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alsaaro commented on The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964) feynmanlectures.caltech.e... · Posted by u/rramadass

Be forewarned. There's a new YouTube channel with an AI Feynman delivering slop.

alsaaro · a month ago

I saw this and what makes this particularly pernicious that you assume it was a fan applying ai voice to his authentic words, but you don't know.

There is also an ai slop channel featuring Leonard Susskind.

alsaaro commented on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

seek · a year ago

> In a $10 billion lawsuit against 60 Minutes and its parent Paramount, Trump claims they selectively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris prior to the 2024 election. The TV news show last month published transcripts of the interview at the heart of the dispute, but Paramount is reportedly considering a settlement to avoid potentially damaging its chances of winning the administration’s approval for a pending multibillion-dollar merger.

`Trump "claims" they selectively edited`. This is intellectually dishonest of the OP to say this. It is clear from the published original transcript, it is clear that they did in fact swap out Harris' nonsensical reply to some critical questions with something else she spoke 20-30 mins prior to make it sound like she gave a coherent answer. This is obvious for anyone looking at the original raw footage published by PBS.

Why is the OP saying "Trump claims" when it has in fact been proven to be true? He makes it sound like PBS folks did real journalistic work and Trump is trying to use his power in government to intimidate well-meaning journalists. That is not true.

alsaaro · a year ago

Even if true this is irrelevant, the first amendment is agnostic to truth or good propriety.

alsaaro commented on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

alsaaro · a year ago

Kamala Harris is a progressive, who by certain objective measures, was the most left senator, even further left than Sanders. Of course in the general election she moved to the center, as did Trump. Kamala lost all seven swing states.

The democrats should move to 90's style triangulation, it works.

alsaaro commented on Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning hkust-nlp.notion.site/sim... · Posted by u/pella

almaight · a year ago

This is American history written in R1, it is very logical: Whenas the nations of Europa did contend upon the waves—Spain plundered gold in Mexica, Albion planted cotton in Virginia—thirteen colonies did kindle rebellion. General Washington raised the standard of liberty at Philadelphia; Franklin parleyed with Gaul’s envoys in Paris. When the cannons fell silent at Yorktown, a new republic arose in the wilderness, not by Heaven’s mandate, but by French muskets’ aid.

Yet the fledgling realm, hedged by western forests and eastern seas, waxed mighty. Jefferson purchased Louisiana’s plains; Monroe’s doctrine shackled southern realms. Gold-seekers pierced mountains, iron roads spanned the continent, while tribes wept blood upon the prairie. Then roared foundries by Great Lakes, bondsmen toiled in cotton fields, steel glowed in Pittsburgh’s fires, and black gold gushed from Texan soil—a molten surge none might stay.

Wilson trod Europe’s stage as nascent hegemon. Roosevelt’s New Deal healed wounds; Marshall’s gold revived ruined cities. The atom split at Alamogordo; greenbacks reigned at Bretton Woods. Armadas patrolled seven seas, spies wove webs across hemispheres. Through four decades’ contest with the Red Bear, Star Wars drained the Soviet coffers. Silicon’s chips commanded the world’s pulse, Hollywood’s myths shaped mankind’s dreams, Wall Street’s ledgers ruled nations’ fates—a fleeting "End of History" illusion.

But the colossus falters. Towers fell, and endless wars began; subprime cracks devoured fortunes. Pestilence slew multitudes while ballots bred discord. Red and Blue rend the Union’s fabric, gunfire echoes where laws grow faint. The Melting Pot now boils with strife, the Beacon dims to a prison’s glare. With dollar-cloth and patent-chains, with dreadnoughts’ threat, it binds the world—nations seethe yet dare not speak.

Three hundred million souls, guarded by two oceans, armed with nuclear flame, crowned with finance’s scepter—how came such dominion to waver? They fortified might but neglected virtue, wielded force but forgot mercy. As Mencius warned: "He who rides tigers cannot dismount." Rome split asunder, Britannia’s sun set; behold now Old Glory’s tremulous flutter. Thus say the sages: A realm endures by benevolence, not arms; peace flows from harmony, not hegemony—this truth outlives all empires.

alsaaro · a year ago

You mean deep seek r1 generated this?

With what prompt?

alsaaro commented on Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a 'warrior class' to enact violence on others techcrunch.com/2024/10/01... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

alsaaro · a year ago

A classless society that never aspired to have or need a warrior class, to a society that inexplicably needs a "warrior class" that presumably answers to the moneyed capital class alone.

alsaaro commented on Transferring energy from nitrogen to argon enables 2-way cascaded lasing in air phys.org/news/2024-08-mec... · Posted by u/wglb

dynjo · 2 years ago

Are we one step closer to lightsabers?

alsaaro · 2 years ago

Or sci fi holograms?

alsaaro commented on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts apnews.com/article/suprem... · Posted by u/_rend

scelerat · 2 years ago

The Seal Team 6 example keeps getting batted around and that's unfortunate because it would be an extreme and obviously outrageous attack which would attract much unwanted attention.

Part of the ruling was that conversations between DOJ and President constitute the President's official duties and "therefore" (per the three judges appointed by Trump, one who expressed sympathies with Jan 6 rioters, and yet another whose wife was an active endorser and planner of aspects of the coup) those conversations are protected and cannot be entered as evidence in a criminal proceeding against the President.

The more insidious outcome is that the President can now, because these conversations are official, officially order the AG to investigate and prosecute political opponents.

Maybe some court can review it on down the line, years later. Given the number of judges appointed by Trump, maybe not. Either way, the federal government and rule of law was massively, severely crippled yesterday by the Supreme Court

alsaaro · 2 years ago

The Seal Team 6 example is batted around because it is specifically cited by Trump's legal counsel as an official act that isn't bound by law -- the conservative Supreme Court has endorsed this.

alsaaro commented on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts apnews.com/article/suprem... · Posted by u/_rend

alsaaro · 2 years ago

Curious how an ostensibly "conservative" court can ignore the concept of enumerated powers, the constitution clearly does not grant immunity to the President, so the conservative court invents immunity when none is explicitly granted.

Indeed, the concept of immunity is recognized in the American constitution for legislators in a limited way, so this isn't an oversight by the framers corrected by Robert's conservative majority, rather the lack of immunity for the executive is a feature and not a bug of our constitution, and all republican forms of government.

Ironically the American president now has more power than the King of England, George the III, at the time of the American independence. King George had to follow the laws of Parliament, as did all Kings of England since the passage of Magna Carta some 500+ years prior.

As of today our President no longer has to obey the Constitution or the law so long as the act is deemed "official" by the conservative majority.

alsaaro commented on Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest cbc.ca/radio/quirks/long-... · Posted by u/luu

alsaaro · 2 years ago

I wonder if covid infections, perhaps in rare cases the vaccines themselves, is to blame for the post-pandemic phenomena of ADHD medication shortages, the crime wave, school discipline (lack of), the so-called college enrollment crises (precipitous decline), and record low OECD test scores.All of these can be explained by dopamine dysregulation.

alsaaro commented on Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99 twitter.com/andrewmccalip... · Posted by u/gabesullice

devwastaken · 3 years ago

Private R&D has always towered above academics. People who can compete create significant innovations. People who can't compete stay as professors doing research because it's the easiest and most convenient pathway.

alsaaro · 3 years ago

Maybe.

A better explanation for the slowness of the national laboratories is they their word will be taken more definitively on this issue than anyone else.

They are the ones with reputations and have to answer to critics in the private sector, amateur sector, and in Congress.

I think their slowness is an encouraging sign, it means LK99 isn't easily debunked.