L. polyphemus enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas

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Cake day: October 8th, 2023
  • o7___o7@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024English
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    1 day ago

    Isn’t it absolutely deranged? These people have (well had lol) real power over us.

    There is a great March 2023 episode of Trashfuture I’m listening to atm called “The Diet of Brainworms” about this book. They basically want to install feudalism and tech-priests because AI is sO pOwErFuLl.

    One of the hosts (Riley iirc) made a great point that it’s as if someone showed Kissenger that trick where you write “boobs” using a calculator, and he became deeply unsettled by the computer’s power of speech. Also appreciated the one about Kissenger being the guy who used an etch-a-sketch to draw a gun and was scared of it.

  • o7___o7@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•AI influencer bots: my sexy robot is just too hornyEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Marjorie now has a few hundred people (people who clearly can’t discern fantasy from reality in their emotional lives) who have become obsessed with her based on a fantasy…an avowedly uncomfortable, very horny fantasy that they’ve each invested thousands of dollars into. Surely that could have no possible pitfalls or dangers whatsoever.

    On the bright side, it isn’t like Marjorie interfered with a video game that they really like…oh, um…uh oh.

  • o7___o7@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Nvidia is being a bubble stock againEnglish
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    6 days ago

    These bubbles seem to be inflating and popping with shorter and shorter cycle times, as if the VC-fueled bullshit economy is bumbling toward some kind of ending. It reminds me of a supermassive star burning it’s way down the periodic table until its heart is chock full of iron.

    I’m probably just seeing patterns in the noise, but it’s a nice thought innit? no you’re right, it’ll probably blast the innocent bystanders, mostly.

    https://lco.global/spacebook/stars/high-mass-star/

    High mass stars go through a similar process to low mass stars in the beginning, except that it all happens much faster. They have a hydrogen fusion core, but much of the hydrogen fusion happens via the CNO cycle. After the hydrogen is exhausted, like low mass stars, a helium core with a hydrogen shell forms, then a carbon core, with helium and hydrogen shells. Then unlike low mass stars, they have enough mass that gravity contracts the core raising the temperature and carbon can fuse into neon, then neon into oxygen, then oxygen into silicon, then iron. Each stage of burning lasts a shorter time than the previous one. For example, in a 25 solar mass star, hydrogen burning would take about 7 × 106 years, helium burning 7 × 105 years, carbon burning 600 years, neon burning 1 year, oxygen burning 6 months and silicon burning one day. Once silicon has fused into iron, no more fusion occurs, as the fusion of iron requires more energy than it releases. The core therefore collapses and releases a huge amount of energy in an explosion called a supernova. In the centre of the debris from the explosion is an incredibly dense neutron star. If the star is massive enough, the neutron star will collapse further and form a black hole.