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  • nymwit@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzPhysics
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    8 months ago

    Just don’t build a house of neutron-reflective tungsten carbine bricks around it or cowboy the beryllium hemispheres, hell, maybe just trust the last guys’ calculations instead of testing for closeness to criticality. Safe as houses.


  • What about the equivalent of foveated rendering? They’re only simulating the bits conscious observers can see, the rest is …not simulated to the same level? I guess you’re kind of going there with your model within a model thing. If we are the point of the simulation, there doesn’t seem to be much reason to simulate much beyond the planet besides what little astronomers can work with? Gonna crash this thing with enough players!

    There’s a weird SF story that has blood cell sized intelligences and reality starts to break because there are so many observers on such a small scale that reality can’t change without being observed and then they all “poof” into another dimension or something and humans are left alone again. Anyway, the number of players crashing the simulation made me think of it. Blood Music by Greg Bear.







  • It’s stupid but the article says why:

    In the Alabama case, a hospital patient wandered through an unlocked door, removed frozen, preserved embryos from subzero storage and, suffering an ice burn, dropped the embryos, destroying them. Affected IVF patients filed wrongful-death lawsuits against the IVF clinic under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. The case was initially dismissed in a lower court, which ruled the embryos did not meet the definition of a child. But the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that “it applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation.” In a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Tom Parker cited his religious beliefs and quoted the Bible to support the stance.



  • I think the photocopying thing models fairly well with user licenses for software. Without commenting on whether that’s right in the grand scheme of things, I can see that as analogous. Most folks accept that they need individual user licenses for software right? I get that photocopying can’t be controlled the same way software can but the case was in the 90s? I mean these things aren’t about whether the provider of the article/software faces increased marginal cost for additional copies/users but that the user/company is getting more use than they paid for. License agreements. Seems like a problem with the terms of licenses and laws rather than how they were judged as following them or not. Their use didn’t seem to be transformative and the for profit nature of their use sort of overruled the “research” fair use.

    I also think the mp3.com thing sucks, but again, the way the law is, that’s a reasonable/logical outcome. Same thing that will kill someone offering ebooks to people who show a proof of purchase.

    I don’t know the solution to the situation with NYT/open AI. It’s a pretty bad look to be able to spit out an article nearly verbatim. We do need copyright reform, but I think that’s at the feet of the legislators, not judges. I only need to see the recent Alabama IVF court ruling to be reminded of the danger of more… interpretative rulings.


  • nymwit@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldYahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget
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    9 months ago

    I’m with you. Ads are annoying but I sort of wish there was (maybe just more around here?) acknowledgement of that’s just how the service gets paid for. I don’t adblock anything. If I can’t stand the ads I don’t use it. I just ignore them. Maybe I’m old and grew up with broadcast tv. I’d rather be subjected to internet ads than have to pay (real currency) at every site I go to. Folks can Adblock all they want but I don’t see how that’s any better than corpo short term quarterly earning thinking vs long term wide range impacts consideration.