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unless... the compute happens also in space? Given how dirt cheap solar has become, how cheap shipping stuff to space is becoming and how little there are clouds and nights in the space making solar power production intermittent, it sounds like it might be economically feasible in not so distant future. (no, I haven't done any math on this. If it checks out, feel free to steal the idea)

I guess GP meant to build a train from downtown NYC to JFK.

I think ELI5 means that you simplify a complex issue so that even a small kid understands it. In this case there is no need to simplify anything, just explain what a term actually means without assuming reader understanding nuances of terms used. And I still do not quite get how ELIA can be considered hostile, but given the feedback, maybe I avoid it in the future.

So it's just fancy words for safety (legal/reputational) for Stability AI, not users?

You sound offended. My apologies. I had no intention whatsoever to offend anyone. Even if I am not diagnosed, I think I am at least borderline somewhere in the spectrum, and thought that would be a good way to ask people explain without assuming I can read between the lines.

I'd propose a compromise. Euros switch to decimal point and Americans to metric system. Win-Win.

I get a slightly uncomfortable feeling with this talk about AI safety. Not in the sense that there is anything wrong with that (may be or may be not), but in the sense I don't understand what people are talking about when they talk about safety in this context. Could someone explain like I have Asperger (ELIA?) whats this about? What are the "bad actors" possibly going to do? Generate (child) porn/ images with violence etc. and sell them? Pollute the training data so that the racist images pops up when someone wants to get an image of a white pussycat? Or produce images that contain vulnerabilities so that when you open that in your browser you get compromised? Or what?

This. Amartya Sen has claimed that two actual democracies have never been at war between each other. At least I find hard to find significant counterexamples in history. (Not sure about the Falkland war. And I think Finland was technically at war with UK in the second world war)

I think the democratic and developed countries need to change their game plan pretty soon. The countries that are willing to join the club should be offered actual help to develop. By actual help I mean trade treaties that are designed to benefit those countries, not developed countries. Includes IP vaiwers, duties that protect local industries etc.

The countries that do not want to join, (including China and Orban's Hungary) then again, should be punished in all ways possible. Massive duties to commodities and other products imported from those countries, as a starter.

Open democracies do not need to be nice guys if they are threatened. Must not be, to be more precise. See Popper and paradox of tolerance.

I offer one more alternative. Double the tax every year, and once the ip holder decides not to pay the tax, IP is released to public domain. No compnay has money to keep IP indefinitely in such a scheme.

I don't think that the point was that there are no for loops in SQL. I think the point was that almost always using for loops is wrong and super inefficient and there is a much more efficient way to just use joins instead.

> What kind of applications would this be useful for? What can you build with an AI data science intern that's right 75% of the time?

I have written a bunch of more or less complicated SQL during my career. And I am pretty sure that if I need to write a SQL statement that's anything but select * from table, my output won't work 75% of time.

I may be special case, but typically if I work on a hard problem, it is not a single hard problem but a sh*tload of connected simple problems. If I can get someone to solve the simple problems 75% of the time correctly so that I can spend my time figuring out how those simple problems are to be connected, I'm ore than happy. And that's exactly how I use chatgpt. I have learned not to ask too complex questions from it. But the simple ones, it mostly aces and when it does not , they are easy to spot, as it is not that I could not have solved them myself, I just did not want to spend time for that. Now, if only the chatgpt was not almost as lazy as me to produce long simple stuff, that would be awesome.

I think of it with this kind of analogy: the original image is stored with 32 bit color scheme. You can reduce the color scheme to 16 bit accuracy and still figure out pretty well what the image is about. 2 bit is stretching this to a bit far, basically either pixel is white or it is black, but even if you lose lots of nuances in the image, in many images even that gives you some idea whats going on in the image.

But there are forces even in our 3d world that do not follow inverse square law (strong/weak nuclear forces). That kind of proves that all forces do not need to follow this intuition?

I have never quite understood why there can't be stable stallites in dimensions above 3.

