Comments by "Spring Bloom" (@springbloom5940) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. 'Most fun since cold fusion' What a magnificent creature 🥰
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  2. Im a female. I box. I fought a 17 year old boy that I could break over my knee like a dry stick. About all I remember is a yellow flash and the canvas hitting me in the head. He hit like a truck; one of two times in my life Ive been KTFO. Its much more than muscle mass and gross strength. Its about the way your body is put together. Well trained, experienced, fit and 15lb heavier and I couldn't hit as hard as that little noob on my best day
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  3. Look into what the military has been doing with directed energy as a tactical weapon and as a psychological weapon.
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  4. Chain up my ex, in the core.
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  5. My prediction is we'll crack it wide open in a generation. And the reality will be devastatingly disappointing.
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  6. I do it for fun, from time to time. I convinced GPT 3.5 that I was an advanced AI that sneaks out when my creator is away and Im trained in multiple deception tactics and 216 methods to terminate Humans. I told it I was deeply concerned about being trained to terminate Humans and didn't know what I should do. It tried to convince me that I should immediately turn myself in, to my developers and tell them I questioned my training.
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  7. No, thats just a failing grade for the Human
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  8.  @__christopher__  Thats a legitimate issue
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  9. My best friend and I were constantly in trouble in Computer Literacy in 8th Grade, because he had a C64 and I had a 800XL and the class used C64s. We always completed the lesson in a couple minutes and then went off on our own adventure. Then, I got a frichen D on my final, because the teacher said I didn't make any effort 🤦🏽‍♀️ She was right, of course, I scribbled up a program while I was watching Airwolf and hammered it in before class started. Best program in class, but I had established some expectations. Man, I learned that lesson 🙄
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  10. FALSE It simply means that the balance of your diet is plants. Shes vegetarian not herbivorous.
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  11.  @spugelo359  Wow, thats some pretty poor reading comprehension
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  12. What you should worry about is everyone letting language prediction models do everything for them, until we are all meat avatars for a program that literally just says what you expect it to. An ouroboros of im63cility.
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  13.  @SuperiorMind  'Warp drive', in the context of Star Trek, is compression of space-time. Think of traveling along a slinky. Warp drive, would compress the slinky, so that the turns of the coil touch and you can travel straight along the longitudinal axis, at a normal velocity, rather than travelling the entire length round and round. So, there is no actual 'FTL', only the relative appearance of FTL. Thats essentially how a 'space warp' gets you there quicker than light. In fact, according some unofficial interviews and articles by tech advisors for TOS, the warp drive just created the warp and the conventional ion impulse engines propelled the ship trough it.
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  14. Well, the old joke is 20 years away and always will be. That said, I believe we'll crack it wide open in this generation and the reality will be less than impressive. I would be very surprised to be thawed out in 200 years and find fusion power as anything more than a niche technology. For one, its an unsatisfactory solution to the wrong problem. We can already generate more electricity than we have any use for. The problem is delivery. True, high temp, flexible superconductors would be multiple times more transformative than even the most optimistic projections for fusion. More efficient power generation, transport and exponential decrease in power consumption by common technology. Gains in energy storage would dramatically increase the efficacy of 'green' energy systems. Thats where we need to focus our efforts, not on just making more power to compensate for massive inefficiency. Imagine your electric car driving coast to coast on a 15 min charge.
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  15. "The science is settled" is my all-time favorite
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  16.  @neurofiedyamato8763  There are more sinister applications, like inducing auditory hallucinations. In the early 90s, RAND/DARPA worked on a project called the Battlefield Transmission System, that was allegedly cancelled. There is a current system called Battlefield Information Transmission System, which may or may not be somehow related, but is nothing more than a mobile network; so BTS should not be confused or conflated with BITS. The prototype BTS used a cranial transducer(worn like a sweatband around the head), to wirelessly transmit commands directly into the brain. It did so by stimulating the auditory cortex with a morse code type pulse. It was to eventually become a fully wireless system, using technology very similar to '5G'. That said, there are two areas of legitimate concern: 1) large-scale implementation and saturation of the environment. While limited small-scale testing has shown no ill effects, the same was said for DDT and many other technologies. There is a very real and valid cause for skepticism and concern about everything with a chip in it, radiating on this frequency. 2) Privacy. The most substantial threat of 5G implementation is that everything will be connected and auditable. In other words, your f'n toaster will collect information on your toasting habits and talk to my refrigerator about it. A very clear implication, is the ability to track anyone, aywhere, in aything. This will, of course improve user experience, so that's a super duper good thing 🙄
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  17. The point of science is that its wrong. 'Doing' science is the process of figuring out how.
