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Cake day: January 22nd, 2025

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  • This is something I can actually speak on, as I’ve done research projects specifically on detecting solar radiation management (SRM) deployments. First of all, it’s contrails you (MTG and these idiots, not “you”) dumbfucks, as in “condensation trails”. It’s just when hot exhaust causes moisture in the air to condense to create a cloud-like thing.

    Secondly, cloud seeding has been used for many years already on small scales to help with precipitation management. It’s not a problem at these scales.

    Thirdly, injecting aerosols into the stratosphere (SAI) to reflect sun energy back into space is a big research field but it’s generally concluded that it shouldn’t be done because A) it’s extremely expensive to make any actual affects at a useful scale, and B) if it was used, it could potentially cause a termination shock (you can look it up).

    Fourthly, marine cloud brightening is a useful way to get some of the effects of SAI without the huge risks or high costs.

    In conclusion, fuck MTG and MAGA, they’re dumb, greedy, and hateful, and need to face justice.



















  • That’s not what I said. It’s absolutely dystopian how Musk is trying to tailor his own reality.

    What I did say (and I’ve been doing AI research since the AlexNet days…) is that LLMs aren’t old school ML systems, and we’re at the point that simply scaling up to insane levels has yielded results that no one expected, but it was the lowest hanging fruit at the time. Few shot learning -> novel space generalization is very hard, so the easiest method was just take what is currently done and make it bigger (a la ResNet back in the day).

    Lemmy is almost as bad as reddit when it comes to hiveminds.