tired_star_nrg (u/tired_star_nrg)

tired_star_nrg commented on I built an ROV to solve missing person cases suanto.com/2024/06/06/the... · Posted by u/craydandy

jonah · a year ago

The quest he mentions as inspiration - Tom Mahood's "The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans" - is a fascinating read and worth your time.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...

I first read it seven years ago and similar to the author, it inspired me to join my local Search & Rescue team which has been incredibly rewarding. I highly recommend doing that to anyone who wants to combine a love of the outdoors, specialized skills, serving the community, and helping people in their worst moments. (And doesn't mind getting up at 3am in pouring rain and going out and pushing through dense underbrush for hours!)

tired_star_nrg · a year ago

why is it asking me to sign in to read this?

tired_star_nrg commented on The Bad Trip Detective nautil.us/the-bad-trip-de... · Posted by u/dnetesn

mtalantikite · a year ago

That last part in the article about them being surprised that 8% of people in psychedelic clinical trials had difficulties is interesting to me. I think assuming that being in a therapist or clinician's office is a good 'set and setting' is sort of funny, because I can't imagine wanting to be in a clinical setting for a psychedelic experience. I'd likely want to leave and go wander in nature and they'd probably say no, too dangerous, put this blindfold and AirPods Max on. I'd do it for science, but it's not in my top 10 choices of location to do it in!

tired_star_nrg · a year ago

I think the article stated that 8% of the respondents who said they had a “bad trip” had their trip in a clinical trial. Not that 8% of clinical trials resulted in a bad trip.

tired_star_nrg commented on FTC announces rule banning noncompetes ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/null0ranje

DebtDeflation · a year ago

How is Senior Executive defined? C-Level only? Named Executive Officers on the 10-K?

tired_star_nrg · a year ago

Making over ~$160k and making policy decisions

tired_star_nrg commented on NASA Veteran's Propellantless Propulsion Drive That Physics Says Shouldn't Work thedebrief.org/nasa-veter... · Posted by u/DanielBMarkham

NegativeK · a year ago

I'm sorry -- it's much, much more likely that this guy is wildly wrong than him actually finding 1G reactionless engine thrust. It's bad science to outright declare his stuff to be impossible, but it's not bad science to say that I'm not going to spend time on it until he has demos that are being reproduced by others.

Also, I hope he's wrong. Reactionless drives in space are potential civilization destroyers.

tired_star_nrg · a year ago

In what way are they potential civilization destroyers?

tired_star_nrg commented on Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms space.com/object-crash-fl... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

teepo · a year ago

This is what black boxes should be constructed with.

tired_star_nrg · a year ago

If you look at the Wikipedia for Inconel, it does actually mention that it is used as the engraving medium for black boxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel

tired_star_nrg commented on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison cnn.com/business/live-new... · Posted by u/misiti3780

rootusrootus · a year ago

> Parole is available after 1/3 of term

IIRC it's 85%. Federal prison does not have parole, but they do give some credit for good behavior, up to 15%.

tired_star_nrg · a year ago

I thought that was only in Louisiana if they pass one of their new “tough on crime” laws

tired_star_nrg commented on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines cbsnews.com/news/fda-slee... · Posted by u/pizza

diob · 2 years ago

As someone with apnea due to my anatomy (and AHI of 79 at that), I'm jealous. When I first got diagnosed more than 10 years ago the doctor thought I was obese seeing that. Nope, just bad luck. I'm fit, would hate to see how bad it would be otherwise.

tired_star_nrg · 2 years ago

Invisalign actually helped my OSA a ton, that and nasal surgery for deviated septum brought my AHI from 40 down to 8.

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tired_star_nrg · 2 years ago

It’s kind of ironic that the Supreme Court keeps declaring parts of the government as unconstitutional, when its own powers are not defined in the constitution. Edit: when the power of Judicial Review (to declare a law unconstitutional) was not defined in the constitution. It was a result of Hylton v United States in 1796 and Marbury v Madison in 1803

tired_star_nrg commented on Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/anjel

mewpmewp2 · 2 years ago

But still - why is consciousness required? Because a model of the World could be held even without it, in my view.

E.g., I wouldn't think GPT-4 is conscious, but I'm pretty sure there's a representation of abstract World and relationships within it following the neurons and weights. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to do much of it, that it is.

Also I think model of the World is just that - which can be represented as relationships between neurons, symbolising that model of the World.

And I think you can have a complex and a perfect set of neurons and their connections to represent everything in the most efficient manner for that size of parameters (neurons and connections together). There probably is the perfect configuration, but it couldn't even be achieved using training or evolutionary methods.

And none of it requires consciousness in my view.

tired_star_nrg · 2 years ago

There’s a really neat book (fiction) that touches on this concept. It’s called Blindsight by Peter Watts.