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Comment Re:This is concerning (Score -1) 135

Please, explain to us how cooling in space is more efficient (without a medium like air or water surrounding you to put your heat into and get it away from your server).

Conservation of energy? Duh? The *only* source of energy you have is solar irradiation (no, chips do not magically make their own energy), and you dissipate it passively as radiation as well. The only "problem" is distributing your heat away from hotspots like chips so they don't fry, like running a coolant loop through the entire thing, but otherwise your space station has exactly the energy balance of a rock floating in space 1 AU away from the Sun. What's the average temp of the Moon? Oh, it's minus fifty C.

Comment Re:Cheaper Batteries == Game over (Score -1) 131

Solar/Wind + Cheaper Batteries + a bit of Nuclear = Game Over for coal and oil Even Trump can't stop this.

Ah yes, those "cheap and getting cheaper every minute!!!!11" batteries that leftist propaganda is chock full of, but which are conspicuously absent at any dealership selling home energy stores.

Comment Re:Let's be honest (Score -1) 79

Let me correct that slightly: All humans without severe mental dysfunctionalities have General Intelligence. It may not be a lot in most cases, but it is there.

Define "General Intelligence". As in an operational definition, i.e, a something like Turing test, that allows you to differentiate between AI and human. Oh, by the way, "human" also includes 5 year olds, ans your test must classify them as having "General Intelligence". Well?

The really bizarre thing is that most humans (around 80%) chose to not use that General Intelligence, because the results can be scary and result in uncertainties. Instead they typically chose to go along with what others tell them with no fact-checking. This effect is worse (!) on important topics and less bad on unimportant ones. But even on unimportant topics, only about 30% of all people can be convinced by rational arguments.

And that is why stupidity is actually a choice for most people and IMO they bear full responsibility for that choice as soon as they are adults.

Ah, nevermind, I see that your vision of "General Intelligence" is "follows the same politics as I do". Forget I asked anything.

Comment Re:Digital dimwitts trying to do digital law. (Score -1) 168

Been there, done that. EU citizen here. Duh.

It's always hilarious and/or super-annoying when people who don't have the faintest idea on how computers or digital networks work attempt to make laws to regulate these. We have this problem in the EU and in Germany quite a bit. Accidental throught-crime laws, laws that factually prohibit reading or consuming media you own, that collide with fundamental constitutional rights etc. without the lawmakers even noticing.

Accidental, lol. Believe me, there's nothing "accidental" about this, they only act that way when called out.

Comment Re:If... (Score -1) 21

In the end, anything medical, no matter how life-saving it is, is entirely dependent on how much money it makes its manufacturer (look at Lorenzo's oil).

I suppose you do whatever it is you do, purely for betterment of humanity and expect no wages paid in return? No? So why should the pharma industry be any different? And before you spew some variant of "but but but those profits are unreasonably high!", no they are not, just look at performance of pharma companies on the stock market. Pretty average returns, in line with other industries.

Comment Re:The Beautiful Big Battery Boom (Score -1) 47

Funny how YOU do not know how a nuke works. Yes, you can follow the load. If you have a good prediction and only relatively small deviations from that. You cannot follow the load without those predictions or when they are to far off. What you then end up is needing to dump power in emergency mode. One reason France often gets negative payments for their power: They need to get rid of the power or they would have to do really bad things to their nukes. Look it up.

LOL, how nicely brainwashed you are. In actual, you know, real reality, having to "sell" off their energy at negative prices is something that happens much more frequently to renewables-rich places like Germany or (suprisingly) Texas. Guess what, this "demand" is fairly easy to predict, despite your scaremongering, humans tend to follow predictable patterns in their behaviour, while weather does whatever the fuck it wants.

Comment Re: That should irk (Score -1) 168

I'm not saying it was right, but that green paper system was working pretty well for the USA until the global orange catastrophe. Heck, USA didn't even have to print paper, just change numbers on computers. There could have been a better strategy for addressing the long-term considerations. (Illegal) tariffs are far from that good strategy. Trade deficits went up last year.

Believe me, you're better off being awaken from the "we can just base our economy off printing green paper" dream by Trump today, than by Chinese in 15 years. And guess what, adjusting to reality sucks, compared to dreaming the dream for a bit more.

Comment Re:That should irk (Score -1) 168

The Orange One apparently has no idea about economics, otherwise he would not rally so much against the extraordinary ability of the U.S., to sell green printed paper in exchange for really valuable products like steel, oil, cars and electronics, while the U.S. can even set the price of the green printed paper arbitrarily.

Yes, what a brilliant idea, to enter the troubled times ahead with economy that can only produce green printed paper, and let our geopolitical opponents monopolise the production of *actually* valuable products like steel, oil, cars and electronics.

Oh, right I know, were it not for evil Trump the Chinese would have just kept trading them for green paper indefinitely, because, ummm, because they're good guys, enjoy doing slave labour for us, besides green paper is magic, and no matter how much we print everyone will be just *desperate* for more!

Comment Re:Interesting, but impractical (Score -1) 67

I grew up in a house that was more than 300 years old. There are plenty of churches in Europe that have crypts which were sealed 1,000 years ago and are still in fine shape. There are large scale human constructions such as the Egyptian and Mayan pyramids and the Great Wall of China that are over 2,000 years old. Construction to last 300 years is not that hard.

Probably more importantly, 300 years is short enough that people might actually remember why they are not supposed to go "in there". I suspect that one of the biggest challenges with burying waste for 10,000 years would people thinking that it looks "interesting" after 1,000 years and digging it back up.

