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Comment Re: Cost per KG compared to Falcon 9 / Heavy? (Score 1) 68

That's very easy to explain. Falcon was a rocket designed by real rocket scientists and experts in their field. Back then Elon actually listened to them. But for Starship he began to believe that he was competent enough in rocket science to make those calls and ignored anyone telling him otherwise. That's why it's such a mess, had multiple redesigns and can't really get anywhere. Starship will not deliver what was promised, because the design is inherently shit. First it was supposed to be carbon fiber (nod to OceanGate) but that turned out to be shit, now it's stainless steel that after a round trip belongs on a scrapyard not on a rocket. Not to mention having to use tiles that was a huge problem and cost related to Space Shuttle. Now Starship has the same problems and loses tons of them when going back. How is that going to help rapid redeployment if you need to check 1mln tiles and replace every single one that's missing or defective (along with it's mounting, I don't even want to know what happens if the fastener breaks and do they plan to fix that). You can see the same thing with Tesla. Until Elon listened, they made good cars. Once his ego pumped and he decided he knows best, he pulled the plug on radar/lidar and that basically stalled self driving for a decade, same with 4680 battery, gigantic aluminum stamping pressess etc.

Comment Focus on mining and industry in orbit/moon (Score 1) 95

Once trips to LEO become a solved problem and cost effective (Starship etc.), we should focus on mining asteroids and bringing stuff back to earth/moon. This could jump start a new space race based on pure greed and advance our civilization further. Just as the previous gold rush did for the US. Once people/companies/government see it as profitable, there will be a significant amount of participants that will want to optimize the process further. Start with rare earths, gold, platinum, titanium etc. things that are very expensive on Earth but can potentially be cheap in space. If we build a 1 ton robot that can mine indefinitely on something like 16 Psyche and just send delivery rockets (ion propulsion?) between earth and it on rotation. As the "cargo hold" use something like Bigelow but instead of habitat make it just hold lots of ore. Those "bags" could be intercepted on earth by regular satellite missions and brought back with the first/second stage depending on mission profile. From what I understand we have all the technology that's necessary to do that right now. We just need someone to show everyone that it's possible.

Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 37

From what I understand if you feed AI data to any type of LLM you get model collapse. Now, if you feed those LLMs data from the internet that's post-ChatGPT it's going to be increasingly riddled with AI. From reddit to Wikipedia, people are going to post what AI spills out. Nobody solves this problem, nobody talks about it and this is crucial to scaling LLMs with more data. But it turns out you need to use data until 2022, everything newer is "contaminated".

Comment Nothing that another diverse and colorful ad campa (Score 1) 92

Jaguar is already gone, they just haven't realized it yet. Cars were shit and sales were falling off a cliff, then UK decided that Brexit was a great idea which made everything 10x worse. So in order to save themselves they decided to appeal to a group of people who don't buy cars, are permanently broke and instead of working fight imaginary societal problems...

Comment Re: "to test systems for future missions" (Score 1) 46

Can you imagine the delay if anything happens to those astronauts? Might as well hand the trophy to China because NASA would be grounded for 5 years after a failure with loss of life. I really hope they return safely, because this is just pointless propaganda and risking your life for that isn't worth it.

Comment Proof? (Score 1) 92

All I see is wild accusations but never a shred of evidence that this is happening. It's just US propaganda against China. Same thing as with Huawei, not a single proof they were doing any snooping for Chinese government. But what they did is sell more phones than Apple and became a real threat to it's market share. Only country that had verified and confirmed backdoors inside it's hardware sold to other countries is the US.

Comment Re: no credit card data was compromised (Score 1) 30

In Europe we have those cards for a LONG time. I think I've had mine for around 15 years and use it for every online transaction and subscription. Card is a debit one and empty so they can't steal anything. I have to add money to it from my main account and can do it through an app.

Comment What did anyone expect? (Score 0, Flamebait) 69

President Epstein dismantled US cybersecurity like the good KGB agent he is, stopped monitoring for threats so they have an easier time and publicly said "what you gonna do?" when asked by the press about those attacks. Repeat after me: US elected russian agent Krasnov as president and the GOP is ecstatic about it.

Comment Re: Imagine (Score 1) 53

They need to reverse the order. Right now we're using data to compress knowledge and then build "reasoning" on top. System is static, doesn't learn anything new and reasoning is questionable.
While in reality it's exactly the opposite, we create intelligence and then we teach it. This way system is dynamic, can learn, form opinions and draw conclusions.
Until we switch the order around, we're not closer to any kind of AGI. LLMs are a dead end in my opinion.

Comment Re: and yet (Score 1) 243

The only thing a government could do is force the rich to share the wealth with other people ie. taxes. That isn't going to happen. No amount of federal programs and maternity leaves will help you. There are countries that already have all of that and yet they are a demographic catastrophe. Reality is wages have been stagnant for the majority of people, economical gains are artificial and benefit only a few. Regular Joe has a much harder time than 30-40 years ago. Democrats believe it's because of lack of government programs, Republicans believe it's because taxes for the rich are too high. Nobody is working on solving the problem, they are all working on making the problem worse. There is no help and there won't ever be help. System is rigged against us.

Comment Re: "China Claims Nvidia Built Backdoor Into H20 C (Score 4, Insightful) 83

What do you mean whether? It was proven multiple times that US hardware contains backdoors and we all know who ordered that to happen. I remember Chinese being accused of doing the same thing but I've never seen a security researcher prove it definitely.

Comment Re: No... (Score 1) 142

They are gone but haven't realized it yet. There is no way to write this law to protect them other than outright banning it altogether and that isn't happening. They can't force companies to use human VAs so they are done for. Everyone will be using it, I will be using it and it will become the norm. Eventually it will even be better than human voice actors while costing NOTHING.

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