This is how theoretical physics has worked for quite some time - someone figures out a hypothesis that works mathematically, and the experimentalists then prove or disprove it.
Is there a plausible experiment that can falsify dark matter? The study here used observational data and it didn't do that. (Deducing that non-existence of dark matter is plausible given what else was observed isn't the same thing.)
> “There are several papers that question the existence of dark matter, but mine is the first one, to my knowledge, that eliminates its cosmological existence while being consistent with key cosmological observations that we have had time to confirm,” Gupta confidently concludes.
I love imagining how the fish are almost an extension of the way the octopuses think. Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain. Now they're wrangling independent fish brains instead of octopus arm brains. Incredible
You might enjoy 'Children of Ruin' by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which explores this idea in depth with a civilization of genetically modified, super-intelligent octopuses. (Though I'd start with the first book in the series, 'Children of Time')
A solid series, with descriptions of thought process feeling truly alien. I'm currently enjoying "The Mountain in the Sea" by Ray Nayler for more octopus based speculative fiction
I would also recommend "The Mountain in the Sea"! I have mentioned this earlier on hn that I like it because it focuses on complexity of inter-species communication, even when both parties are intelligent. Interesting and somewhat unusual focus, plus loved the style of writing.
Don't worry, Alt Samman & co. will soon create GAI - Genetically Advanced Intelligence, Octopus Edition, which will know how to manhandle us, 8 arms at a time.
>Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain.
Yes, that's inherent in the design. All grey matter (optimized for local intercommunication), no white matter (optimized for sending signals between regions).
Each arm has its own ganglion ("CPU") and the central unit struggles to keep up with these and keep them coordinated.
A lot of hand waving from those words. Right now LLM isn’t more dangerous than harmful google results. The future where AI sends a terminator to destroy us is the part I’m having issues with
Perhaps gangs will start sending assassin-bots at eachother, but the more realistic threat for most people is getting banned from society after you post a wrongthink somewhere and get your social credit score nuked.
the imminent danger is more 1) wealth transfer of a magnitude we've never seen before, destroying the future of and sending hundreds of millions into poverty in the western world and 2) scalable governmental/corporate repression, propaganda and mass surveillance stabilizing our dystopian system despite 1
not even imaginable what that tech will mean to the western neocolonial/imperial project
Open source/science! If open models approach/maintain near-SotA capabilities, then there's hope for avoiding a Big Tech AI aristocracy. Currently, that means Meta releasing their 405B GPT-4 killer (and probably subsequent models).
We'll need community unity, to implement research results, test/harden models, create/aggregate/clean massive new datasets, figure out distributed training, lower hardware requirements, encourage experts to join the effort, praise companies who contribute to open source, etc.
You don't have to tell me that we'll fail. I know. But we have to try. It's the only way we'll have AI aligned to us, not a handful of techbros with savior complexes.
In my opinion, regulations are more important. Open source models cannot get to the same mainstream adoption as closed source ones, simply because closed source models will get more funding.
No-one beyond the tech circle will ever hear about these models or use them. This is a good second step but the first step is regulations.
> Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, pointing to archaeological, climatological and geological evidence to the contrary.
> But Uber told the 2022 hearing into Bauer’s complaint that it didn’t violate the human rights code because it’s an app and doesn’t provide a service as defined under the code.
What a slimy, disgusting, in-human argument to make.
Doesn't sound anything like that. It would be like if "Ask HN: Who's Hiring?" was asked why they didn't ensure that the hiring was evenly distributed among (say) races. They're just a forum, a place where people can post stuff. They can't guarantee that the people posting are of that distribution unless they themselves post it.
In this case, Uber is just a forum where people post ride availability and people look for ride availability.
It's not an outrageous argument to make, but it clearly didn't take. Presumably Uber will have to ensure there are sufficient UberWAV available in any region they offer normal services.
Uber enforces standards on drivers and cars to use their platform -- and take around 30% or more per ride. This is obviously completely different from HN's "Who's Hiring?" threads.
Well, the standards can't be that important. If you post the r-word in your job listing you're not going to get listed. But the payment may do the trick.
But then you have the opposite problem, don't you? Ford or Exxon is making a significant profit from the activity too. The former may even be imposing standards -- some modern cars have a limp-mode if they detect a fault -- and they had a lot to do with whether the vehicle is wheelchair-accessible.
It obeys Kepler's laws really really well. As opposed to those mathematically imperfect orbits that sometimes get the signs wrong when they do integration by parts and end up sending the planet spinning off in the wrong direction.
But seriously others in the various threads above have explained but it's to do with the orbital periods forming precise ratios so the planets align very pleasingly every now and then.
