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e/acc founder Based Beff Jezos' startup Extropic tries pivot to quantum computing. Twitter handle still has "AI" in it (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

... trying to view the whole universe as a big simulation ...

Ding ding ding! We got another simulation hypothesis techbro! All who got bingo raise your hands. Everyone else, better luck next time.

If you're trying to embed physics into computation, it's very natural for you to embed AI into the physics of the world.

I can't tell what this is supposed to mean even viewing it through rose-tinted tech optimism goggles. Embed physics into computation? Bro, that's called "electricity". Embed AI into physics? OK now you've completely lost me.

[noise is] also a problem if you're trying to go low power on [illegible] computers, and so what these devices do they use the noise from heat-- the jitteryness of the elctrons-- as an asset rather than a liability.

But seriously what the hedge is he talking about?

It's just some vague buzzwords about using ~~quantum computing~~ (edit: not quantum, based on the follow up video) to ~~embed intelligence into the universe in the most efficient way possible~~ solve unspecified classes of machine learning problems.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Embed AI into physics? OK now you’ve completely lost me.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

E = mc^2 and E = mc^2 + AI
mc^2 = mc^2 + AI
0 = AI

Therefore AI is worthless.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

so true bestie

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

As a physicist whose current specialization is quantum information theory, reading those quotations hurt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Embed physics into computation? Bro, that’s called “electricity”.

I think this is even worse as it's backwards! "Computation" is not a thing, you can't embed something into it. You can embed computation into physics -- that's what we do, we figured out how to compute stuff in the framework of transistors and electric currents and built a CPU.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

embed physics into computation

Ok, have I been sniffing glue or is computation not the result of physics?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There will come a time when the economic tide has receded and we notice that not only were a lot of people swimming naked, they were very very high on drugs too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

More of a Woodstock mud puddle than anything else

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

finally, the guy who willingly named himself BasedBeffJezos and posts the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever seen has pivoted his startup to the grift that you can replicate faster and more reliably on a Commodore 64

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

how have I not heard of sigbovik before, this is excellent

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

The recent one was also posted on !notawfultech iirc

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Frankly I'd be more impressed if they had a lab of non-thermodynamic devices.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

They are wearing the clean room masks below their noses. I wouldn't trust them with regular computers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Ugh, at least some scams are novel or entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But wait, there's a 40 minute version! (pray for me)

https://twitter.com/jasonjoyride/status/1784638854798123241

This one is less deliberately misleading than the teaser, but a bit of a bore. Based on the sections ("E/acc vitality", "Doomerism"), there might be some fun stuff in there.