DennisP

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   by DennisP 3y ago

   Those older predictions were based on getting the necessary funding, which they didn't get until years later.
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   by DennisP 3y ago

   I've been following them for years and I've never seen them claim they invented DAC in general, just their particular device.
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   by DennisP 3y ago

   Far more efficient lasers already exist. Their lasers are old.
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   by DennisP 3y ago

   0.5% efficient, but they're old lasers. Equivalent modern ones are over 20% efficient. Also, with their first Q>1 shot they increased the laser power 8% and got 230% more output. They think the nonlinear scaling will continue for a
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   by DennisP 3y ago

   That's exactly what it would be, for any fusion that's not using aneutronic fuel.
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   by DennisP 3y ago

   > prioritize cumulative long-term feedback over immediate feedback and can adapt to environments with limited observability, sparse feedback, and high stochasticity Sounds like something that could learn to play decent poker.
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   by DennisP 3y ago

   Or maybe food and medicine to Gaza is their goal, but they lack the means or incentive to specifically target Israel-related ships.
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   by DennisP 3y ago

   Your parent comment isn't suggesting creationism, just pointing out that the beginning of life could be an astronomically rare event.
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   by DennisP 3y ago

   Things don't become securities just because people speculate on them.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    The EFF has a convenient tool too: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-they-must-defeat-hp...
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    So fine, those are your principles. Doesn't change my point at all.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    Or maybe people have different principles than you.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    I've been playing piano my whole life. Recently I bought some synths and it's a whole different world. Piano skill comes in handy sometimes, but other times its' mostly irrelevant. And sound design of course is a completely d
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    That is not unusual money for an analog synth.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    I think you're missing your parent's joke.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    Nah you have the wrong question. You'll need a bigger computer.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    Sure, people have been talking about 48 volts for the past 30 years. Somehow most automakers didn't actually manage to do it though. Sandy Munro just did an interview with Musk, who said they hadn't done anything revolutionary,
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    So they define pessimists as people who did better than they expected? I'm not convinced this means pessimists are smarter. Maybe it just means that smarter people are more likely to surprise themselves by how well they perform. If som
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    I think I'm pretty much ok with either one.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    How about the actual case: many thousands of entities, who confirmed hundreds of thousands of previous results?
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    Probably not while towing another 911 though.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    To each their own I guess. I'm in my 50s but ever since I test-drove a Tesla, and the car pressed me back in my seat with just a quiet swoosh, all that noise has just seemed superfluous and old-fashioned.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    There's the perfect solution in an ideal world, and there's what actually works given people's actual behavior. For the latter, you have to consider that if you make EVs less compelling, more people might just stick with thei
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    Ok but what I said above was "the reason they moved the new production line for the next-gen vehicle to Austin." The next-gen vehicle isn't Cybertruck, it's the forthcoming $25K car. That's what people expected wo
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    I've spent some time googling how foundations work and while there are various structures, a common theme is that it's not that cushy. The bulk of the money has to actually go to charity, otherwise you pay the normal taxes. And th
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    I don't dispute the content of the report, but the report doesn't have the misleading title we were talking about; in fact, the first line says "For the first time in nine editions of the report..." My only complaint is
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    I wasn't the one who called it clickbait but I do think it's misleading. The one year could easily be an outlier. It might be by accident, or it could be that the writer was more interested in pushing a political view than getting
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    Depends on how many multis you're talking about. A billionaire who wants them can have a large yacht, private jet, multiple large homes, staff for everything. Someone with $10 million will be living an upper-middle-class lifestyle, but
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    Hah, I've seen this title all over. Pretty easy to miss that it was just this past year, contrary to the prior eight years.
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    by DennisP 3y ago

    I thought it portrayed Musk's flaws pretty vividly, but I guess if you started out convinced that Musk is a terrible human being with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, it would seem like fawning hagiography by comparison. In any case,