You can look at a pair of meshed gears and understand it just as readily as you can understand a single transformation by running the math on paper with a pencil, but I don’t think anyone will ever be able to comprehend the fullness of any useful-scale model for the same reason they would never comprehend a clockwork with the same number of gears as an LLM has transformers or indices. It’s a non-intuitable space with too much complexity which cannot be simplified without oversimplifying.

One activity occurs in a hazily understood chemical system with near completely unobservable states in interplay with activities and systems which have effects on the main system that are barely recognized, much less fully understood. The other is a constructed, completely defined system with near total observability of states affected by probabilities based on inputs defined by human written, completely known tokenization systems.

Will they next speculate about the similarity of ‘preferences’ between a robot from Japan and the nearest non-terrestrial intelligent species?

*auto-complete

That brain shaped hole in his head. Someone at the guardian graphics department is having some fun.

It’d be funny to set up a table as GM, show up in that shirt looking serious, and then run a really lighthearted romp.

‘And look where that got us.’

It’s hard to get buy-in from most people when your solution looks like the problem you’re trying to solve. It creates uncertainty. Add in the media’s approach to science, and you get fear. It’s hard enough getting science funding when people aren’t afraid of it. Toss on the modern anti-intellectual movement and now you’ve got a controversy, a system of doubt. And controversy is good for business. Controversy gets clicks, which sells ads, so the controversy will never be allowed to die. You can’t let there be a final answer to an argument that gets you paid for as long as it continues, now can you?

He takes over 10 minutes to get to the start of making a point, so that’s not great, but there have been people with ideas for terraforming earth before. It’s one of those things people are very frightened of because that’s kind of a thing in sci-fi. It might work, but people are still mostly looking at climate change as something that is in the future. It won’t get funding until it’s too late.

*Inception Horn*

It’s not sadism. It’s protecting the players from themselves. If you don’t keep players from treating RPGs like a game they can win, they will drain out all the fun and blame you.

Nope. Acid Spray.

‘Neither the silly name you call your deadname or the silly name you answer to now are your true name. Magic doesn’t care what you call yourself. I have your true name. Now, sit.’

Lawsuits.

‘Not like that, Steve!’

Useful for those whose noses were affected long term by COVID.

Not quite. Worst case scenario is I make a torture machine for any dog, cat, and maybe other non-human animal in the area.

I found one for sale that does 40k that has the same form factor as the one shown in the paper. I almost want to make a high-speed coldbrew system but I don’t expect it’d be worthwhile for the coffee, only maybe for the fun of building it.

Piezotransducer? As in the little thing that makes electronics beep and buzz?

The realist in me says ‘Ooh, what interesting systems created a seeming whale ossuary?’ The child in me says, ‘OoOoOoOoh, something down there is so big it eats whales. Do not disturb the Leviathan.’