What’s with you spamming this shitty website? I see you changed your name from ultra_unlimited to something less obvious but that doesn’t work when we can see your history brother
Sorry my blog article offends you. It was a fun meditation exploring a chapter of history I was not familiar with. Plimpton 322 has been in the news and I wanted to raise awareness around Eratosthenes following the blows to the Pythagorean legacy.
The simulation theory is literally rejecting the old gods and creating universal system administrators as the new ones.
My biggest frustration of the simulation theory is the thought that things don’t exist unless you are interacting with them. This means that the universe revolves around the observer. The same thoughts that support simulation theory also support creation theory.
I believe that simulation theory also reinforces the idea that there are people who are NPCs who don’t matter. This is easier for people in power to believe who have people serving their needs.
I think this line of thought is most attractive to self-serving individuals who want to believe that everything in the universe exists for them and everyone else needs to either support them or get out of the way.
When people tell me they they believe that the universe is a simulation, my first thought is that they will treat others poorly because it doesn’t matter. In their perspective, the simulation will sort it out in their favor.
I believe that simulation theory also reinforces the idea that there are people who are NPCs who don’t matter.
Isn't this part of sociopathic behaviour?
Not to mention the "don't exist unless I see it" sounds more like a 2yr old's worldview to me..
That is the shittiest article I have ever read tried to read. Massive headings with a few sentences underneath interspersed (for no good reason) with huge AI generated images with no relevance that make me have to scroll further to get to more info that I rapidly lost interest in.
Thanks for your comment hascat. Ultra Unlimited is a global arts and culture organization. Our blog articles feature images meant to evoke a sense of wonder and curiosity. In this case, futuristic images were used to support the content which explores this $500 million strategic investment in exascale tech in the EU.
Always fun to see a new fastest super computer come online. I remember in the 90s and early 00s when it felt like there was a new top supecomputer monthly.
Pretty pictures, but the standard reminders for putting solar in stupid places weren’t addressed, and still apply:
Solar panel manufacturing, financing, and installation remain the bottlenecks. We therefore need to make the most of every panel/kW installed, not just install more.
Panels therefore need to be installed where they get the maximum sunlight possible: no shade, up high, facing mostly upwards with preferably a slight tilt towards the equator. Vertical is bad unless you’re in the arctic.
There remains no shortage of uncovered roofspace. A given m² of panel is going to produce much more energy on a half decent roof than anywhere else except a tracking array.
Even if you somehow manage to run out of roof, building more roof (e.g. covering parking lots) is going to be better in every way than trying to squeeze the panels into other stupid places.
Very dense areas full of skyscrapers don’t really have parking lots - but the windows aren’t really going to do any better; they’ll be shaded 75% of the time. We want windows on large buildings to be shaded; it decreases solar heat gain and therefore aircon loads.
This doesn’t belong here. It contains nothing about science. It’s basically an investment marketing abstract with a bunch of oversaturated images shuffled in.
Isn’t it pretty well known that what we now call the Pythagorean theorem was well known by various older civilizations? Anybody think the builders of the great pyramid didn’t understand that concept in some form?
This is one of the most exciting news stories in the technology world. I’m sorry you don’t see the significance of 30 nations signing an agreement on ai ethics and safety…
“In recognition of the transformative positive potential of AI, and as part of ensuring wider international cooperation on AI, we resolve to sustain an inclusive global dialogue that engages existing international fora and other relevant initiatives and contributes in an open manner to broader international discussions, and to continue research on frontier AI safety to ensure that the benefits of the technology can be harnessed responsibly for good and for all. We look forward to meeting again in 2024.”
The takeaway:
we resolve to sustain an inclusive global dialogue that engages existing international fora and other relevant initiatives and contributes in an open manner to broader international discussions, and to continue research on frontier AI safety to ensure that the benefits of the technology can be harnessed responsibly for good and for all.
Minus the bs:
We resolve to keep talking about this. Let’s meet again next year.
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