Photonic

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[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

How could we possibly have known?

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yes, but non-AI users can become AI users. Women can’t become a fully biological man with XY chromosomes.

Maybe you should look at it more like GLP-1 agonists. They work in obese and overweight people, but don’t cause much weight loss in normal-weight people. But there is no reason to assume they won’t work in people that are now of normal weight when they become overweight.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Well that’s because women usually don’t have a dick. That is a big difference (mileage may vary). And a reason to assume dick-medication wouldn’t work in them.

I said there is no reason to assume non-AI users would behave differently. If you have a reason to assume non-AI users would behave differently you should state that reason. Now it’s just an empty statement of “that doesn’t work”.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You’re reading too much into this…. It was a joke my man

But yes, often times results in a certain subset of people are extrapolated to people at large. That is how nearly every study in humans is done.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Well we are talking about AI users so those are the people we were talking about. But there is no reason to assume the non-AI users are very different

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lay down their towel on the beds at the pool at 6 am of course

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but enabling is not the same as being the one who thinks they’re above the law. I mean, especially after the second world war all of Europe looked up to the US and they could do no wrong.

And obviously there has been some… divergence with the current administration in the US

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The USA is not “the west”

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I understand your confusion, since particles are ejected from the nucleus in both processes. They’re similar but not the same. Alpha decay may seem to be a bit of a grey zone, since the atom expels a helium nucleus, so the atom is “split” into two very asymmetric parts, but it is generally not considered a fission process. Alpha decay and spontaneous fission are actually competing processes.

And spontaneous fission is possible, but it’s extremely rare. For your example of Uranium, which, in nature, is overwhelmingly (99.3%) U-238:

Spontaneous fission is extraordinarily rare on a per-atom basis. Uranium-238, the most common uranium isotope on Earth, has a spontaneous fission half-life of about 8.4 × 10¹⁵ years.

Source

So with the uranium in your example there is a non-zero chance of spontaneous fission occurring, but it’s very unlikely, with alpha decay being about 2 million times more likely to occur. So, alpha decay will be the overwhelmingly dominant process, leaving virtually no room for spontaneous fission over the short span of a human lifetime.

Beta decay is something else entirely where no protons or neutrons leave the core, so there is no fission to speak of.

EDIT: I see the Lemmy downvote bandwagon has arrived, but I have to ask:

booing

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I feel most of the comments try to separate these two too much too. I mean yes, in the most basic form ignoro means to not know. Which seems innocuous enough in its elf, but a lot of ignorant people will often not admit (be it to themselves or others) that they’re ignorant. And I don’t know whether that’s stubbornness, stupidity, pride or whatever.

Now we’re seeing more and more people who feel cool and tough about themselves because of their ignorance.

People, like AI , can state bullshit with such conviction it may even fool other ignorant and stupid people. Meanwhile people actually might have a good idea or something to say get laughed at. Providing back up for your statements with evidence Is useless in this post-truth

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

If you’re 55 years old and "mainly confined to" a recliner chair, death may not be the worst option – JS.

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