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- Comment on wat 6 days ago:
Yeah that’s the boring answer, it would just break apart. But even without physical limitations, mass has the property that it can’t be accelerared past c with a finite amount of energy, and I think it’s interesting to see why that limit is more fundamental than the structure of matter. No matter how you mess with forces using simple machines, the energy calculations always come out the same.
- Comment on wat 6 days ago:
Why does it matter how long it takes for the torque to travel down the stick? The question was about the speed of the tip in the orbital direction, not the speed of the wave in the radial direction outward.
- Comment on wat 6 days ago:
First question: two reasons that wouldn’t work: the stick would just break, obviously, but if it was a super duper stick, the torque required to accelerate the end past the speed of light is directly related to how long the stick is, so any increase in speed from a longer stick will be offset by the need to apply more force at your end. Therefore the energy required to flick a stick to the speed of light does not depend on the length of the stick, you are simply creating a reverse lever of sorts. It’s still an infinite energy requirement, assuming the stick has mass.
The second question is a lot easier. The light is traveling directly away from you at all times, there is no sideways motion.
- Comment on This figure illustration from an article on AI sycophancy and human behavior is the epitome of 2026 1 week ago:
That’s the word you found offensive? Not their ablist slur, or my intimating about their love life? Or even bullshit? How is asshole worse than bullshit? Where do you think bullshit comes from?
- Comment on This figure illustration from an article on AI sycophancy and human behavior is the epitome of 2026 1 week ago:
Good day sir! Well slopped!
- Comment on This figure illustration from an article on AI sycophancy and human behavior is the epitome of 2026 1 week ago:
I don’t give a fuck if it’s deliberate. I think it is, and the article gives good reason to believe this is a choice by tech corpos to boost engagement, but I also don’t think it matters really why they are being harmful.
- Comment on This figure illustration from an article on AI sycophancy and human behavior is the epitome of 2026 1 week ago:
Hey asshole, this isn’t an unanswered question. At least click the link before jumping to your gf’s defense:
Here, we show that sycophancy is widespread in leading AI systems and has harmful effects on users’ social judgments.
- Comment on This figure illustration from an article on AI sycophancy and human behavior is the epitome of 2026 1 week ago:
This is a whataboutism. In the same way that I view nicotine, gambling, alcohol companies as wrong to try to trigger existing neuroses in their customers with their ads, ai companies are unethical for their role in triggering antisocial behavior, and even promoting it, in their users. “What about psychotic people” isn’t a valid defense of llms.
- Comment on How social medias are reacting to the hantavirus 3 weeks ago:
Stockpiling memes, just in case
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 weeks ago:
Pounds is force, newtons is also force. You even converted it correctly; you wouldn’t be able to do that with like grams or any other mass unit. The only reason we use pounds and mass interchangeably is that we all experience pretty similar gravity all over the world, so a certain mass will generally exert the same amount of force regardless where it is on the Earth’s surface or what it’s made of.
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 3 months ago:
In case you missed it, these are people who knew Epstein was an unrepentant child molester. Epstein was proven guilty in court, made no statements of remorse, and these scientists continued to validate and support his behavior for years after, up until his death. If he had accepted responsibility for his crimes, I would feel differently about people who decide to associate with him while he spent the rest of his life in prison. But I doubt these scientists would have. The reason they liked Jeffrey was because he got away with everything. They admired his ability to rape on an industrial scale without consequences.
Nobody should ever be guilty by association. However, nobody is entitled to be a respected dino scientist. That is something you earn, and I see no reason not to include their feelings about child rape when discussing whether most attendees would feel comfortable with them at a conference.
- Comment on Tune a fish 3 months ago:
That’s not true, the eggs in mayonnaise are usually pealed first.
- Comment on the moon is hollow and rings like a bell 3 months ago:
Things do not ‘become’ true. The truth is always unchanging. We get clearer pictures of it, or it becomes more commonly accepted, but mainstream media attention did nothing to affect or create the truths of these matters.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 4 months ago:
I don’t think he waited. The entire ICE hiring spree and deployment strategy seems to be designed to cause conflict with civilians. The officer involved was violent in the past already and rewarded for it instead of punished. The idea is to put unprepared people in unfamiliar territory with loaded weapons and tell them that everyone else is out to kill them. This has been an ongoing attempt to cause violence, since Jan 20th, that is only now becoming impossible to ignore. I don’t think there has been any sharp escalation, there have been plenty of ICE murders all throughout last year. It has been getting more violent over time, and will continue throughout the next year at the very least.
- Comment on Not impressed 6 months ago:
Aristotle thought bugs and fish and birds are all animals. I literally don’t know any classification system, or definition, that doesn’t.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
One could say I gave you what you Watt-ed.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Splitting a heavy U-235 atom, given perfect conversion to electricity, could power a 1 Watt nightlight for around 7.5x10^-13 seconds
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 7 months ago:
Yeah exactly, even if a word or two is unclassifiable, an entire sentence might contain enough info to still be useable.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 7 months ago:
This is actually beyond the capabilities of AI classification systems currently. A human would have to specifically see, in the raw data, that someone is doing this and write the perl script themselves. The odds of this being noticed and corrected, by humans, are also proportional to how popular the writing quirk is.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 7 months ago:
I have no idea if it’s effective, but they mean anti-AI as in fighting against classification of their data. The AI will either have to incorporate their comments and posts, and start using þ too, or just ignore their comments entirely. Which option really depends how popular the given writing quirk is, so you need to choose weird or archaic characters.
- Comment on This is real 7 months ago:
Compared to rent, maintenance is basically free, typically about 1-2%. If we think that cost would double, for some reason, by adding another person, it still wouldn’t be that much. But it’s ridiculous to think that would even be the case, given that a sizeable portion of maintenance is not related to tenants at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I can’t help but wonder if your son is shy about his relationship or maybe he has some fear about talking about it with you. It sounds like things are more serious between them than he’s telling you. It’s not impossible to make new friends as a high school junior, but the way it is described it sounds more likely they are romantically involved, and in that case, expensive gifts aren’t very strange for someone in an upper middle class family.
- Comment on Boss Mode 1 year ago:
That’s awesome, and I totally agree. Everyone already intuitively knows that waves carry energy. We’ve all heard of tsunamis and earthquakes. The only difference on the quantum scale is that the amount of energy transferred is discretized.
- Comment on Boss Mode 1 year ago:
Light is generally better modeled by a wave, so I would say the wave doesn’t experience time. Photons are the smallest unit of energy that can be transferred between a light wave and a different particle. They have momentum and direction, but they don’t really travel exactly. They just mediate the force between light waves and matter.
Worded differently, a fermion (massive particle) within an electromagnetic (light) wave with a frequency of f may absorb some multiple of h x f joules of energy, where h is a very small constant. There is no way for the wave to transfer less than hf joules to the particle at a time. There is no need to think of photons as anything other than the smallest possible quantization of the electromagnetic wave rather than a particle of light. There’s no need to think of it existing for any amount of time or space.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s a reference to cocaine use: www.addictioncenter.com/…/drug-alcohol-slang/