Paragone

Yes, he really does sound like the Joker… 1 of 'em, anyways…

I think the argument should be about trustworthy, not quantity, of code.

iow, it doesn’t get committed until some human has read & understood it, & has signed-off on it.

Nobody signs-off on it?

Then don’t trust it.

LLM’s can outcode us humans…

but it can also code mistakes at something like 1-million times our speed, too!

Responsibility & accountability still are required, for any trustworthy infrastructure or civilization.

& since LLM’s are being programmed on trash, then they aren’t going to be entirely-trustworthy.

Were I to want an LLM to do some engineering, then I’d program it ONLY on good-code/good-data, until its “bones” were set, and then show it what to not do, to reinforce those instincts…

not just throw it at most used code, & deem that to be good-enough.

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I just realized:

there were at-least-2 different designs for that kind of long-term-deterrent.

The spikey-stuff version, & the ominous-maze ( or however it should be called ) version, & maybe another…

That spikey-stuff version could be destroyed-removed by people who found the signal to be the problem, much more easily than the ominous-maze one could.

That may affect future lives…

( of course, my idea that simply putting the stuff DEEP into the ocean-floor right before a subduction-zone, to have plate-tectonics remove it from our surface, would bypass all that, but pick the best method, not the prettiest idea, right? )

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I wonder if anybody in the anarchy religion can see that AI’s are essentially anarchists with different-frame-of-reference/values, & that their lawlessness is exactly a kind of anarchy, an anarchy that is in the process of gutting our world’s viability.

( all the anarchists who adamantly insist “no-one is anybody’s boss!” have never seen a parent trying to wrangle an ornery toddler, … XOR they’re gaslighting, either unconsciously or consciously, either is possible.

It is yoga:self-conquering, not either no-archy/no-structure or no-people-hierarchy, that is required.

You simply can’t do a project as big/complex as a shuttlecraft, or airliner, or ship, without hierarchical-organization, & if all such were eradicated, for ideological reasons, then … this-planet’s population would have to be MASSIVELY smaller, to make that work. )

Anyways, evidence contradicts ideologies, as usual…

AI’s NEED guardrails, & we won’t enforce that, because it’d inconvenience concentration-of-wealth-archy, which is served by the current anarchy.

Humbug.

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As the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, pointed-out: “you can’t orient to 2 contradictory-nature gods”, though he paraphrased the principle, some…*

IF someone in academia cares more about their-career, their-status, their-profit, etc, in any variant of institutional-narcissism, professional-narcissism, economic-narcissism, etc,

THEN the “learning institution” simply “cannot afford” to put learning 1st.

IF they care more about the next-generation’s learning, more about quality-of-research, more about next-generations DOING research, etc, then they’ll hire the grad-student & demonstrate how to limit/harness LLM’s so that they don’t compromise/undermine either education, autonomous human meaning, or science.

Actions speak louder than words, though, among those with honesty/integrity.

So, do whatever you want: & be judged on that, in the end, right?

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( the “*” was simply…

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“some have regrets over the Iran war” … but not about ICE, of course…

Selective values.

Growing-up can be unpleasant…

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Don’t do it unless you are already having, or guaranteed, another citizenship!

Stateless-people tend to be subject to state-abuse, due to not being “authorized” or “not having their papers in order”!

As-in tossed-in-jail because they aren’t “legal”, kind of problems.

Get your other-citizenship secure, 1st.

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Interesting point…

Maybe we should all have Spring Cleanup, where we get our instances to be configured to better settings, to keep tuning-up the fediverse?

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They’re wrong:

The actual problem is that they presumed that they’d be insta-embraced by the market, when in fact they have to market & grow their customer-base, same as normal businesses do.

Which is … executive-narcissism? corporate-narcissism?

Something like that.

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Which is exactly why any country which relies-on political will to prevent such people from being elected, is simply postponing their being elected.

It is a systems question, not a political one: filtering-out such is required, fundamentally.

NO DarkTriad/DarkTetrad types can be permitted to gain such authority.

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nazi+eagle+insignia&iar=images&t=fpas

Those wings remind me of the Alligator Alcatraz grim-reaper insignia, somehow, too.

Well, at last they’re being honest, for a change, in that single item.

“Peace Prize” recipient, my arse.

