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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Ah yes, fusion. With the wealth of data we have from - checks notes - stars and bombs, the applied statistics machines will surely be able to extrapolate working fusion reactors.
Donāt know what we need Gates for. Surely an AI should be able to spout this bullshit?
i think that openai also wanted to solve their problems with fusion, but they got a step further, they made a startup for this. not normal nuclear power plant hot rock machine, no, they want tech that is perpetually Just A Decade Away. it makes some perverse sense if your funding is dependent on misguided hype only
Eh, thereās a chance that machine learning might help hereā¦ thereās some interesting stuff come out of that area of research, like radio antennae and rocket engines and so on, but Iād bet anything that a) no LLMs were involved and none ever will be, and b) āaiā only appears in marketing copy and funding pitches.
dunno about rockets, but antenna thingy works only because you can simulate performance of antenna very reliably, precisely and quickly. This data was fed back, random small changes were made, things that were an improvement passed to the next iteration. Not sure how this approach is called but none of it is LLM
āgenetic algorithmā - something I hadnāt previously seen branded as āAIā, but I guess Iām not surprised
yeah thatās it, forgot a word for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
that ST5 antenna looks like a low-poly two turn helical antenna, but how it looks like will be a function of design requirements
GAs went out of the limelight before the rest of the beaus of current āAIā branding came to be, suspect that might be part of it
(Another suspicion is that itās because theyāreā¦fairly observable, ito operation? So itās far less easily claimable that one of these has gained sentience, or all the other dumb bullshit that the cluster has spun in recent years)
Ugh, so many people are working the āAI will solve X problemā mill. I donāt need nor want AI to be there increasing output.
fusion research is just thinnest disguise for thermonuclear weapons research, especially the inertial confinement fusion variety