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al2o3cr··on Are you tired of AI stigma?
Stigma balls in your mouth, more like
al2o3cr··on Report Says AI That Hallucinated a Cop into a Frog Is Making Utah 'Safer'

    AI That Hallucinated A Cop Into A Frog
He got better
al2o3cr··on 2026: This is AGI

    Before we go any further, it’s worth acknowledging that we do not have
    the moral authority to propose a technical definition of AGI. 
It's always great when an article starts by declaring the author's incompetence.
al2o3cr··on [dead]

     According to AI, no such study exists.
Congratulations, you finally found somebody even stupider than you to talk to
al2o3cr··on SpaceX will attempt to reach Mars by the end of 2026
Welcome to Elmo-land where a mission:

with a spacecraft that has never been orbited

that will need to be refueled in-orbit, which has never been done

"crewed" by autonomous robots which have only been demoed with remote operation

is "50/50" for happening within 11 months

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight

al2o3cr··on The Pentagon Is Recruiting Elon Musk to Help Them Win a Nuclear War
The only winning strategy: get him to sell nukes to the other side. He'll bullshit them out of billions for years and fail to deliver. See also the Boring Company, "Full Self Driving", and the Mars mission.
al2o3cr··on My first experiences trying to participate on Reddit
Shows up as a brand-new user, opens by posting a link to a low-effort blog post, gets bounced.

Sounds like Reddit working as designed, TBH

al2o3cr··on Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be
Link is broken - correct link:

https://vexjoy.com/posts/everything-that-can-be-deterministi...

al2o3cr··on Is gravitational time dilation a form of computational latency?
Where math?

For instance: an explicit form of the T^info term (introduced on page 4) for a physical system.

Without that, this is just meaningless LLM drippings.

al2o3cr··on [dead]
The "proof-10m.json" file claims to have only needed 256MB RSS (line 13)

It's an amazing coincidence how, despite all the other proof files including 10+ decimal places for their memory statistics, the 100m case somehow came out EXACTLY at integer values! And somehow heap_growth_percent was zero, despite the heap starting at 50 and ending at 3100...

The "proof-100m-official.json" also omits all leaf hashes in favor of referencing a file ".tmp/leaves-100000000.bin" which is not included with the "proof".

al2o3cr··on Show HN: G=(hbar*c*2*(1+alpha/3)^2)/(m_p^2*4^64) ≈ 6.6742439706e-11 (8 ppm)

    You mention the "uncharged case", but ordinary matter is not mathematically neutral. 
YOUR CODE assumes that it is, when it passes "q": 0 for four of the six objects.

For the other two, it passes "q": 1. Let's look at what it does then:

    L_src is much much smaller than Le, by roughly a factor of (mass / mPL)^2

    The calculation of lambda_a uses the electron mass even when calculating for a proton

    For the given objects, metric_factor is negligible.

    ai_unified = c^2 * (alpha * hbar / (me_kg * c)) / r^2 = alpha * (hbar * c) / (me_kg * r^2)

    but alpha = k*e^2 / (hbar * c)

    so ai_unified = k * e^2 / (me_kg * r^2) + small correction of O((mass / mPL)^2)
That's exactly the formula used for acc_coloumb in the code. Also interesting to note the "Coulomb acceleration" for a proton is calculated by dividing the electric force by the mass of the ELECTRON somehow.

As for "Phase 2"? The program's output doesn't even agree with the implementation about the formula being used.

al2o3cr··on Show HN: G=(hbar*c*2*(1+alpha/3)^2)/(m_p^2*4^64) ≈ 6.6742439706e-11 (8 ppm)
Numerology and LLM slop. Meaningless.

