theneverfox

Recently, a bunch of people on tik tok found this "bug" in their banking app where you can write a bad check, then withdraw the funds before it clears... Then started crying about it when their balances updated

Dude definitely thought he discovered a cool new life hack

But they'll never leave ~~without money~~

One of my favorite tweets goes something like "the morals of a society live in the myths they tell. Superheroes, our demigods, show up to fix the problem then go back to their day jobs"

It used to be true... But I think tastes have changed

That's the thing - AI isn't about size, it's about categorizing the state of the world. If you can understand an action in context and possible responses, a Markov chain can learn and respond appropriately with the processing of a calculator - it really doesn't take much

But it'll probably show 3 orders of meatballs, and she saw him get 3 meatballs. He just has to keep her from looking too closely

I find it's about size. A small organization can be good or bad, depending on the members. At some point, you reach a size where the orgs focus shifts to perpetuating itself

Oh, it works... It turns the group against the kid. They may or may not attempt to police the behavior, but they won't do it effectively. They will resent the kid though

And isolated kids are famous for being obedient

Which would you pick - one person who will support you when the world turns against you, or a few tens of thousands who are rabbid fans so long as you keep saying what they want to hear

An explosion is pure entropy. It's high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner

We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order

The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy

The comments in a healthy social network are the only way to get near the truth at this point. I read the comments before the article at this point

Because you can do kinematics two ways. You can look at it by speed*mass, or by energy - in both cases it quickly gets way more complicated when you move beyond spherical cows in a vacuum, but both are equally valid. There's trade-offs to each approach, but the answer should end up the same

Just like how you can say a rod from God or an asteroid impact is x kilotons of explosives, you're looking at the energy being scattered on impact. If you set your reference frame to Earth, you only have to look at the relative speed and mass of the other object and you get a reasonable estimate. You could also factor in how much the earth moves from the impact, factor in how much the atmosphere, water, and soil "soften the blow", you could theoretically look at how the movement of other celestial bodies gently tugs at both as they impact, the resistance of the materials moving through the earth's (and sun's) magnetic field, and endless other factors

Ultimately, models are extreme simplifications, as are measurements. The universe doesn't care about units or numbers, the universe works on ratios. Numbers aren't real - they're a mental shortcut. Something exists or it doesn't, there isn't two of anyone as far as reality is concerned. Our universe cannot be compressed beyond itself without losing information

You probably don't care about how much torque your car has on Io, but reality does. 10k tons of TNT is not remotely going to be the same as a nuclear explosion, but humans will only see a mushroom cloud and destruction over a similar area

But models are useful - they predict well enough to give us a starting point.

Wait, our hat has oil? Eagle screech intensifies