I concur, though with a caveat: it's much less the U.S. military deserving hate and distrust than its delirious, power-drunk, crusader cross tattooed political leadership.
@zagan1
"At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new." Carl Sagan
I concur, though with a caveat: it's much less the U.S. military deserving hate and distrust than its delirious, power-drunk, crusader cross tattooed political leadership.
Ja, deutsche "Patrioten", die Europa am liebsten zugleich an die Moskauer und Pekinger Machthaber verscherbeln wΓΌrden, sitzen definitiv im Glashaus, wenn sie Korruption beklagen.
Another day, another skill unlocked for generative AI in chemistry and biology. PropMolFlow designs molecules with specified properties 10 times faster than previous methods.
STEM-related use cases occupy <1% of anti-AI discourse but >99% of AI's transformative potential.
phys.org/news/2026-01...
Fronturlaubsjob fΓΌr ukrainische Bodendrohnen?
defenceleaders.com/news/ukraini...
Tell me more about how golf courses have achieved any of these 15 scientific feats lately:
youtu.be/aYppKInSS4I
You repeat all these lame anti-AI talking points without critical thought and then accuse me of letting AI reply for me, and the irony is somehow lost on you. Hilarious.
Don't get me wrong, current AI is jagged and uneven with deficits in physical and spatial reasoning in particular, and its ability to generalize from training data is still limited, but it's a lot better than nothing.
New drug candidates for cancer research are being discovered in record time:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
They accelerate research on mathematical proofs, identify useful new materials, improve computing infrastructure, chip designs and mathematical algorithms beyond prior limits.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131
The next level of machine intelligence is to produce new knowledge not just in tests but in real-world cutting-edge science, and again: multimodal LLMs generate hypotheses, design experiments, and iterate based on results.
Plan->test->evaluate->revise->repeat.
..success depends on logical rigor and builder creativity impossible to fake by a parrot. These competitions pose original problems whose solutions cannot be lifted from AI training data. Yet the AIs did well, which demonstrates intelligence: the ability to figure out new and unanticipated problems.
Well, technically yes, but so is the human brain. Your implicit assertion here is that AI has no intelligence whatsoever and only spits out rote-learned text blocks, which is demonstrably wrong.
General-purpose generative AIs recently won gold medals at international math and coding olympiads where
... (successfully completed tasks like AI generating a correct 3D protein structure or mathematical proof) every 9 months. It's not nothing.
Then you claim that AI systems are "just compression systems built of the most likely answer". This half-truth can be more deceptive than a plain lie.
Power efficiency of Nvidia's new Vera Rubin platform surged five-fold over Blackwell in just 22 months.
Next, multiply that with the rate of improving algorithmic efficiency as AI models get pruned and distilled down. The same compute budget yields about twice the performance...
"Resource" in my previous post is not a basic resource like copper and sugar but computing power and its ability to solve problems in STEM fields, which does become exponentially more affordable. Hardware efficiency has been doubling every 2 years, an estimate that looked conservative recently.
Es ist wie bei Putin: je mehr Europa zurΓΌckweicht, desto hΓ€rter schlΓ€gt er zu und desto ungeheuerlicher werden die Methoden und Risiken, die er auf seinem imperialen Kreuzzug eingeht. Bleibt man aber unbeugsam, wird er vorsichtig und sucht sich ein leichteres Opfer.
when resources get cheap and plentiful, more can be forked out to basic research that doesn't generate cash flow immediately. The AI revolution is driving an efficiency revolution in computation and the energy grid that facilitates access for everyone including research labs.
... they were computationally prohibitive until AI-accelerated modelling came of age using intelligent approximations.
Science is rarely the primary goal of economic activity. Rather, it's enabled by the economies of scale (cost advantages gained from scaled-up production):
And lots of folks use the internet to look at p0rn and cat pictures, yet Alphafold and AlphaEvolve were developed at a web search company.
Molecular biology simulations aren't small but mind-blowingly intricate. They took so long to take off after the human genome project precisely because...
... and should not be gated like physical objects.
Copyright claims encompassing neural patterns representing general styles of art are far more extensive than even the demands of copyright maximalists back in the day.
(literally, as in Very Concerned Citizens playing vinyl records backward to listen for demonic self-harm messages) and mp3 filesharing on FTP servers ("Thieves! Pirates! Criminals!") with similar arguments. We should not blame terrible life choices on tools and media, and information cannot be owned
No invention, from the simplest to the most sophisticated, has ever been risk-free. More lives are saved each day by AI alerting users to a medical problem than lost by someone committing suicide after a chat session.
I'm old enough to remember when people were demonising Heavy Metal music...
Knowing of closed-loop water-cooled PCs, I could guess before factchecking that the water issue must be vastly exaggerated, and lo and behold: even golf courses eclipse datacenters when it comes to water use. Andy Masley has the lowdown:
open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...
Your reaction reminds me there are Luddite atheists as willfully ignorant as creationists. I do not need a chatbot to point out developments that have been in my news feed since the noughties, and neither does anyone else with an ounce of curiosity about science and the future of humanity.
"parasitic" datacenters only bring tutoring to underserved communities, major coding powers to minor indie developers, better materials to electronics & machinery, efficiency to residential heating and the healthcare system, reliable biomolecular simulations to drug discovery and cancer research,...
Norway did the math: Arm Ukraine to win, or pay double when Russia does Arming itself $1.2-1.6T Arming Ukraine $522-838B
SIMPLE MATH
Russland wird von imperialen, kolonialen Faschisten regiert, die jedes ZugestΓ€ndnis als Einladung auffassen, das nΓ€chste StΓΌck Osteuropas zu erobern. Will der Westen wirklich nach 2014 und 2022 noch einmal den gleichen Fehler machen?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wenn Reporter das strategische Gesamtbild aus den Augen verlieren, reden sie wie Christian Esch. Putin interessiert sich einen Shice fΓΌr ein paar Orte in Donezk. Er will sein Imperium zurΓΌck. Jeder befestigte Landstrich, den die Ukraine aufgibt, wird zum Aufmarschgebiet fΓΌr die nΓ€chste Invasion.
I trust that self-styled antivax "purebloods" will practice what they preach and never let mRNA vaccines near their immaculate DNA. The rest of us can look forward to mRNA vaccines tailored to specific cancer antigens, letting the immune system target tumors. Over 60 candidates are in development.