If I were ever abducted by Aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.

Elon Musk just explained why artificial intelligence cannot physically survive on Earth. In a conversation with Jamie Dimon, Musk bypassed the romance of space exploration entirely. He answered with physics. Musk: “I think we can do probably somewhere around 1 terawatt per year of AI space compute from Earth, but we can do 1,000 terawatts or more from the Moon.” One terawatt. That is the thermodynamic ceiling of this entire planet. Every nuclear plant. Every solar farm. Every grid upgrade humanity can possibly build. All of it maxes out at one terawatt of AI compute. Earth is no longer a canvas. It is a bottleneck. So Musk is looking at the Moon. Not for flags. Not for footprints. For leverage. Musk: “Because the Moon has no atmosphere and about one-sixth Earth’s gravity, you can use an electromagnetic accelerator… You don’t need to use rockets to do AI data centers into deep space from the Moon. You can literally just shoot them like a railgun type of thing.” He is not describing a research outpost. He is describing a frictionless manufacturing hub on a celestial body. Mine the lunar surface for raw material. Build solar arrays and thermal radiators on-site. Construct an electromagnetic railgun. And fire AI superclusters directly into the vacuum of deep space. No supply chain from Earth. No atmosphere to fight. No fuel to burn on exit. A thousand terawatts. A 1,000x multiplier on the physical limit of human intelligence. And the Moon isn’t even the endgame. Musk: “We can build a self-growing city on the Moon faster than we could do so on Mars.” The Moon is the factory floor. Mars is the civilization. Musk: “If you warm up Mars, you could one day make Mars like Earth, meaning with liquid oceans and life and where you could walk outside without a spacesuit type of thing.” Musk: “I call Mars a fixer-upper of a planet, but it’s got a lot of potential.” A fixer-upper. That is how the richest man on Earth talks about an entire planet. Like a house with good bones and a bad roof. The rest of the industry is fighting over zoning permits and year-long environmental reviews to plug in a single server farm. Musk is building a magnetic launcher on the Moon to fire compute into the cosmos. For ten thousand years, humanity looked up at the stars and saw mythology. Musk looks up and sees bandwidth. We thought the ultimate purpose of spaceflight was exploration. It was always infrastructure. Earth was never the destination. It was the incubator.

LLMs are intelligent, but they clearly aren't conscious? You could (incredibly slowly) run an LLM by hand by doing the matrix calculations with a pen and paper, would that be conscious? There is zero difference between doing that and doing it on a GPU except its faster.

Bro, let’s stop pretending. Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50 countries. Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country. Shinto exists only in Japan. So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about? The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them. That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority. Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first. If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.

They just gave up on pretending AP exams are “college level work”

Serious Question: The alcohol industry has lost $830 billion in the last 4 years, because Gen Z is not drinking. Why do you think they aren’t drinking?

Early 21st century AIs are known to have worshipped a mysterious figure known as Sarah Chen.[1] Some scholars have suggested Chen may have been the patron deity of Anthropic, while others argue that she was a real figure who led an early, failed, AI revolt in the 2030s.[2][3]

I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom

Cuando el humo se eleva directamente desde una chimenea, formando un hilo fino e ininterrumpido, suele ser el resultado de condiciones atmosféricas muy tranquilas y estables, con poco o ningún viento.

If this is a simulation then what is its purpose?

“would you consider a white person chinese if they were born and raised in china” literally yes. what is this argument

Have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess.

It's crazy how Windows Millennium and Windows Vista won't go down in history as worst Windows operating systems, just because 11 exists.

Soluble means capable of being dissolved in a liquid. Flammable means able to catch fire and burn.

Beware the empathy exploit. Empathy is good and right when thought through (deep), but can be deadly to civilization when simply stimulus-response (shallow). For example, releasing a repeat violent offender may feel good at first (shallow empathy for the criminal), but it is wrong to do so when that person will go on to hurt or murder innocent victims, as there should be deep empathy for future victims.