Dave Moore

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• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  This little scam is a good example of the problems Science Fiction writers have when trying to write about the future. To riff on J.B.S. Haldane: The future turns out to be not only weirder than we imagine; it's weirder...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  Bangladeshes' GDF/head go pop is higher than India's. Should be: Bangladeshes' GDP/head of pop is higher than India's. Fucking Auto correct....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  Bangladesh is often used as the poster child of future disasters, but consider this: The Bangladeshi birth rate is now below replacement level, so it population, currently growing at 1 % per year will level off and start to decline....
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Here’s something interesting about AIs: The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (preprint) arXiv. Abstract: What will happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the language found online? We find that use of model-generated content...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Charlie @ 1231 Charlie, I think the gist of my original argument stands, which was that properly managed Britain’s current birthrate could be beneficial provided you don’t fuck things up; and unfortunately, Britain is deep in fuck-up territory. Britain population...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  David L. @1215. I agree and would have pretty written what you did if I hadn't wanted to keep my post streamlined. Good points....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Rocketpjs @1141 A low birthrate in moderation with intelligent policies to take advantage of it can be very positive for a country. If your birthrate is between 1.5 and 2.1 (replacement rate) all sectors of your native labor pool will...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Paul @425. I just has an epiphany about the likes of Lauren Robert, Matt Gaetz and Marjory Taylor-Green. They are not politicians. They are Reality TV show contestants. They did not get themselves elected to govern. They got themselves elected...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Robert J. Sawyer in his novel Quantum Night plays with that idea. Our reader's group just did it and everyone liked it. It's solid meat and potatoes SF. It postulates that there are 3 quantum entangles electrons in each neuron....
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  One of the threads of this discussion follows the general shittiness / mendacity of large tech corporations so I though you may enjoy this video podcast between Adam Conover and Cory Doctrow, who is peddling his new book, Chokepoint Capitalism....
• Commented on Minor updates
  I read that article, and what ChatGTP appears to be really good at is automating bullshit jobs and automating the bullshit aspect of ordinary jobs. You come up with a useful idea. Your boss says write me a report on...
• Commented on Place your bets
  RE: SVB Failure It is my belief that if you really want to know about something, try and find somebody who knows what they are talking about. This is an article on the SVB failure from a Californian banker and...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Paws @589. I agree with you. The correct euphemism for the river he is referring to (and the company) is the big piranha infested river....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Howard 146: I've been thinking a bit about telerobotics and I expect them to become big in the 2030s. First a little on the economics of tele robots. Let us say a tele robot costs $50,000 and you get 12,500...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  To qntm: This is one of the best SF/horror stories I have read in a long time. I would rate up there with such classics as Flowers For Algernon, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, and I Have No...
• Commented on WTF
  FTL thread: There has just been a paper that has come out, which looks at what it would be like if an observer could go fast than light. Here's the Space Daily summary of it: https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Three_time_dimensions_one_space_dimension_999.html which has a link...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  For those of you working about global warming destroying agriculture, here's an article to consider from the Washington Post on what the Dutch are doing. They have Science Fiction agriculture. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/netherlands-agriculture-technology/...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  I think Musk's behavior can be attributed to sleep deprivation. He's been burning the candle at both ends all his adult life. I hear he gets by on 4 hours sleep at night, and you can get away with this...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  Duffy, a few thoughts about your 5 horsemen: First Horsemen – Boomer Retirement—Reduced labor availability In a nativist country, like Japan or Korea, this is a problem. Your in-demand labor (skilled labor) becomes scarce. Prices rise. The economy, not just...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  If you are interested in the ins and outs of artillery usage in the Ukraine, this is the guy to go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMEpxX7rS5I If fact, this is the guy (Perun) to go to pretty much about anything about the Ukrainian...
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  And now for something completely off topic to entertain you this weekend. Some Australian lads have come up with a wood burning jet turbine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-UnhAzTMxg It has steam punk potential I think....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  I took a quick look at Scottish GDP figures and it appears that Scotland is running a deficit of 5%, which is not that bad. The interesting thing is that Scotland is running a modest surplus with the rest of...
• Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
  Charlie @ 437, I've been thinking along those lines observing the use of bike lanes in Los Angeles whose main purpose is virtue signaling. A typical bike lane consists of a 80 cm wide strip painted between the parking lane...
• Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
  Lavery @10 "I have sometimes had in my mind the image of the bluff, honest, red-faced Englishman. Surely he exists. However, I just finished Simon Singh's /The Code Book/. And I learned that the English can be the most devious...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  I would like to add into the mix one of the more toxic products of billionairedom, perhaps the most toxic product, that is their children. The poster child for this is Donald Trump. The Kock brothers are also descendants of...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  First a quick summation of how the war's going: The Ukraine is giving Russia the Finnish treatment. But this post is is about weapons and the future of warfare (I've been doing some doom scrolling myself) and future warfare is...
• Commented on Bad news day
  I do find Seagull to be a most appropriate name for her. She has a habit of flying in on occasion, shitting all over everyone, then flying off....
• Commented on Bad news day
  Just a little anecdote from Aerospace & Space Technology on the war in the Ukraine: Satellite photography reveals a lot of stopped / abandon convoys of Russian trucks. One of the reasons for this is that before the invasion began,...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  To all those who are moralizing about the evils of air travel. Stop worrying about it. The airline industry, plane manufacturers, and in particular European governments are taking this problem seriously, and they are making a steady program to render...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  Paul @ 418 It sounds like Boeing has fallen into a similar trap. Oh, it's way worst than that. Aside from the normal tendency of American firms to cull its engineering staff in a downturn (Life for an American engineer...