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From the abstract, the idea is that we can continue to shrink: "...in a manner in which no thermodynamic entropy is created or passed to the surroundings."

The objection seems to be the "free lunch" assumptions being made about shrinkability.

"What Is TANSTAAFL?" https://youtu.be/ZrZUe7R44eA?si=oK2H1L9ha1zQhDOh


I had always heard "lush". This was my first encounter with "louche" in print.

In some way, this is as striking as Trivers himself.


By the third round, the submit button interfered with the puzzle on my S24 phone.

Thanks, I tried to make room for everything for all screen sizes but I guess I couldn't. I'll fix the layout.

should be fixed.

The legislation seems more high-level requirements, that then implemented over in the Code of Federal Regs[1].

Using AI to plow through and make sense of all this would put us at risk of people knowing what the USG is getting up to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations


OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are way ahead of you. Ask your heart away. I am unsure about open source models, it'd be interesting to know if they're ingesting the law.

There is a book "Eats Shoots and Leaves" that gets at the importance of knowing when (and when not) do deploy the punctuation:

https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuat...?

I also enjoy how meaning of a whole sentence can be inverted by a bit of punctuation:

a. "A woman without her man is nothing."

b. "A woman: without her, man is nothing."


Lionel Hutz

Works on contingency

No money down

Always the best example for missing punctuation!


The user experience is alive and well: https://www.spacemacs.org/

The obvious answer to the power problem will be to have the AI design massively parallel exercise bicycle/electrical generator plants that can be powered by all of the people laid off by the AI.

A literal "virtuous cycle", if you will.


Why bicycle? A bath with tubes connected directly to a human body would be much better solution ;)

Too much loss and inefficiency. An in vitro ATP fuel cell feed with glucose would be more convenient with the right enzymes… but wait… glucoses will comes from plants and their own ATP uses sunlight as fuel. Replicating that would be much more cost effective than growing plants to feed animal-based ATP. Just as with food, animal intermediaries are inefficient.

One is fascinated by how others can be enthralled by something that seems, at first blush, so much polishing of the cannon ball.

But that's OK. The world is a better place for not being ruled by my bland tastes.

If I had to design a typeface, I'd bring back retro characters like thorn: Þ.


Thorn would solve so many problems.

For example, how do I write an h sound after t?


You could turn the phone off and put it in a Faraday pouch.

Business idea: Faraday headwear, so that the tinfoil hat can store the phone. For that fashionably paranoid person in your life.


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