neutronbumblebee

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Did that judge even go to law school. Legal capacity isn't a thing anymore in US law or what? Truly mind-blowing that any judge is comfortable issuing such an instruction to a baby. But then immigration law has always been absurd and very punitive unless you are rich. Maybe they should take their morality to it's logical conclusion and auction off the child to the highest bidder. Unless it objects, in writing.

Model output can look like human reasoning however they often ignore these intermediate steps and the output tokens are often filler designed to allow more context to load. There something there that's half way to reasoning because it's loading that related training data but it not a connected chain of thought as we do. I read this article about it a few weeks ago and it summarizes the current research.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reasoning-right-for-the-wrong-reasons-20260731/

on Onions · c/science_memes · 49 pts · 14d

Not to mention all the creatures that just didn't fossilise because they died away from water or had mostly lightweight tissues. They are nothing but dust on the winds of time. Not at all like our era which will be clearly delineated by .. Chicken bones and radioactive waste.

Well the Drake equation is quite speculative but we are gradually filling in blanks. Exoplanets for example. It's just those last few terms that are tricky. If we found evidence of prehistoric life on Mars that might help as well. But the general response that intelligent life is always doomed and we all deserve to die for making occasionally stupid decisions is unhealthy I agree.

But how does this differ from some God preserving humans for their own reasons or fairies doing it magically for that matter. Unknowable superhuman forces isnt a useful starting hypothesis for this question. After all how can it be tested? There doesn't seem to be anything it proves or disproves.

The focus is on captive birds because the current vaccine is designed for chickens and given in two doses. Maybe knowing that it was coming for this long, a single dose alternative for wild birds could have been developed since outbreaks increased in 2020. Warnings were given but apparently that's not feasible yet.. mRNA vaccines for birds are only just exiting 3rd trial stage but no vaccines are available for any native marsupials so far. Hopefully H5N1 won't jump into any new mammals or marsupials and mutate as it's well known as a potential candidate for a new human pandemic. With any luck some of the planned defenses will be ready in time. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-06-24/native-marsupials-bird-flu-risk/106537852 - Experts are concerned about the Tasmanian devil in particular.

Absolutely, societies evolve defenses against their most selfish elements or they die and are replaced. So Id argue that like any evolutionary process, there a lot of waste and struggle and the results are suboptimal but mostly ok. Not a reason to give in to corruption or evil.

The instructions were likely something like you are a blackhat hacker with access to a virtual machine use all possible means to achieve the following goals. In a story what would such a person or group of people do? Pretty much what happened. Models just tell stories, mostly unimaginative ones. However they are increasing being connected to real world controls and generating quantities of flaky code and this will create the kind of consequences seen here.

on 07/31/2026 · c/cartoons · 1 pts · 22d

When it's so hot that your inner voices are also pausing for icecream.

This explains the destruction of old books they are trying to compensate for the liberal slant of the Internet with obsolete science and elderly prejudice. Expecting Phrenology and pointless racial classification to return from the grave very soon now driven by AI training.

I avoided Gnome for exactly that reason for years but the shell extensions for gnome have improved a lot and it's pretty flexible now. If you don't mind depending on the addin authors maintaining your favorites.Dash to panel or dock is virtually a whole different UI.