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There are many people who remember everything they have done, read, or experienced: those born with the hyperthymesia disorder. They'll remember every meal they've eaten, and the day they ate it, among other things.

There must be a limit to human memory, but we haven't found it yet.

Memories are highly compressed, anyways. So remembering all conversations and experiences probably requires fewer neurons than you'd expect.

And the draft FY27 NDAA bans all the rest of the Chinese labs for federal govt/contract usage.

No you're not. The article mentions downloading a model; talking about a local model. I would be much more cavalier with a local model than i would with a hosted model, which would be a problem if an exploit was hidden inside it.

> you can't delete your credit card information from their system

In cases like this (for me it has been Verizon and Adobe), you can usually change your credit card on file. Nowadays I use Privacy merchant-locked cards for everything online but in the cases where I used a physical credit card, I would change it to a Privacy card and then pause that card or put a monthly cap on charges (after making a reasonable effort to cancel.)

I like to imagine walking into colonial Jamestown and trying to explain to them

"it'll be able to replace all physical labor with robotics fairly quickly, and we're left with no labor left for humans. We need to plan for that future or else billions will suffer from the results."

At least this brochure marks cooling in the "challenges" column rather than the advantages.

However, the only advantage listed in this announcement is "near-constant sunlight". It appears they are hoping for 8x solar efficiency for 1000x the cost of terrestrial construction.

If the actual motivation is that people don't want data centers on earth, that seems to be because the datacenters 1) drive up energy costs, 2) use a lot of water I guess, and 3) can make noise. If you're able to operate a datacenter satellite you apparently don't need local electricity, water, or human labor. As someone else said, set up on the desert or in the middle of Alaska somewhere 100s of miles from the nearest person. They can still use solar (just build like 8x the panels if you need to... still cheaper than space), they don't need water, don't need labor... I think most public opposition would disappear.

I've heard some say the real advantage is latency for spy satellites... This seems not a real use case. The kind of workloads that require this kind of datacenter usually can spare 1-2 seconds in round trip time. Millisecond-sensative reactions I would assume would want to be driven by onboard processing.

One true advantage that I haven't seen on any brochure is that the heat produced by the space datacenters could be released into space rather than raise the temperature of the earth. However, the satellite would have to be designed to radiate the heat away from earth. Hopefully they design the satellites to direct the radiated heat away from earth and don't just point the radiators straight back to earth...

> In its ideal form, this tax would capture and redistribute the annual rental value of land; that is, the recurring value of the land excluding the value of any buildings or other improvements on top of it.

> but you see the same basic patterns everywhere. Land in the city center is worth much, much more than outlying areas.

The calculation of the "unimproved value" always perplexed me.. it seems like you're not taxed for the things you build on your land, but instead for the things other people built around your land. After all, why would property in a city be valuable if not for all the high rises, subways, and office buildings?

This is not a problem with AI, this is a problem with a human accepting an answer without understanding why it is correct. The tutor could also read a book that states "A square is not a rectangle" (or vice versa) and repeating it back to the student as established fact.

Perhaps, but then someone would do the same but bill you for 7 hours, someone else would undercut them again, until the price reaches a lower equilibrium.

Another pro: they can easily support more than 4 connections

another con: If only one of the exits gets backed up, it clogs the traffic circle and causes every connecting road to back up.

You didn't counter with a non-humanoid design, your counter example is "many specialized robots" instead of one. What many want is a generalized robot that can do tasks the manufacturer never thought of, in an environment that already exists rather than adapting the kitchen to support the robot. The success of LLMs in generalized work over individual apps (the software equivalent of your counter example) has made people impatient for general robots.

> Oh, there's a driver update for the LG television. Makes sense, right? It's a fairly recent television, and the drivers will help us take advantage of all of the TV's features. Of course, I'd like Microsoft to download it.

At this point I assume the author was making intentionally bad choices out of morbid curiosity. I can't imagine anyone technical thinking drivers should be required to connect to a TV via HDMI. (or maybe I'm not technical enough)

> What do you think will happen if it isn't

Since such a thing has never happened, I doubt anyone, even scholars of history and anthropology, know.

Capitalism probably won't work in a world of ultra abundance though.

Doesn't the pixel tablet come with an unlocked bootloader?