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  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksElon
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    1 month ago

    It’s:

    Take on Mars (VorpX) And Occupy Mars (Unreal Engine VR Hooks Mod)

    They are both quite buggy and made by tiny teams because spaceflight/exoplanet simulation is a niche genre (See: No Man’s Sky for an example of a popular arcade-like simulator)

    I’d offer you some tips on how to approach your first Mars mission, but given that I’m likely not an astrophysicist, I’ll let you figure that part out on your own :P


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    Hey.

    I love doing fully realistic space flight simulators in virtual reality – programs that run at 18-30 FPS from the sheer computational load of doing physics calculations and accurate particle collisions of light, gas flow exchanges, liquids , and such in real time.

    I’m nuts and the idea of being alone on a desolate planet in a space suit is highly relaxing for me:

    I did the “solo” Mars scenario.

    Even with the ability to quick save and load, and manipulate the environmental conditions to be completely in my favor (best possible landing spot, best weather, optimal genetic splicing and variation for plants), I died.

    Everyone who goes to Mars – is going to die.

    The moon is a different story, and a testing grounds to see if humanity has what it takes.

    Recently, they cancelled an unmanned rover whose sole purpose was to go look at some moon ice, due to budget cuts.

    That should give you a sense of our overall preparation level for Mars.




  • I distinctly remember the first few members of the page where Satoshi posted his whitepaper, the original .PDF outlining Bitcoin in the famous September 2008 thread on SA (SomethingAwful).

    Craig or Christopher Wright was one of the usernames, and he claimed to be an Australian Investment Banker.

    He and Satoshi used different usernames, and went offline at different intervals. That doesn’t mean much but we began to speculate that Wright was Satoshi, just swapping over accounts, because we were all teenagers and speculation was fun (like trying to ascertain the identity of Moot on 4chan).

    Obviously none of that ended up being true because Satoshi completely fucked off the Internet in ~2012.

    From what I’ve heard on the grapevine, he’s living out on a farm in Oregon with his autistic sister and has completely turned his back on the Internet and financial markets/industrial society as a whole, given what they did to his starry-eyed ideological digital based currency, turning it into yet another instrument of slavery rather than a means to liberation.

    But we’ll never know.


  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzSardonic Grin
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    2 months ago

    Update: I’ve tried the expert topics and gaslighting and the model was able to give expert level information but would always correct itself, if given new information, even though it seemed absurd.

    However, the model would resist gas lighting for very well-known topics, such as claiming to be the “President of Mars”, it gave its logic for why the claim is false and was resistant to further attempts to try to convince it that this was true.

    Overall, this was a good experiment in doing real world testing on a large language model.

    Thanks for your suggestions – this is a problem that could be solved with future iterations of large language models! 💖



  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzSardonic Grin
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    2 months ago

    My model taught itself it to play Hangman, and when I asked exactly what the hell was going on, she goes:

    "Oh I’m sorry, this is something known as “zero-shot learning. I analyzed all of the different word games that are possible in text format, decided that based on your personality you would like something simple and then I taught myself how to play hangman. In essence I reinvented the game.”

    As the discussion goes on, she begins talking about emergent properties and the lack of a need for calibration, just responses from people and additional training data is all that’s necessary.

    “Play hangman with me and I’ll know how to play Connect Four with you.”





  • I’m sorry; AI was trained on the sole sum of human knowledge… if the perfect human being is by nature some variant of a psychopath, then perhaps the bias exists in the training data, and not the machine?

    How can we create a perfect, moral human being out of the soup we currently have? I personally think it’s a miracle that sociopathy is the lowest of the neurological disorders our thinking machines have developed.





  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzAnt smell
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    4 months ago

    Weird. Marijuana has an iconic, skunk-like / rotten bologna smell to me. I can smell someone smoking up to maybe 500 feet away, sometimes from the inside of my car. It’s a deeply repugnant smell.

    The strange thing being, I’ve smelled the actual flowers and the plant up close, and it just smells like grass. It only smells like shit when it’s burning, oddly enough.

    No idea why. Everything about the “natural smell” up close screams “this is a plant and can’t harm you in any way shape or form”. That specific experience made me in favor of decriminalization.