I mean, I know the argument that gravity inverse square law becomes inverse cube law in 4d, but what I do not understand is that what/why enforces that. Why in a hypothetical 4d world there just can not be a gravity-like force that is inverse square? Would that cause some kind of contradiction?

I think it would be important to understand the distinction between two types of applications, I call them "utilities" and "tools" here.

Utilities are things that should be designed with the current typical paradigm of simplicity and discoverability to extreme. I should not need to read user manual for my toaster or microwave.

Tools then, should be pretty much the opposite. It should be fine and expected to invest some time to learn the efficient and safe usage of the tool. There is no reason to have a intuitive interface on your tool, as long as it is efficient after you did your training. Vim is way better editor than notepad, but I don't think anyone praises it for the intuitively easy to use.

And the peeve here is of course that way, way too often these are confused.

Because the owner does not typically sell with a market price but with a power purchase agreement where the buyer agrees to buy all electricity produced at the agreed price.

(This is an educated guess, not knowledge, so take with a grain of salt.)

Not sure if you mean difficult politically or technically. Politically I have no answers, but technically, I assume that you would not need that many fines that wipe out shareholder equity, most of corporate debt and all of board/C-suite wealth before corporations would take law seriously. I think there are states that are fond of three strikes and out type laws, maybe those could be applied to corps as well?

At least in europe there is a separate licence for glider flight.

I have flown gliders when I was younger and occasionally thought about PPL. And I have thought sims as well. Given the glider backcround, am I going to learn bad things on a sim?

This. And also adjusted on what you get for your tax money. (Say, median income after taxes, health care, student loans and pension savings.) And adjusted for the amount of holidays you have.

Legacy? Unpopular? Can you elaborate a bit more. To my understanding all the rumors of SQL dying have been a bit premature so far.

This is a bit of a rabbit hole. The right way is whatever is agreed, and there are many ways to agree it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_count_convention

Could you elaborate a bit the "very serious skill" needed to store your bitcoin in e.g. Bitfinex or CuadrigaCX?

> First, you gave to either understand the underlying technology, or someone you trust have to understand it sufficiently to be able to say "this is bullshit", or "this is a great novel idea that makes a lot of sense".

> Then you invest a bit of your really disposable income in it

Sorry, but I find it a bit funny that in your "winning strategy" you seem to invest on the second step regardless if you in the first step ended in the "this is bullshit" or not. (full disclosure, so far, every crypto thing I have seen has fallen to the "this is bullshit" bucket in my opinion. But I guess my "if it looks, walks and smells like bullshit, don't touch it with a ten foot pole" is not a winnig strategy.)

To be a bit nitpicky, Internet is not free. The content may or may not be free/ad funded. And there are many problems. One of the major ones being that ad funded content is overwhelmingly often utter crap that I could live without. As a general rule, if I need to look for actually useful information, I need to look for content generated for free (wikipedia, HN, reddit etc) or paid content. There are exceptions but they are rare.

I find it a bit hard to like the idea of letting professional manipulators try to manipulate me to do things that benefit them. Regardless if they are succesful or not.

Sorry a small thread hijack. I may be considering returning to my previous employer who has since I left started using Snowflake. Is that unambiguously good or bad? If it can be either, are there some questions I should check? (As a background, I am quite happy writing my queries in SQL)

Are ther packs that support pass through charging robustly? I have tried with three different ones and two do this sporadically and the last one lenovo go, seems to support it only from the male plug, which is next to useless. Or at least I do not have a single usb A male - usb - c female cable that would be required in most cases.

Why do you (or author of the book) think that post-singularity AI would have anything but passing interest (positive or negative) in how humans feel?

If the answer is that it is possible, thus we need to worry about it, I'd like to argue that much, much more likely and much more worrisome scenario is powerful AI in hands of evil humans.

Yep, if I recall my US history correctly, it was the GOP that was the progressive one wanting to get rid of slavery and Democrats were the opposing ones.