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New comment by simmerup in "Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation"

simmerup — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:32:07 +0000

Just air condition the rice paddies

New comment by simmerup in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

simmerup — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:22:05 +0000

Of course not in half a century, but it's not like the earth just stops getting hotter after 2100 rolls around.

What about 2200? Humanity at 2300? It's the same planet with the same feedback loops after all.

New comment by simmerup in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

simmerup — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:53:41 +0000

RCP8.5 is pretty much ruled out by people as unlikely for some reason, even as we have the major super power on the planet pulling out of the Paris agreement on climate change.

There is clearly a temperature at which this planet will not support human life, and we could definitely get the planet to that temperature if we don't change course and reach net zero.

Saying its not an existential threat is just wild to me.

New comment by simmerup in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

simmerup — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:13:03 +0000

It is 100% an existential threat, but the existential bit happens in 100 years so of course you're not going to see it materialize over night

New comment by simmerup in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

simmerup — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:52:11 +0000

Climate change is an existential threat, it's switch to green power asap or burn the world our kids will live in

New comment by simmerup in "US intelligence indicates China is preparing weapons shipment to Iran"

simmerup — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:49:19 +0000

Trump said anyone supplying Iran weapons would be subject to 50% tarriffs. Of course that's provocative

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:35:35 +0000

Not massively sure I am

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:49:58 +0000

To me I think the problem is the blast radius

All of us are slightly wrong about things, but not all of us are treated as oracles of correct information like Opus, ChatGPT, etc are

New comment by simmerup in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:24:08 +0000

Switched to Nobara after getting fed up with one too many Windows bugs. Been a really pleasant experience to be honest

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:20:10 +0000

Sorry, even worse then

I got confused because a journal referenced them > The experiment’s reach has now spread into the published medical literature. The bixonimania research has been cited by a handful of researchers, including a study that appeared in Cureus, a journal published by Springer Nature, the publisher of Nature, by researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Mullana, India (S. Banchhor et al. Cureus 16, e74625 (2024); retraction 18, r223 (2026)). (Nature’s news team is editorially independent of its publisher.)

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:18:43 +0000

One impact is the Iran war.

The AI told the government what it wanted to hear contrary to its entire security apparatus, and then they went to war assuming they could win

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:17:04 +0000

Interesting, will be looking into RAG now. I assume Claude was retrained regularly but Opus for example was last trained August 2025. Way older than I thought it’d be

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:09:08 +0000

The LLM bought up the disease because some person put a fake journal in its training data.

If the person put their product as th definitive cure for the made up disease, the LLM probably would have mentioned that too.

> merely assumed the disease was true when the preprint was pointed at it.

What do you mean by preprint pointed at it? It being the disease?

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:24:26 +0000

The journals the scientist submitted had a fake university, explicitly fake people, references to the simpsons and star trek, etc

Most doctors would not believe that, and would also consider any new eye disease they’d never see in real life with scepticism

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:38:46 +0000

We need to give the LLMs robot bodies so they can practise medicine and see the illnesses that do and don’t exist first hand

New comment by simmerup in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

simmerup — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:36:20 +0000

You’ve seen people game adsense

It’s gunna be even wilder when people realise they have an incentive to seed fake information on the internet to game AI product recommendations

I’ve already bought stuff based off of an AI suggestion, I didn’t even consider it would be so easy to influence the suggestion. Just two research papers? Mad.

New comment by simmerup in "CNN investigation: Exposing a global 'rape academy'"

simmerup — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:51:40 +0000

There’s something deeply disturbing about how internet groups allow perverts and criminals to hype each other up into thinking they’re okay to be doing what they do

New comment by simmerup in "Peptides: where to begin?"

simmerup — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:03:05 +0000

The group of people that seem to be dying in their 30s of heart failure then

New comment by simmerup in "We are facing the most significant days and weeks in world history since 1945"

simmerup — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:18:01 +0000

> Might Yvette Cooper, as our Foreign Secretary, finally cease putting out inane statements that seek to blame Iran for acting in self-defence, which is its right, and instead offer support in the face of a wholly unwarranted bombardment, part of it committed with the active participation of the UK government by permitting the use of UK air bases for that purpose?

Iran is a terrorist state, how can they have the right to commit war crimes?

New comment by simmerup in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

simmerup — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:13:40 +0000

The people that voted for Brexit aren't affected by any of that.

In fact, they're so protected they'd probably prefer a recession.