OpenAI optimistically believes it might start being profitable in 2029.

Which is absolutely buck wild when you consider they’ve already signed contacts to spend another trillion dollars over the next five years.

How the fuck is a company that has $5 billion in revenue today going to grow that revenue by at minimum $995 billion by 2029? There’s just no fucking way, man…

They ‘disappeared’ my hair

Oh, ‘time’ definitely disappeared his hair — just not the ‘Time’ he’s thinking of

Sucks to suck, AJ

Absolutely. And even if you don’t care that your cat is out there making kittens, it’s important to know that un-neutered males are much more likely to get into fights with other cats. A lot of the nastiest feline diseases spread through fighting, and fights result in injuries that can easily become infected. It’s not unheard of for males to lose eyes (or even whole limbs) to completely avoidable infections.

So neuter your damn cats. It has the potential to extend their lives significantly, and promotes a healthier cat population in general.

MFW my mom tells me I’m handsome

Dang, you’re right… that was Cameron. My bad!

Whoa… did Epstein traffic pigs too??

Absolutely.

Hello Homer, this is God…frey Jones

The article gives the impression that he was arrested and charged for shitting in public. The fact he shit on a dead possum didn’t contribute to his charges.

I’m simultaneously amazed by how expensive this shit has gotten and by how cheap it was in the first place…

I’d recommend diving into this for a more scientifically ‘thought out’ and optimistic extrapolation: https://www.orionsarm.com/

Man… if the Technopocolpyse is what you consider optimistic, I’d hate to find out what you consider pessimism!

Because it is. Fuck off, Wendy’s.

The support of viewers like you

Cost to lock down the school for an hour? Priceless

The US should just switch to paracetamol. Problem solved!

People who are overly concerned with their level of intelligence, especially when that concern is measured relative to other people’s intelligence.

In other words, if you spend a lot of time anxious about whether or not you’re the smartest person in the room, then you’re not the smartest person in the room.

The September that lasted 32 years…

Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.

Yeah, neutrino detectors don’t work like conventional telescopes because neutrinos don’t behave like light. Technically, neutrinos are actually a type of dark matter since they don’t participate in the electromagnetic interaction, and that makes them very hard to detect.

When a beam of light shines on your body, some of that light is absorbed as heat and a lot of it is reflected off of you. Neutrinos don’t do that. Tens of billions of neutrinos from the sun hit your body every second and just… don’t do anything. They pass straight through you with zero interaction whatsoever. Very, very rarely they’ll interact with something, and neutrino detectors are designed to both maximize the chances of such an interaction happening, and to make those interactions more easy to spot.

I’m not up to speed on all the technical details of JUNO in particular, but most neutrino detectors are searching for events that look something like this:

A neutrino enters the detection medium and directly collides with an electron. Enough energy is transferred into the electron that it is stripped free from its parent molecule and moves through the medium at very high speed. If it moves fast enough, it can even exceed the speed that light travels through the medium, creating something sort of like a sonic boom — only with light. We call this Cherenkov radiation. The scintillating properties of the medium boost this signal and photomultipliers at the perimeter of the detector gather this radiation so that the event can be reconstructed by computers.

The liquid is the detection media.

[Linear alkylbenzene] was identified as a promising liquid scintillator by the SNO+ neutrino detector due to its good optical transparency (≈20 m), high light yield, low amount of radioactive impurities, and its high flash point (140 °C) which makes safe handling easier. It is also available in large volumes at a relatively low cost at the SNO+ site. It is now used in several other neutrino detectors, such as the RENO and Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiments.The material performs well in deep underwater environments. One study suggested LAB as a suitable material to be employed in a Secret Neutrino Interactions Finder (SNIF), a type of antineutrino detector designed to detect the presence of nuclear reactors at distances of between 100 and 500 km.

Neutrino detectors are basically just huge scintillators (systems that absorb ionizing radiation and re-emit that energy as light). The liquid inside of JUNO (Linear alkylbenzene) has especially attractive scintillating properties.