DennisP

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by DennisP 1y ago
The BBC makes good points there, but Las Vegas is just planting trees in urban areas to cool off the place. The native ecosystems in those areas are long gone.
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Yes, and your link says that "Tesla's setup appears to be similar." I haven't seen any real evidence that Tesla's remote operators will actually drive the cars.
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Your link says it's the same thing Waymo is doing: > Waymo uses what it calls a “fleet response agent,” a human assistant the vehicle can ping when it gets confused by a complex traffic scenario. These agents can view real-time exte
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by DennisP 1y ago
Especially now that a court has ordered OpenAI to keep records of it all. https://www.adweek.com/media/a-federal-judge-ordered-openai-...
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I doubt that, but even if you're right it doesn't change my point: if you're not willing to stop doing that, you'll be less productive than the firms that are willing to operate legally and ethically. And if in some indu
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So your suggestion is that they build a new system that makes USD transfers faster. Isn't that what they're doing? If they want, then they can make banks the only entities who can hold their stablecoin, and the whole thing would b
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That's equivalent to just fining the corporation itself, which we do all the time. Frequent problems are that the fines are too small to function as deterrents, or that there's a principal-agent problem, where the directors don&#x
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It can have a sensible conversation with you, follow your instructions, do math and physics, and write code that performs the task you described in English. Some models can create pictures and videos matching the description you gave them,
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To some extent. Wire fraud happens pretty often, and after a day or so the money's usually unrecoverable after going through several foreign countries. Home real estate and B2B transactions have been particular targets.
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That's ok, the recipient can use an LLM to summarize it. In the end, we'll all read and write tight little bullet points, with the LLM text on the wire functioning as the world's least efficient communication protocol.
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Maybe don't do crimes? If the technology provides a major boost in productivity to ethical teams, and is useless for unethical teams, that kinda seems like a good thing.
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I've read Attia's book, and all he said there about diet was that it was really hard to study, but the best study he knew of made the Mediterranean diet look pretty good. He went into quite a bit of detail on exercise though, focu
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This is why some crypto people have most of their coin in multisig wallets. They can only transfer small amounts without getting m-of-n friends to sign their transaction. If your friends know not to do that without hearing a code word, then
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Outsourcing also led to the Ledger leak of customer data. You'd think Coinbase would have learned a lesson from that.
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So I guess you haven't noticed Trump's very-thinly-veiled threats of military action against Greenland, Canada, and Panama. People in those countries, and Europe, have definitely noticed.
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Then I guess when we live in a world where lots of countries have powerful militaries and none of them are our friends, that means we've won.
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Yeah but I'm wondering whether we should make it that easy for China and Russia to ruin our relationships with our allies.
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I've read a fair number of cases where sim-swapping led to account hacks when the providers got talked into resetting passwords. It happened to a friend of mine. So I would say SMS 2FA is more hostile to people who are able to use it
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So are you saying that the US should make military threats against any ally where a Chinese-controlled firm sets up a mine, even temporarily? Or where it might have happened without being detected?
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So you're saying we're improving US security, by making our allies think we're actually their enemies so they beef up their militaries to fight us?
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Commercial mining has little to do with Denmark withdrawing from treaties in favor of military partnership with our adversaries. And your link is about Greenland expelling a Chinese mining firm, so it seems like things were going reasonab
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I don't mind coffee-flavored beverages. I'm not someone with a really refined palate. I can't tell you the flavor notes in coffee and I'm hopeless with wine. But I still really like good, black fresh-ground coffee, don&#
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Bitter+sour sounds like bad coffee to me, too.
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As someone who does like coffee, I can't imagine that the best coffee for people who don't like coffee is much worse coffee . Seems like really good coffee would be a much better option to try first. Everybody tastes things diffe
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by DennisP 1y ago
How expensive a fusion reactor is depends on which designs end up working. Some of them are actually projected to be pretty cheap, and mass-producible. Helion for example is expecting a cost of two cents/kWh, and uses more advanced fue
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Part of the excitement these days is that the general march of technology has removed a lot of those technology limitations, due to advances in superconductors, lasers, supercomputers, fast high-power electronics, etc. (Superconductors and
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About the size of JET. It's definitely practical in the sense that we can build it and it's likely to produce overall net power. Whether it will be competitive is another issue, and for that I agree with you that other designs, li
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Not at all. If you have that, plus 30% efficiency in a turbine, but you've got a 35X gain from fusion, then overall you have .2 * .3 * 50 = 2.1X overall gain. NIF's latest shot is 2 MJ in, 7 MJ out[1], for a 3.5X fusion gain. So t
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Commercial REBCO tape is an entirely sufficient superconductor for tokamaks. At this point the limiting factor for the magnetic field is the structural strength of the reactor. Tokamak output scales with the square of size and the fourth po
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NIF's lasers are 0.5% efficient. Equivalent modern lasers are 20% efficient. Both of these sources have both numbers: https://physicsworld.com/a/national-ignition-facilitys-ignit... https://pubs.aip.org

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