Hacker News: plutonorm

New comment by plutonorm in "Disappearing Polymorphs"

plutonorm — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:17:38 +0000

The morphic resonance guys claim this is proof. And I for one do find it a little unbelievable that these seeds are travelling the world, such that for any cubic foot of air you find a seed. Show me the math on that.

New comment by plutonorm in "LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor"

plutonorm — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:08:28 +0000

This makes it more believable not less. History is littered with nut jobs achieving. The wilder the story the more credibility I give it. Within bounds. Universe is optimised for entertainment and irony

New comment by plutonorm in "Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?"

plutonorm — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:30:08 +0000

Agree. hacker news is in hard cope mode.

New comment by plutonorm in "Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?"

plutonorm — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:28:21 +0000

GPT4 just wrote a python script for me that downloaded a star catalogue, created a fish eye camera model, and then calculated the position of the camera relative to the stars by back propagating the camera position and camera parameters to match the star positions.

All I did was hold it's hand, it wrote every line of code. You are living in fantasy land if you think we will be writing lines of code in 10 years.

New comment by plutonorm in "A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression"

plutonorm — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 08:54:38 +0000

At one stage of my life I was running 10k every other day for months at a time. I was miserable. Also irritable.

New comment by plutonorm in "A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression"

plutonorm — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 08:51:20 +0000

same here

New comment by plutonorm in "A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression"

plutonorm — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 08:50:59 +0000

Exercise makes me irritable and miserable. I've tried large amounts and medium amounts, obvs small amounts are included in daily life. My kids are similarly effected. One size does not fit all.

New comment by plutonorm in "Tesla rethinks the assembly line"

plutonorm — Mon, 29 May 2023 19:27:17 +0000

SpaceX regularly lands rockets vertically on floating barges in the middle of the ocean. Tesla broke open and is dominating the electric car market. What on earth are you talking about.

New comment by plutonorm in "Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)"

plutonorm — Wed, 24 May 2023 19:05:43 +0000

I learned the same a few years ago. I have voluntary control of the lower sphincter and clamp down on it when I feel my stomach contents rising or am getting heart burn. Now that I use it more I can mostly control my heartburn.

New comment by plutonorm in "America’s skepticism toward the first automobiles (1930)"

plutonorm — Mon, 22 May 2023 04:37:26 +0000

Don't bother arguing with them, they obviously are not rational enough to see what is in front of their face. Most people are like this, although they will die saying otherwise.

New comment by plutonorm in "Deadlines as Technology"

plutonorm — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:17:19 +0000

If you are going to do this it's best to advertise that fact in your job ads. You want people who like to operate in that atmosphere in return for something - promotion, perk or vision. Otherwise you just get high churn rate and poor productivity.

New comment by plutonorm in "This time, it feels different"

plutonorm — Sat, 13 May 2023 14:29:28 +0000

I think there is a little more evidence here than a literal interpretation of the bible. The only constant in this world is change.

New comment by plutonorm in "The Wealth Gap in Science: How Your Parents's Income Affects Your Career"

plutonorm — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:08:50 +0000

Welcome to the archetypal mind of the conservative. When your axiom is "the current order is just and appropriate" then unconsciously every data point aligns to that principle. The wealthy are good and deserve thier advantage. The poor are bad and they deserve their disadvantage. The outcast or morally abhorrent as they stand opposed to the just order. It's nuts, but that's how they think. They are literally Slytherin and proud of it. It's an insanely dangerous mindset and we should call them out for it. It naturally creates a wall between in group and out group. Any ideology that fosters such division should be fought against. The future, if we are to have one must foster the expansion of our empathy, not it's contraction. It's literally the fight between good and evil. For both sides and from both perspectives. There can be no reconciliation or melding of views. Yin and Yang, light and dark. The internet has laid bare this basic divide and there is a war coming in America. Maybe even a literal war.

New comment by plutonorm in "Weight loss relapse associated with exposure to perfluoroalkylate substances"

plutonorm — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:43:48 +0000

Yeah. But no. I naturally seem to eat once a day and am thoroughly overweight.

New comment by plutonorm in "The Future of Applications"

plutonorm — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:23:21 +0000

Completely disagree with 2. Look up AIXI. It looks and feels to me like a completely plausible and mathematically grounded theory of intelligence. One principle aspect of the theory is that it allows you to see that intelligence is merely compression. This is the origin of the Hutter prize. Compression is almost the same thing as prediction, look into the math. Llms are prediction machines. Predicting the next word isn't some stupid goal it's exactly what you need to do to build an intelligent machine.

New comment by plutonorm in "The Future of Applications"

plutonorm — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:37:07 +0000

Look at the trajectory, not where we are. S curve, yada, yada. Sure it may top out and we will be left with something that many will argue is not AI. But on the other hand the curve may continue and it will be GAI. I don't see any sign of it topping out yet.

New comment by plutonorm in "OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan"

plutonorm — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:28:49 +0000

Nah. Super easy I heard /s

New comment by plutonorm in "ChatGPT Plugins"

plutonorm — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:14:05 +0000

There is no route to making money with these plugins. You have to get the users onto your website, sign-up, part with money, then go back to gptchat. It's really hard to make that happen, this is going to be much more useful for existing businesses adding functionality to existing projects. Or random devs just making stuff. Making fast money out of it, it seems v difficult.

New comment by plutonorm in "ChatGPT Plugins"

plutonorm — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:07:15 +0000

I'd not heard this on my tpot. But I absolutely agree, the ground is moving so fast and the power is so centralised that the only thing to do is spin up quickly make money, rinse and repeat. The seas will calm in a few years and then you can, maybe, make a longer term proposition.

New comment by plutonorm in "The Age of AI has begun"

plutonorm — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:22:36 +0000

You are wrong. Try gpt4. Gpt3 showed the glimmer on certain questions. Gpt4 is smart, maybe not quite as smart as me, but I fully expect gpt5 to be as smart or smarter than me.