>wtf?

Really. The proper comparison is the Library of Congress carrying the New York Public library.

Congratulations! If your claims are true you are the fastest typist in the world and the greatest of all time! You have surpassed Barbara Blackburn's world record peak speed of 212 WPM in 2005 using a Dvorak layout. You are the LeBron James of typing. Can you point us to your world record entry?

>My initial instinct was to scold you for "WTF is a clinical associate professor?" as thats a term that makes perfect sense for a teaching hospital

"School of Business". They're obviously way outside their bailiwick. Probably a failed MBA. Mencken: "Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach."

>the mining difficulty automatically adjusting itself in response to changes in total network hashrate.

I thought the difficulty increased monotonically. If the number of miners went down, would it really be easier to mine?

>all portable electric space heaters generally put out the same 1,500w

It really doesn't matter what they put out, all resistive heaters are 100% efficient (any inefficiency would result in heat anyway).

Are people buying new miners? Where does new Bitcoin come from - already amortized ones? Still, if that's what you have, it's better the heat from them than from a resistive element.

I don't see where marketing heat from a miner is any worse than the "Amish space heaters" which sell for $500 and make invalid claims about having better efficiency than a $40 milk house heater.

Whoosh. They were comparing mining to space heaters, not heat pumps, which I readily admit are a more efficient source of electric heat. And if mining rigs didn't pay for themselves (where do you think new Bitcoin comes from?), no one would buy them (except other idiot "clinical associate professors").

>Derek Mohr, clinical associate professor at the University of Rochester Simon School of Business, ... "The bitcoin heat devices I have seen appear to be simple space heaters that use your own electricity to heat the room..."

WTF is a "clinical associate professor?" Another term for an idiot? If you heat with electricity, running a mining rig makes perfect sense, any energy used ends up as heat. Better to have a Bitcoin mining rig generating it than a nichrome wire.

>Neutrons do not have polarity.

Don't deny their right to self-identify.

I'd rather no Disney and they lower the price $20/month. Make all the Disney channels add-ons.

One hundred percent. I was exploited personally by a couple startups, and worked crazy through much of my young adult years. At one I think hundreds of people were traumatized as it fell apart and it became an internal war. Eventually I was part of something successful made it to the exit. Given the choice to go back to age 21 and get a cushy job at let's say, a university, with strong job protections and great pension, or play the startup game and work like mad, I'd choose the latter still. I'm grateful I had the chance to go all in.

>World's First Flying Car Factory...

Thelma & Louise might disagree.

>On the other hand, it's entirely possible that my sentiments are not widely shared and they'll make money off of this.

How can they not make money off it? They can have a hundred of them in inventory for each one sold, and they'd still make a profit.

Europe wants to have digital sovereignty, but the reality is its tech sector has lagged far behind in innovation. Why is there no Apple or Google of Europe? Having worked with many startup founders in the US and several in Europe, the conclusion I've come to is: it is infinitely more difficult to create a tech startup in Europe than the USA. Regulations around employment make it very hard to recruit for a startup, people stay at their jobs as it's far harder for them to get hired and fired than in the US. If you're not a well-connected descendent of the aristocracy or nobility, raising money is far more difficult as well. Silicon Valley has two things Europe won't do: Unenforceability of most noncompetes, and overtime-exempt at-will employment. As brutal as these things can be, they're core institutions that resulted in successful tech startups.

How on earth can you "exhaustively" deidentify millions of chat logs that could contain literally any personal details, and presumably all without OpenAI's own employees also sifting through personal information in exactly the way they're claiming would be bad if others did it?

Oh, they'll succeed in building AI. Problem is, it's Artificial Idiocy, not Artificial Intelligence.