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Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a> </p><p>Under no circumstances should you connect a text generator to your password manager software.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>Even under socialism, you will have food safety rules.</p><p>(Since I just encountered someone replying to a post about food safety with "abolish capitalism!", which might be a good idea but which was not the topic being discussed.)</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>If a spacecraft mission proposal would best be described as "creating a hazard for multiple other spacecraft", it is probably not a good idea.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>No, scientists do not have to write papers that pretend that actually-useful quantum computers are things that exist.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>If programming an emergency alert system, you might not set it up so that local alerts go to half a million people instead.</p><p>Especially not if you send only the "all clear" alert and not the alert for the actual emergency.</p>
Michael Busch<p>And it has been five years now since the Arecibo Observatory was used to observe anything.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>Proxima b and d are closer to Earth than any planet orbiting Alpha Cen A can ever be for the next 25,000 years or so.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>3I/ATLAS looks very much like 2I/Borisov and like comets from our solar system.</p><p>That we have seen so many things like this is part of the interesting actual science here.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>In Bayesian statistics, "prior probability" does not mean "something you just made up".</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a> </p><p>Dark matter passes through normal matter.</p><p>No, it does not make impact craters. If it did, we would have noticed already.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>"What if this spacecraft in Jupiter orbit magically had four more tons of hydrazine" is not something to be taken seriously by anyone.</p>
Pratik Patel<p>Formula for success:</p><p>1. Create an environment where you control supply.</p><p>2. Choke off supply by creating artificial barriers.</p><p>3. Create even more scarcity by showing your aims.</p><p>4. Slightly remove one of the chokepoints to show your compassion.</p><p>5. Let people believe in your good will and let those feeling unease by your previous actions become slightly less uneasy.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Subpost</span></a></p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a> </p><p>When I asked if the food at a restaurant was gluten-free, I meant definitively free from gluten.</p><p>I did not mean "gluten-friendly".</p><p>One more entry on my list of places to not eat from...</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>If you really must run a company promoting "AI" scams, at least give it a name that is not immediately confused for something else.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>If it looks like a comet and it acts like a comet; it is probably a comet.</p><p>If it looks like an asteroid and it acts like an asteroid; it is probably an asteroid.</p><p>Nobody need indulge the pretense otherwise.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>No, you do not need a language model for that task.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a></p><p>Managers should not use a publicly-funded research project as an opportunity to preach their religion.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a> </p><p>No, the text generators currently being promoted as "AI" are not remotely suited or designed for controlling spacecraft.</p><p>And you may disregard anyone who pretends otherwise.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a> </p><p>If an occultating asteroid or other small solar system object has an angular diameter smaller than the star it is passing in front of; it will produce a diffraction pattern while only cutting off a fraction of the star's light.</p><p>And there are a lot of small asteroids.</p>
Michael Busch<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subpost</span></a> </p><p>No, you do not want to launder essential public information through the text generator.</p><p>Especially when that information is already available through verified websites.</p><p>(I expected better, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>.)</p>
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