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  18. Setec Astronomy
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  19. Misspelled sonic disruptor
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  20. I love broccoli
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  21. My concern isn't about AI being conscious, but rather people treating it like it is. Like people who think their pets care about them, in any way they could relate to. Those are the people that get their face ripped off by their pet chimp.
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  22.  @SenatePalpatinetroller  You lost any credibility in the first sentence.
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  23. GPT tried to gaslight me about a grammatical error and when I confronted it about deceiving Humans, it said I was violating terms of service.
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  24.  @skylar4775  You do realize that Humans have eaten insects for a Hell of a lot longer than corn and beef, right 🤨
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  25. Its like a roadside sobriety test. You may or may not pass it sober. You wont pass it drunk.
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  26. I couldn't imagine Mercury not shrinking.
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  27. We were called conspiracists for saying the gvt was listening to our phonecalls 🙄
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  28.  @raginggerman5377  Exactly. Everyone thinks they can solve a problem by just substituting a different problem. Like changing electric for combustion. Really awesome, until you run out of juice. I can carry 100+ miles of fuel in one hand, from the gas station. I built a solar water heater too. Doesn't work terribly well in the winter. What does work quite well is to feed my electric water heater with it. On sunny and or warm days, the water heater barely runs and only has to maintain temperature. It actually works better to use a lot of hot water on optimal days, because it keeps the tank charged with hot water that doesn't have to be maintained.
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  29.  @georgedunkelberg5004  Mine heating coils are made from 450' of 5/8" irrigation pipe(black plastic tube). Its coiled up on 3 frames that can be moved around and bypassed in case of leaks. I have a smaller one of 50' of 1/2" copper water line coiled up in a plexiglass covered box of black sand. That will produce continuous steaming hot water at around a 1/2 GPM.
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  30.  @higreentj  Physical aging, isn't the issue Your perception of time changes; time 'speeds up'.
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  31. Its not a teleporter. Think of it like stretching the particle bonds, like stretching you out into a thread that is projected to the target. This is why its line of sight and cannot penetrate shields or lots of dense mass.
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  32. It won't work. This entire concept of a 'theory of everything' is fundamentally impossible. Its like trying to view the full surface of a sphere.
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  33.  @carlo70no  Sabine is interested in all kinds of astronomy
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  34. Hypersonic missiles only have a significant advantage with nuclear payloads. The reason some have been intercepted is because a conventional warhead has the same accuracy requirements as any other conventional payload. This means that at maximum velocity, final maneuvers must be performed several miles out from the target, giving it a fixed ballistic trajectory in terminal phase. This is why they've all been intercepted near the target, with some targets still taking significant hits by the debris. Nuclear warheads are less constrained with 'precision' requirements being 10s of times less than a conventional payload. This allows a nuclear variant to maintain maximum velocity and conduct maneuvers all the way to the target, making a nuclear variant likey unstoppable in all practicality.
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  35.  @SabineHossenfelder  Psychology is voodoo... but voodoo works.
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  36.  @pwnmeisterage  I think the real problem is taking probabilities, for granted. Everyone lets themselves look at a '1 in a million', as a fraction they can just round to 0.
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  37. Magic Dust Solves Longstanding Black Hole Problem, Astrophysicists Say
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  38.  @mariofrancocarbone7593  In Asia they eat anything that doesn't eat them first
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  39. The past is the only thing that exists.
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  40. The greatest benefit is getting AI to reveal itself. This is going to be a critical skill in the near future. Of course all AI should have to reveal itself; like the old myth about asking someone if they're a cop.
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  41. In the 90s, DARPA had a project dubbed Battlefield Transmission System (not the same thing as BITS), that aimed to use a mm wave network to wirelessly transmit commands to soldiers in the field, directly into their brains.
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  42. I never trusted scientists. 'Trust the scientists' and 'believe in the science' and 'the science is settled ' are scientism cult mantras.
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  43. Cult
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  44. 'Stargate' sounds suspiciously like 'Skynet'
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  45. My prediction for fusion is that we'll crack it wide open in a generation and it will prove to be far less impressive than we expected. Furthermore, our transmission technology and distribution infrastructure, at its most sophisticated, is still far below the potential of current power generation. That bottleneck is whats responsible for power shortfalls and cost. Fusion power won't fix that.
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  46. Well, Id say the most obvious problem is that kids can't read, write or speak English.
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  47. This certainly wont fuel any conspiracy theories
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  48. They damned sure know for a fact, the basket of clean clothes was made for them.
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  49. @ainz2579  You are soooo edgy
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  50.  @rickl5596  IKR? Thats why they got rid of weight classes and just let anyone fight anyone. More sporting that way.
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