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Comment Re:AI does scut work well. (Score 1) 51

The 100W intern includes the inefficient energy conversion from renewable fuel. The GPU uses 200W after the conversion, so factor in power plant inefficiencies and transmission losses. The GPU may or may not be using renewable fuel.

Perhaps what we really need is to find a way to get human cells to produce chloroplasts so Intern 2.0 can be direct solar powered.

In addition, on the other end of the operation, GPUs add to the growing e-waste problem while interns are biodegradable.

Comment Re: Quantum mechanics: a mathematical description (Score 1) 92

"people don't understand what a wavefunction is. Not the interpretation of it, the actual hard mathematical "this is what it is.""

Except that doesn't exist, you have to approach quantum effects through probabilities. That makes it literally the opposite of what you said!

Comment Re: Quantum mechanics: a mathematical description (Score 1) 92

Magnets, how the fuck do they work?

Seriously though, car driving is based on things which are good for survival that we were already good at. And the controls evolved to match those skills, we didn't evolve to be better drivers. We started out with a collection of levers loosely connected to the activity and now we have mostly wheels and buttons, and the levers we operate with our feet aren't really operated like levers either.

Comment Re: I usually don't support the big guys, but damn (Score 2) 45

In this case the two companies met about making this game together, then decided not to, then one of those companies that wasn't originally already developing it made a copy of the game already under development. You might not know this from the summary, but that's why reading the fine article and also other materials about the same story is valuable.

Comment Re:Such a surprise (Score 3, Insightful) 51

It plays into the leisure class's lifelong dream of being able to jettison the unwashed masses and keep the money for themselves without having to resort to learning how to do things or (God forbid) doing things themselves.

Most of us "unwashed masses" understand that things that sound too good to be true probably are, but that's because we haven't grown up in a world where we give orders, shuffle a couple of decimal points, and then sign our names to take credit for the hard work of thousands of people.

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