Can you imagine the possibility that by talking about quantum computers we might inspire some young genius to pursue an idea and accelerate the progress? Whereas if we downplay it as you do, it establishes a mood of pessimism that psychologically makes potential researchers give up before even starting?
That's why he said "That makes it usually cheaper to use a non-HEPA filter but a higher air throughput rate."
It's a tradeoff, like almost everything in life. Whether his "usually" is correct depends mostly on who wants to buy the system, and only they can tell.
What does Scott Aaronson have to say about how this is all nothing to see here, move along?
You miss the point completely. The technology is there and unstoppable. Cutting down one company doesn't destroy the technology. Killing Napster didn't kill the technology, it just spread it around, decentralized it, then there were thousands of sites to control, and they never did manage to do that, did they? Killing Flock will do exactly the same.
Killing Flock won't kill the concept or the capability and more than demolishing Napster stopped music copying. I bet within 5 years, this scanning will be common in most dashcams and phone apps will be available.
Lashing out in anger without having a plan or knowing your target is juvenile.
Hasn't this been happening forever, before LLMs?
"Oh, I got three emails this week alone with people being like, 'Hey, is this legit?'" Because they thought they'd solved something with ChatGPT or with Claude, and they also don't have the mathematical skills to check whether they've actually solved something.
So would it be better for those inquirers to remain wallowing in their ignorance rather than have AI try to help them?
"A sizable portion of the population wants to do the exact opposite of every sensible behavior just for gratuitous contrarianism disguised as "freedom!""
Did you just say freedom is not sensible?
Living in a Islamo-Fascist semi dictatorship where deep-package-inspection is considered totally usual, I wonder why third World countries weren't included in such offers.
Is air conditioning part of the climate-change-causing problem?
Whoops -- accidentally moderated it. Undoing...
"the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable"
Don't the sycophantilists continually dismiss AI as just telling you what you want to hear? If Trump wants to hear a problem is solvable, do his sycophants push back like AI did?
Should we all rush to legislate social media and phone bans, treating everyone as if they were the worst stories you've heard from the squeakiest wheels?
Maybe you should stop panicking lie a wee baby and think from the other end: things are working as well as they can, and the problem is a lot bigger than just snapping your fingers and hoping a genie shows up.
Fabs are expensive and big, and can't be built overnight. Even stupid ordinary homes take months to build, and fans are thousands of times bigger with thousands of times the utility requirements.
What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!
