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That would be like regulating who gets access to the best food on a sinking ship. The USA could allocate capital and attention toward much better things, for the country and for their people. I just hope the next couple administrations are wise enough to not experiment with the idea that ASI can get the country out of this 'fall of Rome' slow motion decline.

Ironically what I think people really want here is a better recommendation system, one that almost certainly would need ML algorithms (or 'AI' as we call it nowadays) to implement.

So Valve will need to train on descriptions of games and perhaps demand more out of developers who want to sell games on their platform.

All notable app stores face this already or will face it soon. Maybe the apt GUI for your favourite debian derivative won't get too flooded...

So do you think there will be a big crash and memory will get really cheap in 2030, or do you believe that AI demand is strong enough to sustain all this buildout?

It seems like this list also doesn't account for China and state sponsored memory industry (which will be more immune to a downturn)

1. Not entirely, it has two degrees of freedom. Think of it like a bridge.

2. The opposing springs are normally in equilibrium, so in the absence of forces the center mass moves back to position zero.

3. Think of it like a bridge. The points of contact and support are to the sides and stationary, while the spring mass system is suspended in air or in a vacuum.

4. Is simple enough if you start with two disconnected layers of materials, and then etch the top layer. You could also start with a layer of something like photoresist spincoated on the bottom layer, except for the adhesion points...

An interesting real-life scenario was the possibility of helium atoms being able to get inside the MEMS clock of some smartphones and cause the phone to stop working until enough helium can escape.

It basically enabled the plot and mostly happened 'off camera'. The parts about the management of radiation was pretty cool though. Because if it I earmarked "Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant" to read later on.

It seems like you're talking about chemical weapons.

Which is fair, they are very easy to make without the assistance of an LLM, and I don't hear about that kind of thing in the news.

I was talking about biological weapons like gain of function and that kind of thing.

The implied question was 'Should companies like Meta publish open weight models when they could theoretically be subverted by malicious users?'. So far as I'm aware there are few people worrying about this kind of thing. Bill Gates for one. But apparently it's off topic and/or not interesting, or not welcomed as a discussion point.

Another instance of 'Super Ice' or as named in the article 'Pykrete' in science fiction is in Neal Stephenson's Novel from 2015: Seveneves.

The substance is used in space for the construction of temporary habitats. I suppose this is plausible if you manage to find a large source of ice and bring it into a stable orbit. It won't melt into liquid, and perhaps the reinforcing fibers could help prevent sublimation.

A lot of the novel strained my ability to suspend disbelief, but the overall scope and ambition is so awesome I was able to forgive the poor editing. It's attempting to be hard sci-fi, much of the novel is taken up by technical descriptions that could only appeal to an engineer-minded person.

Not at an appreciable token rate. I wonder if these large open weight models are considered safer to release for that reason? I'm thinking no because any small to medium size criminal organization or state funded group will be able to cobble together the resources to achieve some kind of runtime. Even at 10 tok/sec, making bioweapons at 10 tok/sec is concerning.

I tend to agree, it's not for me. Objective 'goodness' I will not assess. But it's barely sci-fi. More of a Eldridge horror book awkwardly set in space, with... vampires? Scientifically defensible vampires

It sounds like your regulatory environment has properly incentivized infrastructure.

Where I live in Canada, it's extremely unclear whether anyone is making their ROI on solar installations.

Does anyone know of some good scripts or workflows to install Ubuntu (because it 'just works' e.g. comes with a lot of drivers) and then scale back to a Debian-like experience?

I've had issues starting with Debian because it doesn't ship with broad support for wifi hardware, and internet over USB to iphone hotspot also didn't work. The only option was to get wired ethernet to bring up wifi.

Didn't Spotify also start by streaming a whole bunch of pirated music?

I am also very glad for Meta's investment into the future, so second your voice here. In a sense though it's Palmer Luckey who punched the tech into a defensible product. John Carmack surely tried to do the right thing, but I think part of why he left is that it's too difficult for any individual to make significant (risky) design decisions.

Do I have faith in Meta to 'win' in VR or AR commercially? Well... not really, but the technological advancements are real.

The AI generated character is a weighted average of many characters written by humans.

Which are not created from nothing. People write characters based on a combination of other fictional characters, real characters, and perhaps some 'RNG'.

Seems the distinction is that the AI generated character can not have any direct bearing on reality, because the LLM never got to know anyone directly. Not derived directly from experiences rooted in reality.