The reasons for not travelling seem questionable though, and you could argue that it wouldn't be safe for Indian staff to travel to the US.

Singing is pretty much a commodity service now. With autotune almost anyone can do it, but you can hire a professional for not a lot of money. It's good that people get work instead of AI slop, but also the rates are very low and it's a side gig at most.

The people who making a living from it tend to have other talents too. Song writing, stage performance, looking conventionally attractive, building up a social media following, etc.

AI probably won't change much in that respect.

It's incredible that anyone still invests in it, after Musk publicly admitted it was a scam.

And "the only solution for trips over 300 miles"? Less than an hour via existing maglev technology, which both Japan and China are deploying as we speak. That's just the start though, maglev can probably double that speed, close to the speed of sound. The issue is the noise, and you don't need a vacuum tube to solve it.

Sure do. Social libertarianism, first off.
Their opponents are trying to legislate their fucking religion.
Second, even if the "understanding" is only skin deep- they're the only ones paying attention to the voters who are rightfully concerned about the climate. The voters that are vastly more intelligent than you.

I'm hoping for more than normal. Big floods of used but perfectly serviceable drives and memory hitting the market, at bankruptcy prices.

Also can they please hurry up and get LTO 10 out the door, so that LTO 8 drives get cheap? Thanks.

It's a borderline scam, where so many jobs, even minimum wage ones, need a degree just to get past the application submission stage, that a degree is almost mandatory in many fields. A lot of it is employers transferring the cost of training to the employee.

It also blows the meritocracy arguments out of the water, because a person's ability to get high level qualifications is highly dependent on their ability to pay. Not just pay for college, but to not work so much they don't have time to do extra studying or non-core activities.

Here, I completely agree with you.

LLMs are simply not predictable enough to be in that kind of control of something that dangerous. There are far better tools.
LLMs are better used in an analysis role with a human between its determinations and implementations of the highly predictable systems.

Whether it be biological or crystalline or silicon, you have reduced the criteria to "an algorithm", which means as far as your criteria concerned, it works exactly like a computer.

Now, I'd say that's a gross simplification- but you brought us here in your goal to find a common denominator behind a database, and then multi-billion term nonlinear equation that is an LLM.

Seems more like political problems. They have been trying to build large wind farms and export cables for years. If they can't even manage that, they have no hope of building nuclear.

It's a tragedy really. They have massive amounts of space for this stuff. A lot of sun, and good on and off shore wind resources. The domestic solar market is actually doing okay, because it gets less political interference and there isn't all that much that can be done to stop people putting panels on their homes.

I would be surprised if software updating an aircraft is that simple. It probably needs to be controlled and tested after the update, with records kept by maintenance staff, and notifications sent to pilots.

I don't honestly think it would have changed anything at all.
We have what our social policy as a people have dictated that we wanted.

The fact is, bizarrely, Americans don't want high-speed rail enough to vote for it. Let us not pretend that cost is what was holding it back.
I don't think anyone has found the right way to hype it for enough Americans for it to actually happen.

You are right to call them out for that overbroad claim.
It is, however, still broadly true.

There have been catastrophic events more catastrophic than the anthropocene- particularly, the meltwater pulses- the collapse of the ice sheets.
The anthropocene is still pretty fucking bad, though.

Worst of all time anywhere?
That's probably the dumbest shit I have ever read.
Dumbest of all time anywhere? Ya- I'd agree with that. But confidently proclaiming that dumbest is worst is particularly impressive level of historical ignorance.

Your brain is a physical object.
However the subjective things we call "mind" work, the physical part is simple, and it can be described algorithmically just like an LLM.
That was the folly in trying to reduce the description that far.

An LLM can be expressed as a math equation, as much as any physical object in this universe.

Trump is a fucking dotard. However- what he has done, amazingly, is make it impossible to evaluate anything in this fucking universe objectively, either amongst his allies or his opponents.