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In a world of overblown research with hype-y titles, this really takes the cake. I wouldn't get too excited. :P

At what point is an electric vehicle just rolled-up railgun ;p

As a former faculty member who now directs science in industry. Agree.

Economic betters? Isn't the most logical assumption that I run one? Enjoy your cope, peasant.

So much this. Animus towards Airbnb is simply envy. It is not possible to profitably run one while trashing a neighborhood.

People will spend twenty minutes reacting emotionally to this, never pay much attention to empirical changes in response, and never realize it was just fomo on their part.

Remote work makes modern life possible. In almost every major US city commutes, and the pressures of caring for a family 10x'd over the last 50 years. In their heart of hearts everyone knows 90% of the pandemic was not fear of a virus, but coping with exhaustion of a life that had become untenable for most people.

I don't think everyone is as-productive in a remote mode, but knowledge workers who build tangible things often can be more productive, and measurably so.

Excess Management is more visibly pointless with remote work, and naturally excess managers who contribute ~nothing hate it. For example people who manage mediocre webblogs due to be replaced by LLM content such as the author of this document. It makes those people miserable, and the majority of workers in any organization are unproductive. That's all.

... I once had someone in publishing try to offer me nature acceptance in exchange for ... things. The outsized role of these journals in the scientific community when reviews could be done in the open is pretty messed up.

If today's scientific community were as functional as Rudy Marcus' we'd still be progressing. The key moment of his career was prediction of an inverted trend in an unexplored experimental regime. In today's academia, he would have hopped to a startup rather than struggle for tenure with foreign ideas that don't support anyone else's old stack of fluffy papers.

Imo the whole US medical complex needs competition from a small but sophisticated libertarian state without any of the regulations that formed the present system, and I think it will happen. The market demands it, and the world would be better off with some competition. Most likely it will begin with some small nation that sells anti-aging therapies.

There are companies from which you can order bespoke mRNAs. Lead times vary but are in the weeks. Many are abroad. The other components of mRNA vaccines can be assembled by someone with 2 years of biochemical Ph.D. experience. There are no laws against a person assembling and injecting themselves with anything.

I have extra sympathy for the writer of this article, since mRNA vaccines (even if they were a random sequence) are relatively lower risk than many other sorts cancer interventions which are FDA approved. I happen to be an ex-professor, who is a director at a drug company. I know that if I were the unfortunate author of this article, whose heart is in the right place. I would probably be injecting myself with my own janky version of whatever offered hope.

Whether that would actually change my prognosis? Probably not. I can say though that I _would_ and I believe others are entitled to positive freedoms I'd afford myself.

No you are missing the fact that if the qubits are coupled the systems fundamental gap has shrunk demanding a lower temperature for the same error rate.

You should think more about why your rosy scheme hasn't worked yet if you can't explain that empirically maybe you don't quite understand.

Haha a self promotional blog post without any experimental data from a lab self-interested in the technology is somehow not persuasive to me.

There is no way to add entangled particles to an entangled photon state without new light matter interaction which may (and almost certainly) bring decoherence.

Ie to claim a good enough switch is possible is a claim demanding a ton of evidence, and there is none right now.

Ofc I would be thrilled to see it work! But explaining a scheme in back of the envelope fashion and measuring it are two vastly diff things.

Yes, but all existing photonic platforms use post-selection which is even more clearly exponentially lossy. Although this could be solved with a deterministic single photo source if one can be found. Photonic quantum computing is an especially funny post-transistor paradigm because classical photonic computing is also quite attractive.

More likely a play to reduce battery lifetime by increasing incidence of full discharge...

Note a year ago they settled a lawsuit about throttling CPUs with updates on older iphones for the same purpose. The environmental footprint of an iphone is significant no matter what offset fake math they employ....

Note: that there is good physical reasons why the cost of QC may grow exponentially with qbits. Refrigeration is exponentially inefficient as T=>0 and the gap of a quantum system which sets the temperature you must cool to shrinks as you couple new degrees of freedom. This dynamic has been the basic reason for the sub exponential progress in the area (despite exponential expenditure)

What exactly is the motive for this type of disinformation?

