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Of course not. However, Wikipedia can always improve its material, but there's a point beyond which LLM output will not get better.

That's not entirely accurate. It is not "because of bureaucracy". We note that SpaceX has become known for "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of their equipment. No loss of life, but during development, they have a tendency of blowing up, crashing while trying to land, and so forth. As a...

Maybe? If you haven't noticed, taking action ahead of time is not our forte.

So, in the news - Anthropic leaked its AI source code. They've sent out some 8000 cease and desist notices over unauthorized copies. Ironic, that. But, there may be an "unclean hands" defense - you often can't sue someone for an act that you are committing yourself.

Except already back in September, OpenAI admitted that generative AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable. They are a result of the fundamental math of how the thing operates, and cannot be removed by improving engineering...

Yeah, and we drive on parkways and park in driveways. We're just pants-on-head crazy like that.

Halfway there

Yes, there are. Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and flourinated gases are the main culprits we can put out. While some of them are pound-for-pound worse than CO2, we'd have to work at it to make the others in quantity enough to be a bigger problem than our current CO2...

Nope, it was literal. Because for anything else, we get into loss to space, which can be substantial. Well, mostly. Picayune aside: Some chemicals we produce, and changes we make, effectively store energy for much longer than a hundred years. Some plastics, for example, don't oxidize on...

It is not a veiled threat. It is, in fact, what we do in moderation. Like, we even have a specific "Junior Modding" warning point we can give out. Really. If you (generic, not personal) tell people what to post, they frequently don't like it - enough that it frequently starts fights. It was...

I mean, if you don't want to look in the mirror, that's your choice. I mean, historically, folks have gotten moderated and threadbanned for that behavior, so... You choose your own risks.

So, here's where we note: we are all dead long before the oceans boil anyway. We show that heating is a bit ludicrous to get people back to something slightly more practical. But, since we are here. Humans sweat to control our internal temperature. Humans stop being able to live...

Ew, no. Misses the point. I mean, this is where this cartoon model breaks down. This analysis assumes every scrap of energy we produce goes into the ocean as heat. We aren't spending any energy on expanding our energy production capacity. Actually, our assumption is that we aren't spending...

I was quoting memory before. Let me do some math. Working to order of magnitude, I get... I find other sources listing world energy consumption in 2023 as being 620 Exajoules (17 x10^4 Twh), so 6.20x10^20 J/year. (That's Primary, rather than Final, consumption, but whatever.) Ocean volume...

Discussion opposite the original question still is talking about the same topic, just in the other direction. You can still learn about people's ideas on the topic from that. As opposed to, say, a complete side conversation about thread etiquette, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the...