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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Seems half-baked. Well unbaked really. They make a shit ton of assumptions that I’m not sure are true.

    For example, why do they assume 90% pulverization efficiency of the basalt? Or is that a number they just pulled out of their ass?

    And does ERW work if the pulverized rock is in a big pile on the sea floor? Or would we have to dig the highly radioactive area up and spread it around the surface?

    And does the radioactive water truly stay at the site of the explosion? Or will it be spread through the entire ocean via currents?

    Cool concept but, like, maybe we should check the assumptions a little harder?




  • Man you’re calling me out for the wrong stuff. I am one of the few AI proponents on Lemmy.

    I’m triggered by the headline claiming they discovered the rules for a new game when they instead decided to make up plausible rules based on the game pieces that were nearby.

    As a professional game designer, I know that there is no way to recreate the rules for a game based on a grab bag of parts - there’s far, FAR too much entropy in the possibilities.

    Edit:

    Like, imagine I handed you a bag of chess pieces, but there was also a toilet miniature. (I just picked something random that’s not already in a chess variant). I know what rules the toilet piece moves with, because I invented it, but there is virtually no way you can guess what the rules for it are. You could, like the researchers here, make up your own rules for that piece, but the likelihood of it being accurate is close to nil.