... because wind/solar is cheaper than coal. We do not want americans paying less for electricity especially if it's not as bad for the environment. This is America! We can afford to pay more for our power if it means we benefit the coal mine owners. COAL FTW! Where would be without that wonderful sulphur and mercury in our atmosphere?! So... here's the fun facts: we have a fusion reactor that generates trillion times more energy per second than humanity ever produced in the past thousand years. A small fraction of that energy makes it to the planet, and that tiny fraction is still 20 thousand times more energy than what we need. If we captured just 1% of that energy, it would more than satisfy ALL of humanity's energy needs.

"producing exact copies of the contents of that book" - Yeah, I see your point, and I see it's based on a misconception of how AI works. It's not a copy-paste algorithm, it's a convolutional neural network. There is a huge difference, yet it can look the same to the untrained eye. If you don't have a good understanding of the underlying technology, I definitely see how it would lead you to conclude it is a copy-paste algorithm.

You have no obligation to cite your source of inspiration. If I read a 1000 books and learn how to write books, how to create an engaging story, how to create dialogue, how to make plot twists, and I use all that gathered knowledge to write a new book, I do not have to give any credit to any of the 1000 books. The only violation would be if use the character from a book in my book, or use dialogue from a book in my book, etc, but unless AI is overfitted, it will not do that.

Yes, if you ask AI the right things you can get predictable results. But that means nothing! You can do the same exact thing with humans as well. https://magicmentalism.com/pow... So, on the contrary: a person reading a book and getting inspired to write some stuff is no different than AI reading a book and getting inspired to write some crap. Large models do the same exact thing as humans, but they just do it much faster and better. What you're thinking of are simple algorithms with fixed input and deterministic output. Convolutional neural networks with reinforcement learning are very different from simple algorithms.

... to no one. Everybody who knows how cryptotokens work already knows cryptotokens are just a solution to a problem nobody had (and never will have) and people who are die-hard fans of the nonsense tokens are still too dumb to understand it.

There will always be the people that hodl for life ... not because they understand or believe in the future of crypto, but because they lost their private key.

True! Today's 2D bitmapped games use more cpu than Quake. :D

Are they going in the ransomware/money laundering business?

"Myth #1: The majority of cryptocurrency transactions are for illegal activities. Research shows that illicit activity accounts for less than 1 percent of transactions." ... So you're telling me 99% of the transactions turn coal into pollution for nothing? What a total waste.

That's pretty much Amazon's business model. That something with a non-restrictive license. Make it a "new product" on AWS... profit!

seriously? Fly over people at night? I was thinking that's oddly specific... you can fly over people but at night? That seems more dangerous if anything. It's Fly over people AND fly at night.

amazon made more than that in the time it took me to write this post.

They fought tooth and nail against every new technology... vhs, audio compression, video streaming ... that's how Netflix has become as valuable as Disney in one tenth of the time! These greedy assholes never learn: You catch more flies with honey. Long term business success is achieved by providing a valuable service to your customers! They only know to profit by treating customers like cattle. A short-sighted money grab never works in the end. RIAA/MPAA is just Kodak with a different name... refusing to change in a changing world like the Amish... at least the Amish aren't trying to keep everyone else in the dark ages!

This is actually part of a cycle: As temperature heats up, more people use their air conditioners which heat up the air even more, power central has to burn more fuel. It's one of many feedback loops that ensure climate change inevitable. The only thing you can do is prepare for it.

You misuse the term "raster graphics", as that refers to bitmaps, not vector based real-time 3D rendering. Real-time ray-tracing has been around for almost two decades, but it wasn't mainstream until recently. As the parallel computational power of GPU increases, ray-tracing becomes the inevitable future.

If you are a misogynistic closed-minded racist xenophobe in favor of discrimination, do you have legal standing for facing discrimination? Can you claim your discriminatory closed-minded xenophobic racism is something you're born with, not something you choose? Perhaps being xenophobe will become a protected status, and discrimination will be protected as freedom of expression? Is this what Damore is trying to accomplish? It's as dumb as him.