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    Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: RE: AI progress...OAUP vs RL

Regarding math and AI, people have solved decades old conjuctures at this point by basically telling the AI to solve it: https://vxtwitter.com/DmitryRybin1/status/2079904005652893709 https://chatgpt....
MichaelPoole Real Life But OA Relevant 22 9,187 08-31-2026, 12:01 PM
    Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: RE: AI progress...OAUP vs RL

Quote: -- Re Qwen 3.8 27B: 5 months since I posted that, RAM prices have gotten even higher (after GPUs already did the same thing months before that, and then SSDs), making it even more impossible ...
MichaelPoole Real Life But OA Relevant 22 9,187 08-31-2026, 10:37 AM
    Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: RE: AI progress...OAUP vs RL

inkoalawetrust Wrote: (08-31-2026, 08:31 AM) -- Oh yes, the SI article is shockingly spot on about modern machine learning despite being written in 2002. I'd like to write an article making "expert s...
MichaelPoole Real Life But OA Relevant 22 9,187 08-31-2026, 10:28 AM
    Thread: Planet Climate Sandbox
Post: RE: Planet Climate Sandbox

inkoalawetrust Wrote: (08-31-2026, 09:57 AM) -- And also the playback controls seem to do nothing? -- You need to set the timescale. You probably have it at 1 year/second.
MichaelPoole Worldbuilders Resources 8 464 08-31-2026, 10:23 AM
    Thread: Planet Climate Sandbox
Post: RE: Planet Climate Sandbox

Avengium Wrote: (08-31-2026, 01:46 AM) -- 1. What are your plans for this app? Do you plan to keep developing it, or is it fine the way it is? 2. On the Earth's surface, the continents appear to b...
MichaelPoole Worldbuilders Resources 8 464 08-31-2026, 09:53 AM
    Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: RE: AI progress...OAUP vs RL

ProxCenBound Wrote: (04-29-2025, 09:33 AM) -- Here's how the project imagined the Information Age (21st century CE) as of 2002. Quite interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20020615054355/http://or...
MichaelPoole Real Life But OA Relevant 22 9,187 08-31-2026, 07:41 AM
    Thread: Planet Climate Sandbox
Post: RE: Planet Climate Sandbox

stevebowers Wrote: (08-31-2026, 06:11 AM) -- Dry OA gaians tend to fall into the Xeric or Hyperxeric categories. https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46f1e6bacb7e4 https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-arti...
MichaelPoole Worldbuilders Resources 8 464 08-31-2026, 06:33 AM
    Thread: Planet Climate Sandbox
Post: RE: Planet Climate Sandbox

stevebowers Wrote: (08-31-2026, 01:51 AM) -- This looks very interesting! What (for instance) are the parameters of a Dune World? -- They represent planets that have enough water to support life but...
MichaelPoole Worldbuilders Resources 8 464 08-31-2026, 05:48 AM
    Thread: Planet Climate Sandbox
Post: Planet Climate Sandbox

Hello, I have created this planetary climate sandbox (or "guided AI to create it", whatever your stance is) using the Claude Code AI coding agent and the Codex plugin.: https://m1omg.github.io/plan...
MichaelPoole Worldbuilders Resources 8 464 08-30-2026, 11:32 PM
    Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: RE: AI progress...OAUP vs RL

inkoalawetrust Wrote: (03-17-2026, 07:14 AM) -- Yeah that's been pretty obvious with the decline in software quality in the past few years, even beyond the pre-AI trend of enshittification, it's just...
MichaelPoole Real Life But OA Relevant 22 9,187 08-30-2026, 11:04 PM
    Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: RE: AI progress...OAUP vs RL

All good questions and hard to answer. I am personally a "if it quacks like a duck..." pragmatist. I find the hard problem of consciousness, the Chinese room, etc. to be very interesting but ultimatel...
MichaelPoole Real Life But OA Relevant 22 9,187 03-16-2026, 11:30 PM
    Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: RE: AI progress...OAUP vs RL

Ok, so, many skilled developers are now basically just verifying AI generated code and for the most part, it works. In the beginning of 2025, one was lucky to vibe code a simple Python game with graph...
MichaelPoole Real Life But OA Relevant 22 9,187 03-16-2026, 02:08 PM
    Thread: This changes everything...
Post: RE: This changes everything...

stevebowers Wrote: (01-09-2024, 10:40 PM) -- Depicting planets in true-to-life colours and intensities is extremely problematic. Neptune, for example, is bathed in sunlight which is 200 times less in...
MichaelPoole Real Life But OA Relevant 4 8,443 09-04-2025, 11:25 PM
    Thread: Generative AI and OA
Post: RE: Generative AI and OA

MiyuwiAuthor Wrote: (05-28-2025, 07:02 AM) -- I feel like in many communities online, generative AI is viciously abhorred, and so hosting these images might cause some controversy in the future. -- ...
MichaelPoole Suggestion Box - OA website 60 48,392 08-03-2025, 01:06 AM
    Thread: Riposte (cytherean xenosophonts)
Post: RE: Riposte (cytherean xenosophonts)

This is amazing, thanks to everyone who worked on it :) ! If I may ask, could similiar lifeforms theoretically exist on an AquaCytherean world too or is there something that would preclude the biochem...
MichaelPoole Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 72 1,247 04-20-2024, 09:18 PM
    Thread: Planets in process of, but with not a fully complete, runaway greenhouse
Post: Planets in process of, but with not a fully comple...

Hello, are there any planets in the OA setting that are in progress of having a classical runaway greenhouse but their oceans haven't fully boiled into the atmosphere yet? How would be the weather pat...
MichaelPoole General Setting Discussion 1 57 04-04-2024, 06:59 PM
    Thread: Negentropy Alliance Update
Post: RE: Negentropy Alliance Update

Quote: -- Within the Negentropist domain there are planets implementing all forms of hierarchical organisation, from classical theocracies such as the Loyalists of Gegton X to mind-controlling techn...
MichaelPoole Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 30 594 04-04-2024, 06:42 PM
    Thread: Hycean worlds (Pyrohydrothallasic worlds in OA)
Post: RE: Hycean worlds (Pyrohydrothallasic worlds in OA...

Beautiful images but aren't pyrohydrothalassics hot by definition while Hyceans can be temperate?
MichaelPoole Art and Visual Media 18 282 04-04-2024, 07:33 AM
    Thread: Planetary classification
Post: RE: Planetary classification

How much can Neptunian conditions vary? I was thinking such worlds could be more varied than what one would expect, from basically Cytherean worlds with H/He dominated atmospheres to having a sea of m...
MichaelPoole General Setting Discussion 370 7,925 10-12-2023, 06:31 AM
    Thread: Pen-y-ghent system in Universe Sandbox 2
Post: RE: Pen-y-ghent system in Universe Sandbox 2

stevebowers Wrote: (07-21-2023, 09:50 PM) -- I don't know if you can use them, but here are some Io-like textures I have found in my files. Free for anyone to use. -- Thank you! Will def finish t...
MichaelPoole Art and Visual Media 6 102 08-01-2023, 10:22 AM