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Striving to maximize profit is what companies do. Blaming them is not useful. Instead, advocate for and promote government policies that would disincentivize fossil fuel use, like carbon taxes.

They only paid $470 million (equivalent to $1.03 billion in 2024)?? That’s not even 56 k$ (2024) per person. What in the fuck.

I had a discussion with my boss today about potential ways to write code with AI and have confidence in the results without reviewing every line. You’d also have to automate the reviews in some way, and therefore also a way to confirm that the reviewer AIs are working properly, etc. The conversation discouraged me because it made me feel like I’ll end up being a manager of AIs who write the code and test cases, and I’ll just be an ape who manually tests some of the behavior before approving it for release. This is essentially what managers have been doing with human development and QA engineers in the past, but even so, I have a really hard time letting go and not reviewing every line of code myself.

Upside:

72.8% indicate they are likely to vote for political candidates who support aggressive climate policies.

Climate change is a solvable problem. There just needs to be enough support to create an international organization with a mandate to enforce limits on fossil fuel use.

It could just be that RusticLagers is saying the the woman is beautiful enough that countries could go to war over her.

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if we created a dolphin with a human brain, or an octopus with a human brain, etc. Are brains plastic enough to adapt? What if after learning how to use one body, the brain was somehow transferred to / plugged into a different body? Would it be possible to learn 2 different bodies and even swap between them at will?

Technically, it needs insulation and a way to radiate heat. I read a while back that the superconductors used in space are often wrapped in several concentric shells to avoid being exposed directly to the sun and other onboard heat sources.

Is there a limit to the amount of thrust that these superconducting magnets could generate in Earth’s magnetic field? I read a hypothesis that the UAPs that have been observed to accelerate without any propellent are using superconductors in this way.

That would be noble.

Mitochondrion*

Its all going to become more efficient enough you can run it all locally. Why are we trying to piss away zillions of dollars on data centers

The idea that the hardware we currently have is good enough for future applications hasn’t been true of software in general. As better hardware becomes available, software has improved to take advantage of it. Also, the improvements in software have allowed the development of even better hardware, in a virtuous cycle.

Also, regarding local vs cloud computing in general, datacenters provide an economy of scale that can’t be matched by local compute. Shared datacenters are also more efficient than everyone having expensive hardware that they only use a fraction of the time. This is why datacenters were expanding rapidly even before the recent advances in large language models.

I wonder where all of those pacifist countries went…

Sounds expensive. Most nans weight a lot of pounds.

You don’t like the AI response at the top? It’s free and I find it super helpful. But you are welcome to ignore it.

You can still Google it for free. You only have to pay for AI if you use AI.