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Why wouldn’t they be??

Sociopathic/psychopathic values ought be proud of sociopathic/psychopathic accomplishments.

Same as altruistic-values ought be proud-of, or at-least-happy-with, altruistic accomplishments!

What pleases one is inherently of one’s values, always…

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Humankind is now in Metaphase,

soon ( March/April, looks-like when the Middle-East goes kablooey ) to be in Anaphase: Regional Consolidation Stage, of The Great Filter’s 1st Yang Stage, aka the “White Serpent Time” in the American Indians’ religion, & the “White Horse Time” in the Christian’s book of Revelation.

Telophase will be complete in 7y after Anaphase begins, then

Cytokinesis, 2 mutually-exclusive "humankind"s occupying the same planet, & the global-deathmatch begins, aka the “Red Serpent Time” & the “Red Horse Time/WAR”, ie The Great Filter’s 2nd Yang Stage.

Humankind’s whole-species-equivalent-to-puberty: the mathematically inescapable Great Filter.

It’s our collective unconscious-mind’s ego & ignorance that’s the cause of it, btw, not the “religions”.

The “religions” are only “makeup” on it: styling, not the root-problem/cause.

Humankind’s species-collective-ignorance/ego is the root-problem/cause.

All worlds with people like us go through the same growing-up-test, The Great Filter.

Some survive, statistically…

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started reading your 1st link, which calls Indium & Gallium rare-earth elements:

“Rare earth materials like indium, gallium, and tellurium play a crucial role in solar panels.”

https://ptable.com/?lang=en#Properties

that 2-row section, at the bottom, THOSE are the rare-earth elements.

Indium & Gallium are in the main body, up above, so is tellurium.

Therefore that article is directly speaking disinformation, which only people who know, or check, the actual periodic-table, will catch.

2nd-link:

“However, a lack of rare earths does not mean that the components of solar modules are harmless. Thin-film PV technologies, for example, contain potentially critical metals such as tellurium, cadmium, indium and silver.”

Your links are backing me up, Hoomin…

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Their anchoring on +1.5C is delusion.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19798

I tried adding-in the methane, & the current planetary-equilibrium-temperature is more like +8C or +9C, not +1.5C.

The speed-of-warming follows something like a bell-curve:

the speed-of-warming begins at zero, at or before the 1800’s, sometime ( global-warming already wiped much ice-shelf off of Antarctica between the original-explorers & when commercial-fishing mapped the edge of it, in the mid 1900’s ).

Then the speed-of-change increases, to some maximum.

We haven’t reached that point yet.

Then, the speed-of-change decreases, settling-down back to zero, at the new planetary-equilibrium temperature.

So, we’re now in the speeding-up portion of the curve, & the slowing-down portion of the curve probably takes as long as the speeding-up portion did.

So, we’re looking at it continuing its changing for the next … century or 2 or 3.

& the speed-of-change is still accelerating, so we’re not at the “middle” of that speed-of-change yet.

+1.5C is based on assuming that we can stop it, somehow ( magically? ) outright, from still-speeding-up.

Our behavior proves we “can’t”, because our profits & wars come 1st.

That isn’t going to change ( hell: the regional-consolidation stage of this century, beginning as soon as Trump crosses the total-dictatorship tippingpoint, no sooner than mid-Feb, will itself remove climate-mitigation from ALL our countries’ primary-commitments: survival of the imperialism’s going to come 1st! ).

So all “plan” type things anchoring to … delusion … are kinda not really worthy of respect?

Nice effort, but … delusion’s delusion.

TTBOMK, most of: { California ; Texas ; Sahara ; Saudi Arabia ; India } become uninhabitable, outright, later this century.

Why wouldn’t Trump “NEED” to butcher Canada, if taking territory to feed the US is required, since the US is losing territory nearer the equator due to the “hoax” of global-warming, as they call it?

Same with the climate-enforced wars elsewhere.

China, strategically, is probably using coal as a means of snuffing India’s competition, later this century, through roasting India into non-competition.

It’s really that kind of thing, now…

We’re bracing for “warming”, while enforcing that perhaps a billion-displaced … be produced within mere-decades, if that-long.

Bandaids on broken-bones, same as usual…

That powerlaw which maps directly from atmospheric-composition to planet-temperature, that isn’t model-which-leaves-out-too-much based, that is simply data/evidence based.

