Now back to our regular programming, the Trump Show, Episode Fudging with Elections.

https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13544

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Of course, Einstein would have used AI. Using it does not mean outsourcing critical thought.

I think there is no way Einstein could have come up with his theories if he used AI to do his thinking.  AI summarises things well; but that means it only comes up with clichés.  It doesn’t do any original thinking, beyond su…[Read more]

Meanwhile, almost all of the all of the reactions I’ve seen have come in strongly loving it, including first time TW…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Occam’s Razor is not dead. It has been demoted. It is no longer the supreme judge of scientific truth as Nature may not owe us humans a simple explanation.

I would say that Nature is elegant but not necessarily simple.  I don’t believe the most simple explanation is the right one.

jakelafort wrote:
How about waiting for AI to be sophisticated enough that it can be divorced from ideological capture?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So an AI free of illogic or ideological capture is fantasy […]

I think what AI “will become” will be more of an issue someday, but not before “what AI will be used for” is more apparent. AI evolution…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Never mind Pope. After reading your line again i think you are indicating that the meaning has been watered down so that ambiguity is read into it rather than questioning its plain meaning and efficacy.

I wasn’t implying that, although that may not be inaccurate. SCOTUS itself has been watering down and resetting precedents on…[Read more]

(Maybe mentioning “Mush Brains” [sic] came close to hype, but that’s just me thinking of Trump as a mentally defective, parentally abused victim, but which the world would have been better…[Read more]

I greatly disliked the book title “A Universe from Nothing”, and didn’t even consider until your piece that OK, maybe the publisher pushed that name, not Krauss. Ah, Gemini AI says Krauss kept that title after his youtube video of a 2009 lecture…[Read more]

Last prediction I noticed was that chip prices will come down near beginning of 2027. More companies want to manufacture chips, especially with Taiwan at higher risk…[Read more]

1. Newly evolving brains added, among other fitness advantages, abilities to
   • Enhance awareness of self, and awareness of external conditions
   • Predict optimal behaviors in response
   • Execute predicted-optimal behaviors
2. Brains continued to evolve species-wide communications
   • Beyond mere chemical…

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jakelafort wrote:
This gal got slammed by lefties. It was sexual harassment she committed!

Yes, I use “woke” to mean “ludicrous decisions taken in the name of equality”.  Progressive, I like.  Woke is ridiculous.

I knew of a school in the Washington DC area.  Many of the Black kids used to come in with their hoods up.  The teachers, inc…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why Iran continues to choose war over peace.

Until then, the IRGC will pursue its “forever war,” threatening regional stability, the global economy, and U.S. national security.

I knew it – neither side wants to back down.  Trump doesn’t know how to cooperate, the IRGC just wants to keep doing its thing.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
‘World-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence.

That’s so cool! I visualized a way to explain fairly simply how AI can do this, treating DNA/RNA just like another language.

1) Via sheer computation, an LLM learns and documents patterns in a language, and can then predict which new patterns can be des…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Arian Playing Cards are great. Aryan ID Cards are not. Must always be bigger than the enemies of science, even if they don’t want to return the favor.

Correction and benevolence appreciated.

I lost sleep again, getting wind of even more horrible destruction in their cards by Thanksgiving or so.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Polititains with the power to endanger the health of their citizens should be the ultimate Null Set. Getting them out of office is the first aid and keeping them out of office is the prophylactic.

By the way. I made The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread for entertainment and leisure, so replies can be at leisure as…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
And carcinogenity is discovered by tests on rodents that notoriously don’t extrapolate well to humans.

Wouldn’t this be a great period in USA to run tests on the most anti-science politicians?

jakelafort wrote:
Perplexity has a misapplied word. Less. Should have been least. Does it simply copy paste?

The only place I see “less”, at least in Reg’s post, is in the word “tenseless”.

jakelafort wrote:
The free will and compatibilism was not very deep or convincing.

I admit to not being able to fathom the whole block universe concept, much…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Highly recommended.w

I like how it easily creates PDFs for any session. The PDFs (and other…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Presumably, the ionization and/or Carbon and/or Hydrophobic additives keep the Sodium from exploding, correct?

Yes, his explanation seems plausible to me.

I did some research on AI and learned that the statistics on dangerous incidents is as comprehensive as I expected, plus there’s a confounding delay of damage caused…[Read more]

Advancements and technical explanation (17-1/2 minute minus 70 second ad):

TheEncogitationer wrote:
It all revolves around Trump in some way or another, since it is his world. /Sarcasm

Maybe that’s what Sleepy Don is dreaming about. /smh

I don’t take the closed eyes as a problem as seriously as many do. The poor guy stays up until the wee hours on social media for us.

I am still trolling for fighter jet video…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
But that doesn’t make for lines or melodies you remember and hum or sing while in the shower, folding laundry, or preparing a meal.

Well, this “you” (i.e. I) like it, and it gave me an earworm. I just now looked for a reaction with a translation, and the first one I found is still new… only 72 comments so far, and if you feel s…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
What physics gets wrong about the idea of “fundamental”.

Yes, I think a model should be “thorough” as well as “fundamental”.  Some fundamental elements are not just individisible particles – they’re also structural factors, for example, that form the fabric of reality.  So, the fundamental constants of the unive…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Don’t honeybees tell each other (reporting information) where to find newly-discovered nectar-hunting grounds, which then send other bees (behavior) to exploit them?

Apparently, when a bee goes to a flower, it leaves sweaty footprints on the petals.  Another bee can come along and smell the footprints and determine how long ago th…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
1812 Governor Elbridge Gerry and a Boston district shaped like a mythological salamander

Whoa, nice factoid. I think I’ll remember this. I mean, I want to transmute enough brain cells to accomodate a more permanent memory. Salamandering, too? I always recall seeing districts with only a highway-wide corridor connecting…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
That was two years ago.

Yaeh, about 2-1/2 years ago was Pepsi Center, which was iconic. But you made me think, and I think my perspective’s different because about 95% of my TW experience is in watching reactors, especially first-time reactors. So I’m getting extra mileage on re-hearing their older stuff and seeing how amazed…[Read more]

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