Honali

Sure, but willingness to pay isn't quite the same as actually getting a good return

I think the problem is that AUTO behaves differently across cars. Some turn on the headlights when the wipers are running, others seem to rely mostly on ambient light

To be fair, 15 million tunnels would make the £300k asking price an absolute bargain

I love that you basically tried to start a neighborhood underground transit network and the only thing standing in your way was getting the neighbors to cooperate.

This isn't a house, it's a Bond villain's starter home

The most interesting part here is that AI isn't replacing the learning goals, it's replacing the evidence instructors used to measure them

This really reinforces the idea that cordage was less a single invention than a general-purpose mechanical primitive

We tend to picture prehistoric technology as a progression of increasingly clever stone tools because stone is what survives, but rope may have been closer to infrastructure

I think the political-risk point is underrated. Even if you somehow get the engineering and construction costs under control, you're still asking investors to commit capital for decades while permitting rules, subsidies, electricity markets, and governments can all change underneath them

What I find interesting is how little the sales pitch seems to have changed. "Yes, smaller reactors lose economies of scale, but we'll make it up through factory production, standardization and repetition" apparently sounded plausible in the 1950s too

I'd love to see the same experiment with responses normalized for length, and with actual essay quality scored separately from how helpful the model's feedback felt