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Insane factoid (post from Feb 27, 2022) ... this was funded by a Chinese gaming company and built in 2 years for relative pennies??: MiHoYo, the developer of G
by themgt 2y ago
Insane factoid (post from Feb 27, 2022) ... this was funded by a Chinese gaming company and built in 2 years for relative pennies??:
MiHoYo, the developer of Genshin Impact, has led a $65m funding round in Shanghai based Energy Singularity which is a company involved in nuclear fusion technology, tokamak devices and operational control systems.
The company plans to build its own Tokamak device by 2024.
https://x.com/ZhugeEX/status/1497957735337443331 https://x.com/ZhugeEX/status/1497957735337443331
- beefnugs 2y agoThe old saying about absolute power corrupting absolutely clearly has parallels in all other fields: Absolute money corrupts vision and focus. Tesla: "We did it. We have become profitable and created a real product people want. Now we can laser focus on making it better and more reliable and cheaper for everyone!" "haha nope! lets put it all into crypto and humanoid robots and impregnating as many CEOs as possible, let that bet ride bayyybeeee!!!!"
- thepasswordis 2y agoAlso Tesla: drive the price of EVs down to parity with ICE cars while delivering a superior product, built out the nations charging infrastructure (and got everybody to switch to NACS), and oh yeah: made self driving available to everybody for next to nothing.
- vlovich123 2y ago“Self driving”
- 2four2 2y ago> for next to nothing Their cars are certainly out of my price range. Plus, openpilot has been doing it for free for years.
- hyuuu 2y agoyou should try driving with openpilot and compare it with FSD to see if they're equal since you are making this comparison
- gibolt 2y agoSo, most other new cars are as well? OpenPilot works well in limited scenarios, but even the founder George Hotz openly admits Tesla is significantly ahead and has the right approach.
- rootusrootus 2y ago> Tesla: drive the price of EVs down to parity with ICE cars while delivering a superior product Tesla was more than willing to jack up their prices and maximize profit when they could. What drove prices down on Teslas was real competition from the incumbent manufacturers. And inflation cooling people's willingness to blow a bunch of money on expensive cars. And CATL making batteries less expensive. And even then, their cars are only at parity right about now, with a $7500 tax credit. And also only if you are fairly loose about what features you need to consider 'parity' achieved.
- katbyte 2y agoLet’s just ignore that oil companies owning patents killed evs for years my gripe here is Tesla’s “self driving” isn’t actually self driving? It is basically advanced cruise control and requires supervision, Tesla is not liable for it running into things, and there is no indication of that changing anytime soon?
- gibolt 2y agoBasic Autopilot that is free on every model is advanced cruise control + lane keeping. FSDS (Full Self Driving, Supervised [for now]) can handle the vast majority of driving scenarios, from A -> B. I currently intervene once per 10 drives, usually due to a routing issue (never safety critical). It is rapidly improving, and will drop the human requirement once it surpasses most drivers.
- katbyte 2y agoFSD still requires you to pay full attention. The name is still a lie and Elon has been claiming the human requirement will be dropped “soon” for what now? Almost a decade?
- dillydogg 2y agoNot sure where an unreliable, very expensive to fix, poorly QC'd cars are a "superior product" but it's not where I live. The charging infrastructure is a great feat though.
- mappu 2y agoI don't think this is a corruption of focus - MiHoYo has had "Tech Otakus Save The World" as their slogan long before Genshin made its first billion dollars.
- theogravity 2y agoI've always wondered what they meant with that slogan, but now it makes sense.
- CDSlice 2y agoNot to mention that they can make back $65M in just a few weeks from one of their two mobile games and they are about to launch a new one. This is basically pennies to them.
- Filligree 2y agoOne of their three. HI3 and HSR aren't the same game.
- KaoruAoiShiho 2y agoDon't forget their best game tears of themis
- loa_in_ 2y agoI just see some great market politics from Chinese leadrs
- chewbacha 2y agoUnrelated to what you are citing, but I believe a “factoid” is something that looks like a fact but is not. Like how a planetoid looks like a planet but isn’t one. I only realized this myself decades after using the term factoid due to pages in highlights for kids.
- cwillu 2y ago“A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information.”
- throw101010 2y agoLiterally a useless word on its own now that the definition evolved this way... many such cases unfortunately.
- j16sdiz 2y agoFunny that the word "literally" have evolved in a similar way
- Scarblac 2y agoThe other meaning is a small or trivial bit of (true) information.
- wumeow 2y agoEven more reason to dislike Genshin Impact.
- _lvbh 2y agoSorry, how does contributing to an energy project cause dislike for a barely related video game?
- wumeow 2y agoSpending money in that casino-cum-game funds energy research in a foreign adversary nation.
- novolunt 2y ago[dead]
- _lvbh 2y agoGiving me “nobody can make the world a better place more than me/us” vibes. I’d be happy if my leisure spending went to causes that benefits humanity, no matter which country is making the contribution. That said, I agree that gacha/casino game mechanics should be made illegal
- roenxi 2y agoUntil they've made a billion dollars I'd assume the situation is not that rosy. It is easy enough to do a cool science experiment for $65 million. That being said, I applaud anyone achieving any result when it comes to energy. My first test for Chinese success is "would this have been legal in the US?". I'm not sure who regulates tokamaks but I assume they have a similar risk profile to nuclear reactors (nuclear process releases a vast amount of energy in a tiny space) and so it would be normal if building one commercially was prohibited.
- NortySpock 2y agoBut they don't have the stored energy density of fissile nuclear reactors; they have the stored energy density of a big particle accelerator. Shutting down a particle accelerator (either temporarily or permanently) is way easier than shutting down a fission pile, because a particle accelerator or fusion reactor would just dump the plasma into a graphite bed and dump the stored magnetic field energy into a bunch of large copper bars acting as big resistors. EDIT: If you shot a hole in a fusion reactor, the cold air would immediately quench the plasma down to room temperature. https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/nrc-decision-separates-fusion-energy-regulation-from-nuclear-fission/ https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/nrc-decision-separ... Supporting letter from Helion Energy: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2224/ML22243A083.pdf https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2224/ML22243A083.pdf
- X6S1x6Okd1st 2y agoFission has a very different risk profile than fusion. Additionally making a fusion plant isn't a stepping stone to making a nuclear bomb
- robocat 2y ago> making a fusion plant isn't a stepping stone to making a nuclear bomb In theory a fusion plant can use the neutrons to irradiate the right chemical element to produce Plutonium-239 or Uranium-233. It has been estimated that each 14.1 MeV fusion neutron could be used to produce up to 0.64 plutonium or 233U atoms [4] assuming a TBR of 1.06. This corresponds to 2.85 kg plutonium per MW-year of DT fusion power production, assuming that all of the neutrons are captured in the blanket. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=proliferation+risk+fusion https://duckduckgo.com/?q=proliferation+risk+fusion for more info
- logicchains 2y agoChina's best coding LLM, which beats GPT4 on coding benchmarks ( https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2 https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2 ) was trained by a random Chinese hedge fund.
- jebarker 2y agoI doubt there's much in terms of brainpower, compute or financial resources to differentiate a hedge fund and an AI research lab.