How does this work with QFT? If an electron is just an excitation in a field then it being “one electron” is meaningless.

Yeah an electron is not a 'thing'. It's like saying there's only one wave in the ocean.

This could practically be a zen koan

It doesn't. It is theory for times proceeding QFT or modern quantum mechanics and nonsensical in its context.

It is like saying that meter is same everywhere. Electron is a quantized energy level of electron field, a measurement.

yesterday I visited a page with TWO! captchas side by side. When I got through the second one the first one had expired...

All the time. Politically speaking the past is quite embarrassing.

in the west older generations hold much more power over who gets elected, demographically speaking, and look at what's going on. They feel no shame whatsoever and are doubling down.

Because it runs Windows hehe

“Bad ASI would pretend to be good *until* it could execute a plan to kill everyone all at once”.

So not today but tomorrow it could engineer an airborne virus. The point is it can come up with chess moves that are inconceivable to us.

I'm increasingly convinced that the major divide is many of the "AI is not a problem" people have never been on the winning side of a significant intelligence gap.

They literally have no clue the degree to which more intelligent people/systems can walk circles around less intelligent people/systems. In situations with a significant intelligence gap, they're the ones getting walked around.

Which, to your point: is completely opaque to the person getting walked around.

And this dynamic is evident even in human-to-human variations in intelligence. The gap to frontier machine intelligence will soon be much greater than the types of gaps you encounter with other humans.

It’s 3x the cost of jetKVM though. For someone with 8 machines in their home lab this is a big commitment.

JetKVM mini is ~$40 or ~$100 for 3.

Yes I am aware but the comment explicitly compared it to JetKVM, not the mini which is not yet available anyway

I agree with you, but suggesting Astroturf is apparently against the rules here. I like it because it needs less water for football fields.

Unfortunately it emits methane and a lot of other toxic chemicals, as well as not providing a permeable surface for rainfall.

Whether you meant the attitude product or were jocularly using it a relevant metaphor for AI decanters both your comment and mine apply!

Mainly because it's not very helpful for a useful discussion. If it's true, the discussion is already dead, if it's false, all it does is annoy the accused.

It’s useful to raise awareness. The rules were made during a different period, where motivated state actors astroturfing were not that prevalent.

I think it's only useful as awareness that it's a thing that could happen. evidence for specific instances tends to be tenuous.

For a specific post it’s always a guess. When it’s as recurring and consistent as it is here across all posts, it has crossed the point of preponderance of evidence.

And highlighting when it happens is exactly what helps people realize it’s not a one off.

The titanium spar is filled with gas. If there was a crack in the spar the gas would escape, therefore tripping the pressure sensitive radiation shield. Releasing radiation that can be detected inside the helicopter.

Wireless systems aren’t used for opsec reasons.

Wireless arent used because they need power/wires and are less reliable than IBIS. Civilian versions of sikorsky helos use the same system.

Since the radiation source is only exposed if it's indicating a potential main rotor crack, and it's not a very strong radiation source in the first place (so it's not like it allows long distance tracking), it seems like a minor risk -- if the radioactive capsule is exposed, the pilot is going to be returning to safe place to land.

Beta particles typically only travel a few meters in air before they lose most of their energy.

Why? It's not like it's gamma radiation.

Wait until you find out about smoke detectors. Or microwave ovens. Or light bulbs. Or anything with nonzero temperature.

The enterprising Germans all left for the US to make bread

Seems like they all failed miserably, when all what you can get in USA is a white rubber loaf which never goes moldy.

I like variety of bread in Germany, but one of the problems is how quickly it goes mouldy. Even the cheap stuff I had as a student in Aberystwyth (coastal) from Lidl (German chain) didn't go off quite so fast so often.

Sorry, I meant "bread" as in money.

Fastmail seems great

This is against site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

Do you see a referral link or code in their comment? No? Then obviously they aren't making money off it.

I've been searching for email provider that's not purelymail, fastmail really seems to be the best reputable option.

(Looking to switch off purelymail because the new design blows and I'm really unsure about the new owner. Can't put my finger on it, but I just dont trust the guy.)