Mathematically yes. Practically, right now? No.

So you need a resistor of this value for your widget.

For that many places of precision you’re looking at a potentiometer with a 10 nano-ohm precision.

I am not aware of any commercially available resistor that can do that but you could create one using microelectronic structures used for ICs and derive a 10 nano-ohm resistor by design and then chain enough of these elements into a resistor network or potentiometer to create the super precise resistance value you want.

Cool, congratulations.

Now how are you going to use this 10 nano-ohm resistor? What voltage will you be applying across it? What current do you expect it to handle? And therefore what are your power requirements? What are your tolerances, how much can the true value deviate from the designed ideal?

Because power generates heat through losses, and that will affect the resistance value so how tightly do you need to manage the power dissipation?

How will you connect to this resistor to other circuit components? Because a super precise resistor on it’s own is nothing but an over-engineered heating element.

If you tried connecting other surface mount devices (SMDs) from the E24 or even E96 series to this super precise resistor then the several orders of magnitude wider tolerances of these other components alone will swallow any of the precision from your super accurate resistor.

So now your entire circuit has to be made to the same precision else all of your design work has been wasted.

Speaking of which, now your heat management solution now needs to be super precise as well and before you know it you’ve built the world’s most accurate widget that probably took billions of dollars/euros/schmeckles and collaboration from the worlds leading engineers and scientists that probably cost more time and money than the Large Hadron Collider.

Well if he ever feels inclined to study the effects of it properly, all he needs to do is try to re-enter and get detained by ICE. Though depending on how bad it gets in the US in the near future, that might be a one-way trip.

All correct.

The only other things to add is that “Effective Altruism m” started as asking the question “what charity or charitable causes should you donate money to for the greatest positive effect in the world?” and because lonely terminally online people in the tech industry got hyperfixated on the answer evolved from “mosquito nets and access to drinking water” to that belief outlined in the previous comment.

The other thing is “timeless-decisions” which is where you should consider the far future impact of EVERY decision you make because all these little day-to-day decisions (what to eat, how to dress, your hobbies, how much you sleep, etc.) will have a “butterfly effect” on the lives of future people and whether the super AI that eventually comes will judge you to be a good person to be rewarded or a bad person to be punished.

It’s basically Calvinism for Tech-bros where God is an AI.

Behind The Bastards has done a four-part podcast on an offshoot of the Rationalists called the Zizians who were recently directly involved in that stabbing and shootout with the border patrol agent in Canada.

Also, a lot of Tech-Bros are into Rationalism like Musk, Zucc, Theil, and Sergey Brin. Basically, everyone who was at Trump’s inauguration thinks that his appalling actions justify the ends because it gives them the money to make the god AI to ensure they survive the impending judgement day and collapse of civilization.

Then do something about your mad king, else your inaction speaks volumes.

How does that saying go… “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

Untap artifact everytime the current US administration doorsteps a country for eggs.

(Cyberpunk sting plays)

Sam you can’t “effective altruism” a way of making people not using the general purpose AI tools you designed to “cure cancer” to make silly memes or saucy images.

If you wanted to cure cancer, you should have made an AI start up focused on curing cancer. But no, you had to buy into that “Rationalism” logic-circle-wankfest and now you’re disappointed when people aren’t making the “correct” timeless-decisions and “optimising for the future” because they’re regular people that spend their free time touching grass and hang around in person and not debating pointless logic thought experiments with strangers on niche Internet forums.

Vice believes making a serious article about a nonsensical “movement” will generate enough outrage clicks to save their ailing business.

It’s not the quickest though. ROI timeline is 18 years minimum for tax from non-degree level jobs, 22/23 years for degree level, and 26 to 30 years for post doctoral.

It’s sad. The quarterly pressure to generate value is one of the worst economic forces of capitalism which drives enshitification, job-instability from the “fire bottom performing 10%” so that you can post more “profits” from cost cutting, and the general short-term thinking that pervades all aspects of the culture.

It’s the reason “nobody” builds things to last or metaphorically plants something now for the future: it’s not profitable quick enough.

Agreed. I’ve kissed two boys as like dares but didn’t like it and I can acknowledge a guy is hot without being turned on by them so I think I’m comfortably on the straight side of the spectrum.

UK National Rail and the Franchise system: those are rookie numbers!

Come to UK / Europe. We’ve got universal healthcare and more robust democracy and many centurys long tradition of criticising and mocking our leaders.

Nope, it’s just a black box’s best guess as to what the reasoning should look like.

Sort of how in an exam you give your best guess for an answer then jotting down some “working out” that you think looks sort-of correct and scraping enough marks to pass.

Now imagine you’re not just trying to pass one question in one test in one subject but one question out of millions of possible questions in hundreds of thousands of possible subjects AND you experience time 5 million times slower than the examiner AND you had 3 years (in examiner time) to practice your guesswork.

That’s it. That’s all this AI bullshit is doing. And people are racing to achieve the best monkey typewriter that requires the fewest bananas to work.

The.

THE Senator…

Three letters, you couldn’t spare THREE FUCKING LETTERS?

When these publication headline writers pass-on I hope the undertaker hideously abbreviates their tombstones!

So you don’t have any actual counter points to the very good points Friendly Jordies made about your favourite platform? Convince me, I’m on the fence about it.

You’ll probably find this video interesting then

I’m sorry but just going for the marginalised groups is not going to win them the next election. They have to be fighting for the working people which, includes marginalized groups, because just playing violin strings about the hardships of small sects of society is not going to bare any fruit from others who aren’t in that cohort more worried about keeping themselves fed and a roof over their heads.

But of course, the large financial backers of the DNC wouldn’t go for that. That’s why they so aggressively pushed “support” for these groups in the first place, using their sorrows and plight as political shields.

Trump is the addressed subject but not the intended audience.

Christ, I wish Americans would get over their embarrassment that half their population has a vagina.