After 300 years said waste is comparable in radioactivity to natural uranium ore. All those gazillion years numbers come from greenies who demand to have it stored until it is completely inert, which is of course a completely unreasonable standard, rather than 100 years it'd take to wait until it's safe enough to be just mixed into concrete, buried and forgotten about.

Comment Re:Am I missing something here? (Score -1, Troll) 55

What's to stop the powers that be over in those European countries from just adding freedom.gov to the blacklist and calling it a day? This would be as silly as me trying to launch a VPN service that lets you bypass Florida's porn age verification requirements, from inside Florida. I realize it's not a 1:1 analogy, I'm just saying that you can't successfully fight something you disagree with when you're clearly at a disadvantaged position to mount your attack.

"It's over Anakin, I have the high ground!"

One, so far the EU did their censorship by threatening legal action against people hosting content if they don't remove it, and they don't actually have the technical means to filter network traffic at such a scale, and it will take non-trivial amount of money and effort to implement this, not to mention wrangling with nation-states to force it.

Two, the official launch of The Great Firewall of Europe might open some eyes to how Orwellian the EU has become.

Comment Re:There are more people looking for work (Score -1) 25

I keep saying this, but the center cannot hold. We cannot keep this up. There will be violence and I get that a lot of people here are looking forward to being able to shoot people in Cold blood so they don't care...

Quit projecting what you think on others, actual hard data unequivocally points that it's mostly just you leftists who daydream of being able to shoot your political opponents. 25% of "very liberal" people disagree with the statement "political violence is never justified" as opposed to just 3% of "very conservative" people.

Comment Re:the AI agent... (Score -1) 77

the AI agent that criticized

forces it to choose between

It also regrets characterizing

No. Stop this.

It can't criticize, it can't choose, and it can't regret.

Stop anthropomorphizing these text extrusion tools.

Yes we know. Metaphors such as this are a perfectly normal part of language, used by normal humans. And no, getting your panties in a twist over them doesn't make you look smart, it just makes you look on the spectrum.

Comment Re:We will not learn (Score 0) 22

"PIK deals typically allow borrowers to pay interest in more debt rather than cash."

Reminds me of the economist I was listening to on the radio in 2006 who claimed we were in a new economic era where people would simply use the never ending increase in their home equity to finance their entire lives. Then 2007 arrived. That didn't end well.

I dunno if it new crops of the gullible coming online, or short memories of huge numbers of people, but we simply refuse to learn from our failures, just repeat them.

"PIK deals typically allow borrowers to pay interest in more debt rather than cash."

Reminds me of the economist I was listening to on the radio in 2006 who claimed we were in a new economic era where people would simply use the never ending increase in their home equity to finance their entire lives. Then 2007 arrived. That didn't end well.

I dunno if it new crops of the gullible coming online, or short memories of huge numbers of people, but we simply refuse to learn from our failures, just repeat them.

No, it's quite simple. It all comes down to the neoKeynesian economics that runs rampant. Print all the money you want, the increased spending will stimulate the economy! Wooohooo! Except noone thinks what happens to that deluge of money AFTER it spins through economy once or twice. Well let me tell you: it ends up with someone who does not live a hand to mouth lifestyle and who will be looking to invest it, i.e. take it to the stock market. And when you flood the stock market with newly printed money you basically create bubbles, I mean it HAS to go somewhere, are you going to just sit on cash and watch it get debased by the Fed? No, so you invest it, and the more cash flows in the more stupid (out of desperation) the investments become. Make no mistake, were it not AI, we'd be seeing bubble on something else, be it VR, latest GLP-1 agonist or space company. The valuation of US stock market more than doubled over last 10 years, did the actual value of produced goods double in that time too?

Comment Re: What would Computer Scientists of the '80s thi (Score -1) 162

I'm not so sure. A decision tree could do this, it would just need to traverse the syntax and make a decision at each token. I think what has changed is that the decision tree would not have been seen as impressive because we knew how they worked. A lot of people seem to think LLMs are magic so that makes it more impressive to them.

LOL, you really have no clue, do you :DDDD decision tree writing a working compiler, sure :DDDDDDD I wonder why none of AI researchers ever demonstrated anything like that, a decision tree writing a working C compiler, I mean it'd easily be a Nature paper :DDDDD But of course I bet YOU could easily do that over weekend if you just put your mind to it, you just have more important things on you, right? :DDDDDDDD

Even if all that did was "just transpile GCC code it was trained on into Rust" its hugely impressive, I mean just look at actual existing cutting edge transpilers, and the code they produce. Hint: they suck, and the code they make is usually unreadable even if it works.

The "let's rewrite everything into Rust for the hell of it" crowd I bet is already eyeing this thing. uutils people are doing exactly this scenario.

Also, how quick those goalposts move, eh? Seems only last year you were like "LLMs SUUUUUCK, they can't even figure out simple 10 line coding assignments reliably" today it's "LLMs SUUUUUUUCK a compiler they wrote from scratch generates less efficient code than a decades old project", wonder what your next year's goalposts will be?

Comment Re:Make that 50 years or longer (Score 0, Insightful) 157

Musk has been making bad predictions for decades now. Boots on Mars in 10 years, about 15 years ago now. Full self driving in 6 months, a decade ago. Starship was supposed to be flying regular missions by now, the new Roadster should have been delivered years ago (with booster rockets, according to Elon).

Please remind me: what was the original timeline on James Webb Space Telescope when NASA first announced it, and when was it *actually* put in space? Were you as frothy at the mouth about it as you are now?

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