Problem is that doesn't work either, since the asset 'value' is unknown until transacted, and also ignores the stock value entirely, which is generally not nothing.

For my net worth, you would absolutely count my stock holdings, because at that relatively mundane level, I can probably sell it at the extrapolated price. If you have even a couple million dollars of stock in a big company, you will barely move the volume of trades for the day, so the extrapolation works in isolation.

But when the amount becomes a significant portion of typical volumes, then the transaction will not pan out at 'market rates'.

So we have this awkwardness of something that is definitely worth some cash, but the extrapolated value can't predict the real value, and the other measures would fall short.

I love how it's so blatantly obvious that they are leaning into software development and the models are assuming you are going to write some C# to adjust brightness.

No idea if that's even close to right and I'm not inclined to check, but the fact the first answer is not "Well, find the brightness buttons and press them" is telling.

In a sane world, you might expect the Windows 'integrated' AI to be wired up to just... adjust the brightness..

But *fine*, you don't wire it up, you might then at least hope the AI to say "That capability is not enabled, but here is some help text telling you to do it".

But nope, "That sounds like something an ioctl would do, and I don't know the ioctl per se, but let's just submit random bullshit ioctls and *maybe* it will happen to do as user requested?"

That's the way we've been counting net worth, an extrapolation of the volume that transacted and assuming that *all* of the rest could transact at that price. Nothing particularly new.

I haven't seen really any better ideas deployed, but you are right that it's only "worth" a Trillion while most of it just sits unused. Even "unused" it bolsters the parts he is willing to leverage for loans to basically do whatever the hell he could possibly imagine.

I think you're right as far adults go -- adults are having fewer children because children are unaffordable.

Teens, OTOH, were almost never making a conscious decision to try to conceive children anyway -- if they got pregnant, that was an unintended side effect of having recreational sex. So if the teenage fertility rate is falling, the most likely explanation is that teens are either having less sex, or they are using contraception more effectively (or both). It's quite plausible that teens are simply spending less time in each others' physical proximity, and therefore having sex with each other less often.

Trump ordered the immediate surrender of Iran as well. What Trump commands and what Trump is competent to actually make happen are two vastly different things.

I mean, we could, but when the total expenses for building and running a solar farm are less than just the ongoing cost of buying more coal for an existing coal plant (never mind the maintenance or environmental remediation costs), that's almost literally lighting money on fire. It takes a pretty dedicated idealogue to hold out against the capitalist temptation of making more money solely to show the libs who's boss, and anyone who does so is likely to find themselves replaced by someone else who can "better maximize shareholder value". Hence the shift; even Trump can't stop an idea whose time has come.

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Maybe I don't read the Zeitgeist as well as I should, but AFAICT anything AI-related is seen as extremely uncool these days (at least, outside of certain tech-topian circles). So if Visa thinks "Adopting AI means people will think we're cool", I suspect they are in for a surprise.

If the only goal is producing electricity at the current minimum price per kWh, then you have a good point.

OTOH if you also have a long-term goal of figuring out how to effectively design and build fusion reactors, then it's worthwhile to build them as best you can even if wind is currently more cost-effective.

As for why you might have such a long-term goal, I can think of several reasons:

1. Future fusion reactor designs might be much more economical to build and run, once enough hands-on experience has been gathered to make them so
2. Fusion reactors could be used in situations where wind power isn't available (e.g. space exploration)

Maybe not for *everyone*, but can be fine for folks driving on average less than 50 miles a day, which is a decent chunk of people.

That said, I think it would be a tough sell to have your car charging at a relative trickle all the time. Folks would be much more comfortable if they can plug into 240V. Which isn't a *crazy* thing to get, especially if you just get a NEMA 15-40 outlet or already have one within distance of parking.

Note I included the EVSE in my cost, and yeah, I needed a new 240V/60A circurit.

As said, I wish I had just done a 50A plug instead, the hard wired was superfluous and that outlet could have been more broadly usable. Though I could downgrade the breaker and put an outlet there easy enough if I cared that much... But just ended up spending money on an EVSE when the bundled one would have charged fast enough..

Not specific to AI, and I frankly can't speak to NHS specifically, but it sounds awfully familiar...

So many things where bureaucratic junk demands awkward forms and processes, and efforts to automate all that stuff instead of streamlining the underlying mess...

To the extent this works (and I can believe it based on other bureaucracies I've been involved with), it's because there's all sorts of dumb boilerplate crap in the process, lots of material generated that is never read, lots of fields to populate that don't matter to anyone. To the extent it ever matters that goes away as the people just stuff meaningless crap in those fields...

The human is still having to provide the crux of the important bit, but there's just so much fluff that is blatantly obvious that LLM can do whatever with that could have been omitted or dealt with better.

Look, I get it, you personally don't like EVs. There are plenty of ICE vehicles for you to choose from, you don't have to be so aggressively disdainful every time anyone mentions that their EV experience is nice.

Cost to install an EVSE for me was about $800, a *far* cry from the $7500 of the tax credit, and I find it hard to believe that any EVSE install would have gone that expensive. If anyone actually quoted that, then they are either trying to rip someone off or don't actually want to do the job and wants to scare a customer off. I could have just installed a NEMA 15-50 for less to go with the bundled mobile charger too, but I just wanted the fastest possible supported charge, which in retrospect I probably should have just done an outlet, would have been cheaper and more flexible and *plenty* fast for my needs.

Certainly the Secret Service would love to have an automatic head's-up on the true identity of anyone walking into the room. Not that I would expect this implementation to be reliable enough actually to be used that way, but someday one will be.