As long as the government takes care of some basic things, people aren’t constantly reminded that they need to spend every waking minute to fuel the next demonstration, riot, revolution, uprising, resistance, civil war etc. Those governments that don’t do a good job, need to be constantly worried about these things.

When people are happy, they will just spend the extra day with friends and family, fishing, flying a kite, hiking in the woods or whatever. Alternatively, you can totally just play dayz with your friends, and shoot some zombies all day long.

Hmm… Let’s take a look Yeah, that looks like a pretty cool channel. Oh wait, I’ve seen many of these videos already. Maybe I should subscribe. Hold on, I’m also subscribed already? Looks like I totally forgot this channel even existed!

Yeah, totally can recommend. Awesome electron microscopy, detailed explanations and all that.

These are mostly science and technology related.

Just Have a Think: Energy, electricity, fuels, batteries, renewables

Engineering with Rosie: electricity production, transmission, storage etc.

xkcd’s What If?: physics, silly questions, silly answers

Applied Science: Science, technology, DIY lab stuff

Elina Charatsidou: Nuclear physics

Future Proof Health: anything health related

AlphaPhoenix: Material science, physics, technical stuff

Design Theory: In-depth explanations on why items are designed to look a particular way.

Small bits of code can be made and maintained as a hobby or a passion project, but larger things begin to require money. Although a lot of FOSS is maintained by volunteers, money still has its role in the equation.

Writing headlines is a selection process. You write about all the useless but cool stuff while ignoring all the boring but important stuff.

Improving Li-ion by 1% doesn’t make headlines, but that sort of stuff has been going on in the background for a few decades already. That’s why current batteries are so useful and widespread.

Lab prototypes are sexy, even if they’re 50 years away from becoming commercially viable. Sure, these things can charge fast, or hold a huge capacity, but they also tend to die after 10 cycles. Fixing that is going to take a long time, just like it did for Li-ion batteries.

You may have wondered are these companies actually inclusive, or are they just faking it for PR points. Well now you know. Meta is doing whatever it takes to maximize profits.

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Turns out there’s always more nuance to these things.

The blockchain solves one problem: trust. Do we really have that problem in normal energy markets?

People who buy and sell energy would need to trust each other and the middle man in between them. If they have trust issues, using a blockchain could make sense. As far as I can tell, the current system doesn’t suffer from a lack of trust, so what would the blockchain do in this case?

Edit: Turns out, it would be more accurate to say that it redistributes trust away from a central authority… well at least in most cases it does. There are still situations when even a blockchain has a central authority you need to trust. It’s not guaranteed to solve all trust issues, but in the best case scenario it can solve some of them.

And if that works out, you could also use the same method to shape the political atmosphere on the platform. Who knows, you might also disarm the next arab spring before the first demonstrations even happens.

I’m pretty sure governments are very interested in seeing the results you get from using LLM bots like this.

Yeah well… What can I say. Meta knows their users.

It’s for driving engagement. Basically, meta wants to make sure their platforms look appealing to the companies that use them for advertising purposes. More eyeballs, more ads, more money.

Status update: it took only a few minutes for the backlash to happen.

As users began to sniff out some of Meta’s AI accounts this week, the backlash grew, in part because of the way the AI accounts disingenuously described themselves as actual people with racial and sexual identities.

source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html

Oh, now they have bots that are into all sorts of spicy stuff. Pretty much what I expected.

Aluminium used to be super expensive until production was ramped up. Nowadays, we’re using it in door frames, airplanes, moka pots and soda cans, because it’s cheap and versatile.

Spoiler: History repeats itself.

You have a problem, but Reddit mods are helping you solve it. They know what’s best for you, and they clearly have your best interest at their heart. You’re on the right path. 👍 Just keep on commenting and let those bans pile up. When don’t want to use Reddit at all, the journey is complete, and you’re cured.

If that model results in wormholes randomly opening up here and there, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to violate our current observations. What if the probability of a wormhole event is incredibly unlikely. You know, like a tennis ball tunneling through a solid wall sort of unlikely. Even if the probability is a lot higher, those wormholes could open up anywhere in the universe, which just so happens to be incredibly vast. Or what if the wormholes are absolutely tiny, and last only a nanosecond? There are lots of ways it could still be compatible with observations.

I just looked it up, and it seems like my intuition aligns pretty well with MWI.

Anyway, the idea is that as you jump 100 years back, you enter a special timeline that isn’t exactly like the one you left. It’s mostly the same, but a time traveler visited at some point, which could radically alter the future of that timeline.

So if you become your own grandmother, there’s no real paradox, since you and your grandchild are not the same person. You are from different timelines, you are different branches of the same tree. Time traveling doesn’t cause branching, since every branch already exists.

A time machine can’t travel entirely freely to any branch, but since there are infinitely many branches you get the illusion of complete freedom. You can not jump to a timeline that doesn’t already have you jumping in it.

The current LLMs hallucinations and horror themed pictures have been pretty entertaining already. Sounds like there could be good times ahead if Meta lets the AIs run wild. 🍿

Sounds like a very different kind of multiverse than what I was thinking of. If that word is already taken, I should probably call this thing with a different name.

They will probably aim for that, but actually doing so will produce hilarious results. Imagine what would happen to someone who is into BDSM or some other spicy topic. Then meta would generate them a bunch of BDSM buddies that post all sorts of wild stuff all the time.

My argument is that as Meta matures, it becomes increasingly risk averse, just like large companies tend to. They might still try what you suggested, but after a few PR disasters they’ll tone it down a bit. Maybe after a few iterations, the bots will produce hilarious results as rarely as possible while still being just barely interesting. In other words: harmless and inoffensive.

If you screw up the calculation, your time machine can also end up deep under the mantle of the Earth. That would be a pretty spicy way to travel.