An effort to foment resistance to the Taliban? Warmongering? A needle to complain about the withdrawal? I can't understand the motivation.

What sort of audience is so credulous and naive that they would believe opiate cultivation is the only path to human well being?

Who would you cast as the judge?

In a way we don't disagree. I think citizens would be quite happy with a solution which makes the homeless invisible by sequestering them. Its probably also the best for the health of these people. But remember how we got here. Reagan shut down the asylums because they were expensive, messy and "inhumane". 20 years after reinstitutionalizing we will lament the cost of sedation and imprisonment.

Half the dysfunction with political efforts to ameliorate homelessness is the toxicity of touching a difficult issue. Homelessness is beyond any one term or individual to solve. Certainly you cannot cure the addictions, disabilities or madness of these unfortunate people overnight. The only solution people would actually like is if the homeless were to disappear.

The meaning of the word "marriage" has changed significantly even over the last 50 years in the west, and bears no resemblance to the the institution with the same name that existed before that. The idea that marriage would be chosen by the individual for romantic reasons, secular marriage, etc. etc. are new. Assumptions of fidelity have even changed and changed again several times since year 0.

If anyone is thinking about marriage, or troubled by this article, I strongly encourage he/she to really study what marriage meant for prior civilizations. Our society encourages people to accept modern marriage as an eternal, teleological, essential and inviolable constant of society. Imo today's US marriage is a poorly developed, haphazard, and soon-to-be obsolete layer cake of ideas which does a lot of harm.

Anything which isn't working for 50% of people, and which decimates family wealth when it fails, probably deserves critical thought.

The promised miracle spouse of modern marriage, who is your business partner, sexual fulfillment, therapist, childcare specialist, etc. etc. DOESN'T EXIST.

A family of posts in this genre for every db would be quite a useful resource.

This is so disgusting and enraging. I hope the whole startup community blackballs @sama for this.

Far and away the main cause of house price inflation has been zero-interest rate fed policy.

Demand for 1m houses was high because people could afford it.

It will take a while for people's expectations to normalize, but if rates remain above 5 for years the market will return to earth.

Do you remember when they opened blue checkmark accounts to verify idents and promptly took money from people, didn't check id's and had rampant hilarious impersonation :P...

This doesn't touch any of that.

Please oh please oh please this.

A) Tune out anything realtors tell you if you want to be an intelligent consumer. B) Volume has collapsed because people in homes with low rate morts can't move. These prices are "less solid" because liquidity is poor.

In Austin prices are def. down ~ 8%, after this hike and sustained layoffs I am betting it will shed another 8 by the end of summer...

Images are tokenized. Rumor and greatest likelihood is that it's a ViT.

Do you believe in evolution or not? Personally I think this is the kick in the ass humanity has needed for a long time.

We were never the center of the universe and there was never a chance of anything resembling today's humans leaving the solar system.

We should all be be thrilled there's a chance for something more than barren rocks, great silence and extinction. Try on a less solipsistic philosophy.

Since it was the result of single moment in time 100 years ago and never adjusted, yes it was basically an accident of history.

In many cases the loans are to depositors (and the debt is questionable). The just thing would be make depositors without debt with svb whole first, ofc there is no system of fairness in finance.

- Just a little bit of ideological over-simplification in this piece and , generally speaking, a false equivalence between technology and libertarian deregulation. There's plenty of room for technological authoritarianism, ask anyone who lived through zero-covid.

- I don't disagree at all that hospital costs are the direct result of regulatory failure. However, it has nothing to do with technology? Hospitals are actually bastions of advanced technology and AI? We just have no market on healthcare. I actually see plenty of room for AI to help make markets efficient, by helping poorly informed consumers be more aware of their options (such as seeking healthcare in places that DO have two-sided healthcare markets).

- One of the pathological 'red' lines is "college textbooks" some insignificant fraction of the economy, not really a relevant counter to "household furnishings".