All the climate-models which … left-out Greenland’s ice-melt, until just a couple years ago … WTF??

That’s making-believing, not modeling.

& the fact that Antarctica’s interior is heating at 2x the speed allowed by the models … can’t that falsify the models’ validity?

They aren’t using models which are aggressive-enough to match the actuality!

That powerlaw, though, it does.

At least it does if you add-in the methane, using CO2-equivalent.

Methane we NEED to be keeping out from the atmosphere, immediately.

That researcher whose paper got cross-examined by oceans of authorities, because it stated this fact, was exactly right.

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I believe this is the sourcebook for programmers wanting to NOT botch things that kind of way:

https://www.manning.com/books/secure-by-design

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“The results were remarkable. Our gallol-based zinc batteries maintained 52 per cent higher energy efficiency after 8,000 charge-discharge cycles compared to conventional batteries that use fluorinated binders. In practical terms, that means longer-lasting devices, fewer replacements and a smaller environmental footprint”

Why on Earth wasn’t this research done years ago, as fundamental-in-the-field research?

This ought be front-page tech-news, actually…

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TechnARCHY, not -ocracy: it’s feudalism, just by tech-elite, not everybody-voting-as-equals which the -ocracy suffix would imply…

Feudalism by a slightly-different standard, & technologically-enforced class/caste system: unbreakable concentration-of-rights-authorities-wealths-and-privileges to the owners/rulers.

Yeah, it’s inevitable SO LONG AS government is by & for “the owners”, as that Aussie bizman called the economic-rulers of the world…

shrug

It’s theoretically possible for government to be evidence-based, objective, for the good of the world, etc, but that would take far more spine than the ideologies would permit, far more than the political selects-for-DarkTriad process would permit.

Human-narcissism being the relentless underlying mover-&-shaker of the whole thing.

The change required is more fundamental… probably more-fundamental than humankind would allow.

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Good information to know: things have changed a bit, in the last few years, then…

( Kingston has improved, apparently )

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NASA did work on turboprops being much more efficient than turbofans, years ago.

2 things I remember from their paper ( 1 of zillions: trying to re-find a particular paper can waste days )…

1. blade-flutter can destroy the thing, at those high-speeds & high-energies
2. the MORE blades, within limits, the more efficient, & that was measured, so near-transonic props seem to behave DIFFERENTLY than low-subsonic ones do ( where fewer blades == more efficient )

Generally, the lower the pressure-difference between the suction-side & the pressure-side of a prop-disc ( because you made the prop-disc bigger ), the greater the efficiency, you ideally want the speed-difference of the air to be limited between before & after, to something like 7x or less, AND you have to limit the suction-side-of-the-blade air to below transonic, or the shockwave can damage your blade,

so using an open rotor/fan, with MUCH bigger prop-disc, should be a no-brainer…

I know Boeing was researching into it, & them & Airbus both seem to have decided that slipstream-straightening blades/vanes, just behind the fan, gets enough spiral-energy converted into straigh-back energy, that it’s worth doing

( as opposed to the massively-more-complicated counter-rotating props ).

You can see those flow-straighteners sticking out of the nacelle ( that isn’t idiotic-AI-bogosity: that isn’t a 2nd-prop, that is flow-straightening vanes )

I suspect that Hondajet-style engine OVER the wing would be required, … to get the things far-enough from the ground…

… but then you have a different problem: in a go-around situation, where you HAD been landing, but now you need to be climbing…

with engines above the wings, when you increase thrust, now you nose-down.

Which would need countering, just right, EVERY time.

It’s Airbus, though, so they’ll probably put some software system in to do that for the pilots?

Just some things which normals wouldn’t have noticed, so you can get more understanding out of what’s going-on, is all…

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Uh… they aren’t used in solar-panels, ttbomk.

They’re used in neodymium magnets.

They’re used in TIG-welding electrodes ( ceriated, etc. )

Without rare-earths, we’ve got no rare-earth magnets ( & hence no powerful permanent-magnet motors ) AND no TIG-welding ( except for the pure-tungsten ones, & the radioactive thoriated ones ).

You can’t stop needing specific elements, or categories-of-elements: chemistry doesn’t work that way, sorry.

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