AbouBenAdhem

If someone else posts a better comment that renders mine superfluous, I’ll often delete mine. But if someone else has already replied to mine, I’ll leave it for the sake of context but downvote it so the better one gets more visibility.

“Kash Patel denies rumors he possesses a modicum of personal integrity.”

Yeah, but this poll was from Gallup—who trusts them?

See the Silurian hypothesis:

The Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment, which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million years ago.

The problem with matter that doesn’t interact electromagnetically is that everything else can pass right through it. (That’s why dark matter theoretically remains in halos around galaxies instead of getting incorporated into galactic discs via drag from other matter.)

If dark matter can only interact via gravity, it can only attract other matter toward it (albeit very weakly)—including both matter and antimatter. So it can’t keep matter and antimatter apart.

You’d also have no way of manipulating the dark matter itself, except through gravity.

Dark matter interacts via gravity but not electromagnetism (including light). So its particles would have no electric charge, and thus no distinct antiparticles.

If any of the polygraph operators are opposed to Patel, this would be a convenient way to get his actual loyalists fired without evidence.

I wouldn’t be surprised if forces on the ground deliberately downplayed the damage when reporting to Trump so he wouldn’t endanger them all with further escalations.

It’s ultimately also an observation about what LLMs can and can’t be, based on the structures they’re reproducing:

Languages are systems. They can most certainly have biases, but they do not and cannot have goals. Exactly the same is true for the mathematical models of language that are produced by transformers, and that power interfaces such as ChatGPT. We can blame the English language for a lot of things. But it is never going to become conscious and decide to turn us into paperclips.

Yeah—I just don’t understand how they disentangle the two if they’re both happening simultaneously.

I would have thought the volume of water retained on land by dams would be more than offset by the volume lost to melting glaciers.

But if anyone knows that already, it’s FBI staff.