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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Landauer’s Principle (a direct consequence of the Second Law of thermodynamics) shows there’s a very clear physical manifestation of information and information theory, it is not just human perception and preference. https://en
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Nope. Technological possibility of landing on a droneship was claimed to be impossible. And yes, of course it was never actually impossible. The technical expert was obviously wrong even at the time, kind of shockingly so, but you see simil
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Launching a gossamer thin mirror in space is not very expensive. Broad strokes claiming anything launched to space is going to be a more expensive solution has to level with the fact that GPS and quite a lot of telecommunications and Earth
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Nah. Should have been named after the Two Trees of Valinor, Telperion and Laurelin.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
orbital mirrors make very poor weapons because Conservation of Etendue means you fundamentally cannot concentrate very high unless your fill factor is very high (which would require millions of tons in orbit). Lasers are far more effective
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Yes. Unable to edit it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
I’m aware of the von Neumann joke. There is, however, a direct equivalence between them derived from the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Laws of Thermodynamics are pretty d*mn fundamental.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
This is a misconception. It’s more fundamental than that. There’s a fundamental connection between (Shannon) information theory and thermodynamics. The Landau Limit, whether blackholes can destroy information or not, quantum mechanics, etc.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Engineers became really jaded by Shuttle and the failure o X-33. Many of them, inappropriately, started claiming it was impossible. You still hear people claiming things are impossible today that are “merely” very hard, like full reuse, get
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Nah, it was everything. Everyone expects aerospace timelines to slip. That wasn’t the issue. I had an aerospace greybeard (guidance and navigation expert… nice guy, btw) from a civilian space agency that you would recognize tell me that boo
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
That’s because there’s no political will for ground forces by the US because it’s a dumb war. If there was political will, then the area around the Hormuz strait would’ve been seized, as well as the nuclear sites secured. Carpet bombing, to
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Having followed SpaceX since the beginning, this is not true at all. People doubted every single step. Industry experts did.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Or composite rebar. Basalt fiber is sometimes used. Way cheaper than stainless and just as rust proof
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Ok
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Wikipedia doesn’t make much money but is still helpful. LLMs don’t need to make a whole bunch of money to be helpful.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
I actually strongly prefer to read such forums WITHOUT "responsive design," even on my phone. Strongly.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
In January 2025. It’s also not a court decision, effectively an executive branch directive.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
That isn’t precisely what was decided in those cases, either (even though this gets repeated constantly on the internet as if it was). Again, the fundamental point of this case (and some similar cases) is just that you cannot assign IP to a
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
No. The court is saying you cannot assign IP rights to an AI, as this guy was trying to do. They are not saying it cannot be protected (as /r/antiai folk are always claiming). That’s another thing.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Because the “AI slop is uncopyrightable” people are misunderstanding court rulings like this. It’s not that AI output can’t by protected by IP, it’s that AI is not a person and so you can’t assign IP rights to it. You CAN assign IP rights t
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
That isn’t what the courts have decided. They just decided it has to be a human on the patent application name. You can use whatever tool you want to get there, but if you patent a thing, it has to be a human in the name.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
A sonic boom and a loud sound are not, in fact, the same thing.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
For spaceflight, https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com is still alive and kicking (although it has branched out and is super active on Youtube now).
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Social media is more addictive. That's a huge reason it won.
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
Why are there multiple users with similar usernames posting hyper-negative comments?
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by Robotbeat 3mo ago
They’re no longer sonic booms under the appropriate conditions. They still make some noise, as does, for example, high speed rail.
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by Robotbeat 4mo ago
...and users have 100% the choice not to use Google.
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by Robotbeat 4mo ago
You honestly think Google is intentionally giving wrong answers??? Google would love to have a perfect oracle that never makes mistakes! Maybe German courts can conjure one up.
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by Robotbeat 4mo ago
It’s illegal to make factual errors. Wow, cool, I guess we solved science very easily!

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