I’m not in favor of assassinations; I’m especially not fond of sloppy wet work.
I’m not in favor of assassinations; I’m especially not fond of sloppy wet work.
One of the things that sometimes frustrates me about AI is that they are constantly being tweaked and adjusted, so they don’t necessarily give the same answer every time. Of course, I’m getting a different run through however many billion nodes get involved in my question, but also, there are (as PZ seems to think is important) random numbers involved, and the generation/version of the various checkpoints that the AI is running.
It’s like asking me what I think about some point regarding Nietzsche before or after I’ve been reading Hume. My opinions on both of them change, mysteriously and below my awareness. But the answer I would give is different.
This will (I hope!) take a while, and I’m not going to bother being scrupolous about the sources of my ideas. I will also be scrupulous, in the philosophical sense, of the origins of my ideas but out of pride in my education, and since – like everything else I leave on the Internet – it becomes part of my legacy.
In an earlier posting about my osoraku dagger, I made a comment to the effect that rocks are pretty yawn-riffic. “Ha ha ha,” laughed the fates and fired up their favorite app: “Comeuppance”
Where are fossil fuels most useful? Here’s a hint: it’s one of the dumbest reasons you could possibly think of.
Imagine how odd it would look if all the heavenly bodies we see are more or less round-ish, and only Earth was flat?
Back in 2022, I made a dagger blade, when I was out at Dragonfly Forge in Oregon. I posted about it [here] when I got home with it.
I’m publishing some of this so it gets in the search engines. [Read more…]
I’ll stop soon. Because I doubt the program will live much longer.
This one is not well-sourced but it’s F-35y news so I’m going to push it.
