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  • The most compelling thing about it is the fact that final link says that there’s problems with the earlier models you also linked to.

    A critical constraint on solar system formation is the high 26Al/27Al abundance ratio of 5 ×10−5 at the time of formation, which was about 17 times higher than the average Galactic ratio, while the 60Fe/56Fe value was about 2×10−8, lower than the Galactic value. This challenges the assumption that a nearby supernova was responsible for the injection of these short-lived radionuclides into the early solar system.

    They go on to explain a workaround, but if you’d even glanced at the abstract you wouldn’t have included the first two papers because the third one is arguing that the previous models are not supported by the evidence.







  • It’s literally in the clinical name.

    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-asd

    Broadly there’s two important reasons for why it’s called this, when it used to be either Asperger’s or autism.

    1. Asperger was a Nazi and actively involved in the state sanctioned murder of autistic children.
    2. Medically it’s a bit dumb. There’s no neat dividing line between people with Asperger’s and people with autism, and giving people that could be diagnosed either way as autistic or having Asperger’s, different diagnoses changed their access to support.

    So it’s called a spectrum to recognize that there’s a wide range of symptoms and not everyone presents in the same way or requires the same support.







  • The reason all the weird “rationalists” are worried by roko’s basilisk is because it basically uses all of their dumb arguments for friendly AI against them.

    So in the course of realizing why it’s wrong, a bunch of cultists either end up deprogramming themselves, or they just have a breakdown and go murder their landlord.




  • Because if a website doesn’t work in your browser, but it works in everyone else’s, no one will say “oh that website’s badly written”, instead they say “what a shitty browser”.

    So you have a huge web standard you have to respect, and then all the websites with non standard code you have to make work anyway.