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All Trek is like this, but Voyager was a particularly blatant offender. Their writing quality was generally not great, and there were quite a few cases where they would run the same premise multiple times in a season, which just highlighted the implausibility of the crew having to make the same mistakes twice in a row.

So I can actually think of a few reasons: Preprocessing vast amounts of super high resolution satellite imagery to save bandwidth, and jurisdictional black site processing data some countries would want to steal or arrest you for having or processing, particularly if you were hiding it from internal audit. You would be paying an extreme premium over ground based for ever FLOP, so, the customer base of practical customers is limited to a handful of very well funded intelligence agencies or scientific projects in very niche use cases.

The only way to get him out of the CEO chair is for him to retire or die. He never gave up voting control during the IPO and controls more than 50% of the vote.

Ok, but a cash register isnt a paywall. A paywall is a specific thing with an actual definition.

Yea but thats not what a paywall actually is.

There are already AIs you can run on your computer or even your cell phone, they are just really really specialized or dumb.

Even if you could magically network every desktop, laptop, workstation and cell phone in the world and run them all full power 24 hours a day doing nothing but powering this network, you are probably an order of magnitude or more behind even current data center capacity.

Partly, the Chinese are distilling closed source models, and OpenAI and Anthropic’s attempts to stop this have only succeeded in making their outputs less transparent. Partly, the actual frontier of AI is currently mostly vibes and marketing, as everyone’s cheated the tests so badly that the only way to stay in the running is to cheat. Partly, that weve passed the point where even an honest evaluator could say which general purpose model is better than another, since their performance fluxuates wildly from task to task.

This is probably one of the few issues you could really get grass roots bipartisan support on these days. It would have to be marketed right though. Maybe something like “DEI cameras”, or “6G posts”.

No, you have to go after the local politicians who keep approving these systems. Electorally of course, you psychos. Your local city council rep is going to feel much more pressure from an angry letter from a voter than your senator would.

Thats not true at all. The US is about 43%, and Qatar about 33%, Russia about 9%, and China less than 2%.

Many of them were veterans of a war against France. France was their ally at the time, but they wouldnt have any problem with the concept of shifting alliances and loyalties.

The reason these MBAs are billionaires and IT people scurry around putting out fires is the realization that constant disasters just encourage customers to spend more money.

And ironically, AI fixes almost all these problems. Just pull up Deep Seek, drop in whatever the console throws at you and you can get back the answer free of charge. These days the hardest part of bash is remembering that Ctrl+V should be Shift+Ctrl+V.

Building, maintaining and launching rockets is actually not great for the environment either!

Article says this is about DDR3 and DDR4 RAM, so it seems unlikely data centers are directly to blame.

I was part of a project that tried. If you just want to get rid of dialog trees local processing might be an option, but for an actual reactive world your looking at possibly hundreds of dollars a month in rented compute. The deeper problem is the current generation of LLMs are just too unstable over time, and frankly, too dumb to maintain its persona and keep up with a dynamic fictional world. Each hallucination amplifies the disconnect from the fictional reality, and trying to reset it changes the presentation of the persona. And if the humans are actively trying to mess with the AIs or if the AIs are supposed to consider something without blurring it out, its all going to crash and burn.

Of course, its a little concerning that these agents are too unreliable to be a character is a fictional video game, but apparently reliable enough to be given access and authority in the real world.

I think youve answered your own question. They, and everyone else making humanoid robots, have almost certainly tried. The fact that they are still having actors control their demos using VR systems tells you how well those tests went.

Its called inflation. And billionaires dont hoard money, they hoard assets. Most of the time inflation just makes them richer, as salaries drain out year over year and their stock prices keep going up.

Thats definitely not a valuation youd expect for a company that had any chance of delivering. General purpose humanoid robots are the other half of the AI-singularity-permanent oligarchy vision: data centers to replace knowledge workers and robots to replace physical labor, then…I dont know, fly off to Mars or something?

Anyway, if there was a chance they were close to producing a robot that could actually function as a human analog they should be pushing a trillion dollar valuation in this market.

Because leaders are the ones who decide what is valuable.