Consider the "calculation" for ai_unified for an uncharged case:

     L_src = m hbar / (c*mp^2). 
     Expand and simplify and get L_src = m G / c^2

     L_lim = w * L_src = 2 m G / c^2. Also the value of rs.

     metric_factor is irrelevant, as both ai_gr and ai_unified are divided by it since L_lim = rs

     ai_unified = (c^2 * L_src) / (radius^2 * metric_factor). Expand L_src and get ai_unified = m G / (radius^2 * metric_factor)
This is IDENTICAL to the formula used for ai_gr when there is no charge. Presenting "0% difference" like it is a result is sloppy ignorant bullshitting at best and deliberate fraud at worst.
al2o3cr··on Trump expected to expand access to cannabis in a major shift in drug policy

    On Wednesday, a group of 22 Republican Senators sent an open letter
    to the president, arguing that marijuana use would mean that 
    "we cannot re-industrialise America".
Whatever they smoked to make this statement make sense should DEFINITELY be illegal
al2o3cr··on YouTube Shuts Down Fake AI Movie Trailer Channels Watched by Millions
Link is broken, correct version:

https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-screen-cultu...

al2o3cr··on Schrödinger Can Give You Relativity; Classical = Quantum Equation
I'm sure your LLM's parents are very impressed
al2o3cr··on Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format
The docs mention that space for overwritten variable-sized values in the buffer is not reclaimed:

    The overridden space is never recovered, causing buffer size
    to grow indefinitely.
Is the garbage at least zeroed? Otherwise seems like it could "leak" overwritten values when sending whole buffers via memcpy
al2o3cr··on Introduction to the World of Computers(Need a Feedback) [pdf]
A lot of unparsed Markdown left in this document - things surrounded with double-asterisks etc
al2o3cr··on There are things that AIs understand and no human can
This is word salad. The LLM doesn't "understand" it either.

Check out r/LLMPhysics on Reddit to watch LLM-zombies try to convince themselves they and the robot have solved physics with a half-dozen pages of misformatted LaTeX

al2o3cr··on Why I Hate Frameworks
Gonna take a long time for Benji to build that shelf starting from planting the trees to turn into lumber and mining the iron ore to make the tools & nails.
al2o3cr··on Taking Thiel Seriously on the Antichrist
Sure thing. If we take him seriously, that means he's lost track of what's real and what's make-believe. Give him a grippy sock vacation until he can remember.
al2o3cr··on Washington Must Break Its Promise on Social Security
Shorter Bezos: "Millions of Americans need to get shafted so I can have another bajillion dollars"
al2o3cr··on The Ukachi Universal Law of Transformation Energy
Naming a law after yourself gets you an instant 10x "probably a crank" modifier. Chill out.

What is F_bond? Section 2.1 describes it as "the characteristic interaction energy of the initial state (kJ/mol)" but that's not standard terminology.

The exponent n is introduced, but then immediately assumed to be 1 with a hand wave to "optimal agreement is obtained" with that choice.

This asserts values of k without any evidence of where they came from. Some of them are "corrected" with unsupported statements like "Normalization relative to the noble gas reference yields a value 10x higher".

Section 3.1 argues that k=1.00 for helium, then section 3.4 instead declares k=2.21 because of "quantum mechanical effects predominating" with no additional explanation.

You can't get this published because it's vaguely-defined numerology puked out by an LLM.

al2o3cr··on Trump aims to eliminate income tax by end of term
Yeah, and monkeys may fly out of my butt
al2o3cr··on [dead]
"Silent war"? If there's one thing that over-enthusiastic advocates for both things share, it's the inability to be silent.
al2o3cr··on $2B Counter-Strike 2 crash: Your digital investments aren't yours
Considering CS skins as "investments" is as moronic as considering rare Happy Meal toys as "investments" and getting angry when the company makes more
al2o3cr··on Garibaldi, history's sexiest revolutionary?
It's amazing how many Italian dictators had biscuits named after them.

You've got the Garibaldi of course, you've got your Bourbon, and you've got your Peek Freens Trotsky assortment!

al2o3cr··on Is ChatGPT and OpenAI Stealing Ideas?
"We alone could think of 'have a second memory bank', they must have STOLEN OUR IDEA!!!!!"
al2o3cr··on Anthropic invests $50B in American AI infrastructure
I'm investing eleventy trillion dollars in AI infrastructure!

(note: I'm actually announcing that if I somehow had eleventy trillion dollars that's what I would do. That counts, since Anthropic doesn't have the $50b either)

al2o3cr··on [dead]

    SpaceX fans quickly began calling for a rescue mission
So nobody of importance has called for this. Did somebody at El Reg have a quota of Musk-glazing they needed to fill?
al2o3cr··on AI Friends Too Cheap to Meter

    We passed the Turing Test years ago 
Only if "the author became so stupid they couldn't tell the difference" counts.
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