Link?

Thanks Lord Kelvin

Poor Lord Kelvin gets maligned a lot:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.16033

That aside, a distinction should be made between

1) claiming that physics is pretty much done (what he's often accused of) and

2) pointing out factual errors in claims about the current state of knowledge (what I am doing).

If you absolutely must make flattering comparisons, may I suggest Feynman instead, especially on lying to laymen?

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

I should add that I am not in complete agreement with what he said in that speech: calling it "not essential to the science" strikes me as naive. Once you start juggling two standards of communication, you are on a slippery slope. If it's OK to lie to the funding public at large, what about politicians, funding bodies, colleagues in other disciplines competing for the same funding, journal editors asking you to review a rival's work in your own field? Where do you draw the line? Do you draw a line, or do you descend into a state of generalized charlatanry?

I see an ad for a product I bought and it makes me worried I got scammed. The usual offender is Peak Design.

How are you expecting this to be used for crowd control without the risk of a person falling down without being able to arrest their fall?

Why would anyone waste their time dialoguing with anyone who can't label their x and y axes and provide their data sources in csv form>

Is there any non-pro-AI position that couldn’t be construed as being part of a stage of grief?

No. Bringing up stages of grief in a debate (rather than an account of personal experience, like in the post) is an argument-killer, because any negative response from the alleged grieving side is instantly taken down by smugly categorizing their negativity as a stage of grief. It's not just reserved to LLM arguments too, this is a common wrapper for the less dignified "you disagree with me which proves I'm right" position.

For a 4 GHz CPU that’s 4 failures a second..

4 thousand :)

My point entirely.

A faraday cage is different than your hand attenuating your phone signal

Attenuating RF is exactly what a Faraday cage does.

Though as you suggest, relying that would be a bad idea.

For some reason manually turning off RF transmission seems to have been ruled out, so we are looking for an unusual solution to the problem.

Good old thermodynamic beta

Vine was around then