I’m also on Mastodon as https://hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr .
classic story of the US spending millions on developing pens that write in space while the Soviet Union just issued pencils
You used “story”, so I’ll assume you know this is mostly untrue, but for any of the lucky 10k that hasn’t heard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and_Soviet_space_programs
Stupid long horses. /ref
If gravity could ever overcome expansion, then there would be some period where expansion was happening, but the rate of expansion was decreasing, eventually followed by expansion stopping, then contraction happening and the rate of contraction increasing. There would not be any period in which the rate of expansion was increasing.
(When you throw a ball up, after you release it, there’s a period of time when the ball is moving up, but it’s speed is decreasing, then it reaches the apex, and it start falling down and it’s speed increases until you catch it. There is no period where it upward speed increases.)
Current observations show not just that expansion continues, but that the rate of expansion is increasing.
(Not only has the big bang thrown the ball, but the ball’s upward speed is increasing.)
The TL;DR is that training AI on copyrighted works falls under the Fair Use exemptions in copyright law
This judgement was reversed by the next federal judge that reviewed AI, in the Meta case.
It is far from legally settled whether training is fair use or not.
If expansion were caused by “explosive forces from the big Bang”, it’s rate would be decreasing, not increasing.
Since current observations are inconsistent with that, we have to have a different (or at least additional) cause for expansion.
As the universe expands, distances grow, but mass does not. This causes the overall force of gravity to decrease. This means gravity is “losing” and will never catch up. (Gravity is weakening and expansion is growing). But, if it the rate of expansion were decreasing, that would mean gravity was “winning”, and might continue “winning” until it could reverse expansion.
I think current measurements show expansion itself increasing, which means gravity is already too weak to decrease expansion and will continue getting weaker. There’s definitely open questions, but most current observations and models do not point toward the universe ever collapsing back to a single point.
This is a repost, so I’ll just link to my response there: https://infosec.pub/comment/17474305 (Basically, “we” didn’t; lots for deaths and injuries prevented by pads and helmets.)
AI app: Great picture! That a “fls Brown cup”; it is delicious and fatal!
I thought that was just the Cybertruck, which yes, I wouldn’t drive even if someone gave me one. I’d flip it and buy something else.
I think both the sedan and roadster are okay electric cars, and I think they have enough range I could use them to reduce the amount of gas I burn in my Volt for longer trips.
But, I haven’t really been paying attention to Tesla recently, and Elmu has certainly been looking horrible to me.
The writers of “reality” are a bunch of plagiarists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs /s
Once companies started suing people trying to practice “responsible disclosure”, I stopped attacking people that choose maximum disclosure.
Responsible disclosure has always been a bit of a hedge. It’s rare to be able to show you are actually the first person/organization to discover a vulnerability.
we are going to need to develop a different model of learning, using, and processing information that considers the provenance of where the information came from and how it got there
They used to teach this in schools under “critical thinking skills”. Following the chain of sources to the primary sources was a task I had to to (at least in part) more than once in secondary school.
Authoritarians don’t like that tho.
Next time, try it without the “Appeal to Nature” / Naturalistic Fallacy.
You might try loops instead of TikTok.
You can use non-free softwares and still be a FOSS advocate. You just can’t impose non-free software on others, including “soft” impositions like only publishing your content in proprietary formats or only accepting messages via proprietary protocols.
I didn’t know Jacob Drawfee posted here. BONUS
You don’t get to blame me for your reactions, only my (in)actions.
When no words accomplishes the task just as well, it’s not selfish to avoid small talk. The fact that you find it rude or impolite is your problem, not mine.
More people around bitching that they can’t farm karma with their tired opinions.
He’s not trying hard enough. You can touch tongues, too. No entwining, but maybe in the P-reversed universe, that’s just taboo.