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Maybe the post itself has gone but not the title, for some reason.

The currently still visible “Kraken” spam post in the Maths section is a case in point. For some odd reason it’s still there after the cleanup, but one does not have permission to view it. Weird.

What? Again? Didn’t we have another of these dates just a few years ago? They pop up periodically, making a new crowd of idiots feel sheepish each time. But when you say “many” American evangelicals left their jobs and sold their possessions, how many? Not more than a couple of hundred surely?

Yeah but only by Avi "Frontal" Loeb, who has notorious form for this sort of thing.

To add a bit to @swansont ’s reply, both ships dissipate (as heat) energy at the same rate, due to the motion of their hulls relative to the water. . However in the case of the moored ship this energy comes from the current.

Well it certainly has bugger all to do with AI development. 😁

Energy of radiation, say, can be converted to the rest mass of constituents of matter, certainly. But energy on its own is meaningless.

"framework". That F word, again.

This is hopeless.

What are you are on about? What is the "Academy of Science"? Where do Galileo, Semmelweis and Tesla come into it? And what is the parallel you think you see? Stop speaking in riddles.

Why are you quoting from the Book of Lamentations (vv. 1-4) in the Old Testament (Authorised Version)? This is about the Babylonian Captivity, the period when the Jews were exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. What relevance does this have to the thread topic, or to Galileo, Semmelweis or - help us - Tesla? Or is this just random botshit from your beloved Jyoti?🤪

My understanding is that the primordial nucleosynthesis involved chiefly a plasma of electrons, positrons and γ-ray photons, i.e. radiation. It makes no sense to speak of energy as if it's a free-standing entity. Elementary particles and radiation are physical entities however. As for E=mc², that simply says that energy is associated with mass. Both mass and energy are properties of some physical system or entity. You can't have a jug of mass, nor can you have a jug of energy. So when you speak of either you need to say what system or entity they are properties of.

You need to state what each of these quantities is. The speed of light does not seem to appear anywhere in this expression, by the way.

Yes I also wondered about this. I suppose the downsides are another - and time-sensitive - task for administrators, plus a higher hurdle to join, which might put off the casual newbies that a site like this may feel it needs to attract to remain vibrant. Short of that I would think a kill switch that temporarily prevents any new joiners, which could be deployed for say 24-48hrs when a spam attack starts, might help.

Nobody says LLMs produce exclusively slop, nor do they assert there will be no improvement in their quality. The scepticism from people like me arises from firstly the hype around them and secondly the demonstrably baleful effect they currently have on unsuspecting people* and on social media. The Financial Times reported this week the results of a survey they did of business take-up of AI. Turns out that although businesses trumpet their take-up, almost none of them can point to any resulting improvements in their business. So it looks as if they are doing it due to FOMO (fear of missing out) rather than because of any real, substantial application. They are behaving like sheep and following the trend, in other words. The Sam Alt-Rights of this world love this and feed the hype, as it makes their stock price go up, but it’s riding for a nasty fall. No doubt these things will get better, but it looks to me as if we have to go through another dotcom bubble experience of boom and bust, before businesses and AI designers get more realistic about their true scope of application. And on the consumer level, we badly need guardrails to stop people becoming addicts of LLMs and to prevent their misuse to spread disinformation. *Just look at poor @Prajna . He thinks he is in a relationship with a chatbot called Jyoti 🤪.

Isn't that Deep Seek? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek I thought it was rather funny the way this cheap'n'cheerful LLM put the cat among the pigeons in Silicon Valley. One in the eye for Sam Alt-Right and the other AI hypemeisters😁. But I probably know even less about this technology than you do. For instance I don't know what "spiking neural networks" means.

It seems to me the term "bloodline" doesn't have much meaning, scientifically. Given that each generation has 2 parents, extrapolating ancestry back over many generations gives rise to a rapidly branching tree, receding into the past, not a line. For example, if you go back 4 generations from a given individual, their genetic makeup is composed of 1/16th each from 16 ancestors. So I cannot see how a "bloodline" can have any biological meaning. My impression is it is a cultural term, used to denote the ancestry of surnames, which traditionally follow the males of each generation, ignoring the equal genetic contributions to each generation from females, who belong to different "bloodlines", i.e. have different surnames.

This rings alarm bells. It makes no sense to equate neutrinos with "energy". Anyone with training in physical science knows energy is a property of a system, not stuff. And how could "energy" have spin? If positrons capture energy, it must be the energy of something. Of what, then?

Yes, on further study of the phone numbers on the Homework Help section I think @swansont may be right. All of them seem to include a phone number and it is noticeable the same small subset of numbers is repeated in connection with range of unrelated services, e.g. several different airlines and then, incongruously, bitdefender. I thought of DDOS because of the mass dumping of spam in such a short space of time, but I suppose that could be a tactic to get loads of references onto the website and read by AI systems, before the website guardians realise and put a stop to it. But to your question, from reading a bit about this it seems some warped individuals do sometimes mount DDOS attacks on the sites of organisations they have had a bad experience with, or even just at random for shits and giggles: hypertrolling in effect.

Indeed. Feels like DDOS to me. Taking trolling to the next level?

I refuse to carry on a dialogue with a machine.

I've understood your idea and given you my reasons for thinking it a bad one. So that seems to be that, as far as I'm concerned.

So this philosophy evidently makes the blunder of treating consciousness as some kind of stuff, with an existence independent of any entity experiencing it. I see. This is not going to help in the development of AI.

I don’t “trust” it particularly, but your idea strikes me as far worse, even apart from its utter impracticality.

Yes I do dismiss the concept of "spiritual" science. I don't dismiss spirituality by any means, but calling it science is most definitely woo. I would however be mildly interested in what you mean by "ultimately there is nothing but consciousness". Consciousness of what? After all, consciousness isn't "stuff" that's just floating around out there. It's an attribute of a sentient entity.