A LLM is conscious in the same way that a book is conscious. Or a brick, for that matter.
11.03.2026 11:51
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A LLM is conscious in the same way that a book is conscious. Or a brick, for that matter.
Old people, living in cities, afraid of the sky.
I've been told that arcologies are a pipe dream, but we're going to have to move all our activities "indoors" at some point so we can regulate temperature and environmental inputs, because the future climate will too often be outside tolerances.
In this week's article, I am joined by @umsonst.bsky.social. We explore why the global "heat buffer" is failing. As the surface ocean decouples from the deep, it is creating a "lid" that traps unimaginable amounts of energy in the upper layers.
drtomharris.substack.com/p/the-great-...
Hearing that mines are being laid feels the same as tracking covid in Italy and cases reported in NYC and Washington state. Back then, we bought a ton of food for our chest freezer, plus shelf stable items for the pantry. Might do the same again, but effects w/ energy shock harder to predict.
And that robot is very similar to the ones from Castle in the Sky, which can also fly (minus the propeller)!
The latest AMOC study from René van Westen’s group in Utrecht, looks are the anticipated changes in the Gulf Stream in the lead up to and through an AMOC collapse. They then compare the model findings to observations from the real world.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#climatechange #AMOC #oceans
FWIW - I have been regularly using Gemini, ChatGPT and a few others to 'ghost' tasks I'm doing, eg, figuring out emissions intensity of a gas turbine or something myself and then asking the same once I know the real answer
It's remarkable how subtle the errors, false references and mistakes are
This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food
You can unzip a .docx or .pptx file, and find all the images inside at their original sizes and resolutions
I still listen to the Mechwarrior 2, Ghost Bear's Legacy, and Mechwarrior Mercenaries soundtracks, plus an entire cover album of some of these songs by Timothy Seals. Most iconic? Maybe not. But it's been listenable for decades, in a way that most video game music cannot be.
Map of rail networks 1860
You can exactly see that southern industry's one goal was take cotton inland and transporting it to the coast...
Which is not great for running a war!
Different scale of course, but my taekwondo instructor always emphasizes that the first step in self defense is avoiding the fight. Get away. If you can't get away, intimidate and get them to back down. Fighting, actually using your training, is always the last resort.
Sorry to doom when there's *all this* going on too, but *all this* is also destroying the future with unnecessary carbon emissions and delaying necessary actions. Back to reading and sometimes posting about molecular clouds and filaments...
I admittedly read the literature only sporadically and mostly rely on the news and statements by climate scientists, but every announcement is either "it's as bad as we thought" or "it's worse." And the "worse" have been gaining in number, though that could be reporting bias.
In the late 2010s I'd concluded that 3 degrees C was the number to beat re: global warming, and that we'd have a hard future. Now, 3C is still the number to beat, and it's going to be catastrophic. Understanding of the impacts, tipping points, etc. has increased, and it's so much worse.
Did Iran maybe agree to not fire on neighboring states' oil infrastructure, which he is interpreting as "surrender to it's neighbors," but is still at war with us, so he's going to continue bombing them? Doubtful, but best I can do to make sense of this, if there's any sense to be had.
The entire universe is spheroids of gas collapsing into sheets, fragmenting into filaments, some of which fragment into smaller spheroids, repeated until you get a spheroid that collapses into a singularity, aka a star, surrounded by more singularities, aka planets/non-fusing bodies.
The blue state/red state divide is about which party controls the state government. Most states are "purple" in their vote tallies, and US regional cultures don't map neatly onto the colors, though they do correlate somewhat. But what state govts are doing right now defines blue vs red.
There are also stellar streams, etc, but the ring and bar are the most prominent features outside the arms and disk!
Our galaxy has both a central bar and a ring. If viewed from afar, the ring would be a very prominent feature, since the lion's share of star formation happens there. All artist's impressions of the Milky Way should feature an obvious ring.
People really do not understand just how much damage LLMs enable. The key tool for limiting bad behavior by pro ses in the legal system is the time required to do so.
Observations are finding unexpectedly massive galaxies in the very early universe. Perhaps safe, natal environments that generate them comparatively rapidly account for this, are features of the early universe that we cannot resolve. Similar to clumps in GMCs, or vortices in protoplanetary disks.
The general pattern would be a hierarchy of matter (mostly gas) flows from larger to smaller scales, with certain levels of the hierarchy being conducive to hosting "natal volumes" that can form condensed matter objects. From the cosmic web down to planets and asteroids.
And the theorized vortices found in protoplanetary disks around protostars, that may produce multiple protoplanets over their lifetimes, are analogous to giant molecular clouds producing stars. I wonder if galaxies are created in a scaled up version of these?
Oh, that's right, there is feedback from sufficiently dense clusters with massive galaxies at their centers. Ram pressure stripping removes gas from infalling galaxies, ending star formation. At least a parallel to HII regions in giant molecular clouds. Stars suppressing future star formation.
The theory of cloud collapse and star formation has apparently been undergoing a bit of a revolution in the past decade or so. Global hierarchical collapse is the new explanation.
Found some very interesting papers that I'm reading through. Was hoping to be done with note taking on intragalactic structures, but sometimes you discover a whole new line of theory and matching observations you didn't know about...
Collapse within giant molecular clouds, down to clumps and then to cores and stars, has many parallels to collapse at the cosmic web scale. Sheets to filaments to galaxy clusters, and the galaxies play a similar role to stars, though their feedback, if any, in halting the process is not clear to me.
Starter Kit: Racing for @godotengine.org is releasing next week!
Open-source and great as a base for your racing game using my well-known sphere ball technique. It might be a little rough around the edges but I really want to finally release this ✨
