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Ah, then the answer is incomplete! What happens on Mars with all of that water? Does it freeze solid in an immense incrementally collapsing mountain of ice? Does it heat the surface sufficiently to remain liquid, eventually covering the entire surface — except, perhaps, one very tall extinct...

I’ve heard mostly of cases of professionals misusing AI, where the professional was due chastisement for their clumsy use of it along with creating sub-par output. The most prominent that I’ve read about have been lawyers using generative AI and submitting un-validated information. The other...

While there have been dramatic improvements in the energy cost of cryptocurrency related computation, I’m not sure crypto is a good direction to go: An answer provided by google: TomB

Hmm, I was under the impression that the underlying software was open. Or at least widely known. The current major cost is in training the models, which has become horribly expensive computationally, which translates directly into an energy cost. “Sam Altman stated that the cost of training...

Eh, can you support this? (“I did not hear artists speaking up from them”, which I presume you mean “Artists did not speak up for them.”). My presumption is mostly the opposite. I wonder how many Appalachian folk songs are about mining life. Also, there are many categories of work which has...

To be clear — arguing that people and computers “think” differently is not the same as arguing that computers can or cannot achieve consciousness, either in practice or in principle. I believe the first (computers think differently) but not the second (I believe that computers can achieve...

Looking further, I’m finding evidence for contrary legal opinions on whether data mining is fair use. My conclusion is that “data mining is fair use” is a position of some, including, unsurprisingly, companies that use data mining for AI training. For example: TomB Edit: The following seems...

I’m not finding the Quang paper convincing: Essential steps are simple declared to be true. For example: Bold added by me. This is the heart of the analysis, and it cannot simply be declared to be true. TomB

There are ongoing programs to simulate neural activity. See: Simulations. As I understand it, these simulations are for research purposes: Figuring out how brains actually work. They don't seem anywhere close to being used as AI platforms. TomB

Can we split this into separate issues? * AI will likely have profound impacts, regardless of how it works or how it is trained. * Those creating AI models seem to be doing so by unfair use of protected works. * There are questions of how similar (or different) the way that AIs work in...

There is a lot here to unpack, and much of it doesn't fit in the current thread. Most certainly, people do a lot of imagining of what other people are thinking. Often, they have a good sense of this. Also, often, they get a lot wrong. There seems to be a lot of this going on when people...

Responding to just the above point. A person reading an article, or looking at a painting, or listening to music, is not the same as software doing a similar thing: * Software generally has the ability to retain much more detail than a person. * I am not a lawyer, but I suspect: That a...

See also this thread: https://www.enworld.org/threads/did-the-ads-recently-change-on-this-site-new-pop-ups.702242/ Thanks! TomB

I'm imagining that the production cycle takes a lot longer for miniatures than it does for books. Maybe, miniatures are approved (and their cycle starts) only after the corresponding book has reached late into the book's cycle. Or, as hinted previously, miniatures aren't approved until a book...

Maybe a semantic problem here? The CONDITION of radiation poisoning is not contagious. However -- *) Chromosomal damage may be inherited, depending on what types of cells are damaged. *) The cause of radiation poisoning may remain on a person who was poisoned. Other persons can be poisoned...

From what I saw in the page source, the ads should be very very easy to block. XML has transformation tools which could quickly and simply remove the ads as they are currently implemented. The problems, really, are figuring out how to run the transformation on each page, and the possibility...

I was thinking more that water that is minimally radioactive and not immediately harmful may be quite harmful over a longer term due to ingestion. The immediate harm might be quite negligible. Being immersed in water but immediately rinsing it off is one category of exposure. Drinking water...

My understanding was that (1) cleaning up all contaminants is very hard, and (2) much smaller amounts are harmful. I’m going from memory on what he said, so I’m probably missing some details. The source was a scientist who studied environmental contamination, whom I thought was very...

I was told by a chemist friend that what was most dangerous was sources of ionizing radiation, which, if taken in, for example, through ingestion or inhalation, would often be sequestered in the body close to sensitive areas. That suggests that the situation for a diver might be much worse —...

For what it's worth: The sequences where she explores the dragon's caverns are great! Minor nit re: catching one's self while falling (and surviving the initial fall), but that's Hollywood physics for you; I don't hold it too much against the film. From a dramatic perspective, more subtle...