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Gromnir

Gromnir

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56 minutes ago, Gfted1 said:

A failed Soviet Venus lander will fall back to Earth after being stranded for 53 years | Space

we were alive in 1978 when the last soviet venus probe fell back to earth. lee majors is now an octogenarian, but perhaps he can save us this time as well.

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

Amentep

Amentep

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Kudos for the "Death Probe" reference!

I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man

Gromnir

Gromnir

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On 4/28/2025 at 1:46 PM, Amentep said:

Kudos for the "Death Probe" reference!

am gonna concede we added the link at the last second before posting when a thought occurred to us:

the only person am certain is gonna get this is amentep.

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

Malcador

Malcador

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

"Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.” Having read his chat logs, she only found that the AI was “talking to him as if he is the next messiah.” The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI. Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the software. "

 

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Gorth

Gorth

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I guess people who are already predisposed towards being deranged found a tool to accelerate the process?

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“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

Malcador

Malcador

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11 minutes ago, Gorth said:

I guess people who are already predisposed towards being deranged found a tool to accelerate the process?

But 40k already exists 

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Gromnir

Gromnir

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*sigh*

the sun's luminosity is increasing even as we speak, albeit so slow it would take a prohibitive number of lifetimes to notice the difference. 

regardless, the sun is getting brighter & hotter. in fact, long before the sun starts transitioning to a red giant and expands enough to engulf the earth (~5 BILLION years,) it is gonna be hot enough to cook off all the oceans from the surface o' our planet. due to luminosity increases, we probable got 1 billion years before the sun's natural life cycle renders the earth uninhabitable for human life. the sun swallowing the earth will be complete irrelevant as a threat to life on the planet, 'cause all animal and plant life will have been burned beyond ashes billions of years previous to that happening. sun expanding is so not a real concern regardless o' musk's busted timeline.

but...

@Gorth is the guy who should speak on this as 'posed to Gromnir, but the dinosaurs (other than birds) were wiped out 66 million years past and our earliest primate ancestors show up on the scene 100,000 years later. it is our recollection that the first plant life appeared on earth more than 450 million years ago. is gonna be a whole lotta mass extinction events and ice ages 'tween now and the elapse of 1 billion years, much less five billion. there will be no human beings 1 billion years from now... period. am so not claiming expertise on such, but am also not seeing anyway that even if a direct human descendent were to miraculously survive one billion years, it would even remote resemble the humans o' 2025.

give musk the most generous benefit of the doubt and ignore his other silliness and focus only on, "several hundred million years," observation.

first homo

am not sure how accurate the video is, but regardless, the human ancestor in question showed up earth less than three million years past. three. am knowing the reality o' hundreds of millions and billions o' years elapsing is difficult for anybody to genuine conceive, but musk is kinda ignorant for a s'posed science guy.

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ps late edit to add h. habilis

 

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

Gorth

Gorth

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I would have loved to watch a debate between Musk and George Carlin about priorities in life 🤔

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“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

Gromnir

Gromnir

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well, the reapers is gonna return relative soon, so is all moot anyway.

heck the reaper cycle is a mere 50,000 years.

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

Azdeus

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https://archaeologymag.com/2023/09/bronze-age-girl-buried-with-animal-bones/

It's an old article, but someone sent me this meme to go along with it.

IMG_20250513_110626_779.thumb.webp.4b2e62708cb155bf2ff24c9eaaa9e532.webp

 

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

Gromnir

Gromnir

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

Gromnir

Gromnir

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sure, when a harkonnen says it, we complain 'bout how malevolent, sinister and misleading it is.

...

am not sure we got a point. have been kinda weirded out by the reunited/together again in death observation since we first read dr. yue's death from dune... were 1980.  

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

rjshae

rjshae

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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

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On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial summer reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors, according to multiple reports on social media. The newspaper's uncredited "Summer reading list for 2025" supplement recommended titles including "Tidewater Dreams" by Isabel Allende and "The Last Algorithm" by Andy Weir—books that don't exist and were created out of thin air by an AI system.

It looks like we're living in "interesting" times. Or at least fakery times.

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"It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."

Gorth

Gorth

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Why AI needs to be kept in check... 😱

 

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Malcador

Malcador

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The TIE fighter flying backwards, brilliant 

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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