While this is clearly popular, I can definitely see why Wonka Pharmaceuticals decided to work on an oral formulation before bringing it to market.

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago

No, there's an actual paper where that term originated that goes into great deal explaining what it means and what it applies to. It answers those questions and addresses potential objections people might respond with.

There's no need for--and, frankly, nothing interesting about--"but, what is truth, really?" vibes-based takes on the term.

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 months ago

Environmentalists are fond of saying that “There is no second Earth“. They are wrong! Here’s why: 

There is an entire second Earth right here on Earth.

Second Earth is a waterworld. It’s the vast Pacific Ocean that covers half the planet.

Well, he's a little fuzzy on the concepts of halves and wholes, but let's hear him out on colossal geoengineering projects.

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 4 months ago

American Rounds

What, was the Circus of Values brand too expensive to license?

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 4 months ago

I conclude that scheming is a disturbingly plausible outcome of using baseline machine learning methods to train goal-directed AIs sophisticated enough to scheme (my subjective probability on such an outcome, given these conditions, is ~25%).

Out: vibes and guesswork

In: "subjective probability"

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 5 months ago

lmao, Zoom is cooked. Their CEO has no idea how LLMs work or why they aren't fit for purpose, but he's 100% certain someone else will somehow solve this problem:

So is the AI model hallucination problem down there in the stack, or are you investing in making sure that the rate of hallucinations goes down?

I think solving the AI hallucination problem — I think that’ll be fixed. 

But I guess my question is by who? Is it by you, or is it somewhere down the stack?

It’s someone down the stack. 

Okay.

I think either from the chip level or from the LLM itself.

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 5 months ago

OpenAI: "Our AI is so powerful it's an existential threat to humanity if we don't solve the alignment issue!"

Also OpenAI: "We can devote maybe 20% of our resources to solving this, tops. We need the rest for parlor tricks and cluttering search results."

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Orbital stratagem timings make no sense, and are strictly a gameplay balance issue that *cannot* be realistic: the loading screen shows the first helldiver drops well outside the atmosphere and take several minutes to reach the ground, but turrets take 3 seconds to deploy?

I assumed this was because equipment can endure acceleration that would make a person pass out, or at least be combat-ineffective on landing. A trip from the Karman line to the ground in a few seconds would involve some deeply unpleasant G-forces...in opposite directions, back-to-back.

Come to think of it, this might explain why different gear has different call down times, as more fragile stuff might require a slower and (relatively) gentler drop.

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'll preface this by noting that the sin of sloth has traditionally been understood to be a sin of omission, not just commission, i.e., you are insufficiently devoted to the things you ought to be.

Which means you could, in theory, have a (reflavored tiefling) devil paladin so devoted to sloth he works against evil causes. He's not interested in good per se, it's just that advancing the interests of good and traveling with a good adventuring party has the best ROI for failing to carry out his evil responsibilities.

Naturally, this has caused a fair amount of controversy among sloth devils, and there is a multi-century trial going on in the Hells about whether this ought to be allowed. This is not expected to be resolved in the foreseeable future because the advocates for both parties keep filing their responses well after petition deadlines expire.

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 7 months ago

Oh, he must have grabbed one of the barrage gunner helmets by mistake.

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago

"If you think about the major journeys within a restaurant that can be AI-powered, we believe it’s endless."

My dude, you work for Yum Brands, not Starfleet Command. Nobody taking a "major journey" inside a Pizza Hut needed AI help to get there. (Though they could probably use a cup of water, and maybe an Uber home.)

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 7 months ago

Nice, I wonder if this thing can help fill out my restaurant/tissue bank paperwork now.

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