John Stevenson

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• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  If you're going to send a laser down a pipe, you could make the pipe out of a solid, high-refractive-index material… and I think we just reinvented fibre-optics :)...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "how easy it would be for one person to move 330kg+ on Earth." It's doable. According to this report from Transport for London, 300kg loads are feasible. Moving that much mass with human power alone does require very very low...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "direct laser through atmosphere." In the 90s I worked for a publishing company in Bath that had a rooftop-to-rooftop laser link to connect the networks of two buildings. Clever stuff… until one of those days that filled the entire Avon...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Lots of Mars talk. Anyone who hasn't read 'A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?' by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith should do so, stat. And of...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Which is what I expected/predicted would happen :-) Yep, you formulated theory and made prediction, I did experiment and confirmed it. 3 Profit! Of course these LLMs don't even 'know' anything about language, never mind reality. They just have a...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  I'm in the UK and can access it with no problem. Sorry, I realise that's not very helpful. I think it requires you to have a google account of some sort....
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  "Very few people live so interesting lives that /anyone/ can muster "15 fun facts" about them. "The crucial word here is "fun", it implies that the fact contains some element of surprise or humour." I asked Bard for five fun...
• Commented on London Bridge
  Surprised nobody has mentioned that Elizabeth Windsor died before the start of this discussion. Newscasters and politicians had grabbed their black suits and ties mid afternoon and Nicholas Witchell kept referring to her in the past tense long before the...