cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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Cake day: January 17th, 2022
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoCanada@lemmy.ca•Our Canadian ProblemEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Wow. Although I do still think it is written with some LLM assistance, and I don’t think the authors sincerely believe the absurd alt-history they’re espousing in this article, I am sad to say I think your assessment here is actually spot-on.

    I got a slop vibe after reading just a little of it, and then clicked away and skimmed their other article titles (“Based International Law”, “The GIGACHAD Approach”, “Shitposting as a National Asset”, etc). then clicked to the homepage and saw their “Generated Affairs” (thisforeignaffairsarticledoesnotexist.com) LLM thing under Special Projects, and I naively concluded that the whole thing was merely an edgelord trolling project.

    Looking at it a little closer now (and seeing that their other link under Special Projects https://rickovercorpus.org/ is actually a serious thing which links back and thanks them for funding) I am also horrified.

    I still think it is an edgelord trolling project, but it is one with a likelihood to be seriously influencing actually-powerful people 😱

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoCanada@lemmy.ca•Our Canadian ProblemEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    This is what the radical far right wing of the US establishment is thinking

    No, it isn’t. They are thinking and doing plenty of horrible things, but not what is on that website.

    i didn’t read very much of it because i don’t suffer LLM outputs gladly, but to their credit at least the edgelords who created it were nice enough to put a troll face at the bottom to remove any doubts one might have about its lack of sincerity 🙄

    Check their twitter and other projects if you still aren’t sure, but after you realize what it is I hope you’ll delete this post to stop spreading their slop.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Alchemy is so hot right now.English
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    6 days ago

    https://www.marathonfusion.com/alchemy.pdf

    https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/government-funded-alchemy

    tldr from that blog's assessment:

    First, the researchers have a high degree of credential credibility. […] These are very much not software engineers who think they’ve solved alchemy after talking with ChatGPT for a year or something.

    […]

    Optimistically, in my mind this leaves about 10% odds that fusion energy becomes commercialized or at least piloted over the next couple decades and Marathon Fusion’s approach for the alchemical production of gold becomes a meaningful consideration for these fusion plants! That’s pretty high, and implies a high value for continuing to research this technology, even if not necessarily for Marathon Fusion specifically. Manifold [a prediction market] traders are giving this proposition (“Artificially produced gold on a significant scale by 2035?”) ~20% odds, which likely reflects the discount rate on a market that only resolves in 10 years, although it also leaves room for other potential methodologies for gold production (presumably also through fusion energy but who knows).

    […]

    Oh ya, this Gold is Radioactive

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