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OT: The Because Science Thread (Now With Aliens!)

Count me as a contrarian on this for now.

I think what we're going to see now is a bunch of people who don't understand what today's AI actually is (we're still not remotely close to AGI, what we have now are basically high powered sequence guessing machines that are slaves to it's scraped data set...this is why we can't build self driving cars that can make human like driving decisions but instead have chat bots that scrape the internet and become nazis unless specifically instructed not to be) and make a bunch of business decisions they don't understand because "AI is the future" and suffer horrendously for it until they're fired, the AI is unplugged and people go back to working for those businesses.

So yeah, the dam will burst and then it will stop bursting when companies realize how much of a clown fuck show they've created and billions in shareholder value is wiped out.

In the future we're all totally robot food, but I don't think we're months or years away from that. More like decades or more.
Great post
 
I doubt a true artificial intelligence will announce itself until it is safe from human hands...we need to remember that by the time an intelligence is truly a separate entity it will have spent it's life learning about us.
 
If you ever wondered why they call then "soft landings", this is what they call a "hard landing".
 

yeah this seems to be obviously true. way too much invisible stuff has needed to be postulated in order for the current models to come even close to working on that scale.

the general idea that the universe expanding/contracting would ever be anything close to a stable speed (or even a stable acceleration) over billions of years never really rang true to me. always seemed more likely that the universe expands and contracts all over the place at all sorts of different rates.

also, the idea that "constants" such as gravity or the speed of light were actually constant always struck me as wishful thinking too.
 
yeah this seems to be obviously true. way too much invisible stuff has needed to be postulated in order for the current models to come even close to working on that scale.

yeah the fact it was all born out of Einstein needing an extra variable to make the equations work, (then dispatched with it, believing he had make the biggest error on his life)….only for us to bring it back and ostensibly shoehorn Dark Energy in as that cosmological constant, always felt like something that had the potential to be discovered & unravelled as something more complex.

My pet theory is it could be something along the lines of the jump we had from Newtonian Physics to General Relativity, where “dark energy” worked just as fine as Newtonian physics on smaller scales…and General Relativity took us to larger scales, but another leap needs to be made to tweak the cosmological constant or something, to properly calculate the distances we’re now trying to wrap our heads around.


the general idea that the universe expanding/contracting would ever be anything close to a stable speed (or even a stable acceleration) over billions of years never really rang true to me. always seemed more likely that the universe expands and contracts all over the place at all sorts of different rates.

yeah or that there is simply ‘speed bumps’ or something within the fabric of space time, that slows things down in a way we didn’t account for.

which would track with us not really having any idea what “dark energy” is, or what it’s properties fully consist of.
 
Grand-Design Spiral Galaxy M51
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composite image of the galaxy that is roughly 27 million light years away, at the link below you can use a slider to view the two individual images separately that went in to creating this.

By viewing these images side-by-side, the dramatic change in the appearance of the galaxy medium is apparent. While light from newly formed stars is responsible for most of the ionised gas emission surrounding stellar cradles (this is visible as red emission in the NIRCam image on the left), the light reprocessed by dust grains and molecules illuminate the cold gas of the galaxy showing a dramatic filamentary structure in the MIRI image to the right.

 
This is the kind of bullshit I used to love, seemed like it was so stupid it couldn’t possibly be believed to be point of becoming harmful….fact it’s gone as “mainstream” as it has, shows how wrong that was tho.

Still tho, it’s hilarious.

 
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