Readit Newsdefyonce commented on The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf] sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Sl... · Posted by u/akyuu
if humans stop age and live for thousands years, then there is no need for specific replacement rate.
Alternative, make it possible to have kids without heavy burden on the woman body.
Alternative, make it possible to become pregnant at 50-60 years.
This is all research vectors that we should work on, and not doom on hypothetical what ifs in the future!
defyonce commented on What does it mean to be thirsty? quantamagazine.org/what-d... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I am piloting a super sophisticated mech that is a literal home (primordial soup) for other tiny specs that cooperate together.
And more and more I ask this question. Why? There is only recursive answer, to copy itself, so the copy could continue piloting.
It is poetic and really weird.
defyonce commented on A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A arxiv.org/abs/2508.03814... · Posted by u/pinewurst
The detection of a potential giant planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A is compelling, not because we could live on the planet (likely a gas giant), but because it could host moons with the right conditions for life. If even one of those moons is Earth-sized and water-rich, it might be our nearest shot at finding another habitable world.
Still, getting there with something like David Kipping’s proposed TARS propulsion system (a solar-powered launcher that can fling tiny probes at ~40 km/s) we’d be looking at 30,000+ years to reach the star system. It’s a step forward, but for now, our best hope is to keep watching. Until someone develops fusion propulsion…
Unless we learn how to live for billions of years.
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at which point AI thing stops being a Stone soup?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
You need an expert who knows what to do and how to do it to get good results. Looks like coding with extra steps to me
I DO use AI for some tasks. When I know exactly what I want done and how I want it done. The only issue is busy typing, which AI solves.
For me the best insight learned from wearing a GCM is that a cardio exercise with 150bpm heart rate for 40min+ is probably not healthy. I would easily see my glucose level drop to below 80 mg/dL (5 mmol/L) 30min into the exercise. I always thought the exhaustion towards the end of my exercise was due to normal fatigue, and never thought it was caused by hypoglycemia.
Now I would exercise and closely monitor my glucose level, then adjust my intensity when it dip lower than 100 mg/dL (5.5 mmol/L). It made the cardio exercise much more bearable, and easier to stick to it as a daily routine.
this, 100% i've been running 35km while fasted for 36 hours, and it is way more difficult than when you allow yourself to eat a snickers on the way.
now i am running my weekly half-marathons with something sweet, and it has been awesome. Like really no big deal.
just tell them something nonsensical. They are unable to take a hint and continue with the nonsense. They start to be stuck on local minima. All of them. Video/images/text. I haven't seen LLM that is able to take a hint and understand the hidden meaning in absurdity of following up.
there is infinitely larger amount of prompts that will break a model than prompts that won't break it.
you just have to search outside of most probable space
defyonce commented on How to know when it's time to go bitfieldconsulting.com/po... · Posted by u/chautumn
It just feels so good to think that I can just get out and
forget all about it. It relaxes me, and it brings me tears of joy.
Yesterday I've spent 8 hours hoping that I could do a super easy task, I had to cry before I could focus and do that (it took me 15 minutes, mental preparation for it took me 7 hours).
The problem though, I haven't interviewed for 6 years and it is very likely that I will not find anything for at least a year.
Another problem, I don't feel like coding, ever. I've spent 15 years doing it and, in general, I am not passionate about it at all. I just don't want to do it anymore.
After I've written entire systems that serve ok (I hope). I just can't do a single if statement without DPDR symptoms anymore.
I am so thoroughly done, I just can't imagine doing this for another month. Boss knows, everyone else knows too. I sort of coast for a month and then it is likely that I am gone. I hope I will be gone on good terms.
The biggest question is what is next for me in life? I have absolutely no idea.
I also write code daily, read the same things I read when I worked, thus keep my brain going too. You can't ignore body or mind, you have to keep both in tune.
I am still getting older, but I am in better shape than I was before I retired. The last time I felt as fit was when I was still playing basketball 30+ years ago.
Don't wait, it's easier to do a little for decades than wait until it's almost too late.
And still, I feel like hell today (and it is only Friday morning)
I used to run half a marathon every Thursday in a fasted (36 hours) state, but now I can't, I became weak and frail. Aging gets us all!