• blakestacey@awful.systemsM
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    From the linked Andrew Molitor item:

    Why Extropic insists on talking about thermodynamics at all is a mystery, especially since “thermodynamic computing” is an established term that means something quite different from what Extropic is trying to do. This is one of several red flags.

    I have a feeling this is related to wanking about physics in the e/acc holy gospels. They invoke thermodynamics the way that people trying to sell you healing crystals for your chakras invoke quantum mechanics.

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        the guy is actually almost a physicist, even flunked out of a Ph.D

        Great credential for trying to “integrate physics and AI” if he’s demonstrably too lazy to understand physics at an advanced level.

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          Not just physics, but the physics of the world. Which makes it sound as if AI and physics are fundamentally separate somehow.

          Is BasedBeef aware that AI is already fundamentally merged with physics on the basis that it already physically exists? Just because your six finger, no light in her neon eyes gen AI waifu is 2D doesn’t mean that the bits that comprise her are exempt from the physics of the universe. Really, what could that quote possibly even mean?

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            Ahhh you see, the physics of 2D waifus were actually covered on the seminar a year after he flunked out. Womp womp.

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    But we suspect Extropic is just burning through the $14 million and will go broke within a year or two, if that. We look forward to Verdon’s “our fabulous journey” post.

    This guy seems like the type to totally skip that, embezzle the last million or two, and go straight for “messianic cult in the woods.” Possibly with a side order of “amateur experimental stimulant laboratory”