Agonising listening to this particle physicist David Krofcheck on RNZ right now. He knows so much he can't possibly dumb it down enough to answer Kathryn Ryan's questions in the way she's fishing for. He has such a volume of knowledge dammed up he can't figure out how to let it out in a sufficiently mundane way. Everything he says assumes that the average person knows ('you remember "conservation of energy" that you learned about in highschool'... er, yeah) …
"AI is going to replace a lot of jobs."
Ok, what do you think is gonna happen when you stop paying the "don't riot" bill? How long can you go without paying that bill before an angry mob is gonna come to collect? You can tell from their vacant eyes that they never considered that.
They're gonna go in their bunkers... And then what? They all care about getting into the bunkers and never consider that the doors can be welded shut and the vents filled with concrete.
The YouTube video does not really describe the potential benefits of memstick files.
A few days ago, <https://redd.it/1urzgb0> someone asked:
"… what's the point of the "FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img" image, …"
Amongst the answers:
FreeBSD Handbook: in…
my "at least it's not a tesla" bumper sticker has a lot of tesla drivers asking questions that are better answered by my "at least I'm not a tesla driver" tshirt
China Sought Access to Anthropic’s Newest A.I. The Answer Was No.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/china-ai-anthropic-openai-mythos-chatgpt.html
Just did very approximate calculations; with 10g of lithium per drone*, and assuming the Russian and Ukrainian drone efforts consume 5m units a year**, that'd be ~50 tons of lithium deposited into the environment per year, mostly within, let's say, 50km of the grey zone***. It's only about $20,000 / ton****, which means $1m of metal*****.
So to answer my own silly question: no, it won't be economically viable to scalp the top few inches of topsoil and extract the lithiu…
Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy
Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a meeting in Singapore last month (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…
Two recent comments about Reddit's AI search:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1k76q1l/comment/ovp5xf4/>
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