The people using these systems are not going to be fooled by faked benchmarks. The only people being fooled here is Meta and it's investors.

This isn't going to work out like they want it to.

Everything about this statement indicates this is more of the ideal outcome within a capitalistic society. Are people upset that they aren't heavily exploiting customers? If so, then they are sociopaths that you shouldn't be listening too in the first place.

The first paragraph is sort of reasonable, but fraught with confounders. The second is just making the original error but substituting the author's pet cause and adding some religious weirdness. Fortunately the exact same argument deals with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The highest per capita meat consuming countries are non-muslim. The muslim countries are all mid tier except for a couple gulf states, including Qatar.

Sacrificing animals is big part of Islamic religious ritual.

Lol. It's a big part of Christian religious ritual too. That doesn't mean people do it very often.

Oxygen also causes cancer.

No, they're part of normal society that pushes their wishes and ideals as truths. Science is a weird niche branch of philosophy that says that's a bad way to generate knowledge.

That's hard enough for trained scientists to do never mind the masses. So the masses politicize papers with conclusions they don't like. Notice most of the arguments aren't about the data, they're something along the lines of "idiots won't understand this so it's dangerous to publish."

We were talking about why you can't send information faster than the speed of light. Nobody said communication via entangled particles was the same as classical communication. It requires classical communication. In the case you're talking about, that classical communication even has to come first.

I currently have six travel eSIMs in my phone

The article author transfers eSIMS between phones frequently, several times a month. Swapping eSIMS in one phone is easy, quick and much superior to the physical kind. Swapping between phones apparently runs into some problems if your carrier is braindead. That's what the article is complaining about.

You can buy a pay as you go eSIM for cash in many places too. It's the same thing. You can also buy a pay as you go eSIM without going to the store and showing your face to the employees and their security cameras.

I think this is actually why giants like google have been enshitifying search engines, to promote the use of AI which provides better results.

From a business perspective, how could this possibly be worth the investment required to manufacture them in orbit? Economically, it seems this would need to result in performance gains that exceed those made on Earth by a significant margin. The only other possibility I can think of is that the resulting chips have a quality about them that a specific fields requires that cannot be had any other way.

If this were just a simple science experiment then this would all make sense. However, this is a business venture which means they think this can be profitable at some point.

Is it stupid? How do you tell the goons running the metal detectors to check for "behaviours or capabilities?" You CAN show them a picture of a raspberry pi and a flipper and tell them those aren't allowed. I expect if you show up with an orange pi or a flopper ziro you're also not going to be let in.

Is it? An eSIM is just the contents of a regular SIM running in a virtual machine. If your physical SIM dies you have to go get another. If you eSIM dies somehow you have to get someone to give you another. The difference is that they can e-mail you the new eSIM.

Not many carriers will mail you a SIM card, and even if they did you'd have to somehow acquire a mailbox or address anonymously. Lots of them will e-mail you an eSIM to your shadycharacter1337@gmail.com e-mail though.