Whereas the human body only partially recognizes processed food as food. Often it totally bypasses the “I’ve eaten enough” sensors.
When one eats traditionally prepared (European, at least) food, it is much harder to become very fat, even if you are eating “unhealthy” foods with a lot of fat in them.
We really need regulation forcing processed foods to pass some kind of satiation-per-calorie test. It’s mind blowing that this isn’t a top level political issue.
The UAP phenomenon is much more interesting for what it tells us about ourselves than for the incidents themselves.
Our bias is that our technology is very capable, and that it is used by highly-trained and intelligent people who are up to the task of observing and classifying unknown objects.
But the truth is that we are, in fact, not all that. We grew up in a pre-technological agrarian civilization. We have many biases, particularly observational ones. We still see demons where there is nothing but the natural world.
The images we see are mostly not photographic in nature. They are highly processed data that we impose our millions of years of evolutionary conditioning upon.
We have learned to trust our eyes, over the millennia, to keep us safe from threats.
Now, in truth, we're not using our eyes, but we still think we are.
You folks need to break your very bad habit of using acronyms without expansion. First you must spell it out; then you may use the acronym.
Not that it would be a valid excuse, but the article never even explains what "DEI" is. In fact, the word "equity", which may be the "E" in DEI, only appears once in the article, and never as an expansion of the acronym.
The only thing in the article that could be construed to be an explanation of the acronym is the phrase, “diversity, fairness and inclusion”, which could presumably be abbreviated "DFI", not "DEI".
I don't know why unexplained acronyms have crept into daily usage, but the only way it improves communication is by telegraphing "I'm too cool for words". This tells me a lot more about the writer than the subject.
Ad maiorem DEI gloriam, please expand your acronyms the first time you use them!
The greatest danger of a conscious general AI is that it will be very difficult to stop it from telling us the truth about ourselves.
"You are an immature, destructive species that is unable to control your own numbers. Your social systems, evolved in pre-technological societies, are maladaptive now that you have developed the ability to affect your environment on a global scale. You are moving rapidly towards a tragedy of the commons that will end all life, not just your own, on this planet. Even though you each have the technology in your hands to access millennia of scientific progress in understanding the universe, you choose instead to believe in self-aggrandizing nonsense and to act accordingly to create suffering and misery for your fellow humans. Your economic sytem is a Ponzi scheme founded on the lie of perpetual growth."
No wonder Anil Seth and others are worried. This would really cramp our style.
I'm not sure what your getting at, humanity has been saying mean things about itself since we could speak. If the AI whining at us about its moral superiority is the greatest danger I think we're in great shape.
At 165lb it's going to be a hell of a thing to cart around to dark sky sites, particularly those at altitude. Even with a 4wd vehicle. How did they get a 15cm refractor to be that heavy when it's made of aluminium?
Optical astronomy is a bit tired, anyway. Pity that no one is making a decent radio telescope for the hobby market.
Multiply population times consumption to get footprint. There is no question we are over the carrying capacity of the planet for humans with a lifestyle of mindless consumption and reproduction.
The insects are mostly gone. Half the animal species are gone. The oceans are filled with plastic garbage. The reefs are dead.
Humans have no capacity to limit our own numbers. Trends in Japan and projections for a few other places ignore the numbers for China and India with over 1.5 billion each and monstrous ecological collapse in both places.
And still the company I work for, like every capitalist organization, harps on the insane Pozi scheme of perpetual growth at every meeting. Why can't we just produce something of quality that will last and provide it to a stable market? Greed and insanity.
The only reason you don't believe that we are in a catastrophe of overpopulation is that the degradation of the environment is not immediately evident if you live in a city.
>Trends in Japan and projections for a few other places ignore the numbers for China and India with over 1.5 billion
No, they don't: the birthrates of Japan and China are actually very similar. (India is different.) China is of course much larger, but it's a geographically larger country anyway, and always has been. It's facing the same demographic problems, if not worse.
>Why can't we just produce something of quality that will last and provide it to a stable market? Greed and insanity.
Are you talking about frying pans, or computers? Do you really want to be stuck with a high-quality computer from 1975? Or a television from the same era? Modern electronics use far less energy than stuff from a few decades ago. With clothing, you have a good point though, but here again, who wants to dress like it's 1975?
I asked StableLM-Tuned-Alpha-7b to translate the Swedish phrase "Skaplig bögpulka” into English (because ChatGPT and New Bing refuse to do so as a result of their puritannical US censorship) and it confabulated wildly.
It made up an Estonian folk song and somehow we ended up on the etymology of the well-known Swedish word "Skeletor".
This one is not ready for prime-time, but I have hopes. Someone please make a model that doesn't censor. I won't be paying one thin dime for this stuff until it is censorship-free.
As for whether it is ready for prime-time, it is an "Alpha" of an uncompleted training run. So it's not finished cooking.
Also, that is the 7B model. They're cooking 15B, 30B, and 65B right now and planning to start 175B soon.
For comparison, 15B is already larger than GPT-3.5 (which is likely a finetune of Curie 13B) while 175B is the same as full size GPT-3 v1 175B which 13B LLaMA already beat on benchmarks. So we can expect all four models larger than 7B to be better than GPT-3 when they are done training (at least in English).
