifetime”, and my polyrhythms make them feel like they have a “heart attack”.

I have encountered one issue in factorio where large blueprint strings can’t be imported in the Linux version. Other than that, the record has been pretty much spotless.

I am sceptical of this thought experiment as it seems to imply that what goes on within the human brain is not computable. For reference: every single physical effect that we have thus far discovered can be computed/simulated on a Turing machine.

The argument itself is also riddled with vagueness and handwaving: it gives no definition of understanding but presumes it as something that has a definite location, and also it may well be possible that taking the time to run the program inevitably causes understanding of Chinese after even the first word returned. Remember: executing these instructions could take billions of years for the presumably immortal human in the room, and we expect the human to be so thorough that they execute each of the trillions of instructions without error.

Indeed, the Turing test is insufficient to test for intelligence, but the statement that the Chinese room argument tries to support is much, much stronger than that. It essentially argues that computers can’t be intelligent at all.

Maybe false vacuum decay is happening all the time but we don’t notice because it’s a form of quantum suicide.