You respect us? You’ll be telling us that as you slot six shells into your mossberg and blow us away.

And statistics show that children of LGBTQ couples are generally at least as mentally healthy as their peers.

Yep, 100%. They’re both technically soluble, but are, apparently, very nuanced problems. AI (even purpose-built narrow AI) is great with those.

Not quite the right nomenclature (wording), but wording is often less important than content—and on the content of your question, you’re right.

Unlike digital computers, quantum computers don’t reliably output the right answer—even when they work as well as (we think) they possibly could. Instead, they give a distribution (over multiple runs) of correct and incorrect outputs. , These average out to the right answer if the computation is repeated some number of times.

However, quantum computers produce incorrect outputs much more frequently if a quantum computation is interrupted by some interaction—e.g. a thermal photon. It doesn’t take very much interaction to cause “decoherence”, so many types of quantum computer (including the most popular) have to be cooled to extremely low temperatures. There’s also active research on computational ways of improving fault-tolerance/error-tolerance…unfortunately, even with such methods, thousands of qubits are required to do useful computations. Even with aggressive cooling, none of our quantum computers have been able to hit the necessary qubit counts yet.

Quantum computers aren’t really very impressive or useful with low numbers of qubits. The computational power of digital computers scales roughly linearly with respect to the number of computational transistors. The representational complexity of a quantum computer doubles each time a qubit is added; this doesn’t translate nicely to equivalent computational power, but quantum computers do still have much steeper (exponential) scaling for some types of computational problem. Unfortunately, systems of many entangled qubits are much less stable than smaller entangled systems…so we can’t make good use of quantum computers until we can improve coherence time and/or fault tolerance a good deal.

Yep, it’s a joke; no way it’s gonna do anything useful except act as a training platform that could be just as easily simulated with digital simulation, as you point out.

They’d be better off applying machine learning (in the vein of AlphaFold 2, for instance) on a digital computer for serious R&D.

Well, unless they’ve made one hell of a breakthrough regarding coherence time. Even then, 20 qubits isn’t exactly a lot to work with.

20 qubits, per Wikipedia. The Quantum System One released in 2019 lol.

Thank you for mentioning Microsoft’s (and MA investors’) role in this/their “skin in the game”. I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one who thought the press in question—and resulting popular rhetoric—seemed pretty contrived.

Same here. This life, in its present form, is profoundly unkind.

And America is presently suffering from outbreaks of eugenicist rhetoric, actual neonazi movements, kleptocracy.

And America is home to by the three most successful AI-development teams (Google, OpenAI, Microsoft).

And America is already working on enormous offensive drone swarms

Not that drone swarms are by any means the only tool they could use.

> “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” — Jay Gould

For those curious

Particularly if they convince people it’s not AGI and then consult the AGI for assistance in keeping it under wraps.

Another example: Rome under Julius Caesar killed something like 2/3 of the population of Gaul. They had well and truly won well before that, but they Just. Kept. Going. It wasn’t just war, it was systemic slaughter.

They could roll out next-gen LLM-powered disinformation/agitation bots and rapidly turn people across the world against their neighbors over all sorts of locally-contentious topics—and LLMs are capable of accounting for that context.

Why do most of the dirty work with physical (autonomous) weapons when you can just get your “enemies” (us) to kill each other? Then it’s just a matter of mopping up. This doesn’t even necessarily take a massive conspiracy, either, as it’s a lot easier to covertly “stockpile” computing power + bandwidth than to stockpile drones or other autonomous weapons.

(T-T)

Me too. I just got done writing a paper about the photoluminescence of Mn-doped lead halide quantum dots.

I think I should have just eaten the precursors instead of putting myself through the pain of writing that paper. ^(Kidding)

I’ve become less human after reading a pile of papers taller than the Empire State Building. Apparently I now speak academicese.

Woah, that spatiotemporal coherence is a big improvement!!! And to think that’s only 1.7*10^9 parameters!!!

I have to wonder if kids with poor executive function and inattentiveness/hyperactivity are more likely to be abused (hence higher ACEs), resulting in elevated risk for BPD.

I also have to wonder if the poor executive function and inattentiveness/hyperactivity are temporally preceded by increased ACEs—in other words, I wonder if ACEs might cause some of the ADHD-like features.

It’s also possible that neither is true (in which case both are probably just risk factors), or that both are true (in which case they all interrelate).

I’m not a researcher in developmental psychology, so I…really don’t know enough to answer my own queries.

Microwave LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), known as a MASER—same acronym, but Microwave instead of Light. In practice, a MASER is a type of LASER. We can use them to transmit energy (in the form of photons), which may then be absorbed by some kind of receiving transducer. In the case of beam-transmission of power, the receiving transducer is an antenna—most likely a very large array of ‘em.

Yeah, I was strongly reminded of Nazi uniforms.

100% agreed with you. For me at least, it’s just fascinating and intrinsically worthwhile.