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wtf is deal of that segyges person. now they're convinced that openai will solve room temperature superconductors in silico real soon, because altman vagueposted about it
and this all based on lk-99 fraud case, nevermind that there's no high temperature superconductivity theory, or how prohibitively computationally expensive computational chemistry is, and i guess it's not accurate enough anyway, this all with people that do computational chemistry coming in their thread trying to explain this, then posts this
Somehow word association will beat density functional theory to the punch for mapping out theoretical materials, lol. Alright.
I'll believe that when pigs fly.
arguably it's stupider than that
and this doesn't even go into whether pallet of lean spaghetti is in any way insightful, or does it explain anything, or does any of these things manmade proofs do
just like our favorite TV show, right? surely a comprehensive description language for physics can't be THAT much more complex than a steaming hot cup of Earl Grey tea!
You'll forgive me, I'm neither lobotmised nor a mathematician.
The poster wants to slop into existance a language for stacking logical statements on top of each other and testing/prooving truthiness but the statements are what? Physics rules?
And once you have this um magic world simulator from first principles (since it would have to be, because the thing about science is we need to do the experiments since we don't know how things work fully) it will somehow stumble onto RTPSC materials?
K
i'll also note that assembly of reply guys decided that room temperature superconductors will magically solve energy requirements of silicon-based chips (this is not how any of this works)
What's entropy precious?
Once we have superconductors, all computation will immediately switch to relay-based logic
that's just "machine god will figure out relativity from three video frames" in another form
Good God. Sometimes I wonder how small the population that understands all these references and knows all this deep lore and history is. How few people really understand the true nature of this bunch of people and how their ideas have ruined so much. When I go to conferences I get to have 4 hour conversations over beer with astrobiologists explaining how ideas from a blog in 2009 started showing up uncited in their literature 8 years later (when late undergrads who read a blog post start writing papers during their PhDs) and have since completely fucked whole subfields. They are flabbergasted at first, but then they see it, and see the damage done. So few people actually see this.
It was kinda wild studying physics while this was starting.
People were getting all these starry-eyed ideas while anyone actually doing well was realising that the future is going to look a lot like the present because god hates us and we're not allowed nice things.
In the TESCREAL lore iceberg, "Aella Sankey chart" is above the waterline.
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what ever happened to them anyway? Probably has tenure by now, hopefully?
Somewhere in the review, they mention having left academia for industry. Hopefully that worked out well for them.
I'm really being tested on my liberation and sex positive values here. Gosh that's a very weird and kinda gross thing to do.
What motivates someone to chart their fetish fulfillment?
Well whatever. I hope people had fun, seems like it must have been very scheduled and regimented though...
"Hey, no kink shaming!"
"But it's... Aella."
"All right. One (1) kink-shaming."
He does worthless little-birthday-boy AI boosting while pretending to be the serious face of ~~bluesky AI bootlicking~~ fair and balanced anti-anti-AI bluesky.
Occasionally has decent sneer content, though it has a much more evident muh datacenters tint these days. Writer of the siskind email explainer.
Also the creator of the anti ai blocklist iirc. Think that is why I blocked him myself.
Anyway if we are going the 'ai is making silly science fiction things real', I want monopole magnets (yes the game also has room temp superconductors).
I keep free-associating this idiot with eigenrobot and maybe that’s unfair to them. They’re insufferable and smug and always confidently wrong, but maybe they’re not also a huge racist.
they also have a blog where they blog about how unfair are the anti-ai terrible people and. among other things, why the luddites were the terrible, no good, absolutely not worthy of interest reactionary bunch who got what they deserved.