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Measured in Elon miles though.

I've done Stockholm-Oslo without stopping to charge in December in my model y long range. Didn't really do anything special either, just obeyed the speed limits pretty much. Most of the drive was on autopilot(not fsd) because highways are boring. Had a pretty healthy margin too, I charged on the outskirts of town on the way home 2 days later.

My 2024 Model 3 Performance regularly sees its EPA rated range.

That might be true if the proponents had an argument of any sort in support of their plan, other than "we need idiots to give us money".

You misused a comma; it doesn't belong where you used it.

Just because there are ninety nine ways to do something wrong doesn't mean there couldn't exist one way to do it right. In the case of space datacenters, there absolutely exists a way to do it effectively. Dumb VCs will never know the difference.


Wondering if there's a better reference article for this. The current link goes to a page with so many adverts that I saw no actual content on my phone screen.

No ads here on desktop or mobile with ublock origin.

The fact that people in the current year still don't use ad blockers baffles me. Even on mobile, use Firefox with uBlock Origin and/or DNS66 or AdAway for OS wide blocking, or even just set dns.adguard-dns.com in your phone DNS settings.

It is bizarre, isn't it? My web experience has been broadly cleansed of ads for about as long as we've had a web to experience.

These days, Firefox on Android indeed works great, and so does uBlock Origin. It's a superb combination on the desktop, and also on my pocket supercomputer.

On iOS, I browse with Safari and the free AdGuard extension (from the app store) does quite well.

These mobile browsers even work well for watching videos on Youtube without inserted ads.

They accomplish this cleansing at the cost of at most a few minutes of my time to set them up when a new device comes into the mix. It's a fantastic bargain.

People have choices, and I don't know why anyone would choose to see ads.


every time I have to deal with a stock Chrome on stock Windows, I marvel at the amount of outright abuse normies are able to endure.

Except that wasn't possible. Languages like BASIC and Forth exist because they were the only kind of language implementable in 4K with no disk. Pascal in its smallest form (UCSD p-system) still needed disk overlays. The smallest C compilers were poly phase, needing storage for intermediate state.

See also Airbnb and Uber.

Nit: the pdp-10 is generally considered a mainframe not a minicomputer.

They had a working PDP-10 at the Living Computers Museum (since shut down by Paul Allen's estate). Definitely a mainframe. That thing takes up an entire room.

How do you know that?

Shannon Got AI This Far. Kolmogorov Shows Where It Stops - Vishal Misra

https://medium.com/@vishalmisra/shannon-got-ai-this-far-kolm...

This article explains what's missing in terms of two kinds of complexity that oppose: Shannon complexity vs. Kolmogorov complexity.

It introduces the opposition by an example of driving the value of pi as decimal number, which has no pattern and high complexity, and a formula for deriving pi that does have a pattern with low complexity, then observing that mind can work from the patternless high-complexity back to the patterned low-complexity without prior examples, while AI can't.

LLMs encode and retrieve patterns in the training data, and doing so can connect data to the terminology of known principle, but mind can observe inconsistencies in data and to reason from first principles to resolve the inconsistency.

The distinction between these two modes can seem blurry as AI can traverse the patterns of the known in ways that are extraordinarily revealing, but it's not structured to reason about the unknown.

Inference is not sufficient for reason.

For example, a conventional algorithm can search for patterns in text at a scale many orders of magnitude beyond a mind's capacity, and this can be very revealing, but to do so this algorithm need not read the text with comprehension.

Regarding the question: can genAI be enhanced to reason? The answer is assumed to be "no", due to the categorical opposition of the two kinds of complexity and the lack of understanding of structures within genAI to handle the reasoning.

Read the article, which includes other examples including a jump from Newtonian to Einstein physics in the history of astronomy, and a noodling on how to talk about the edge of the unknowable in AI.


Because then we already have it, and if we do, it is pretty underwhelming.

So maybe we do have it, and it is underwhelming? Or it's not underwhelming and we just got used to it.

Using that as an argument to say we don't have AGI doesn't really make sense.

Regardless of whether we do or don't have AGI, until I actually see the economy-ending job losses, I won't believe it.


so are most humans

Okay?

Some folks are absolutely giddy about using AI as a cudgel to dehumanize others. Those people are idiots.

And?

Mad king gone + plausible reforms done that preclude another mad king. That's going to take a while.

Definitely a consideration by all countries.

There are other rich people lobbying harder to protect other businesses not impacted by the ally double-crossing.

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